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Ask HN: What is the largest known prime in sequence?

10 points·by joemaffei·há 4 anos·7 comments

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joemaffei
·há 4 anos·discuss
Spell checking should be a default feature in IDEs. I've seen teammates struggle to find the source of a bug, only to find a spelling error in a variable or configuration setting. I'm not the greatest touch typist, and my IDE catches double letters, missing letters, reversed letters and other mistakes all the time.
joemaffei
·há 5 anos·discuss
I remember an old demo that would play a loop of the chorus of I Say a Little Prayer through the PC speaker. It was hard to believe that the speaker could be pushed to such limits.
joemaffei
·há 5 anos·discuss
"a disgruntled populace just wants it all to go away." The same thing happened in Brazil. Back to back Olympics and World Cup, billions spent on single-purpose, once-used infrastructure, while the economy was in shambles. No one but the government wanted any of it - okay, maybe the World Cup, but definitely not the Olympics.
joemaffei
·há 5 anos·discuss
Portuguese, especially Brazilian Portuguese, retained this nasalization.
joemaffei
·há 6 anos·discuss
#1 is the usual definition of perfect pitch, and is the most useful. I have heard #2 and #3 referred to as "pitch memory". There is also a rare #0, which is the ability to identify pitches that are out of tune by a small number of cents. This is the least useful type of perfect pitch, and can render people unable to truly enjoy music. I know a musician who is like that. To him, everyone in the band is out of tune all the time.
joemaffei
·há 6 anos·discuss
The only one on the list that can be called an HTML API is drag and drop. All the others are Web APIs. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API