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New comment by anew in "How Google determines the names for bodies of water in Google Earth"

anew — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 15:14:32 +0000

No more than Nebraska is now "Dipshit Central", see how that works?

New comment by anew in "How Google determines the names for bodies of water in Google Earth"

anew — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 13:34:35 +0000

Apples and Oranges. Denali is and was a name used for thousands of years. Nobody suggested naming the mountain Mt Czolgosz.

New comment by anew in "Ultima VII Revisited"

anew — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 15:21:52 +0000

Mos def. Well it’s more like: place flour on surface, place water on flour, instant dough! Place dough in oven until it turns to bread.

New comment by anew in "Ultima VII Revisited"

anew — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 13:28:18 +0000

Not sure about VI, but I definitely spent an afternoon baking bread in Britannia in Ultima VII

New comment by anew in "Havana syndrome: 'directed' radio frequency likely cause of illness"

anew — Sun, 06 Dec 2020 14:01:23 +0000

Good question, the working theory that the pesticides being used nearby were acting as a cholinesterase inhibitor in the victims. Occam's razor pulls me towards this theory.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/10/191003111753.h...

New comment by anew in "Could We Run Modern Society on Human Power Alone?"

anew — Mon, 29 May 2017 15:35:43 +0000

That sounds a lot like slavery to me.

New comment by anew in "NASA announces discovery of Earth-like planet with earth similarity index 0.98"

anew — Thu, 23 Jul 2015 14:29:39 +0000

I'd put magnetosphere in that list

How we reduced deploy times to under one second with plain git

anew — Mon, 10 Mar 2014 14:48:52 +0000

Article URL: http://factore.ca/on-the-floor/278-expert-rails-deployment-with-git

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7373187

Points: 6

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New comment by anew in "Tail Recursion"

anew — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 16:16:25 +0000

I've recently enjoyed the explanation of tail recursion on "learn you some Erlang":

http://learnyousomeerlang.com/recursion

New comment by anew in "Poll: Google+: Like it/prefer it to FaceBook"

anew — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 17:58:36 +0000

I'd really appreciate an invite as well, id is in my about.

New comment by anew in "Building muscle doesn't require lifting heavy weights"

anew — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 18:51:59 +0000

This is true. However I find most guys at the gym rarely do squats, lunges or leg presses. They tend to focus on their glamour muscles and foolishly ignore the rest of their body.