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Re:Why I contribute to Chromium on Tuesday December 06, 2016 @02:44AM (#13112911)
We still have BitBucket. Cheers.
Re:Facebook Said to Create Censorship Tool to Get Back into China on Wednesday November 23, 2016 @02:30AM (#13020827)
I think some already did. Say Sina Weibo.
Re:Show HN: Learn to Code for Free on Tuesday November 22, 2016 @09:35PM (#13019511)
How to solve it: the book is definitely teaching a generic way to break down problems.
Define obvious. At least the pointer pointer version is obvious to me in this task.

Pointer pointer can't be applied everywhere. If you try to reverse a linked list in O(n) time with O(1) space using a pointer pointer, the code would be less obvious than using a prev pointer.

Yeah, Pyret!
Em...that's just half of what OS X can do. I have the same model, but my laptop can last at least 7hours in a coffee shop.
Re:Why Is No One Writing Language Runtimes? on Saturday May 07, 2016 @09:57PM (#11652244)
I think the author is saying a generic runtime instead of having each language to create its own.
Re:The Secret Tesla Motors Master Plan (2006) on Monday April 04, 2016 @03:22AM (#11419995)
> but in the end environment friendly means: using less energy (in any form).

Is it? I thought it meant no harm to the environment. If the charging station is powered by solar energy, I don't see how using the otherwise wasted energy wrong.

Re:The Secret Tesla Motors Master Plan (2006) on Monday April 04, 2016 @03:14AM (#11419970)
I like the "house of cards" metaphor. After learning how these three companies could help each other in his biography, I think the possibility of collapse is actually pretty low.
Re:Ask HN: What do you use to track your todo's? on Monday April 04, 2016 @03:00AM (#11419893)
Well, no one mentioned Bullet Journal: http://bulletjournal.com/

They've already done a good job explaining the system, so I won't do it here.

I used it when I was still in graduate school writing a paper. I managed to track tons of tiny details in the writing process.

I think the most useful thing is the task migration. You must migrate unfinished tasks from today's log to next day's log, manually. During the migration, I sometimes cross out some random thoughts that I put as tasks.

This is the time that you _must_ spend everyday. It somehow can keep up your sensation of completeness. I know some apps can help you do this automatically, like todoist, but I don't think that really works for a long run (at least not for me). I find that if I didn't do the review (migration), I intended to get slow start the next day, and gradually the system would collapse. That's how I failed todoist :(

Just my 2 cents.

Great! Thanks.
The article mentioned OCaml meetup in Bay Area. Where can I find one?
Re:Higher-Order Symbolic Execution on Saturday March 19, 2016 @10:29PM (#11321511)
I am looking for papers about converting to prolog backend. Could you name one for me? Thanks.
Re:Work for only 3 hours a day, but everyday on Sunday March 13, 2016 @09:57PM (#11280570)
Exactly. This reminds me of the book "Willpower" by Roy F. Baumeister.