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bockris··on Tell HN: Ask Golang is my vacation project
It looks like the links are rendering backwards. e.g. src = text and text = src
bockris··on Getting rid of python indentation errors
To be replaced with 'end' errors?

I really don't see how this is a problem for anyone.

bockris··on The Story of Mel
This has been posted dozens of times.
bockris··on Google’s “Conversational Search” Goes Live On Chrome
Did you misread the title?
bockris··on The Tragic Beauty of Google+
Home->Settings->Accessability checkbox should fix community pages
bockris··on Plot.ly: Matlab for the Web
The 'paste' event is sweeeeet.
bockris··on Show HN: Diffs of Word documents, designed for humans
It's a blink comparator. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blink_comparator
bockris··on Last of a Breed: Postal Workers Who Decipher Bad Addresses
My father is a rural mail carrier and can/has delivered letters addressed to

Grandma SmallTown, State, Zip

based on the return address. He has also seen his share of the 'white house south of the bank' addresses.

They now have real street addresses (I think for the county wide 911 system) but when I was younger our neighbor would use a multitude of vanity address. e.g.

Jane Smith 1 Dusty Lane Smalltown, State, Zip

or 123 Tumbleweed Rd or 555 Cow Pasture etc etc

UPS trucks usually knew where to deliver it based on the name or they would ask someone at the gas station where the person lived.

bockris··on A non-mathematical explanation of one way functions
I don't want to tell you 'folio'. I want to prove to you that I know the answer is 'folio' without telling you the word 'folio'.

If you thought the answer was 'bored' and you followed the steps (which are not a secret) and you didn't come up with the same end confirmation word as I did. (i.e. me = 'things' you = 'hamster') one of us is wrong and neither of us had to provide our starting word to the other. We don't know who is right yet, we just know we don't agree.

One round leaves some room for error because we could both accidentally choose a word that resolves to the same word in the target position. But since we are doing 5 rounds and moving the target word (1st, 2nd, 3rd etc) for each successive round the odds become much better that we won't have an accidental collision.

(edit: grammar)

bockris··on A non-mathematical explanation of one way functions
It doesn't matter. The exact point of a one-way function is to go forward from a known answer. It should be very hard (impossible) to go backwards. As the article mentioned, he could have stopped at 1 round but did 5 just to show the concept.
bockris··on Google Keep – Save what’s on your mind
It was way down the list for some reason. Look for the yellow icon.
bockris··on The Rare Disease Search Engine That Outperforms Google
I guess I'm not surprised that a purpose built search engine built over a curated database outperforms a generic search engine using a completely unstructured and dynamic dataset.
bockris··on The User Interface Sounds of the Roku
It was a skunkworks project from Netflix, not Amazon.
bockris··on Google translator rap
More accurately known as beatboxing. This trick has been around a while.

http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=goo...

bockris··on No, I'm not going to buy your damn book
It looks interesting and is cheap enough to just buy it. But six 5 star reviews after being out 1 week and two of them are your friends gives me just a bit of pause.

Just my opinion, nothing more.

Edit: I clicked through all of the reviews and only 1 of them had reviewed more than 1 item. (and his other was unrelated to tech and from 2007)

Sorry but it really does seem like these are all solicited reviews. Which isn't necessarily bad but perhaps you should throttle back.

bockris··on Breaking your bad habit is 'in the cards' - Addiction & Subtraction
I've tried several versions of this type of app and they never worked they way I want them to. Yours looks nice. Installed.
bockris··on Ask HN: What was that tool to install bunch of core windows programs?
http://ninite.com is one
bockris··on Ask HN: What is the best way to learn SQL
I haven't updated that blog in ages. I keep waiting for Posterous to shut off the servers and that will force me to start over with something else at the same URL.
bockris··on Ask HN: What is the best way to learn SQL
No one can make you eat your vegetables except you. ;-)
bockris··on Ask HN: What is the best way to learn SQL
There is this:

http://sql.learncodethehardway.org/book/

but I don't have any personal experience with it besides just browsing it when it was first announced.

http://use-the-index-luke.com/

is a good resource once you know the basics.

Honestly, you just need to write a lot of SQL to get better at it.

bockris··on No bullshit guide to math and physics
FYI. the top of the page number 4 ...addition an subtraction... you are missing a 'd'
bockris··on An inside look at the app that powers Sesame
Previous discussion http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4902649
bockris··on Show HN: Soundslice – YouTube + synced guitar tabs + HTML5
Some videos cause that for me also. (Windows Chrome 25.0.1323.1 dev-m)
bockris··on Original IBM PC (Intel 8088) in Javascript with Visicalc
Something similar happened to me when I ran an Apple II emulator for the first time. Even though it had been years since I last used a real Apple //c, seeing the prompt in the correct font with the cursor blink at the exact right tempo rewired my brain on the fly and I was typing commands and writing BASIC programs almost immediately.

I still fire it up occasionally to play through my old games and look at my old programs. Nostalgia is a powerful thing.

bockris··on New to HN, where to start?
The Guidelines link is in the footer.
bockris··on Show HN: DiffPlug — the pluggable differ
I like the image diff stuff a little better than Beyond Compare but not enough to create an account just so I can get a quote to see the price.

If you want people to buy I think you can be a little more upfront about your pricing.

Just my opinion.

bockris··on The game of life emulated in the game of life
At which level do you mean this game? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_(board_game)

;-)

bockris··on Ask HN: ARM board for your DIY home NAS?
http://cubieboard.org/ has a SATA port but it's not shipping yet.

This is a recent post from a blog I read: http://dangerousprototypes.com/2012/10/09/arm-board-comparis...

and the linked to chart has SATA as a feature and it seems to be pretty thin on the ground.

bockris··on Raspberry Pi Colocation
I don't know why you would want to do this but I upvoted just for the audacity of such a service.
bockris··on Stop Pagination Now
Which reinforces his point for me. I didn't visit the 2nd page due to apathy.
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