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Comment · 4 years ago
It is a good way to get started with a new language, but you won’t make it to fluency. They don’t have enough content for that.
Comment · 5 years ago
> My only complaint is that I don't particularly like PDF and wish there was an HTML-zip format that could be sent around and the browser did all the rendering work, while the udnerlying data tables are stored in well-defined formats so they can be programatically extracted.

Back when I was doing Math research it was common to submit LateX files to ArXiv. A quick look at some of the Physics papers, though, suggests it may not the case for other fields.

Comment · 5 years ago
There's no real need to know so much math for most professional programming jobs. Math problems tend to be over-represented on challenge sites because they are easy to implement.
Comment · 5 years ago
I'm not sure that plunging my arm down its throat and choking it with my fist would be my first instinct if I were attacked by a dog :)
Comment · 5 years ago
Nice to see this working well on Safari. Web games posted on HN sometimes don’t.
Comment · 6 years ago
I couldn't get it to work properly in Lynx.
Comment · 6 years ago
You have a gift for understatement.
Comment · 6 years ago
My content blocker wouldn’t let me see this site... did I miss anything important?
Comment · 7 years ago
I was amused by this doublespeak:

"To give users more control over their extensions, support for sideloaded extensions will be discontinued."

Comment · 7 years ago
I did some experiments the other day and found to my surprise that Google has by far the best no-Javascript experience of the major search engines. Duck Duck Go could learn a thing or two from them.
Comment · 7 years ago
I just changed my Battle Tag to "FreeHongKong", let's see how it takes me to get banned :D

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