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by athom 16y ago
Wow, somebody was not amused. No clue why...
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by athom 16y ago
Sure-fire way to feel small, sad, and alone: typekit.com Seriously, the page was completely empty until I unblocked that scripts on that and his main site.
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by athom 16y ago
Coming soon to the GIMP. And Krita. And... ?
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by athom 16y ago
A company where I used to work got paranoid about its employees walking out the door with its precious intellectual property on those things, and installed something called 'Hibun' to prevent just that. From then on, anyone who "needed" to
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by athom 16y ago
Big Clue: I didn't notice this until after the contraption was turned and he started fiddling with the balls again, but if you watch closely, you can see that they roll "up" different ramps at different rates: almost a second along the lowe
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by athom 16y ago
Fun stuff! And just as I'm starting my hematology course! SO, just to be a smart-aleck... Jun8: Most cells have a variety of distinctive proteins embedded in their membranes peculiar to cells of that type. Other cells and other elements (th
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by athom 16y ago
Tomorrow: Monsanto Sues Amoebas! More seriously, I could see this turning into a major development in the pharmaceutical industry. If amoebas could be bred to farm beneficial types of bacteria, I can imagine all sorts of products could be
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by athom 16y ago
1. Mostly a, with a bit of b. 2. I don't watch football. 3. Not presently employed, but way back when, I guess b (VERY rarely diverted) 4. rummy, or whatever my folks are playing these days 5. I don't usually plan for weather, even though a
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by athom 16y ago
I just realized, doesn't Jupiter have constant lightning storms a couple of orders of magnitude more violent than ours? Just imagine the sort of animatter generation those might be driving! We gotta get another probe out there! Unless may
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by athom 16y ago
From the article: Free software is sometimes low quality. It is sometimes unreliable. It is sometimes inflexible. Swap "free" for "proprietary" in that quote, and the statement is no less true. (Voice of experience, here) Continuing: If
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by athom 16y ago
I'm kind of surprised this hasn't made the top of DU's list. Maybe it did, and got buried under all the WikiLeaks stuff before I could get over there...?
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by athom 16y ago
Michael Shermer's Why People Believe Weird Things ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_People_Believe_Weird_Things... ) Or just about anything by Martin Gardner, along with a note to write him sometime before 2010.
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by athom 16y ago
Favorite line: biochemistry is all about CHNOPS. Pronounce the "CH" like "SH".
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by athom 16y ago
Give it time.
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by athom 16y ago
Which is rather ironic, given Harry's dismissal of Atlas Shrugged in one of the early chapters.
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by athom 16y ago
This takes me back to my last (long term) job. I got tapped to fix a departed worker's spaghetti code, and in the process, got VERY familiar with Excel VBA, to the point that I started goofing around with my own ideas. I must have dozens of
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by athom 16y ago
I've been wanting something to translate old Commodore 128 PLAY strings to MIDI. This might just be the ticket. Thank you, Sergi! I'll try and let you know how this works out!
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by athom 16y ago
Should have called it How To Write a "Learn X the Hard Way" the Hard Way EDIT: Change "How" to "Learn"
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by athom 16y ago
I was planning to mention arch/keystone before, but decided against it. One of the neat things about a DOME is, you can get the keystone effect without, y'know, a keystone. That ring of stone(s?) around the oculus fills the same compressive
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by athom 16y ago
Amusingly appropriate to post the link right before Halloween.
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by athom 16y ago
It looks like it takes awhile -- like at least several seconds -- for the game to pick up my 'z' to start keypress. Then, the playfield goes blank, and stays that way for at least a minute or three (I'm still waiting for something to show u
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by athom 16y ago
^^^THIS!^^^ Seriously, if you haven't done it already, find or make yourself a module that lets the user customize the keyboard controls to his/her preference. Then you can just drop it into any game you write, and presto! You're good to
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by athom 16y ago
For those Europeans, there was still the option of turning it into a round trip. Granted, it was probably an expensive and arduous option, and required a ship in port ready and willing to take you, but it was there. Right now, a one-way tri
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by athom 16y ago
I don't believe wanting to make money at something equates to greed for money, necessarily. You can pursue science for monetary gain, and no (reasonable) person will hold that against you. Scientists have to eat too, y'know? That said, ther
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by athom 16y ago
Ah, this one takes me back. It's almost a pity no one else has mentioned the classic Tao of Programming by Geoffrey James: http://www.canonical.org/~kragen/tao-of-programming.html A bit dated now, and it looks like ESR has improved on the
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by athom 16y ago
Well, Firefox doesn't seem to know what to do with a BIN file called 'play' when I hit the 'Go' button. I don't know why, but you might want to look into that. That could be a sizable slice of the market to simply ignore. I was surprised th
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by athom 16y ago
I use Facebook (sometimes), played FarmVille and Farm Town up until this January, and I STILL didn't get it right off. Guess pulling out of those games was a good idea after all. :)
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by athom 16y ago
Is that five billion individual owners? That's pretty impressive! Current estimates put the whole world population at just under 7 billion. http://www.census.gov/main/www/popclock.html has it at about 6.8B, and a Google search on "current
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by athom 16y ago
Just goes to show how out of the loop I am when it comes to Apple. I read the title, wondered if it was about the internet echo test command, and then wondered, how the heck would they screw THAT up??!
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by athom 16y ago
Which you should never do. An application package's installer might need those priveleges, but the bookkeeping application itself should not. Speaking for myself, I make a point of not running applications with administrator priveleges, exc

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