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Brilliance From Siggraph: Bokeh-Based Tiny Barcodes(knowing.net)
3 points by baha_man 17y ago|0 comments
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The Two-Hour Rule(kenrockwell.com)
102 points by baha_man 17y ago|31 comments
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VB and C# enhancements in VS 2010(blogs.msdn.com)
2 points by baha_man 17y ago|0 comments
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The first rule of exception handling: do not do exception handling(mikehadlow.blogspot.com)
1 points by baha_man 17y ago|0 comments
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No Excuses(weblogs.asp.net)
11 points by baha_man 17y ago|12 comments
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220 Billion Lines of COBOL? BS(knowing.net)
22 points by baha_man 17y ago|15 comments
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by baha_man 17y ago
Norwich, UK.
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by baha_man 17y ago
That should be Ramsay , not Ramsey.
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How myths are made(badscience.net)
1 points by baha_man 17y ago|0 comments
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DigitalSLR(martinfowler.com)
4 points by baha_man 17y ago|0 comments
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by baha_man 17y ago
Writing good code is both difficult and all about communication. If you can write good code, you're probably capable of writing good documentation (low level technical documentation in your native language, at any rate) if you really want
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The Productivity Myth: Step Away From the Twitter - Get Back to Work(radar.oreilly.com)
3 points by baha_man 17y ago|0 comments
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Over there An 8 mile high distraction made of posh chocolate(badscience.net)
1 points by baha_man 17y ago|0 comments
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"We are more possible than you can powerfully imagine"(badscience.net)
60 points by baha_man 17y ago|14 comments
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by baha_man 17y ago
"However, there is one rule you shouldn't break... the 'three-second rule' for following distances; after the car ahead of you passes a point on the road, count to three." Three seconds? I've heard of the two-second rule, which has an entr
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by baha_man 17y ago
"...Massa also hit a wall of tires at 200+ kph. I know they were there to absorb the shock, still, try doing that in a regular car..." Is a Formula 1 car any better in an impact than a modern car with, say, 5 Euro NCAP stars[1]? I had a qu
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The Spinning of Spinvox(bbc.co.uk)
9 points by baha_man 17y ago|4 comments
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by baha_man 17y ago
"Ethics seems easy to understand: Do to others as you would have them do to you." "Do not do unto others as you would expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." - George Bernard Shaw.
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by baha_man 17y ago
"Godin didn't mean "programmers", he did mean "corporate drones"." Well, I think you're giving him too much credit, I took his words at face value and I think that he meant exactly what he said. If you're right, though, what exactly is his
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by baha_man 17y ago
"First, programmers don't often have a lot of taste. The fonts [in Excel and Powerpoint] are flaccid, the defaults are wan and uninspiring. There's no sophistication." The programmers working on the latest version of Excel are about as lik
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The Broken Hopes of a Spanish Generation(time.com)
1 points by baha_man 17y ago|0 comments
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by baha_man 17y ago
Interesting article, but I didn't follow the 'destroying local knowledge' part. "Since before even the arrival of the car, people have worried that maps sever us from real places, render the world untouchable, reduce it to a bare outline of
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Nickel and diming(37signals.com)
2 points by baha_man 17y ago|0 comments
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THE NEXT BOOK: From Rapid Fat Loss to Strongmen: A Guide to Becoming Superhuman(fourhourworkweek.com)
5 points by baha_man 17y ago|0 comments
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by baha_man 17y ago
"Many American grads... [are] far less inclined than students from developing countries like India, China, Brazil, South Africa, and Ireland..." Ireland? A developing country? I don't think so.
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by baha_man 17y ago
"...it's even available in a key-less design" Surely the model with blank keys is the one every Hacker News reader should be going for? I was quite disappointed when they started making one with inscriptions.
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Behind the curtains(badscience.net)
2 points by baha_man 17y ago|0 comments
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by baha_man 17y ago
This is the same Justice Eady who ruled against Simon Singh [1] and in favour of Max Mosley [2]. [1] http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/jun/04/simon-singh-li... [2] http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7523034.stm
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The 50th Law(powerseductionandwar.com)
3 points by baha_man 17y ago|0 comments
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Home taping didn’t kill music(badscience.net)
40 points by baha_man 17y ago|18 comments

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