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dealpete | 3 years ago | on: It's quite hard to lose a Duolingo streak

It is a good way to get started with a new language, but you won’t make it to fluency. They don’t have enough content for that.

dealpete | 4 years ago | on: Einstein award going to Paul Ginsparg for creating arXiv.org

> My only complaint is that I don't particularly like PDF and wish there was an HTML-zip format that could be sent around and the browser did all the rendering work, while the udnerlying data tables are stored in well-defined formats so they can be programatically extracted.

Back when I was doing Math research it was common to submit LateX files to ArXiv. A quick look at some of the Physics papers, though, suggests it may not the case for other fields.

dealpete | 4 years ago | on: Project Euler

There's no real need to know so much math for most professional programming jobs. Math problems tend to be over-represented on challenge sites because they are easy to implement.

dealpete | 5 years ago | on: Why cats won’t punish a stranger who harms you

I'm not sure that plunging my arm down its throat and choking it with my fist would be my first instinct if I were attacked by a dog :)

dealpete | 5 years ago | on: 2020 Game

Nice to see this working well on Safari. Web games posted on HN sometimes don’t.

dealpete | 5 years ago | on: Show HN: Friendly Fire – Open-source, Metroidvania-style game in the browser

I couldn't get it to work properly in Lynx.

dealpete | 5 years ago | on: TikTok’s Chinese owner offers to forego stake to clinch U.S. deal – sources

You have a gift for understatement.

dealpete | 6 years ago | on: We Wasted $50K on Google Ads So You Don't Have To (2019)

My content blocker wouldn’t let me see this site... did I miss anything important?

dealpete | 6 years ago | on: Firefox to Discontinue Sideloaded Extensions

I was amused by this doublespeak:

"To give users more control over their extensions, support for sideloaded extensions will be discontinued."

dealpete | 6 years ago | on: The FBI Is Tracking Our Faces in Secret, and We’re Suing

I did some experiments the other day and found to my surprise that Google has by far the best no-Javascript experience of the major search engines. Duck Duck Go could learn a thing or two from them.

dealpete | 6 years ago | on: Blizzard Suspends Professional Hearthstone Player for Hong Kong Comments

I just changed my Battle Tag to "FreeHongKong", let's see how it takes me to get banned :D