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Claude Clause.

The title is "Excuse me sir, would you like to buy a kilo of isopropyl bromide?" https://archive.org/details/gergel_isopropyl_bromide

git clone --branch start https://github.com/djkoloski/anima_solver Cloning into 'anima_solver'... fatal: Remote branch start not found in upstream origin

The opening of Borges' essay is absolutely brilliant writing: > AT TRIESTE, IN 1872, in a palace with damp statues and deficient hygienic facilities, a gentleman on whose face an A…

With `. ranger`, if you change directory and then exit, the shell's working directory changes to where you left off in Ranger. $ pwd /home/grandpa $ ranger [ ... change directory .…

This is really good fun! But it would be nice if I could finish up the problem I'm on when the timer runs out. Currently, it just gets taken away abruptly.

You could test this by looking at whether pairs of fraternal twins are as similar on personality traits as pairs of identical twins. If they are more different, then genes are the …

Why "infamous"?

I think this is the same technique as Russ Cox used to search Google Code: https://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp4.html

It parses "fruit flies like a banana" the same way as "Time flies like an arrow". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_flies_like_an_arrow;_frui...

Definitely, but I think Oxford University is more interested in teaching the underlying principles than tracking what's popular in industry.

The "cluetrain" in the title refers to the Cluetrain Manifesto from 1999: http://www.cluetrain.com/book/95-theses.html

There's a difference, though: QuickCheck randomly tries a large-ish number of possible inputs to try and disprove a postcondition, whereas formal methods prove the postcondition fo…

Utilities should be happy about this. One of their biggest problems is uneven load on the grid - low at night, too high during a heatwave - and this has the potential to make that …

The paper described in the article is available as PDF here: http://cpl.psy.msu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Kross-et-a...

Spoiler: the second bit of advice is "Step 2: No, seriously. Don't"

> Also, capturing blocks and instance_eval are notoriously slow. ...and, in this case, are evaluated once, at startup. It's so fast that you couldn't possibly notice a difference.

Mirror: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...

Yesterday's discussion of this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7109623

This is what happened when I tried typing the first sentence on your web site: http://i.imgur.com/jQGHwQc.png

Using Paul Graham's disagreement hierarchy ( http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html ), your first paragraph is DH2 (responding to tone), and the rest is DH1 (ad hominem). Do you h…

I don't think you are taking the word "infinity" seriously. If parents believed that, why are they recklessly endangering their children's lives by taking them to a public place wh…

I don't think negative infinity is a reasonable number for this. If it were, then I would expect you to gladly pay someone all your income for the next 20 years to stand guard over…

From the Hacker News guidelines: "When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. E.g. "That is an idiotic thing to say; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortene…