aristus

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by aristus 16y ago
I suspected there was a wrinkle I was missing. So what might be the root of gaius's claim about their public image? Do they run a lot of adverts implying something different? I'm not too concerned about their size relative to the whole "hom
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by aristus 16y ago
Actual housing, or housing advice? If I'm reading this right, they spent 355,000 on direct housing aid and grants, versus 5,400,000 on "fundraising costs". They also combined legal and housing services on the pie chart to make it look bette
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by aristus 16y ago
It's not new. I saw Sketchup demonstrated at SIGGRAPH 12 or 13 years ago, when I first heard about Maya too. At the time I thought Sketchup-style UI would take over the industry. Possibly it hasn't because of this: http://www.google.com/pa
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by aristus 16y ago
Very nice. Climate is what you expect, weather is what you get. The interface is daunting, though. I'm not quite sure what it's trying to tell me. http://weatherspark.com/#app;a=USA/CA/San_Francisco;t0=02/16... It says 2012 on the bottom
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by aristus 16y ago
I appreciate the sentiment, having grown up as a younger sibling surrounded by machines in various states of undress. I'll always remember the time I broke a corner off a mainboard, and watching my cousin repair it. I firmly believe in givi
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by aristus 16y ago
Skeptical but excited. Will definitely be studying this at the weekend. I had been working on a long writeup on string matching but stopped the project for lack of recent progress.
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by aristus 16y ago
pssst. http://carlos.bueno.org/2008/08/save-web.html
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by aristus 16y ago
Wow. They split it up in to 20+ stories? Really?
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by aristus 16y ago
Can you elaborate? Users have to pay to visit littlesite.com, but access to facebook is free?
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by aristus 16y ago
That's good feedback -- thanks! I'm surprised that she found it too easy for a 12 year old, but Just Right for a precocious 5 year old. I was afraid of erring in the other direction. Did she give examples of good books about computer scienc
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by aristus 16y ago
One vector is that investors and lawyers talk. It's hard to move millions of dollars around quietly. Once I was visiting the office of a company in acquisition negotiations. The office phone was ringing off the hook with personal wealth man
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by aristus 16y ago
In my head Laurie is eleven, so I'm targeting ten and up. That feels about right, thinking back on my childhood.
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by aristus 16y ago
That would be wonderful. Thank you!
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by aristus 16y ago
Can you think of a better way to explain it? Serious question.
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What the Tortoise Said to Laurie (computer science for kids)(carlos.bueno.org)
19 points by aristus 16y ago|13 comments
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by aristus 16y ago
I don't buy that. That's like saying some people are smart enough to read, but just can't figure out writing. There will always be those with exceptional aptitude. But if you must be exceptional to simply understand a subject as broad a
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by aristus 16y ago
Awesome work. If you haven't heard about Tim Bray's WideFinder challenge, it was really interesting. http://tartarus.org/james/diary/2008/06/17/widefinder-final-...
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by aristus 16y ago
I think CS is so new that we don't quite have a grasp on what is truly hard and what is merely being explained badly. That's nothing against your teaching skills; I mean that our mental model of functions and recursion may be unnecessarily
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by aristus 16y ago
A Computer that is not selfhosting is almost a contradiction.
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by aristus 16y ago
I respectfully disagree. We're not talking bananas and sugar, we're talking US companies being unwilling to make the effort to sell to people in other countries. I worked on Terespondo, a search advertising company focussed on SA from 2002-
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by aristus 16y ago
This is the same reasoning used 10 years ago to write off South America as a rounding error. It was frustrating and wrongheaded then, too.
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by aristus 16y ago
The same place as Van Gogh and Emily Dickinson. She had little influence while she was alive, but will gain more as time goes on. Posthumous fame is a cliche in the arts.
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by aristus 16y ago
Hey, cool. I used a thumbdrive as my primary Mac for a few months in 2009: http://carlos.bueno.org/2009/12/soul-of-portable-machine.htm... It was pretty nice, not having to lug a machine around. But there were enough minor annoyances that
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by aristus 16y ago
This will be interesting. Most of the stuff on my site are replays of articles I write for other venues. I wonder how the rankings will shift.
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by aristus 16y ago
I'll try it, but I suspect that there won't be enough strength in the plastic. Torx are designed to be set with a lot more torque than "normal" screws, hence the name.
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by aristus 16y ago
Yep. He's still a mensch. Yahoo did some incredible stuff on Apache & FreeBSD back in the day. I remember a hack that added hardcoded HTTP headers to the image files on disk, to squeeze that extra nilth percent out of the server.
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by aristus 16y ago
You forgot the 3-year gap between "Why is that?" and finding out why, and the 4-year gap between the PM asking for and receiving the "Whatever". :(
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by aristus 16y ago
This suggests that we are in for a long period of inflation.
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by aristus 16y ago
This may be a naive question, but are unit tests for encryption code a reasonable idea? eg, each revision is tested against a known set of data and a known set of common attacks.
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by aristus 16y ago
I'm not sure how far you can take this line of reasoning without fooling yourself. But some words are not like the others. "Gustar" is usually rendered as to like . That leads to weird mistakes, eg a Spanish speaker may say "you like me" w

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