RyanMcGreal

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by RyanMcGreal 16y ago
They said exactly the same thing after the printing press created the world's first generation with all the world's information at their fingertips. Somehow we'll manage to survive this onslaught of access to information as well.
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by RyanMcGreal 16y ago
I absolutely concur, at least with respect to my own motivations and habits. Every successful project I've built started in the middle; whereas every abandoned project started with grandiose organizational plans.
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by RyanMcGreal 16y ago
For all those holdouts still insisting that peak oil is just a silly theory, I ask you: if the easy-to-reach reserves weren't already in production, why would we be trying to pump oil out of risky, technically-difficult places like this?
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by RyanMcGreal 16y ago
Bollocks. It's unreasonable, not to mention unrealistic, to shift the balance of responsibility for online security from the relatively small set of professional developers to the mass of individual, non-expert users. Imagine if banks had a
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by RyanMcGreal 16y ago
>even ending her declarative sentences in that rising questioning lilt characteristic of many young Californians. I really enjoyed this bit?
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by RyanMcGreal 16y ago
Here's how another popular scripting language handles this: >>> a, b = 123, 456 >>> a + b 579 >>> c, d = '123', '456' >>> c + d '123456' >>> b + c
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by RyanMcGreal 16y ago
Just have two twitter accounts: lftl_business and lftl_personal.
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by RyanMcGreal 17y ago
Great stuff - thanks for sharing! You should post this as a top-level article.
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by RyanMcGreal 17y ago
I love this feature, but it bites me in the ass every time I work in a language that doesn't support this - like javascript and SQL.
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by RyanMcGreal 17y ago
Interesting, but ... why?
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by RyanMcGreal 17y ago
Pedantic note: the last part - "USE THEM TOGETHER USE THEM IN PEACE" - was added to the movie version, in which the story was overlaid with a now-anachronistic Cold War tension between the American and Soviet members of the mission.
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Distraction, seeking and thinking on the internet(raisethehammer.org)
6 points by RyanMcGreal 17y ago|1 comments
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by RyanMcGreal 17y ago
On closer inspection, astronomers detected what appears to be a large and rapidly-growing collection of black rectangles on the surface.
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by RyanMcGreal 17y ago
A one-line solution in Python: print '\n'.join(['%s%s%s' % (' '*((9-step)/2), '*'*step, ' '*((9-step)/2)) for step in [1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 9, 7, 5, 3, 1]]) Not diamond shaped, but moderately obfuscated.
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by RyanMcGreal 17y ago
Just to clarify: all of the industrialized world (except for the US) has universal health care. As for the troll, a couple of points: 1. Britain has government-controlled health care, not just government-funded health care. In Canada, where
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by RyanMcGreal 17y ago
Fascinating essay, but I'm not quite sure whether it's a problem that sufficiently advanced spam is indistinguishable from content. After all, Demand Media does produce real, editorially vetted content from real human writers. The payment s
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by RyanMcGreal 17y ago
>It took 10 years for the first beta blockers to be approved in the US after they were in use in Europe. Yet Europe has drug regulation. Maybe the problem isn't regulation as such, but the way regulation works in the US.
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by RyanMcGreal 17y ago
Know what would fix that? Universal, single payer health insurance.
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by RyanMcGreal 17y ago
It's the WSJ. Anything that reinforces the idea that humanity is nothing but a competitive struggle is fair game.
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by RyanMcGreal 17y ago
>But the more efficient I get with email, the more of it that comes in. Jevons Paradox: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
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by RyanMcGreal 17y ago
This is Eric Meyer's S5: http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/
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by RyanMcGreal 17y ago
Trying to install vim-python on Ubuntu 10.04 generates this message: Package vim-python is a virtual package provided by: vim-nox 2:7.2.330-1ubuntu3 vim-gtk 2:7.2.330-1ubuntu3 vim-gnome 2:7.2.330-1ubuntu3 You sho
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by RyanMcGreal 17y ago
The dog is free of fleas.
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by RyanMcGreal 17y ago
I stumbled across the opposite phenomenon - shared awareness - in my efforts to manage comment trolls. http://quandyfactory.com/blog/54/shared_awareness_a_better_w...
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by RyanMcGreal 17y ago
>He had the confidence of the House No he didn't. He introduced a confidence motion and the three opposing parties, representing a clear majority of MPs, announced that they would vote against the motion and ask the GG for a chance to f
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Why 'hooking up' has become so prevalent on campus(thestar.com)
22 points by RyanMcGreal 17y ago|33 comments
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by RyanMcGreal 17y ago
>This app-centric model works well until you find that you want different apps to operate on the same file Wasn't this one of the big innovations of the Mac - content portability across applications?
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by RyanMcGreal 17y ago
Returns a server error when the DuckDuckGo page loads: ---- Server Error The following error occurred: [code=CACHE_FILL_OPEN_FILE] An internal error prevented the object from being sent to the client and cached. Try again later. Please cont
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by RyanMcGreal 17y ago
BBC has a report on this: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/10106166.stm
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by RyanMcGreal 17y ago
Good old socialism-for-the-rich.

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