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Black and white(torvalds-family.blogspot.com)
73 points by baha_man 18y ago|44 comments
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Candyland(torvalds-family.blogspot.com)
10 points by baha_man 18y ago|6 comments
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Returning to, or redisovering Emacs(technomancy.us)
1 points by baha_man 18y ago|0 comments
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by baha_man 18y ago
http://www.askoxford.com/betterwriting/plainenglish/writingm... "Here are seven non-rules imposed on writers that can be safely discarded... (3) You must not end a sentence with a preposition."
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by baha_man 18y ago
"The ViEmu Visual Studio plugin... As far as I know, there isn't an Emacs equivalent." Visual Studio 2005 has a built-in option to use Emacs keybindings.
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by baha_man 18y ago
'Better safe than sorry' is normally the smart option in the animal kingdom. There was a story on the news last night about the lionfish which have escaped into the Atlantic. Apparently the native fish don't recognise them as a danger, so
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ESL Assistant Helps Non-Native English Speakers Help Themselves(research.microsoft.com)
1 points by baha_man 18y ago|0 comments
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Notes on Introduction To Algorithms(lambda-the-ultimate.org)
1 points by baha_man 18y ago|0 comments
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by baha_man 18y ago
" I thought it was commonplace knowledge within the geek community that XP was short for "eXPerience"? " It's news to me. I think it's still fair to say that the name "doesn't really mean anything".
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Salsa: A .NET Bridge for Haskell(haskell.org)
2 points by baha_man 18y ago|0 comments
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Going Independent: When Do You Bill Your Clients and What Are The Payment Terms?(scottonwriting.net)
2 points by baha_man 18y ago|0 comments
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by baha_man 18y ago
"Haskell... even has an Emacs mode." Is there a programming language which doesn't have an Emacs mode?
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Linking out: Often it's just applying common sense(googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com)
2 points by baha_man 18y ago|0 comments
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by baha_man 18y ago
"But what if Google could convince users of the value of indexing web app data without identifying the individual user..." I'm not sure what they're trying to say, but they don't seem to be talking about indexing your own private data for y
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by baha_man 18y ago
I think they're suggesting that if you're paying for email, (a) you have a number to call if it suddenly stops working, and (b) you can threaten to stop paying them if they don't sort the problem out. Personally, I use GMail as my main acco
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More on the sad state of print publishing for developers(ericsink.com)
3 points by baha_man 18y ago|0 comments
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Why You Should Learn C++(girtby.net)
1 points by baha_man 18y ago|0 comments
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by baha_man 18y ago
"I did have an incentive: I could eat at any place I could successfully finagle my way into." It's not clear, but I took this to mean that his meal (if not the tip/bribe) was paid for on expenses.
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by baha_man 18y ago
You might find this interesting: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4164669.stm "...anyone trying to access the e-mails of the deceased is fighting an uphill struggle... In future... many webmailers may choose to side-step this process
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by baha_man 18y ago
Does it matter if a writer can't write well? Yes.
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by baha_man 18y ago
"Someone needs to teach Dan the difference between their and there before they let him hit publish again." http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/09/27/stop-complaining-about-...
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The term “hacker”(lemis.com)
1 points by baha_man 18y ago|0 comments
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What can OCaml do that you can't do in other programming languages?(camltastic.blogspot.com)
9 points by baha_man 18y ago|8 comments
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Trending F# jobs in the UK(fsharpnews.blogspot.com)
1 points by baha_man 18y ago|0 comments
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The Three Prices--more than zero, zero, and less than zero(longtail.com)
1 points by baha_man 18y ago|0 comments
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Goodbye mocks, Farewell stubs(weblogs.asp.net)
11 points by baha_man 18y ago|4 comments
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Seriously. Is the Daily Mail any worse than your average academic journal?(badscience.net)
3 points by baha_man 18y ago|0 comments
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by baha_man 18y ago
The chart could do without the stupid graphic. I've heard of workers being sacked by text message, but never by Post-it note. (If it is a Post-it note, why the drawing pin?)
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by baha_man 18y ago
I take it you didn't click on the the next slide... "In America, starting a successful business is the surest, most controllable path available to you for making a million dollars in less than 42 years." Maybe you get your million dollars i
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by baha_man 18y ago
Doesn't seem very convincing to me. "...life expectancy for African-Americans rose... [after] public officials upgraded the sewer and water systems in black neighborhoods." I think I'd rather be obese and alive than thin and dead from a dis

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