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ghubbard

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    Comment #20048907

    I stopped reading because the letters kept "unlocking" and rotating in an annoying way. There are other less user-hostile Clojure guides.

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    Comment #18850115

    This quine is covered briefly in Yusuke Endoh's talk from RubyConf 2017 https://youtu.be/6K7EmeptEHo?t=1500 The whole talk is awesome if you're interested in this kind of thing in …

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    Comment #18056935

    Unless you scramble the cube using more than 20 moves. http://www.cube20.org/

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    Comment #17669571

    Great article, lots of technical details. A simple answer to the 'Why' can be found in the middle under the 'Off Grid Without Batteries' headline. > If you have a typical grid tied…

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    Comment #16284372

    Why is this tagged as 2003?

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    Comment #14574864

    That hourglass is really annoying. It does have a hide button, but you have to click the hourglass first, something that years of annoying ads have trained me NOT to do.

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    Comment #14491948

    And where in that book are the references to an actual study? PROTIP: Books are often filled with creative writing.

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    Comment #14490707

    While a nice story, I have been unable to find any citations that would indicate that this was ever an actual study.

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    Comment #14486743

    > Actually. You know what? Just this week I shipped ten new boxes of these pens to Elon Musk’s office. An example of sales people having no issue with casually slipping in outright…

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    Comment #14485443

    There's also http://exercism.io/ where you can solve problems and get/give feedback on the solutions. The platform is all open source on Github.

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    Comment #14226484

    If you want to teach without leaving the house or standing in front of a group of people, try http://exercism.io/ (Open Source and free). Solve simple coding problems, review the s…

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    Comment #13785484

    Juan Browne has a good series of video blogs about what is/has been going on at the Oroville dam. In this video from 1st March he visits the site and surrounding areas and talks wi…

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    Comment #13785357

    The videos these clips are taken from can be found on the California Department of Water Resources YouTube page: https://www.youtube.com/user/calwater/videos

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    Comment #13700053

    This was probably supposed to be a comment on the Anagram article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13696196

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    Comment #13559531

    (2009) Some discussion from the first time around: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=667801 Actual article title: On Influenza A (H1N1) HN clickbait version: On Influenza a (H1N…

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    Comment #11697204

    IWantSandy - An email-based automated personal assistant.

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    Comment #11555164

    Is the initial comment "It's surprising that we're seeing so much Chinese influence in our languages." missing a 'not'?

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    Comment #11460351

    What about offering an 'early signing bonus' which pays you $x if you sign quickly?

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    Comment #11389088

    Current HN Title: 1.7 petabytes and 850M files lost, and how we survived it. Article title: The largest unplanned outage in years and how we survived it Article overview: A month a…

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    Comment #11290507

    > I am very excited about pushing it to the limits! Looks like you found them.

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    Comment #10972863

    There is a popular [citation needed] children's song called Inchworm[0] that has a chorus that lists powers of two. Two and two are four Four and four are eight Eight and eight are…

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