akadien

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by akadien 13y ago
This is fantastic. It's the best thing since StarLogs ( http://starlogs.net/#johnzachary/libcork )
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by akadien 13y ago
I guess my tongue-in-cheek plug for our C library was misinterpreted. I really didn't mean to ding Cello, just put ours out there, too.
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by akadien 13y ago
Thanks. We'll fix the link.
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by akadien 13y ago
Harrumph. Our http://github.com/redjack/libcork.git library is better.
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by akadien 13y ago
Was I the only person who thought "Did the NSA really need Microsoft's assistance?"?
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by akadien 13y ago
Respectfully, the ratio of "papers to systems" has less to do with communication and more to do with tenure and promotion. Most professors couldn't care less if their papers are implemented, or even read.
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by akadien 13y ago
Did someone hack your account? Because that level of irony just can't be so easily lost.
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by akadien 13y ago
An incredibly good point. He ran in 2008 mainly on the message of "we're not Republicans". However, his message then - and now - lacked substantive policy changes and improvements for governance. It was more of the same, whi
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by akadien 13y ago
Oops! I mistakenly typed "slate" when I meant "salon". I'll leave the original up and see how dinged I become.
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by akadien 13y ago
All of the heroes are C-level executives. Villains are mostly government people and sycophantic businessmen.
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by akadien 13y ago
(a) Too many pop-ups on Slate.com to even read the article. (b) Ayn Rand was a terrible writer (hyperverbose) and philosopher (simplistic idealism). I doubt most modern day adherents have read "Atlas Shrugged".
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by akadien 13y ago
Yahoo is like HP. They once had pretty great engineering and relevance, but they are a zombie company now. If I were a Yahoo shareholder, I'd be pretty pissed about this deal.
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by akadien 13y ago
Oh, hell yeah! I want a mobile-enabled web site on my iPad, not another useless app-wrapper proxy for a web site. Shouldn't the fact that I remember the URL be enough??
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by akadien 13y ago
I write ANSI C for a living, and I still learn new tricks and insights from the second edition. In fact, many of the neatest ways we use C are things that we learned from references published the 1980s and early 1990s.
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by akadien 14y ago
This is the whole reason why I went into computer science. I watched all of my repos twice today, then I started picking repos at random. Even my non-techie "I can't work an Apple Magic Pad" big-boobed wife thinks it's super cool. Well don
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by akadien 14y ago
> If someone wants to keep 5 houses and leave 4 of them empty at any given time, as a status symbol, shouldn't they be taxed punitively? No.
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by akadien 14y ago
I definitely agree with respect to income, estate, and property taxes. Consumption-based taxes are fairer than so-called "progressive" tax schemes implemented to fund world wars and military expansion. Ref. http://opinionator.blogs.nytime
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by akadien 14y ago
Maybe it's just me, but HP should re-focus on development of innovative products and away from political consultancy.
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by akadien 14y ago
Geesh, tough crowd. No sense of humor. (Chrome version 24.0.1312.57 really doesn't crash for me on Mac OS X Mountain Lion. Safari and TextEdit do, though.)
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by akadien 14y ago
No crash for me. Google must have patched it.
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by akadien 14y ago
Cool!
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by akadien 14y ago
We also have New Orleans, Mardi Gras, and much political corruption and cronyism.
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by akadien 14y ago
> There's also the scope for corruption, when they pick the builders, but that's another story. I live in Louisiana. Tell me about it!
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by akadien 14y ago
This is quite true. For state schools, new buildings may be a "gift" from the political class to show the public their support for higher education. The stupid irony is those buildings typically don't come with operations and maintenance
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by akadien 14y ago
I don't see Facebook on either list. http://www.iqt.org/portfolio/ict.html http://www.iqt.org/portfolio/alumni.html
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by akadien 14y ago
http://www.apple.com/findouthow/mac/#timemachinebasics
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by akadien 14y ago
Half of the web seems to crash iPad 1 these days.
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by akadien 14y ago
Honestly, I don't want to read articles about "doing x when you're 50" when I'm 50.
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by akadien 14y ago
I want to do exactly what I'm doing now in seven years. Like several stories, I drifted out of programming and into various management roles over the past few years. I'm super-fortunate to be out of Excel and Word and back into a command-li
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by akadien 14y ago
I concur. My five year old iMac is just beginning to feel aged, whereas my two year old iPad and Mac Book are nearly ready for donation to the city. Thanks for sharing your positive experience with Amazon; that is helpful to me.

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