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by KC8ZKF 14y ago
The audio version of Neal Stephenson's "REAMDE" has our hero saving data in a "ee em ay see ess file." But really, nobody ever says things like "I need a dedicated Linux box running Apache with a MySQL back end" outside of an Aaron Sorkin s
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by KC8ZKF 14y ago
Black could avoid the mate by sacrificing his rook with h1+, then promoting the pawn with a check, then sacrificing the new queen by taking the knight at e5. No point in that though. He has lost.
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by KC8ZKF 14y ago
I think it is a stretch to call "and" a skeuomorph. If a skeuomorph exists, it exists in Boolean algebra, because that is the word George Boole used.
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by KC8ZKF 14y ago
Back in the olden days I was a pressman for a newspaper. We would grab the newspapers coming off the press, and hold them upside down to check the print quality, color registration, etc. This was almost necessary to see errors, not beca
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by KC8ZKF 14y ago
On the other hand, kickstarter provides an easy way for users to contribute to open source software.
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by KC8ZKF 14y ago
Yes, and the paper distinguishes between programming and coding. Step one is "Analysis and Programming", step two is "Coding." It's step two that FORTRAN virtually eliminates.
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by KC8ZKF 14y ago
No. But, I had to think about it.
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sudo -u postgres createuser -s `whoami` Won't this create another user named "postgres"? EDIT: No it won't: Ophelia ~ $ sudo -u postgres whoami postgres Ophelia ~ $ sudo -u postgres echo `whoami` rich Tha
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by KC8ZKF 15y ago
It occurs to me that HFS might be the real culprit. A lot of the bad behaviors described here involve heavy disk use. John Siracusa has a nice round-up of all the HFS faults: http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2011/07/mac-os-x-10-7.a..
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by KC8ZKF 15y ago
Just like it works with vim in normal mode.
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by KC8ZKF 15y ago
Didn't work on your carbon copies, though. In my high school typing class, accuracy was preternaturally stressed.
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by KC8ZKF 15y ago
I am happy to see courses in the humanities. The Greek and Roman Mythology course looks like fun.
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David Wood of The Huffington Post wins Pulitzer(pulitzer.org)
1 points by KC8ZKF 15y ago|0 comments
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by KC8ZKF 15y ago
"Even a fool is thought wise if he keeps silent, and discerning if he holds his tongue." -- Proverbs 17:28
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by KC8ZKF 15y ago
Many people had color monitors in the 1980s. For values of "monitors" that include television sets. The Commodore 64 and Vic 20 were color, as was the Tandy CoCo. Lots of others as well.
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by KC8ZKF 15y ago
Calculate pi to 700 decimal places.
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by KC8ZKF 15y ago
How about FORTH?
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by KC8ZKF 15y ago
I'm confused by what you mean as "standalone." Do you mean that you created object code that allowed users without Python installed to run your script? Because if not, getting Clisp or another CL to run a script from the command line is a
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by KC8ZKF 15y ago
It's almost just a number in a database. Negative scores cause the comment to be grayed out. Perhaps comments with negative scores should not be grayed out. This would remove the incentive to downvote a comment to silence an unpopular op
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by KC8ZKF 15y ago
Wasn't it lowercase-linux that ran away with its own default shell? I mean, the whole confusion starts when "/bin/sh" is a simlink to "bash". And we haven't considered the confusion that Bash, when invoked as "/bin/sh" behaves differently
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by KC8ZKF 15y ago
Yet another way to do this is to use "/bin/echo" instead of the builtins or printf. "/bin/echo" is part of POSIX.
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by KC8ZKF 15y ago
What? No love for Prolog?
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by KC8ZKF 15y ago
(find-grep-dired DIR REGEXP) Find files in DIR containing a regexp REGEXP and start Dired on output.
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by KC8ZKF 15y ago
You also have to read an article to understand its contents. Headlines have never been, and should not be, anything more than a headline. And, I disagree with your analysis of "for." I am an english speaker living in the northeastern Unite
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by KC8ZKF 15y ago
If you're wishing for conversations about these types of questions, you should listen to "The Partially Examined Life" podcast. http://www.partiallyexaminedlife.com/ e.g. http://www.partiallyexaminedlife.com/2010/06/28/episode-21-w...
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by KC8ZKF 15y ago
"RadioShack" was "Radio Shack" from 1921 to 1995.
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Or, most text files are small.
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Is this watch waterproof and shockproof?
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Spinoculars re-spun?(languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu)
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by KC8ZKF 15y ago
I don't think the NFL has a Congressionally granted monopoly.

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