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by blahedo 12y ago
Curtailed? I can personally confirm that as of just a few years ago, all vehicles passing various roadblocks in southern Arizona and New Mexico (including one across an entire interstate) are stopped and questioned. I assume this contin
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Wikipedia says editors must disclose all paid contributions(america.aljazeera.com)
1 points by blahedo 12y ago|0 comments
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by blahedo 12y ago
The idea has come up: https://chronicle.com/article/Free-Community-College-/144553...
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by blahedo 12y ago
> Free markets are the only way to avoid catastrophic booms and busts. This is an unsupported statement of deep faith. To my mind, it fails along two different axes: I don't think that free markets are the best or even only way t
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by blahedo 12y ago
I love my Surface Pro 2, and I'm certainly no Microsoft fanboy---it's the first MS product I've ever purchased, and if you'd told me twenty years ago (or even two years ago) that I'd be purchasing an MS-made compute
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by blahedo 12y ago
I use tcsh, and I've bound up-arrow to do this. bindkey -k up history-search-backward bindkey -k down history-search-forward Very useful.
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by blahedo 12y ago
Presented with a page like this, obviously I sat down to solve the puzzle. :) For others who do the same, CRUCIAL CLARIFICATION: The constraint that "The green house is on the left of the white house" must be read as saying that
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by blahedo 12y ago
Holy crap that autoplay video is annoying. I'd never before seen a video widget that only lets you pause for about five seconds before it AUTOMATICALLY UNPAUSES ITSELF. Please tell me this is not the future.
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How engineers can fight wage fixing(america.aljazeera.com)
3 points by blahedo 12y ago|0 comments
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How Google money is helping turn the political right against strong copyrights(vox.com)
1 points by blahedo 12y ago|0 comments
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by blahedo 12y ago
I partially agree, but I want to clarify that "open up an editor and start typing" is not the sine qua non that it used to be. I would argue that Scratch (for instance) is very much a programming tool, and kids that play with it
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by blahedo 12y ago
Technically, the two sentences in that quote may not be connected. The first sentence is about the longest eval they did (8 months); the second sentence is about their performance on competitions (95%), but I read it that the 95% was over
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by blahedo 12y ago
When I read the article, I was thinking, "why couldn't the US have someone like this?" After reading your post, it jogged my memory, and I realised we sort of do (or did): Martin Gardner's writing is a lot like that (th
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by blahedo 12y ago
IANAL, but I think this is more a political comment: the motivation for the upcoming patent bill was (partially) that existing law is too troll-friendly and needs to be fixed; but if the SC has clarified the existing law to be less troll-fr
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The worst thing about Silicon Valley techno-libertarianism(ginandtacos.com)
2 points by blahedo 12y ago|1 comments
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by blahedo 12y ago
Well, the author notes that the workplace upgraded to terminals after just a year or two. I know that the high school where my mom taught programming in Chicago still had punch card technology (no terminals) as of the early 1980s, although
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by blahedo 12y ago
I'm not saying it has to be a hash map either; just that the author's post is consistent with plain old hashtable behaviour (i.e. the results are not iterated in insertion order, nor in natural order). By posting just a single ex
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by blahedo 12y ago
It's completely unclear from this post whether the poster is a) a student who doesn't understand hash tables and is using the word "random" in its colloquial sense of "arbitrary", or b) someone who did know tha
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by blahedo 12y ago
It does if your dialect has a silent H there. A lot of people that pronounce "an historical" do so with a silent H.
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by blahedo 12y ago
How long before people figure out just how far over they need to hold the phone in order to reactivate it? Or cover up the camera or whatever? Not to mention the irritating false positives....
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by blahedo 12y ago
This is cute (and cool for the students), but I don't understand why the mushroom shape is important---it seems like the key innovation is the stem that extends past the watery stuff and deeper into the ketchup.
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Nonprofit in Queens taught people to write apps, incomes rose from $15k to $72k(vox.com)
151 points by blahedo 12y ago|57 comments
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by blahedo 12y ago
There is presumably a difference between "strangers" and "friends".
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General Mills reverses controversial policy restricting consumer lawsuits(america.aljazeera.com)
1 points by blahedo 12y ago|0 comments
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by blahedo 13y ago
I love Scratch and teach it in my gen ed class, but I'm not sure I'd quite call it a "general purpose tool" in the same way that Hypercard was. I could certainly see it evolving (or rather, forking) into such a thing, b
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by blahedo 13y ago
No, that goes too far the other way. If I have legitimate reason to believe that an exploit does not affect me (especially if it's because I acknowledged its possibility and programmed defensively against it), why would I automaticall
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by blahedo 13y ago
"Inborn racism responses"?
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If the moon were only 1 pixel: a scale model of the solar system(joshworth.com)
55 points by blahedo 13y ago|17 comments
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by blahedo 13y ago
I call shenanigans. If you want to claim that 10-based kMG prefixes ought to be universal for all things without exception, that's one thing. But the author says: > Unlike everything else in the world of computing, RAM is address
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by blahedo 13y ago
The university I currently teach at has per-credit tuition and fees, unlike the other two places I've taught or my ugrad and grad institutions. At first, it struck me as gougy and a way to nickel-and-dime the students; but I've s

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