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by aplusbi 16y ago
Have you read You Are Not a Gadget by Jaron Lanier? I think you might like it. There is an entire section devoted to exactly what you just said, and how facebook essentially "removes the individuality" from its users. At the same time h
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by aplusbi 16y ago
Until we can forward a GV line to another GV line and do that 10-20 times, so that when the FBI/CIA/NSA is trying to trace a call the guy in the computer room keeps shouting "He's in Berlin! No wait, he's in Detroit! Now he's in Boston...
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by aplusbi 16y ago
In terms of hardware I think you are correct. However the Kindle doesn't just refer to the device. It's also an app available on Windows, Mac OS X, iPhone/iPad and will be release for Android soon as well. Supposed B&N are going to re
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by aplusbi 16y ago
I would recommend switching your major to math. You will likely get a lot more out of it and it will be more or less of equal value to a CS degree, especially considering your current knowledge of programming.
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by aplusbi 16y ago
I once tried to cut a bike brake cable with a pair of diagonal cutters. It didn't work - and that thing is less than 1/8" in diameter (and is meant to be cut). The Kensington locks are made of thicker, strong cables and though still fairl
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by aplusbi 16y ago
I thought that was urban legend and that they just contain "natural flavor" which is unspecified and McDonald's is very tight-lipped about what it actually is (to the chagrin of vegetarians who would actually eat at McDonald's).
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by aplusbi 16y ago
Last night I had a dream that I was telling a coworker he should use reinterpret_cast for something. But I'm not going to go bragging about it and I think it may be the only time I have ever actually dreamed about coding.
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by aplusbi 16y ago
I think the problem I have with it is that a lot of it is about trying to out-geek other geeks. Like when someone says, "Oh yeah, well I'm so nerdy I dream about code!"
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by aplusbi 16y ago
Most of the answers are exactly what I think is wrong with nerd/programming culture. Mostly it's people making dumb jokes, thinking they are clever and trying to pass it off as reality. Answers like "I wish I could query a bar for the wome
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by aplusbi 16y ago
I have an unused sample pack, and it's definitely not two-part. I think it's just air-activated.
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by aplusbi 16y ago
I like surprises! Looking forward to part 3...
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by aplusbi 16y ago
Usually "inplace" means "in constant memory space." In other words, running the algorithm on an input of size N requires the same amount of memory as running the algorithm on an input of size M.
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by aplusbi 16y ago
Yeah, I had almost exactly the same code. I'm sure most people did too. The only other "obvious" algorithm is the n^2 one.
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by aplusbi 16y ago
They used to have a spoiler warning in movie articles but they got rid of it. I kind of liked it, but I suppose it made it seem less like an encyclopedia article and more like a forum post.
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by aplusbi 16y ago
This will just replace one of the current searches whereas I want to add one. But I figured it out - in the searchplugins directory in the firefox install are a bunch of xml files. I added a new one with the relevant info and now "duck" i
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by aplusbi 16y ago
Is there a way to add Duck Duck Go to the firefox search bar? I really like using keywords to launch searches (since I use VIMperator) but I can't seem to add arbitrary keywords to my knowledge.
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by aplusbi 16y ago
That exact scenario happened to one of my former employers. We installed a server in a closet in this hallway. The hallway had no HVAC and the installation was in the winter (so the hallway was always very cold). I remember asking what w
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by aplusbi 16y ago
He's already climbed 5 of the seven summits so why is this even an issue?
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by aplusbi 16y ago
And no one is complaining. Trun was pointing out that it is unlikely that Netflix is going to switch to HTML5 video at the moment because there is no DRM available for it. The content providers won't go for it, the customers won't care.
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by aplusbi 16y ago
"The United Arab Emirates (UAE) government issued a statement on Wednesday saying Mr Shahzad had been heading for Islamabad in Pakistan, and had been due to change planes in Dubai."
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by aplusbi 17y ago
What's that old saying? "No one ever got fired for going with IBM."
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by aplusbi 17y ago
I think it's best to treat C and C++ as separate languages. While you can certain compile (most) C programs with a C++ compiler in practice the way you code in C and the way you code in C++ is very different.
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by aplusbi 17y ago
It won't cause injury but it's not exactly easy to jump into.
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by aplusbi 17y ago
I had a job where the "core hours" were from noon to 5. Past that you had to work at least 8 hours a day. In practice this meant that everyone arrived at the office at noon. I thought the policy was pretty good but I don't think it worked
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by aplusbi 17y ago
I had a similar experience - from first phone call, to last (rejection) phone call was about 4 months. Their actual interview process wasn't bad however. They never asked me any trick/puzzle questions. Everything was based on coding, algo
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by aplusbi 17y ago
You obviously haven't interviewed at google. I had 6 technical interviews, 7 if you count the phone screening. From the day their recruiter called me to the day they called and said they weren't interested spanned about 3-4 months.
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by aplusbi 17y ago
Among atheists the terms "gnostic atheist" and "agnostic atheist" are thrown around a lot. It's the different between a positive assertion and a lack of assertion, i.e. - "I believe there is no god" vs. "I don't believe in god." (A)gnostic
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by aplusbi 17y ago
I'm always tempted to pick up Naked Came the Stranger whenever I'm at the bookstore, but I know I'll never read it. THAT book is truly the result of hacking the best seller list.
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by aplusbi 17y ago
You're doing it backwards. The DVD is already copyrighted, so the copyright-ability of a tweet is irrelevant.
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by aplusbi 17y ago
Here is one such case: http://www.scmagazineus.com/malware-to-blame-for-porn-on-sta... I also recall a case of a teacher whose school computer had malware that ended up displaying porn in the classroom who was arrested and faced up to 40

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