Live data from Hacker News

Viewing profile — dmg8

dmg8

HN member
Joined
Wed, Jan 26, 2011, 1:32 AM UTC
HN karma
54
Public activity
25 items

About dmg8

No profile information was provided.

Recent public activity

  1. comment
    Comment #5312460

    Is that you, voluntarily-homeless-college student? If so, I have some bad news: a doctor commented on your present lifestyle and has a rather dire warning (you're going nuts): Whil…

  2. comment
    Comment #5312390

    So some ignoramus has mom and dad money pay for his apartment while he needlessly mooches off others because, in his own words, "I'm trying to be the change I need to see". He soun…

  3. comment
    Comment #5311506

    Please don't ever comment again. Thanks in advance.

  4. comment
    Comment #5274269

    Are transgendered women allowed in PyLadies? Do you need to be post-op?

  5. comment
    Comment #4920881

    Why not?

  6. comment
    Comment #4920876

    Do you drink a lot of coffee or energy drinks?

  7. comment
    Comment #4915414

    That does not sound healthy. How long have you been doing this?

  8. comment
    Comment #3997192

    The parens are required. What you've written raises a SyntaxError. You can omit them in the generator expression if it's being passed directly as the only parameter to a function: …

  9. comment
    Comment #3732127

    Expressing outrage at "sexists in tech" is an important signaling ritual on Hacker News, as evidenced by the 50 million other threads interchangeable with this one.

  10. comment
    Comment #3706433

    "Didn't you quit?" "What?! When?

  11. comment
    Comment #3691640

    The accelerating rate of incarceration over the past few decades is just as startling as the number of people jailed: in 1980, there were about two hundred and twenty people incarc…

  12. comment
    Comment #3152070

    Cute. The site's down for me, but I found their flickr stream here, plenty more creatures: http://www.flickr.com/photos/childsown/3465520257/in/photost... The before and afters are…

  13. comment
  14. comment
    Comment #3026771

    I immediately thought that same thing. Someone else posted this link ( http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/20566/prove-there-ar... ) which answers the question: if Pi is a "nor…

  15. comment
  16. comment
  17. comment
    Comment #2312131

    The authors are programmers, so using these sort of abbreviations is probably second nature to them.

  18. comment
  19. comment
    Comment #2215486

    It would have saved me a ton of frustration and wasted effort if it were a lot less than currently. In high school I remember hating math - it was obvious some people were far bett…

  20. comment
    Comment #2205177

    Where did you get that link from? Presumably, some shadowy figure in a trenchcoat met him at 3am on a Tuesday behind a warehouse on the docks, and handed him a cocktail napkin. l0n…

  21. comment
    Comment #2185146

    The problem with hiring a hustler with a "knack for getting money" is that you might be the one he ends up hustling.

  22. comment
    Comment #2182336

    It sounds as if you're envisioning these people being painlessly integrated into modern society, perhaps retrained as plumbers, software developers, etc., then joining Brazil's (ex…

  23. comment
  24. comment
  25. comment