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Shebang: History(secure.wikimedia.org)
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Portability of C Programs and the Unix System [1978](cm.bell-labs.com)
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Early Ritchie Unix Talk [ca. 1972](cm.bell-labs.com)
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The Unix Programmer's Manual, 1st ed. [1971](cm.bell-labs.com)
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by BrandonM 15y ago
Actually, with enough experience with a given vehicle, it is quite possible to smoothly shift it without the clutch. When the engine reaches the appropriate RPM, you let off the gas as you take the car out of gear, smoothly and firmly shift
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by BrandonM 15y ago
Considering that you're the publisher, what is your response to this review? http://www.amazon.com/review/RMK171BE5NOQ1/ref=cm_cr_dp_perm... The third and fourth points, specifically, seem to contradict your claim that you publish "beauti
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by BrandonM 15y ago
My girlfriend always seems to know the plot of every movie. For a while I was wondering when she was finding time to sneak off to the theater, and why she was doing it without me. Her secret was just that she watched just about every movie
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Random Teams: Exploring Statistics with IPython(shebang.brandonmintern.com)
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by BrandonM 15y ago
This is the beginnings of my first serious blog. Let me know if you find it helpful. I'm specifically interested in feedback related to clarity and appropriateness of detail. I'd also love to hear about any Unix-related topics you would be
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Unix Home Field Advantage - vim and awk(shebang.brandonmintern.com)
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by BrandonM 15y ago
You mean like this? http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Se...
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by BrandonM 15y ago
Yep, valet parking was probably one of my favorite part-time jobs. They put me on a mailing list for valet events and sent out weekly emails; I picked the shifts I wanted to work. I got a good friend a job there, too, and we often worked to
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by BrandonM 15y ago
So get a roommate, look for a new place, move to a cheaper area, get a different job. I've done all of these things at one time or another. I've paid as low as $125 per month in rent, but most typically in the neighborhood of $225-300 (this
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by BrandonM 15y ago
Since we can't see vote counts anymore, I just want to chime in and say I agree. As a previous DDG user, I feel much the same way. And mining !g sounds like a great idea, though there might be some privacy issues to deal with (I'm imagining
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by BrandonM 15y ago
There are several classes of programs that can be proved to halt. Any non-recursive program without a loop halts. In addition to that, our research group in grad school showed that some looping programs can also be proved to halt as long as
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by BrandonM 15y ago
If you're going to go that route, it's much better to use 0.0.0.0 so that you're not sending HTTP requests to your machine. Otherwise, anything listening on port 80 (or 443, in some cases) will be receiving the requests intended for Faceboo
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by BrandonM 15y ago
Don't miss the "Tracking/Stats Blocking" as well. Note that these are simply filters for AdBlock Plus. If you're already using it, it's pretty easy to add a couple more filters.
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by BrandonM 15y ago
I do the same thing, and it really doesn't take much. I've been blocking 3rd party cookies for over a year now, and the only one I had to add was rememberthemilk, so that I could include my TODO list in a GMail widget. It's pretty simple, r
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by BrandonM 15y ago
How narcissistic must we be these days to think that our friends actually care about every little thing we do? It has apparently reached the point that we just want to share everything we're doing without applying any kind of personal fil
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by BrandonM 15y ago
I use Ghostery as well, but few people seem to be aware that you can also use AdBlock for this. Subscribing to the Fanboy (or EasyList) "Tracking/Stats Blocking" filter will block cross-site requests to sites like Google Analytics and Faceb
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by BrandonM 15y ago
> e.g. using machine learning for handwriting recognition This is one of the problems with software patents. Using machine learning for handwriting recognition is a pretty obvious "innovation" to anyone with a little background in AI
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by BrandonM 15y ago
There are two groups of players at poker sites. The largest group is bad players. These players typically deposit money on the site, play until their account is exhausted, and then deposit again. For them, the amount they put on a poker sit
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by BrandonM 15y ago
If FullTilt is a Ponzi, then any startup is a Ponzi. Investors put money into the startup, the founders spend that money (in part on their own incomes), and based on the company's business model, the investors reasonably expect to get a ret
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by BrandonM 15y ago
If I recall correctly, that was in the sense of a comment being factually incorrect, or so far off-base as to represent a damaging assertion. That is, the need to signal to a reader would outweigh the desire to avoid downvoting based on dis
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by BrandonM 15y ago
I upvoted but posted a dissenting opinion. The people downvoting are wrong.
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by BrandonM 15y ago
That may be true, but it doesn't mean the government hasn't enabled you. Most people fail to recognize that a big function of civilized society is to shift the power from the physically-strongest to economically- (or politically-) strongest
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by BrandonM 15y ago
I can upload an HTML template that I created, if anyone is interested. You can post it on a webpage, or you can use your browser to print to PDF and send it that way.
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by BrandonM 15y ago
No need to apologize for submitting the article. It was certainly interesting, and I can understand why you submitted it. The problem, though, is that there are numerous such articles that we could read and discuss, enough to swamp more sci
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by BrandonM 15y ago
I didn't downvote, but if Sony uses PSN as a selling point for PS3, it's pretty disingenuous to later claim that the ability to use PSN is unrelated to the purchase of a PS3.
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by BrandonM 15y ago
A metacomment related to question 6: Ubuntu tells us exactly how many packages need to be updated, and the update is as simple as executing a single command. The problem is ensuring that functionality is not broken by things like API or sub

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