botker
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14 years ago
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on: New York City gets a Software Engineering High School
We don't need more Continental philosophers. We need all the Analytic philosophers we can get. A curriculum that emphasizes rigorous thinking skills and logic is an invaluable foundation for CS as well as every other valuable human endeavor.
botker
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14 years ago
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on: How I got into MIT when I was 14
She answered that question already, in paragraph #3:
"I idolized Archimedes, Galileo, da Vinci, Faraday, Newton, Maxwell, Tesla, Pasteur, and Darwin. I couldn’t believe they were all dead, and that I would never get to meet them and hear them talk."
botker
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14 years ago
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on: The Pirate Bay Will Stop Serving Torrents
See the shell script in the top comment here:
http://libtorrent.rakshasa.no/ticket/2100I tested it, and it works as advertised.
For firefox integration, in about:config create a new boolean as:
network.protocol-handler.expose.magnet := false
For chromium integration, you need to use Xdg-open.
botker
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14 years ago
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on: Show HN: Side project for organized bookmarking: Saaave
I agree. I want to support fellow HNers, so I hesitated a moment before closing the tab. But in the end I'm not going to give away my email address just to find out what this thing does.
botker
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14 years ago
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on: How to nap
I have a hunch that you might be absolutely right. But it's unclear to me whether following this advice would improve my quality of life. Right now I'm productive, working whenever I can without respect to the clock. Limiting my productivity just so I can conform to an Earth day seems like it could be counterproductive.
botker
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14 years ago
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on: Poll: Do you think HN should go dark in protest of SOPA?
The word "hacker" has a highly negative connotation to the mass media. This site may as well be called "Terrorist News" from their POV. The last thing our SOPA opposition needs is to be associated with "hackers" in the popular press. For that reason I vote No.
botker
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14 years ago
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on: How to nap
While I'm a big fan of naps, I'm not a big fan of government. It's not their job to legislate when we sleep, and the Law of Unintended Consequences assures that it would be a disaster.
A better approach is to start your own business, and incorporate naps into the company culture.
botker
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14 years ago
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on: How to nap
Same here. I've been allowing myself to sleep pretty much whenever I feel like it for the past several months, and I don't appear to have any sleep pattern. Sometimes I sleep 3 or 4 hours, and wake up feeling well-rested and ready to get back to work; other times I'll sleep 12 hours at a stretch. It's irrespective of the 24-hour day. After reading your comment, I'm going to start logging my sleep, to see if there's any noticeable pattern. Thanks.
botker
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14 years ago
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on: Windows to Mac to Windows to Mac to... Linux? It doesn't matter.
:h new-omni-completion
:h compl-omni
:h compl-generic
botker
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14 years ago
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on: Reddit successfully pressures Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) to back off support of SOPA
Painters were copying paintings long before digital film made the practice easy. Musicians were covering other musicians long before the advent of mechanical sound recording. Copying is an inherent facet of the arts. It's our natural way of appreciating other people's work. It has nothing to do with technological ease.
botker
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14 years ago
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on: List of every member of congress who supports SOPA, sortable by donations
While you're right, that's why I wrote "somewhat more likely". Republicans may not favor limited government today, but on average they are still less likely than Democrats to support regulation. The OP's link demonstrates this tendency.
botker
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14 years ago
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on: List of every member of congress who supports SOPA, sortable by donations
Democrats tend to favor government regulations of any kind, while Republicans are somewhat more likely to oppose them in general. So it doesn't surprise me at all.
botker
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14 years ago
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on: List of every member of congress who supports SOPA, sortable by donations
It's interesting to me in part because I tend to think of the SOPA battle as being rooted in the age-old war between North and South -- Silicon Valley vs. Hollywood. Attempting to cripple our industry is just a standard war practice. But to consider that the Senators are both SF residents makes me doubt the premise.
botker
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14 years ago
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on: Mayor Bloomberg Will Learn How To Write Code In 2012
What a great video. It gives me a lot more respect for the guy. After watching it I'm surprised that he's made it this long without learning how to code.
botker
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14 years ago
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on: Why Don’t Smartphones Have A “Guest Mode”?
botker
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14 years ago
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on: Why Don’t Smartphones Have A “Guest Mode”?
That's a funny requirement. Requiring uniques reduces password strength.
botker
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14 years ago
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on: How Rick Santorum Is Making His "Google Problem" Worse
From your second link:
Samuel Mudd is sometimes given as the origin of the phrase "your name is mud", as in, for example, the 2007 film National Treasure: Book of Secrets. However, according to an online etymology dictionary, this phrase has its earliest known recorded instance in 1823, ten years before Mudd's birth, and is based on an obsolete sense of the word "mud" meaning "a stupid twaddling fellow".[18][19]
botker
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14 years ago
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on: How Rick Santorum Is Making His "Google Problem" Worse
Ditto.
botker
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14 years ago
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on: Bill Joy's greatest gift to man – the vi editor
I believe that award goes to ed, the standard UNIX text editor.
botker
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14 years ago
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on: IE6 Usage Falls to Under 1% in U.S.
You'd have been working half-days if the only browser you supported was anything other than MSIE6.
