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by breadbox 14y ago
It's one thing to delete posts on a certain topic. But deleting posts asking WHY these posts are getting deleted? How can that possibly end well?
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by breadbox 14y ago
"40% - Adria, 0% - PyCon organizers." Really? I mean, PyCon had a Code Of Conduct. If you don't blame the organizers for sticking to the published code, then how does Adria get blamed for doing the same? Doesn't that strike you as getting m
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by breadbox 14y ago
While I don't have enough background to personally pass judgement on Allan Savory, Chris Clarke apparently does. It's not the full-on kookiness of vortex math, but apparently he feels that to an ecologist, his TED talk is "full of red flags
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by breadbox 14y ago
Oh crap. At first I thought that was an example of J source code. It wasn't until I read the article and came back that I realized it was pure C.
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by breadbox 14y ago
I'm sympathetic to the overall point, but I don't think the analogy holds. Minor bugs in popular programs are noticed because programs are tools, means to some other end. Fiction is an end to itself, and so the popularity of a work can actu
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I mortgaged my future with a Mac(rachelbythebay.com)
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by breadbox 14y ago
Interesting. I had assumed at this point in time that computers were ubiquitous in math research. It's mind-boggling to me that there is still any significant level of pushback against using them. (I suppose that getting a CS-specific math
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by breadbox 14y ago
Actually, that's your clue that the entire book should be ignored.
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by breadbox 14y ago
"The internet is brimming with exceptional writing, and yet, the good content makes up a tiny fraction of the whole, and there is a compelling sense that it's a diminishing fraction." It's hard to take the rest of the article seriously afte
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by breadbox 14y ago
Women are stringently socialized to be modest, far more so than men, particularly in domains that are seen as "men's work". So your starting assumption isn't very safe. And while "work harder and learn more" is good advice, it's generic adv
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by breadbox 14y ago
My apologies; I certainly didn't mean to trivialize it at all. My intention was exactly the opposite; I almost didn't follow the link because I figured the story at the other end was unlikely to be more than hearsay and/or mudslinging. But
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by breadbox 14y ago
This title is a bit misleading. I read it and figured that she was "told" this (that she only got the interview because she's female) by someone who was in a position to know. Only after reading the article did I figure out that the intende
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by breadbox 14y ago
That's odd. I'm currently running 2.6.32, and it's working fine for me. Maybe it was a transient problem? Feel free to email me if you notice any of the teensy executables not working. I don't follow the bleeding edge very closely, but I do
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by breadbox 14y ago
Yeah, and of the first dozen programs I wrote, probably someone had already written all of them, and done a far better job. That's not the point. You're not going to get better if you don't get started.
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by breadbox 14y ago
Ben Goldacre's recent book "Bad Pharma" is all about how easy it is for pharmaceutical research to go astray (and/or be led astray). I would recommend it for anyone interested in the details of this thorny subject.
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by breadbox 14y ago
Wow. I honestly wasn't expecting to ever see this on the front page of HN again, given the current ubiquity of 64-bit Linux. (And yes, before anyone asks, I've played around with minimizing 64-bit executables. Unfortunately they are both la
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by breadbox 14y ago
http://lorempixel.com/
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by breadbox 14y ago
Reading this really brought back memories of when I was writing Windows code. It really felt like half of any project was spent on working around the OS, rather than with it.
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by breadbox 14y ago
No, because if nothing else we don't actually know what it's composed of. It's entirely possible that it will turn out to be a new family of particles, for example. But more to the point, dark matter is certainly not made up of quarks and/o
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by breadbox 14y ago
Then it's probably my mix-up. An extremely similar passage occurs in Metamagical Themas, in which Hofstadter describes a conversation in which he first realized that he may have only assumed that Carroll's Tortoise was male. I've likely con
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by breadbox 14y ago
Not quite. Achilles and the Tortoise originally came from an essay by Lewis Carroll. Hofstadter had borrowed them for GEB, and in doing so also borrowed their gender -- or so he thought. In reality when he went back to check, long after pub
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by breadbox 14y ago
My favorite part of the video is where they explain all the cool things you can do ... WITH A KEYBOARD. Seriously, though. I've experimented with chording keyboards in the past. Conceptually they're quite cool, but their advantages are outw
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by breadbox 14y ago
The "DIY black dome" object mentioned briefly in the article is used to create "polynomial texture map" images. If you're unfamiliar with it, it's a very cool technique. http://www.hpl.hp.com/research/ptm/ has details, but in brief: an ob
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by breadbox 14y ago
It may not be "wrong" per se, but it could easily have the unhappy result of making dissent invisible (or at least less visible). Unpopular opinions, if expressed honestly and well, ought to be encouraged.
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by breadbox 14y ago
If you asked for a big enough file of random bytes, eventually, chances are that the file would just happen to contain the substring "Xcat $1\nprintf X\ncat $0\nexit\n". You then do the following: 1. Copy the part of the file preceding that
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by breadbox 14y ago
In my experience (and studies seem to bear this out), most people will automatically assume an attractive woman has poor skills in X (where X is anything that doesn't involve dealing with customers). So I don't think your "commonsense" argu
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by breadbox 14y ago
Lynx 2.8.6rel.4: https://aboutmybrowser.com/1283428590 Lynx 2.8.8dev.2: https://aboutmybrowser.com/4027520259 Links 2.1pre32: https://aboutmybrowser.com/3138479085 ELinks 0.11.1: https://aboutmybrowser.com/3604611808 (Text-based bro
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by breadbox 14y ago
I assume they're thinking of things like automatic bill payments. From what I can tell these days, if it involves storing your private information on a computer you don't own via the internet, it counts as "cloud computing."
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by breadbox 14y ago
I'm not even sure I even realized it was there.
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by breadbox 14y ago
Every major file type (or nearly every, anyway) has a set of signature bytes, a "magic number" or something equivalent that identifies it as being of that type. This lets programs identify what kind of object a file represents without requi

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