Mindless2112

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by Mindless2112 14y ago
Why alias commands to sl? The point is for it to be triggered on bad typing. Also, the man page is worth a look -- http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/precise/man6/sl.6.html
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by Mindless2112 14y ago
It's the loss of historical feed data that bothers me most. Sure, I can export the links to the feeds I have subscribed to, but that's the data I could have reconstructed myself.
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by Mindless2112 14y ago
> Every Wikipedia article is now, effectively, an interactive application. I don't think that's quite true. MediaWiki templates are now more powerful, but I'm not sure even that counts as interactive. This makes editing easier, but the
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by Mindless2112 14y ago
That wasn't quite the point -- it was that the influencers cared about the word-count tool. (You might also notice that Word currently has a word-count tool.)
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by Mindless2112 14y ago
This was my second thought when Google announced that they were retiring Reader (the first was "Nooo!") Half of my friends use Gmail because I suggested that they switch. I am starting to see Google move toward the dark side, and that mean
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by Mindless2112 14y ago
I purchased an IdeaPad Z570 early last year -- thus far my only niggle is that they didn't ship any CDs with it. I'm much happier with it than I was with the Dell Vostro that I previously had.
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by Mindless2112 14y ago
They do. Most likely the frequency is adjusted during night hours (when there is less fluctuation) such that the average comes to 50 Hz (or 60 Hz in the US). (See [1].) [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_clock#Accuracy
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by Mindless2112 14y ago
That timer is long expired. This article (which uses "craft" as a synonym for "art") directly opposes Knuth's [1] from 1974 -- I'll let you guess which one carries more weight. [1] http://www.paulgraham.com/knuth.html
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by Mindless2112 14y ago
And they can't do that with the limited-stock/item-sold-out system?
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by Mindless2112 14y ago
It's a bit entertaining to listen to a song backwards beat-wise. (Click play, hit the left arrow key twice, click at the end of the song.)
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by Mindless2112 14y ago
Even the physical object is ambiguous -- do I slide it to the side with the label that represents the state I want, or does the label represent the state?
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by Mindless2112 14y ago
I read the book with that disclaimer in mind. Please don't take my comment as "you ruined my motivation for further education"; it was meant as "you saved me the trouble of finding out the hard way that this really wasn't what I wanted". I
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by Mindless2112 14y ago
As a current graduate student skeptically considering working toward a Ph.D., this has helped me confirm my suspicion that it's not for me. I started doing research as an undergrad, so I have become somewhat familiar with academia's public