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by bgutierrez 18y ago
I love this article. I have several friends that became frozen because they were bright and afraid to fail.
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by bgutierrez 18y ago
projecteuler.net is my favorite for sharpening my programming, or for learning a new language.
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by bgutierrez 18y ago
I hope so.
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by bgutierrez 18y ago
It's really nice to know that I could tighten my belt so much more.
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by bgutierrez 18y ago
I'm assuming that the writer wasn't making things up when he said that .mac support gave someone his password.
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by bgutierrez 18y ago
That interlude completely disrupted my presentation today when someone noticed that my search box had "Jessica Alba" in it. I had no idea who she was, and now the entire engineering deptartment thinks I'm nuts for her.
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by bgutierrez 18y ago
Disappointment #2 is storing the passwords in plain text.
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by bgutierrez 18y ago
Idiocracy was outrageous (and funny) for the same reasons, and they're more enjoyable if they're recognized as absurd conclusions of widespread materialism and anti-intellectualism. Looking at them as serious science fiction only provokes t
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by bgutierrez 18y ago
Looks like I have a lot of research to do.
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Power Awareness Quiz(kk.org)
1 points by bgutierrez 18y ago|1 comments
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Should Personal Genomics Be Regulated?(radar.oreilly.com)
3 points by bgutierrez 18y ago|1 comments
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by bgutierrez 18y ago
Yeah. The great part of this story is that Google approached this developer and asked him nicely.
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by bgutierrez 18y ago
I didn't expect to find a new favorite essayist today.
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by bgutierrez 18y ago
My strategy is to completely ignore my heroes, so I don't freak them out by revealing myself as a fan boy, and then hope they come and chat with me first. How is it working, pg? Are we BFF yet?
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by bgutierrez 18y ago
When I'm on my death bed, not having learned enough physics will be my greatest regret. I hope.
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by bgutierrez 18y ago
I think Schneier didn't actually see Speed. I haven't either, and from what I hear I'm better off without it.
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by bgutierrez 18y ago
This is awesome. Since I don't have a CS degree, this will put me on equal terms with people that have worthless ones. We'll be judged on experience and knowledge instead.
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by bgutierrez 18y ago
Broadband caps are a drag, but I would enjoy thinking of ways to deliver cool web-apps that are light on bandwidth usage.
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by bgutierrez 18y ago
Agreed. Communications devices can't be distributed without also sharing their method of communication. This is why we all know the number 0x09f911029d74e35bd84156c5635688c0 as the key to decrypting HD-DVD movies.
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by bgutierrez 18y ago
It's an example of management that knows their business and takes knowing it seriously. In Joel's mind, this is good.
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by bgutierrez 18y ago
Where are you located? The companies I'm in never seem to fill all their developer positions.
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by bgutierrez 18y ago
Agreed. A couple of weeks as a bare minimum, to give engineers a chance to make fixes and test thoroughly.
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by bgutierrez 18y ago
Agreed. I had some hope that earlier issues could give me some perspective on the progress of AI research.
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by bgutierrez 18y ago
I listened to Taleb speak at the Long Now and all he really said was, "The future is hard to predict." He was either underestimating the crowd and pulling his punches, or he had very little to say in the first place. Either way, I'm passing
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by bgutierrez 18y ago
Congratulations, Paul!
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by bgutierrez 18y ago
I had a kneeling chair. It was great for 10 minutes, but after several weeks I got fed up with the strain it put on my lower back.
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by bgutierrez 18y ago
Absolutely.
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by bgutierrez 18y ago
This is a great example of a major benefit of extending human life: Having people that have witnessed history to guide us through future problems.
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XEmacs is Dead! Long Live XEmacs!(steve-yegge.blogspot.com)
38 points by bgutierrez 18y ago|15 comments
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by bgutierrez 18y ago
Seeing "Best blank ever" on Hacker News scares the hell out of me. Even if it's about user manuals.

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