3dFlatLander

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by 3dFlatLander 17y ago
Stewart Brand gave a TED talk recently ( http://www.ted.com/talks/stewart_brand_proclaims_4_environme... ) in which he said that people moving into urban areas have less children, and much of the world was moving into urban areas these da
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by 3dFlatLander 17y ago
"It fights against progress to keep its anachronistic business model relevant." I'd like to comment on that. I live in a city in which AT&T started a test of bandwidth caps. Depending on your connection type, you can download anywhere f
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by 3dFlatLander 17y ago
I was intrigued by the title, but the writing has a "self-help" quality that makes me question the value of it. Personal development websites seem very meta, as they often blog about systems they use (or just thought up, who knows?) to be
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by 3dFlatLander 17y ago
"It's distressing and worrying therefore that these sorts of details should be appearing in the public domain." I'm more concerned about the information that's thought to be private. Remember the Palin email incident? That guy just googled
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by 3dFlatLander 17y ago
The amount of math resources available today online is amazing. I congratulate you on your efforts to teach yourself what you don't feel you're getting in school. When I was in high school around 1999, I found myself in situation like yours
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by 3dFlatLander 17y ago
"In addition, students select one to three additional exams, and this choice depends on what they hope to study in college." Does that mean that a student must choose a major before they enter into college and stick with it throughout their
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by 3dFlatLander 17y ago
I saw more than a few recently published O'Reilly books on the list, so I'm guessing not. EDIT: I noticed that some of the random titles I looked into actually link to the book website. For example: "Real World Haskell" goes to the realworl
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by 3dFlatLander 17y ago
This seems like the hacker equivalent of the "people falling down" videos. EDIT: And I don't think that's a good thing.
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by 3dFlatLander 17y ago
Eight seems a little young, I think most start in their early teenage years. My own experience was to start with HTML and Javascript, and from there I moved on to Perl, C and the like. I think HTML, Javascript, and CSS make a great starting
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by 3dFlatLander 17y ago
I've ran both, and I really prefer Tomato. DD-WRT is very nice though, but I ended up not using most of the features it offered. Tomato is very lightweight, and fits all my needs perfectly. My router is also a little buggy (really need to b
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by 3dFlatLander 17y ago
The user who uploaded the Connections series has also uploaded other TV shows James Burke worked on. You can find all the episodes here http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=JamesBurkeWeb&view=p... Also, there is a fascinating episode o
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Episode 1 of "Connections": A Series that Follows the History of Science and Technology(youtube.com)
4 points by 3dFlatLander 17y ago|2 comments
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Ask HN: Hackers With Disabilities
9 points by 3dFlatLander 17y ago|3 comments