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Re:Virgin launches glass-bottomed plane on Tuesday December 17, 2013 @11:05PM (#6925827)
I can just imagine this will spawn a new contrived, perverted sex act that's similar to the glass-bottomed boat.
Re:X server in 5000 lines of Common Lisp on Saturday December 07, 2013 @12:58AM (#6865646)
No, you just have to try...and of course practice if you want to get any good at it.
Re:Show HN: NetLua – Completely managed .NET Lua on Friday December 06, 2013 @01:12PM (#6862530)
That's one aspect, but probably not the most important, given that Lua already has GC without the CLR.
Re:Toast Sandwich on Sunday December 01, 2013 @11:49PM (#6831681)
But it's vegan if you use margarine!
Re:Toast Sandwich on Sunday December 01, 2013 @11:47PM (#6831676)
I would like to officially apologize for offending the android and cyborg populations, by bringing too much attention to the food desires of the meatbag population.
Re:Toast Sandwich on Sunday December 01, 2013 @11:42PM (#6831653)
> I used 140lbs of weight and let it sit for 4 hours

O.o

Re:Scala – 1 Star – Would Not Program Again on Sunday December 01, 2013 @11:31PM (#6831607)
> The workflow I ended up with was to write a function without any type annotations. Ignore all the red lines of the IDE’s confusion. Compile the code. In the output look for a warning about (Long => Int) return value being ignored in a function returning Unit. Copy (Long => Int) into my code as the return type annotation of my function. Compile again.

That sounds like the most stupid way you could do things.

I have been in interview debriefs where people were concerned about a candidate not advancing enough in a previous position, but I can't imagine one failed startup being detrimental, at least where I currently work if you get interviewed by those same exact people. :) The important thing is what you can talk about from the startup.
Heh, I hear that off and on and I'm curious where that comes from. Is it just something that people repeat because it sounds good, or is there solid evidence for it?
Why not learn Node.js? You learned almost everything else Javascript. There's got to be some decent ORM for it. How much time do you have to do this?
Re:Ask HN: CS Degree, felony conviction, need not apply? on Sunday November 17, 2013 @03:58PM (#6750826)
Criminal record or not, having my own consulting company sounds pretty nice, especially if you can already find employment as a contractor or at startups.
Re:Ask HN: Do you provide meals for your employees? on Saturday November 16, 2013 @02:30PM (#6746100)
How would you measure if it's worth it?
Re:How I became a con artist (2010) on Friday November 15, 2013 @01:18AM (#6738043)
Except that REI isn't going from a normal return policy to a draconian return policy. It's going from the most unbelievably lenient and forgiving policy to something that's still far more lenient and forgiving than anyone else offers. I don't think it's quite a fair comparison.
Re:How I became a con artist (2010) on Friday November 15, 2013 @01:15AM (#6738035)
No, you can figure out when the tickets go on sale to the event that you just can't miss and you can get them early just like the scalpers do, if you actually are such a big fan...
Re:Car Mechanic Dreams Up a Tool to Ease Births on Friday November 15, 2013 @12:55AM (#6737984)
Clearly the real solution is to insert the air hose from an impact wrench into the uterus, past the baby, to inflate the uterus and blast the baby out. This way the pressure isn't just on the baby's head.
I imagine the machine would be like the robots in the band Compressorhead: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sc8mQyA2dw0
Re:Real World OCaml on Tuesday November 12, 2013 @01:20AM (#6716183)
OCaml looks clearly more verbose/shittier to me, but I did learn SML/NJ first.

http://www.mpi-sws.org/~rossberg/sml-vs-ocaml.html

Re:Pyret: A new programming language from the creators of Racket on Saturday November 09, 2013 @05:45PM (#6703800)
I've seen an MIT Scheme class video, and it was painfully slow and the guy seemed to explain everything in painstaking detail. I've heard about the bimodal distribution, which I believe I witnessed among fellow students when I was taking classes. But I'm having trouble seeing how Scheme made it any worse or how the class was too fast.

And, Pyret looks like a terrible beginner language! I like PltScheme, but I can't see how anyone would ever want to use that.

Re:Why Is Being Late To The "GitHub Party" Bad? on Saturday November 09, 2013 @03:16PM (#6702992)
Don't believe everything you read.
Re:Ask HN: Where can I move cheaply to work by myself for a year? on Saturday November 09, 2013 @03:13PM (#6702975)
He'd have to buy a pickup truck, though.
It's sad how everyone ignores the "cheaply" part. It's easy to find places to live if you want to pay 1k+ a month in rent. :|
Re:Pyret: A new programming language from the creators of Racket on Saturday November 09, 2013 @10:54AM (#6701929)
MIT used to teach intro to CS using Scheme, I thought. It's significantly simpler than Python.
Re:Get Shit Done: The Worst Startup Culture on Monday November 04, 2013 @01:27PM (#6670199)
Or because of the pay and the stability.
Re:Smart Air on Saturday November 02, 2013 @10:37AM (#6659315)
Can't you just do this with a normal box fan and a hepa air filter you buy for 7usd at the market?
Re:I Bought An Apartment To Rent Out On Airbnb on Saturday November 02, 2013 @07:36AM (#6658891)
> If you lived in a high-rise condo and paid go money to do so, and the two places on either side of you started being rented out to random people who were there one week and gone the next, how would you feel?

I probably wouldn't care because there would be no way to detect if it was happening, without me standing outside my door all night like a sentry.

Sure, I'd be annoyed if some of the guests came and went at all hours of the night and that was waking me up regularly, but that could happen just as easily with more permanent neighbors, and I'd be able to do just as little about that.

Re:Ask HN: What do you think of job hopping? on Friday November 01, 2013 @01:05PM (#6654921)
> but hiring managers would then expect to hear what you learned and convince them you were insanely productive during said period.

Hopefully you can say these things about any job you were at.