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by CallMeV 16y ago
Now this article is brilliant. I'm reposting the link to this article to a maths blog. My old maths tutors in my old alma mater would also love to read the article, so I'll email them the link. If nothing else, it'll remind them that mathem
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by CallMeV 16y ago
Upvoted on spec. Funny how I knew what strip you referred to by its index alone. I've cited it myself often enough in the past.
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by CallMeV 16y ago
I wonder if anyone here has studied the Trachtenberg Method of Speed Mathematics, or Vedic Mathematics. If anyone here has, I'd like to find out what they thought of the way those methods are taught.
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by CallMeV 16y ago
That, like mastery of music, language and art, takes persistence, time, practice, learning, error and experience - make the most of your time to devote yourself to furthering what you know. The expertise you seek will come to you.
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by CallMeV 16y ago
A magnificent explanation.
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by CallMeV 16y ago
It's their cancelling shows that bothers me.
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by CallMeV 16y ago
I went to uni, and got a decent Computer Studies BSc degree. It never stood me one damned bit of good, because before, during and after my studies, companies are still holding to the mantra "We need two years' experience in [name the techno
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by CallMeV 16y ago
Wish I could upvote this twice.
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by CallMeV 16y ago
In the "I can't say what it is, but I can point to one" sense, hackers to me are the ones who show you lines of code they've written for some app, as if to say "This is the magic bit. Look what I've got this language to do!" They're the bri
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by CallMeV 16y ago
Too late. They already have. :)
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by CallMeV 16y ago
Their next task will be to build the Babbage Difference Engine out of Lego.
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by CallMeV 16y ago
When they started putting big guns on battleships, they came up with a new term: "gunboat diplomacy." When the Easter Uprising began in Ireland, the Royal Navy just sat their gunships in the bay and started shelling them from a safe distanc
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by CallMeV 16y ago
Of course they could just tag all authorised USB drives with RFID chips with unique ID codes matching the owners they are assigned to and their clearance levels, and equip their machines and the installations with RFID scanners designed to
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by CallMeV 16y ago
They need to just use their eyes and ears, the old fashioned way. Eternal vigilance is the price for crushing freedom, erm, something. Better yet, if they want to prevent leaks, just stop doing objectionable things. Especially to their citi
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by CallMeV 16y ago
No. Increasing maturity, empathy, tolerance and wisdom.
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by CallMeV 16y ago
Wish I could upvote this comment twice. Flowers for Algernon is one of the most moving stories I have ever read.
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by CallMeV 16y ago
It often breaks my heart when some of my best friends and family reach the limits of their cognitive abilities and display all the intelligence of a Labrador. I love them all unconditionally nonetheless, even if they don't get half of my jo
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by CallMeV 16y ago
Work out what your monthly expenditures are going to be. In the UK, these would include rent and rates, probably monthly mortgage payments if you own the property in which you live, your monthly utilities (electricity, broadband, phone, TV,
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by CallMeV 16y ago
I don't actually have to go to my bookshelf. Bruce Sterling, the author of The Hacker Crackdown, released the text onto the web here:- http://www.mit.edu/hacker/hacker.html
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by CallMeV 16y ago
I remember what I was doing on the day this happened. And it was just over twenty years ago and all. A book released after the event, The Hacker Crackdown, gave a blow-by-blow account of the whole farrago. I could not put it down back then.
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by CallMeV 16y ago
> "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." Actually, what he was really trying to say was "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to YOUR death your right to say it."
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by CallMeV 16y ago
And if you never want to work for the Government in any way, shape or form, and in fact feel a desire to tell the likes of Senator Lieberman to go to blazes - and remind him of your First Amendment right to say so to his face?
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by CallMeV 16y ago
Aw, they changed the theme tune.
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by CallMeV 16y ago
Didn't Iceland pass a legal power to enshrine the right to free speech on the web, making it a data haven beyond the reach of these kind of power grabs? Because it isn't criminal activity that Fitwatch was advocating, but making sure that t
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by CallMeV 16y ago
I've had the link forwarded to me in an email, posted to my Facebook wall, sent to my mobile phone and even handed to me manually, written on a piece of paper . (Really. Who writes these days?) And now it appears here. I swear, this link d
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by CallMeV 16y ago
Didn't that episode end ironically, with the Federation taking over the planet and rendering the currency they'd just won worthless?
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by CallMeV 16y ago
Love this. Perhaps the best response should be to respond with the exact phraseology just used, e.g. to "Don't take this the wrong way, but ..." followed by some negative personal criticism you could reply with "Don't take this the wrong
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by CallMeV 16y ago
I just wish I could plusvote this one twice.
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by CallMeV 16y ago
A supreme irony, since on the same HN page this link appears concerning a letter written about Aldous Huxley's "most beautiful death" on November 22, 1963:- http://www.lettersofnote.com/2010/03/most-beautiful-death.ht...
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by CallMeV 16y ago
Not surprised this one got removed. That other book mentioned sounds like a confessional, almost: the author's attempt to exorcise his demons from what he has done. But this book encourages its readers, assuming the readers belong to its ta

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