SloopJon

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   by SloopJon 12y ago

   As Amazon Prime's catalog has improved, I've bought fewer videos in the last few years, even as prices have plummeted. (Whole series are selling now for what a single season used to cost!) Good news for my closet space, but to t
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   by SloopJon 13y ago

   Someone was showing me Capital One 360 (formerly ING), which uses an onscreen PIN pad that you either have to click with your mouse, or type using a randomly generated mapping. The idea is to thwart keystroke loggers, but it's totally
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   by SloopJon 13y ago

   Looks like a Kinesis Advantage. I've long been tempted to get one, but could never convince myself that it was worth $300. Seems to me that the recent Microsoft keyboards are kind of mushy. I use an Apple wireless keyboard at work.
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   by SloopJon 13y ago

   I picked up a Max Keyboard Blackbird during a recent sale. It's the only tenkeyless mechanical keyboard I could find with a built-in USB hub. The backlight is a nice bonus. The keyboard defaults to 6KRO. When I set it to NKRO (over
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   by SloopJon 13y ago

   I was disappointed that the iPad turned out to be essentially a giant iPhone. The Surface Pro looks like it finally delivers on the promise of a slate that runs a real O/S. There's a bit of sticker shock if you compare it to a N
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   by SloopJon 13y ago

   I don't remember how it came up, but I was asked something similar to this during my Eagle Scout interview, back when I believed in God and stuff. I said that I would be a conscientious objector, even during World War 2. It wasn&#x27
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   by SloopJon 13y ago

   I read the book about fifteen years ago, during my Code Complete bibliography binge. I remember it every time I start the wrong burner on a stove. After the Google-sponsored web game class, I'm a bit skeptical of Udacity's commer
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   by SloopJon 13y ago

   I use Tablesorter for a report. It does a pretty good job with multi-column sorting, but adding the filters that I need has been a bit of a chore. Your comment prompted me to take another look at DataTables. So far I'm impressed. I
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   by SloopJon 13y ago

   Wow. Although I was vaguely aware that Clang is tool friendly, I had no idea about libclang, let alone its Python bindings. A search for "python clang module" turned up a mention of pycparser. Any idea how it compares? I guess
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    by SloopJon 13y ago

    Link to press release: http://www.redhat.com/about/news/press-archive/2013/11/red-h... Also, the virtualization.info post claims that RHEL 6.5 is supported on Itanium, which I believe is incorrect.
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    by SloopJon 13y ago

    In the previous story, user brianwski of Backblaze said, "We have been told that until we buy blocks of 10,000 drives, we cannot deal directly with the drive manufacturers. We're not there yet." https://news.ycomb
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    by SloopJon 13y ago

    And here's the discussion of that story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4631027 I browsed the comments with two things in mind: was anyone uncomfortable with shucking and farming on this scale, and were the drive
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    by SloopJon 13y ago

    It almost seems too early to reminisce about this stuff. My first computers were a TRS-80 clone and a Commodore 64, but this is the era in which I really started to get into computers: the Solaris and NeXT ads in Byte and PC Magazine, with
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    by SloopJon 13y ago

    What's not apparent from the title is that this is a popularity ranking, similar to the TIOBE Programming Community Index: http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index....
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    by SloopJon 13y ago

    I've wanted a Raspberry Pi for a while, but I couldn't quite justify it. I also toyed with the idea of getting the $300 home edition of Mathematica (also limited to non-professional use, BTW), but again didn't have enough of
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    by SloopJon 13y ago

    When I installed Flash Player on a Windows laptop recently, I was surprised to see a download bundle featuring Chrome. I thought it was the other way around: install Chrome and you get Flash whether you want it or not.
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    by SloopJon 13y ago

    I don't go to Apple stores nearly as much as I used to, partly because of the salespeople (I usually see more of them than customers), but mostly because they don't carry anything I need anymore. I buy a computer once every three
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    by SloopJon 13y ago

    Thank you for that link. I was one of the 160,000+ students in Sebastian and Peter's AI class, and it was a blast. It motivated me to sign up for natural language processing at Coursera, another really fun class. The start of the NL