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by blahedo 15y ago
This is wild; it's dropping as I watch it. -4% and falling.
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by blahedo 15y ago
Which is why it's important that they have this policy: > If you go to the police, before they come to you, and tell them that you have been working with the yakuza, the police will exempt you from the ordinance and help you sever rela
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by blahedo 15y ago
Different body types are flattered by different clothing styles. One of the great failures of modern fashion is the idea that the thing that Hot Celebrity wore and looked good in is going to be appropriate and good-looking on everyone else
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by blahedo 15y ago
What's particularly nice about this is that there is a category "Tech Evangelism" that this can be moved to rather than just filing it as "works for me" or "not our fault" and washing their hands of it.
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by blahedo 15y ago
Even better: since SQL has a tri-valued logic (T, F, Unknown) it can assign "Unknown" as the result of a test against NULL. That means that `3 = NULL` is not true, but `3 != NULL` is also not true. If testing against NULL were merely fa
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by blahedo 15y ago
So? Some web exploits can be used by script kiddies while others require active skilled-programmer intervention, although both kinds require a clever hacker to figure them out in the first place, and we find that a useful distinction to ma
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by blahedo 15y ago
He might be using "exponential" to mean "superlinear", which seems to be the sense a lot of my students try to use it in (as well as non-technical people).
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by blahedo 15y ago
But at least you've done something. When you see it's not going well, you might stop early but it's still better than skipping it, because the next day, when you are ready, the stuff you were doing is one-day-fresh, not two-days-fresh.
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by blahedo 15y ago
If you are not signed in, the arrow points to a button labelled "+You".
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by blahedo 15y ago
It didn't fail for all users, just some users.
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by blahedo 15y ago
It's hard because we're travelling in a weird direction, so everything's "upside down" as well as distorted. The first easy-to-pick-out spot is about 13s in: you can see the shape of San Francisco Bay (upside down) in the bottom of the ima
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by blahedo 15y ago
> His studies show that people with the best self-control are the ones who structure their lives so as to conserve willpower. ...they establish habits that eliminate the mental effort of making choices. This rung a bell for me becaus
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by blahedo 15y ago
For probably five or six years now, OmniWeb (for Mac) has had a feature that scanned the page for something that looked like a "next" link, and chooses it if you press Enter (a distinct key from Return on Mac keyboards). Very useful for
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by blahedo 15y ago
I've used a variant of this successfully when there's a merge coming up. Basically, if I'm in the lane that's disappearing, I slow down as if to merge, matching speed with the car next to me, but then don't merge until the last moment.
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by blahedo 15y ago
> Think of it this way, Metro is their tablet/iPad mode. That's not what the article says: "The Metro-style browser is the full screen, chromeless implementation of Internet Explorer that most people are expected to use with Windows 8
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by blahedo 15y ago
> ...not a typical choice for... technical.... It is more... soft, girly, perhaps creative. Really. Really?? For entirely separate reasons, I'm bothered both by the placement of "technical" and "girly" in opposition and also by "tec
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by blahedo 15y ago
There's some nice synergy between this idea and the now-famous xkcd about passwords from a few weeks ago: http://www.xkcd.com/936/ The information-theoretic idea of encoding bits as words leverages the things that humans are just co
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by blahedo 15y ago
Seriously? I think the latter is a lot less scary in a lot of ways, and it contains a very specific identifier even if multiple things were happening at once. It also has built-in error correction in case the user reporting the error mis-
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by blahedo 15y ago
Yes, it's not just the flowed columns. Notice also: the masthead logo, the weather bug, the section menus (which switch to collapsed "Sections" at narrow width), the photo sizes. Actually, it's the weather bug and the logo that really do i
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by blahedo 15y ago
I am IN LOVE! It has been years since I've seen a mainstream site that didn't force itself wider than my default window (usually 600-800px, a bit less than half my screen). A lot of the sites that "try" to "address" the issue of multipl
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by blahedo 15y ago
> despite the fact that I legally COULD, I don't really see any value in discussing my pay with a coworker. It depends on your goals. If your main goal is negotiating more money for yourself, and it's true that you're already at the
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by blahedo 15y ago
> fatal vital? I can't make sense of your post otherwise.
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by blahedo 15y ago
> Even the presentations of red-black trees in textbooks (e.g. CLRS) usually obscure the connection with 2-3-4 trees, with one exception being Sedgewick's own book. That's too bad. This continues to make me sad. My original (ugrad) a
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by blahedo 15y ago
> If you're using a car it's taken for granted that you learn how this thing works. Only to a point. I own a car and am perfectly competent to use it, but I have only the vaguest of understanding as to what things like spark plugs an
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by blahedo 15y ago
At least in the short- to medium-term, it seems unlikely that we'll get tablet-like machines that are of a size to compare favorably even to a travel-size road atlas, much less a bookshelf or library atlas like in the OP. The physical size
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by blahedo 15y ago
The original post this refers to is at http://www.mattmacdonald.com/2011/08/20/api-access-questions... where Matt, the Watertown resident, wrote to TylerTech. Apparently they responded with a letter I'll paraphrase as "no."
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by blahedo 15y ago
I'm getting the impression from reading the other comments that most of the commenters just skimmed the article (or perhaps didn't read it at all, and drew assumptions from the title). If you need a tl;dr, or if you read it quickly, this i
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by blahedo 15y ago
This is exactly the OP's point---the existence of booth babes has conditioned us to be surprised when an attractive woman, or possibly any woman at all, is "intelligent, informed, competent". This follow-on effect is even worse than the al
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by blahedo 15y ago
Here, http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=libel+differences+us+uk (the top link is a pretty good one)
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by blahedo 15y ago
All true, but note that the "other 18" in this case are not all posted in the same week, with all caps etc. Several are in the same week, but others are spread over multiple years and are not overly gushy, all-caps-y, or anything else (alt

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