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by breadbox 13y ago
It's sometimes hard to believe, but our current laws seems to allow that you can be forbidden from modifying a piece of software even for your own personal use.
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by breadbox 13y ago
Indeed. One could argue that government is the original crowdfunding. This is actually kind of a nice illustration of how backwards our ideas of social services have become.
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No, Nate, brogrammers may not be macho, but that’s not all there is to it(medium.com)
12 points by breadbox 13y ago|1 comments
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by breadbox 13y ago
That keyboard has the aligned key columns, which I think are a big part of Kinesis's advantage. But I also love the two wells for the separated halves, which helps minimize extra motion. Plus the wide variety of thumb keys.
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by breadbox 13y ago
True. But neither does it mean that you gain anything by being ignorant of it.
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by breadbox 13y ago
Yes: "Never Again", by Doug Nufer ( http://www.amazon.com/Never-Again-Doug-Nufer/dp/B000HWZ1VE ).
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by breadbox 13y ago
Very true! I mentioned that fact the first time I gave this presentation, but it wound up being an anticlimactic ending, so I chose to omit it from the written essay. (And at this point, the focus is more about the process of reverse-engine
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Cryptic Crossword: Amateur Crypto and Reverse Engineering(muppetlabs.com)
131 points by breadbox 13y ago|16 comments
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by breadbox 13y ago
> But in reference to the article in question: would this system work for you? If not, isn't there a chance it really won't work for these people, for the same reason? Sheesh. We all have a few things in common, but beyond that
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by breadbox 13y ago
Really? I always do. If you don't, it makes the variable look like a type. It's the same reason why I dislike extra parens around the value in the return statement. Don't make it look like something it isn't.
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by breadbox 13y ago
> http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/teensy.htm... . which is a 45 byte executable (it doesn't say Hello World) True, I needed 62 bytes to get the greeting in there.
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by breadbox 13y ago
In some (most, I thought, but maybe I'm wrong) terminals, you can only use the control key to generate an actual control character -- i.e. one of ASCII 0-31. The ctrl key basically unsets bit 64 from the typed key, so ctrl-A through ct
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by breadbox 13y ago
One possible interpretation: Things that are valuable (be it artistic creations or useful tools) will overshadow their inventors. If you want your work to be recognized, then you should care more about your work than about being recognized
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by breadbox 13y ago
I also took the time to type in Randall Beer's Lisp from 80 micro. In fact, I'm pretty sure that that was my first time accessing a working Lisp interpreter. (Mostly working, anyway. I think I had a typo that I never managed to tr
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by breadbox 13y ago
Obviously I agree (check out my page of teensy executables sometime), but it's much more complicated to compete on that metric. The size of a compiled executable can vary widely depending on details of your compiler and/or platfor
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by breadbox 13y ago
See also storybundle.com, which is very similar.
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Fake sign-language interpreter at Mandela funeral(languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu)
2 points by breadbox 13y ago|0 comments
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by breadbox 13y ago
For me the poster's point was undermined by my own personal experience of interviewing and discovering the alarming frequency at which people with PhDs will bomb the technical interview, simply because they can't program their way
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by breadbox 13y ago
It's not really a problem with the analogy; I'm just saying that a good analogy is no cure for a lack of experience. My first non-toy C program was a disaster because I knew what a pointer was but I didn't yet understand how
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by breadbox 13y ago
Certainly I have (the former, not the latter). You won't be surprised when I tell you that it wasn't a horrible tragedy and that I didn't die on the spot because of this, or accidentally purchase a handgun instead of a waterm
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by breadbox 13y ago
For a lot of people I think it takes a while to really internalize the ramification of the fact that you can have a pointer to memory you're not allowed to use. (That, plus the way they're used in C as a cheap answer to templates&
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NFL Follows the Tobacco Company Playbook(skepticblog.org)
1 points by breadbox 13y ago|0 comments
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by breadbox 13y ago
(Note: I linked to a discussion instead of the original article because its headline is probably not going to stay that way for long.)
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Bruce Schneier is blessed in his enemies(freethoughtblogs.com)
1 points by breadbox 13y ago|1 comments
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by breadbox 13y ago
In this particular case, resist the temptation to simplify. Macro parenthesization is critical, and should be second nature for anyone who wants to play around with them.
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by breadbox 13y ago
Presumably it's useful to people who are writing papers in the process of deciphering it. Assuming anyone other than crackpots are still trying.
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by breadbox 13y ago
Fair warning: This is more addicting than it ought to be. Avoid unless procrastination is your goal.
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by breadbox 13y ago
I would definitely recommend checking out Conlon Nancarrow as well, who was mentioned at the start of the article. A lot of his stuff is somewhat abstract, and sometimes his rhythmic patterns are really too odd to be heard (e.g. 7:17:27). B
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The keys to the keydom(bit-player.org)
152 points by breadbox 13y ago|27 comments
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by breadbox 13y ago
In my completely unhumble opinion, that's like expecting a mention of geocentrism in every article about NASA. Hofstadter provides a detailed response to the Chinese Room thought-experiement in "Le Ton Beau de Marot".

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