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nightlifelover··on Ask HN: Best Developer Linux Laptop?
Macbook pro, because Linux on a laptop sucks balls.
nightlifelover··on Scripting GNU Screen with Python
No comments?! Oh come on! Well anyway I wrote quite a complicated configuration for zsh and screen some years ago. It displayed the last executed program as the title on screen, because the overview when pressing ctrl-a " doesn't help u much w/o meaningful titles. I did some more stuff too can't remember it.. anyway somehow I lost my configuration :( so I wonder if anybody is heavily using screen here?
nightlifelover··on So I made something that's pretty stupid but had fun doing it
So I googled for hitler doll.. http://failfun.com/funny-pictures/what-a-creepy-little-girl/
nightlifelover··on So I made something that's pretty stupid but had fun doing it
Did u do the cute hitler drawing urself? :D
nightlifelover··on So I made something that's pretty stupid but had fun doing it
The Degree of Hitler for asdf is: 3 Keyboard layout Austria Adolf Hitler

lol looks like I can't find anything with a hitler degree of more than 3

nightlifelover··on Logicly - the digital logic simulator
Is there a tutorial, for those not so familiar with electrical engineering? Also I would like to know how exactly DRAM or SRAM works, is it possible to illustrate using this simulator?
nightlifelover··on What Kinds of Jobs Exist At Startups for Non-Technical People?
Secretary
nightlifelover··on Founding a startup with zero revenue is better than working for Goldman Sachs
Heh it was written by somebody with a PHD in Physics or so.. but my point was that a lot of highly intelligent people are loosely paid (for example think about a lot of post-doc positions in academia) while some other less educated people get a lot of money it seems..
nightlifelover··on Founding a startup with zero revenue is better than working for Goldman Sachs
"There were other characters in this drama. The sales guys were complete tools, with a total IQ, summing over all of them, still safely in the double digits. The traders were crafty and quick-witted, but technically unsophisticated and with the attention span of an ADHD kid hopped up on meth and Jolly Ranchers."

Ok it seems perfectly possible to make a lot of money while being a complete idiot. I'm getting an MS in engineering and since I was studying the last few years I don't have any money (except about the minimum which is required for a living) What worries me most is that many engineering jobs are not well payed, even though they require skilled people. So I wonder how I could turn the hard work I did (and still do) to get my degree into money.

nightlifelover··on Why do the Japanese draw themselves as white?
Simple because paper is white?
nightlifelover··on Ballmer to announce VS 2010 will compile native Mac/iPhone apps at WWDC
Humm I'm not sure what the actual rumor is.. VS 2010 for the Mac or just the ability to dev for the iPhone or the iPad using VS on Windows?

From the technical both would be possible but I guess there would be some effort required to do either of these:

- VS on a Mac: VS 2010 uses WPF for the gui. Therefore it would have to run on a Mac. I guess the .net platform probably already runs on a Mac (there is Silverlight for a Mac) and since WPF uses Direct-X they would need to hook it up with OpenGL. However since VS is huge this would take a lot of effort I guess, so rather unlikely.

- The second rumor, that the VS on Windows would be able to produce iPad/Phone apps seems easier to do from a technical perspective, since they could use Clang/LLVM. But I don't really see the point here: There are more then enough people developing for the iPhone/iPad and this would probably hurt Microsofts Windows Mobile plans.. as well as Apples Mac sales..

So it's a rumor - that's all probably complete BS. We will see..

nightlifelover··on Google won't make search recommendations for "Islam is"
I found this pretty interesting, not sure if it still works:

http://emerging-patterns.com/tmp/CrimsonJihad.png

nightlifelover··on Programmer Competency Matrix
He misses a few points subjects like computer graphics, computational geometry, understanding of databases (did he mention this?), numerical simulations, GUI design, general math skills, compression algorithm, heuristic algorithm, etc

That's what just comes in my mind..

nightlifelover··on Why do so many terrorists have engineering degrees?
Maybe I should go into biomedical engineering.. I can't imagine that they have religious people there ;)
nightlifelover··on Why do so many terrorists have engineering degrees?
Ok I've heard this before.. Let's look at other subjects.. for example philosophy: What about the great Philosopher Dr Joseph Goebbels or Karl Marx? The discussion is quite ridiculous.
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