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Re:Rust 1.5 on Thursday December 10, 2015 @11:19AM (#10711385)
"Rust goes out of its way to be modern and gender-inclusive."

And yet - epic fail.

What is the reason?

Bergdahl, deserter and traitor, violated his oath.
Re:KiCad 4.0.0 is Out on Friday December 04, 2015 @05:19PM (#10679590)
How does KiCad compare to Eagle?
Re:Show HN: Don't Name the Shooter on Friday December 04, 2015 @08:38AM (#10676208)
Gaining an understanding of your enemy's background, capabilities and motivations is not a 'courtesy'. Rather, such knowledge is needed to achieve victory.

"If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles."

Re:Show HN: Don't Name the Shooter on Thursday December 03, 2015 @09:48PM (#10674274)
"Say the person's name."

The murderer's names are Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife Tashfeen Malik

Re:Show HN: Don't Name the Shooter on Thursday December 03, 2015 @09:39PM (#10674248)
The shooters in the San Bernadino massacre were Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife Tashfeen Malik. IMHO it's important to understand their background and motivations. Know your enemy.
The study did look at build quality.

"In terms of construction scores (from 1 to 10 where 10 represents a perfectly built trolley), men averaged 8.9 with instructions, 7.6 without; the women averaged 7.5 with, and 5.7 without."

I find that 'excess mental activity' blocks peak-performance when coding. Excess mental activity can be described as 'aversions/judgements/fears' about the work to be done - self-talk like "this looks hard", "fuck I hate this build system", etc.

I try to just stare at the code without judgment for a few moments, then let the fingers do their thing. Sort of a meditative practice - quiet mind instead of quiet eye.

YMMV! :-)

I believe it makes a difference in coding as well.
Re:Ahmed Mohamed: 'Clock boy' seeks $15m from city and school on Monday November 23, 2015 @09:58PM (#10618905)
The clock boy incident was a clever hoax. Ahmed and his family may not be great engineers, but showed themselves masters of our media and legal system.
TLDR; Muslims serve in Western Armies, so shut your pie hole about Muslim terror attacks in Mali, Paris, Sinai, Boston, London, Madrid, Bali, New York, etc. etc. etc. etc.
Re:They Are Us on Saturday November 21, 2015 @06:11PM (#10608410)
Some refugees do participate in terrorism! Paris attackers had links to Syria. Tsarnaev brothers had links to Chechnya. Not worth the risk.
Re:They Are Us on Saturday November 21, 2015 @04:53PM (#10608175)
Absolutely serious that elements of the refugee population belong to groups that engage in torture/beheading/rape/enslavement. We have no idea how to tell the good from the bad. Just takes a small number of radicals to cause huge damage and disruption. Not worth the risk.
Re:They Are Us on Friday November 20, 2015 @02:15PM (#10603196)
Post WW2 refugees didn't have elements that were beheading, torturing, killing and enslaving. Huge difference.
Losing your job and access to employment opportunities is a very common and very effective form of censorship.
Think censorship is over? Express opposition to feminists/muslims/blacks/gays/multiculturism/drugs etc. and watch the fireworks. Neo-puritan morals police are stronger than ever.
Re:Humans are not unitary individuals but superorganisms on Monday November 16, 2015 @04:00PM (#10577119)
Where does the memory reside? What is it that 'remembers'?
Re:A Boy Who Became a World War II Veteran at 13 Years Old on Saturday November 14, 2015 @01:04AM (#10564690)
Thank you for your teaching.
Wow - that's pretty exciting. Great to see that Twitter is innovating again.
Opium - really takes the edge off.
A small step to remove the fetters of intolerance. But if legalizing small amounts is good, then legalizing large amounts is better. Nobody has the right to limit my ability to take large amounts of drugs - that's my personal business.
Re:The Real Population Problem (2013) on Friday October 30, 2015 @11:02PM (#10481649)
Starts as a scientific exploration on the relationship between population and energy. Ends as self-loathing.
Looks like LoRa is star topology. Is there another comparable tech that supports mesh networking?
Re:Modern art was CIA 'weapon' (1995) on Wednesday October 28, 2015 @11:48AM (#10465078)
Art as CIA weapon - sure. Cultural marxism as leftist weapon - still paying dividends.
"Fake it till you make it."
Re:My Dark California Dream on Saturday October 24, 2015 @11:02PM (#10445787)
"Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded."
Drug industry on the march! Will be interesting to see where drug use tops-out as more states legalize and we see the emergence of real marketing and consumer education from the drug suppliers.
Re:LingVM is an Erlang VM that runs directly on Xen on Saturday October 24, 2015 @12:01PM (#10443966)
Very interesting - might be a great way to setup a sandbox for untrusted code.

On a related note: there is also the nerves project for embedded Erlang/Elixir - http://nerves-project.org/

It's great to see articles on HN that help to familiarize and normalize drug use. We know that the war on drugs doesn't work, and the stigmatize / demonize approach is so busted. After reading many articles you learn that there's nothing to be afraid of, and indeed drug use can open new pathways of knowledge.

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