dealpete
Re:It's quite hard to lose a Duolingo streak
on Sunday July 03, 2022 @10:13AM (#31967829)
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.
Re:Einstein award going to Paul Ginsparg for creating arXiv.org
on Friday November 26, 2021 @12:12PM (#29352004)
> 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.
Re:Project Euler
on Saturday November 13, 2021 @06:41PM (#29214164)
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.
Re:Why cats won’t punish a stranger who harms you
on Saturday April 10, 2021 @12:18PM (#26762584)
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 :)
Nice to see this working well on Safari. Web games posted on HN sometimes don’t.
Re:Show HN: Friendly Fire – Open-source, Metroidvania-style game in th...
on Monday August 31, 2020 @07:18PM (#24336867)
I couldn't get it to work properly in Lynx.
Re:TikTok’s Chinese owner offers to forego stake to clinch U.S. deal –...
on Saturday August 01, 2020 @02:52PM (#24022933)
You have a gift for understatement.
Re:We Wasted $50K on Google Ads So You Don't Have To (2019)
on Friday January 24, 2020 @08:38AM (#22138061)
My content blocker wouldn’t let me see this site... did I miss anything important?
Re:Firefox to Discontinue Sideloaded Extensions
on Friday November 01, 2019 @07:56AM (#21417829)
I was amused by this doublespeak:
"To give users more control over their extensions, support for sideloaded extensions will be discontinued."
Re:The FBI Is Tracking Our Faces in Secret, and We’re Suing
on Thursday October 31, 2019 @05:10PM (#21413743)
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.
Re:Blizzard Suspends Professional Hearthstone Player for Hong Kong Com...
on Tuesday October 08, 2019 @12:32PM (#21194056)
I just changed my Battle Tag to "FreeHongKong", let's see how it takes me to get banned :D