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A lot of people here complain of RSI and comment how the pedal helps solve that. I tried solving this by creating a keyboard layout especially for vim: https://bitbucket.org/cheate…

TL;DR: some guy misunderstands what the TCP window is for, what a chunk is, and where latency comes from. Hilarious quotes like "latency comes from light speed" abound, the guy wri…

This has to be asked: can someone reply with a breakdown of all of Miahi Pătraşcu's work, at least the important bits, with a single sentence description of why it's important? Let…

TL;DR: 1. Justin.tv started as a lifecasting experiment. You could see the guy take a piss and sleep and stuff. 2. they started selling it to others. Soon enough, someone hacked it…

I am not sure how that "is unix": how is an implementation of unix apis in python related to capturing http responses? I really like the idea but I'm missing this crucial piece of …

The pixels are a discrete series. You never convert a discrete list to a floating-point-indexed list.

Here's a local company that promises to change that: http://www.captchaad.com/ I think they may become successful for the time being, although they have some issues with UX and tec…

I'm willing to believe it when I see it. Can you offer tangible proof that there is detail available in the final image that would not be possible of the image were being generated…

Loved it, A+++++++++ would read again.

I'd upvote for humour.

How do you manage the often-found expectation of customers that pay daily rate that overtime is unpaid, when those customers more often than not end up making sure you do a lot of …

The same reason why having a girlfriend that fucks you for your wallet makes it a nightmare. Sell-outs are never good work.

OK, I see the downvote brigade is in. Let's analyze this for a second. The resolution by the OS is ostensibly 1920x1200. This is what apps see and what they render bitmaps for. Thi…

I guess we've reached the nesting limit. The people in question are trying to hang sociology and group theory onto those theatre exercises. The "tutors" are, well, let's just say r…

> I don't "assume", I induce. See Newton's rules of reasoning. Pay particular attention to Rule IV. u so smaht

> The people who did really great things in history -- whoever you might choose as your examples -- did they achieve it by being significantly more rational than everyone else? Not…

Wait a fucking second. Did you say theatre exercises? There's a group of people doing them theatre exercises, they rent a hall down the corridor from me periodically. I've always k…

Reminds me of my Mensa membership (hey, at 16 you're young and impressionable). Quit that ghetto a week into reading their mailing lists. Imagine the complete opposite of HN.

> Pay the students $50 for each correct answer, and there's not a doubt in my mind that the results will be the complete opposite of what he's seeing now. You've never tried tutori…

Just a sec.. where are you seeing that?

If I'm born into a millionaire family, I have more purchasing power than someone born into a poor family in Ukraine. This is a result of the genetic dice roll. Following your logic…

Says tau/2.

> Why is it that people who have a greater capacity to overcome bias have a greater vulnerability to bias? Why do you assume that type 2 people have greater capacity to overcome bi…

> Intelligence and resistance against bias are only loosely correlated Have you read the article (rather than skimming)? It says exactly the opposite.