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Re:I agree with Guy Steele on Tuesday July 12, 2011 @05:09PM (#2756594)
What the heck is this t-shirt talking about?
Re:Ask HN: How do I give my son a head start? on Tuesday November 02, 2010 @02:47PM (#1861756)
Let him be interested in what he's interested in.
Re: on Friday July 16, 2010 @12:56PM (#1521707)
Or maybe I didn't know that this had been posted before. A colleague sent me a link to it today, I thought it might be interesting to this group, and I posted it. Feel free to mod it down all you like. Having high karma on Hacker News is not a high priority in my life.
Re:Ask HN: What's your most interesting life goal currently? on Thursday July 08, 2010 @01:09PM (#1497987)
Play more hockey.
Re:Outsourcing Doesn't Work on Friday July 02, 2010 @01:08PM (#1481641)
That's like saying, "the market is always right; if it seems like it sometimes isn't, trust me, it is."
Re:How to get hired on Tuesday June 29, 2010 @03:53PM (#1472554)
To tell you the truth, I'd feel like a nut case saying something like "You are my favorite company. It's my dream to work for you. If you have any aspect that could use a little help, let me do it, and I promise you it'll thrive. I'm that passionate about this."
Re:"Login" is not a verb on Thursday June 17, 2010 @06:03PM (#1440540)
"impact" is also not a verb. I'm sure Nero Wolfe would agree with me on that, if he were here today.
Re:Accurate re-creation of Sherlock Holme's rooms based on readings fr... on Thursday May 06, 2010 @09:53AM (#1324401)
Watson's bedroom was presumably on the floor above the pictured floor. (They also don't show Mrs. Hudson's bedroom.) Watson moved out pretty early in the series after marrying Mary Morstan.
Re:Accurate re-creation of Sherlock Holme's rooms based on readings fr... on Thursday May 06, 2010 @09:49AM (#1324395)
I can't see (let alone observe) whether they got the seventeen steps right or not.
Re:It Is Now Mathematically Impossible To Pay Off The U.S. National Debt on Monday February 08, 2010 @01:17PM (#1110277)
So, he's basically saying that the net worth of the U.S. is negative, which, of course, is a very bad thing. Which means it's impossible to pay it off right at this moment, of course. I'm not sure why that implies it can never be paid off, though. Not that that makes the situation much better, though.
Re:Sleep deprivation is not a badge of honor on Tuesday February 02, 2010 @05:41PM (#1096417)
Unless you're a hockey player.
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? on Tuesday January 05, 2010 @04:14PM (#1033377)
Does anyone know whether this has been done with hockey?
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? on Tuesday January 05, 2010 @03:34PM (#1033246)
I wrote a just intonation library in Java, if you're interested:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/leipzig/

Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? on Tuesday January 05, 2010 @03:25PM (#1033230)
Twisted Life, a video game written in Flex that uses cellular automata:

http://www.automatous-monk.com/twistedlife/

Re:Ask HN: What magazines do you subscribe to? on Wednesday December 23, 2009 @03:51PM (#1012822)
The New Yorker: Has very interesting articles and criticism. I recommend it.

Chess Life: Am a USCF member, so I get it automatically.

Computer Music: The best articles on creating electronic music. I highly recommend it.

Golden ratio in GUI design

Posted by paulreiners on Thursday December 17, 2009 @04:44PM
from the self-post dept.

Does anyone else try to use the golden ratio in their GUI components? I've been doing this for awhile now and it does make them look better, I think. final double goldenRatio = 1.61803399; dialog.setSize( DIALOG_WIDTH, (int) Math.round(DIALOG_WIDTH / goldenRatio));

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Re:Ask HN: What have you published that you are particularly proud of? on Thursday October 22, 2009 @02:09PM (#897304)
I know what you mean. I've written programming articles, but sometimes I wonder whether I was (am) only doing it for ego reasons and whether that time would have been better spent by simply doing more programming.

Maybe Why the Lucky Stiff had the right idea when he disappeared. I've thought about that a lot.

Re:Ask HN: What have you published that you are particularly proud of? on Thursday October 22, 2009 @01:41PM (#897239)
Maybe this article:

"Cellular automata and music: Using the Java language for algorithmic music composition": http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-camusic/

Or maybe one of my other developerWorks articles:

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/search/searchResults.jsp?s...

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