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I noticed that when I read Tom Holland's new translation of The Lives of the Caesars. All the dates were in the form "N days before Kalends/Ides".

Yes. And I create and manage the musical notation for over 100 songs in text, specifically Lilypond.

Merry Christmas, HN!

Freeman Dyson's book, Disturbing the Universe, which is quoted in this article, is a great read. Highly recommended.

"He'd kill us if he got the chance." "He'd kill us if he got the chance." "He'd kill us if he got the chance." "He'd kill us if he got the chance."

Maybe modern languages don't have tuples because modern programming language designers don't have any|much|enough experience with tuples? If I wanted to play with tuples, what lang…

Here's a similar Ask HN from a few years back: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1103578 I recommend Before&After (a magazine and a couple of associated books) http://www.bamagaz…

"Another role Nathoo takes on with founders and startups is an accounting advisor. She’ll ensure that every company incorporates in the state of Delaware, and if they haven’t done …

OK, now that you bring it up, yeah, I remember that. But I didn't remember that it was named 'meteor'.

I heard once that the circles-on-circles construction of the motion of the bodies of solar system when Earth is taken as its center is merely the Fourier transform of the ellipses …

By "extreme acidity" do you mean in your gastrointestinal system or elsewhere? (I've heard people talk about blood-level acidity before.) Was there a test that let you track/monito…

I've heard that too. Would you mind sharing more details of what you did to promote gut health/chemistry/flora?

Squeak Smalltalk bootstrapped itself (back in 1996) by implementing its virtual machine in Slang, a subset of Smalltalk that can essentially be pretty-printed into C. Back to the f…

Does anyone have any insight into how Galois made the mental leap to his solution? Everything I've read says (or implies) that his solution came completely out of left-field--i.e. …

Actually, a deck of card is random after 7 shuffles. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuffling#Randomization

Yes, please! Even if it is not a software solution (like some kind of physical filter I could place on top of the screen.) I've got f.lux on my laptop, but I predominantly use my i…

Jef presented the idea of a zoomable interface in his book "The Humane Interface" and a zoomable interface was a part of THE/Archy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archy

One thing that might help is to prioritize "end-to-end", happy-path work highest. Once you've got the bare-bones, end-to-end functionality working, go back and start filling things…

Funny, we were chatting about this in the office yesterday... But I don't see wildfires in their list of disasters.

How does Smalltalk get lumped with C and Java and not with Python and Ruby?

I understand that having to work around fluctuating data might produce less than desirable results. But your users might find the feature useful anyway.

Anil, why didn't you just ignore fields and attributes that were missing? So if education:concentration returns "CompSci" on the first call, but then is missing on the second call,…

Right. And just to drive the nail in a bit deeper: ending a sentence with a preposition is a grammatical construction that English gets from its roots as a Germanic language. Germa…