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25cf··on [dead]
I hope I'm not putting myself on a list by posting this.

Anyway, the comments lead down a pretty dark rabbit hole about Assange's whereabouts since they cut off his internet access...

25cf··on 5 Simple Math Problems No One Can Solve
>Finally, any even number divided by two is still even and approaches two.

This isn't true.

25cf··on FBI Director Comments on San Bernardino Matter
These people are either being intentionally deceitful or are simply incompetent in understanding the full implications of what they're asking. Either possibility is disturbing.
25cf··on Marvin Minsky dies at 88
This? http://norvig.com/chomsky.html
25cf··on Include-what-you-use: Clang tool to analyze includes in C and C++ source files
The main feature that I miss from CLion is the ability to refactor. In CLion you can rename a class, and all of its usages, declarations, etc. will be renamed.

The most useful thing CLion can do is change the signature of a function, and its corresponding implementation and header declarations will be changed. So, you can rename a parameter and its declaration and implementation will be renamed for you, or you can delete a parameter, or change the type of a parameter, and CLion will change all its usages/definitions/declarations for you. All of this effects across all files in your project, so if you're in a .cpp file and you change the function signature, its declaration in the corresponding .h file will change as well.

(I believe you can do all of this in Eclipse as well)

Sadly I have yet to see a vim/emacs configuration that gets anywhere near the level of Eclipse/CLion.

25cf··on The Alzheimer Pandemic: Is Paracetamol to Blame? (2013)
Not a biologist by any stretch of the imagination, so I am asking purely out of ignorance - how does your study debunk the OP's? Yours is about NSAIDs (i.e. aspirin) decreasing the risk of Alzheimer's, OP's is about paracetamol (not an NSAID) increasing the likelihood of Alzheimers. Correct me if I'm misunderstanding something here...
25cf··on AirType
I think this is going in the wrong direction. Tactile feedback is so crucial for keyboards and this just completely removes it. In my opinion, technologies like the morphing touchscreen keyboard[1] are the future.

[1] http://tactustechnology.com/

25cf··on AirWheel electric unicycle review
I wonder if these would actually be a feasible mode of transport if people started using skii poles with them to maintain balance. I'd personally like to test that idea out but I don't have an AirWheel.
25cf··on Show HN: Velocity.js – Accelerated JavaScript animation
> accepting things as they are

really? as opposed to innovating?

25cf··on Ask HN: Is (2013) necessary?
I don't find it hurtful.
25cf··on Intercooler.js – A JavaScript-optional Ajax library
http://www.xfront.com/microformats/AHAH.html
25cf··on Intercooler.js – A JavaScript-optional Ajax library
Interesting, but I don't know if I would be able to use this for more complex uses of ajax, e.g. pjax/phah, etc. But I could definitely see how this could possibly be used over Angular for certain projects.
25cf··on Alice
April fools?
25cf··on Tesla Adds Titanium Underbody Shield and Aluminum Deflector Plates to Model S
I don't know if that's the case. Perhaps Musk is enabling the media by specifically stating that these reinforcements are for preventing fires. I actually would go so far as to say that a good CEO would not do something like this because it lends credence to the media's claims about the fires - that the fires are an issue that need to be fixed, rather than some rare occurrence that would probably be worse in any other vehicle in the same wreck.
25cf··on Ask HN: Software to help retrieve stolen laptop for a paranoid person?
Be sure to encrypt the information before it's sent and keep it encrypted when it lands on your Pi. Only decrypt it when you need to know the info.
25cf··on Why isn't People-Centric UI Design taking off?
Say I want to browse the web. Or check my inbox. Or read Hacker News. Or get a file off of my Dropbox. Or read an ebook.

None of those things are "people-centric", e.g. they aren't tied to a single (other) person. People-centric UI doesn't make sense because I use my computer for interacting with many users at once simultaneously through websites, mail, etc. If I'm not doing that, I may be interacting with my personal data. And probably least commonly, I am interacting with a single person. So "person-centric" (not people-centric", despite what the title claims) design isn't taking off because I'm not interacting with one single person for the majority of my time when I use technology.

25cf··on Steps to install tmux in Cygwin
But cygwin isn't linux, and on 99% of actual linux distributions you will never have to compile tmux from source. A better statement would be "And people wonder why Windows never became mainstream for developers."

Steps to install cygwin on actual linux? "(package manager) (install) tmux". And on OS X? Install brew by copy and pasting a command into terminal, then "brew install tmux". Even if you're an average consumer you could complete both of those steps without a problem. (Then again, why would the average consumer want tmux?) Windows/cygwin is the problem here, not linux.

25cf··on Unlock your Mac without typing a thing
Does anyone have any idea how the phone detects knocks and differentiates it from, say, rolling around in your backpack? I know the LG G2 also has a "knock detection", e.g. the phone turns on when you knock on it twice. I want this feature in one of my apps so I'm just curious about how this is done.
25cf··on What /b/ believes about life
so edgy