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by brettnak 16y ago
In software, it's really easy to not know if you're violating IP.
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by brettnak 16y ago
I feel a little naive for not expecting something like this. I thought all the Sun/Oracle nonsense would be around MySQL.
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by brettnak 16y ago
I just tried it out, and I have to say, yes. It's remarkably good. I only tried about 6 phrases but they were all exactly right.
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by brettnak 16y ago
It seems to me that progress in computers is much more incremental. Meaning, step N+1 is pretty well visible from step N. When dealing with energy and propulsion, this does not seem to be the case. I realize this is pretty hand-wavy, but
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by brettnak 16y ago
On the practice subject - in college I studied in the double bass studio for a few years. He always said that his goal was to teach us how to practice. He told us that we'd probably forget everything that he actually said, but if he taugh
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by brettnak 16y ago
I have a math B.S. and have had absolutely no problem getting a job... Perhaps if that's you're only skill it might be difficult?
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by brettnak 16y ago
I might be the only one who thinks this around here, but I think the concept of mortality is kind of beautiful. However, ask me about that when I'm facing my own and the answer might be different.
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by brettnak 16y ago
The biggest problem that I have with most pop music right now, is that so much of it is incredibly simplistic. I have no problem with simple music, but it never feels deliberate. It feels formulaic. I hear no artistry in most of it. Tha
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by brettnak 16y ago
> What I didn't get though how it measures exposure? or you are supposed to have a light meter with you? Since it's a digital semi-replica of a holga, I'm pretty sure you're supposed to eyeball it.
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by brettnak 16y ago
I actually was bitten by this just 2 weeks ago. It took me quite a while to figure this out.
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by brettnak 16y ago
Last time I tried firebuglite, it didn't really work in any browser.
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by brettnak 16y ago
Can it do html back to zen and then can I use it with erb/any other templating language? That would be useful.
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by brettnak 16y ago
I did buy it for mine. I am curious about the plan though. Lately, the temperature of my mbp has been going higher than I'm used to and I'd like to get it cleaned. Does anyone know if apple care covers that? Normally I'd do it myself bu
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by brettnak 16y ago
I haven't actually tried one, but anecdotally, I have been hearing a lot of people say that the zune is at least as good as the iPod, many say it's better.
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by brettnak 17y ago
AFAICT, the site is working, just really, really slowly. Google Cache: http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cache:2TxVRfz30WwJ:www.protoc... Bing Cache: http://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q=%22http+www+protocolsnow+co...
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by brettnak 17y ago
Yeah, I don't either and really don't like to login to facebook at all. I definitely have an account, but I only reply to private messages and rsvp to events since that's how I get invited to a lot of things. I don't really mind facebook
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by brettnak 17y ago
I've actually always thought that employers who learned that a candidate put his or herself through college thought more highly of that person. Being able to show up daily and get through the trudge would be, to me, hugely more telling tha
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by brettnak 17y ago
You could always use sage if you want scientific computing in python. It makes interacting between different libraries like SciPy, NumPy, and a ton of other math libraries pretty strait forward. You can even choose your version of numbers
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by brettnak 17y ago
Does anyone know if Amazon's tech has been developing at 3x the speed that most competent people think possible?
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by brettnak 17y ago
As someone who does, I'm still way more excited about this than any iPad news.
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by brettnak 17y ago
I, too, believe that most technology internships are a total scam. The usual phrase from a small company is that they want a 'rock star' ( insert your synonym here ) intern. I'm fairly certain that any 'rock star' intern can replace many
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by brettnak 17y ago
I think they switched from a Lithium Ion battery to a Lithium Polymer battery. The latter performs much better and lasts a lot longer. Most new cell phones, and incidentally, RC Helicopters use this too.
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by brettnak 17y ago
I have the 2nd gen unibody macbook pro ( the one without the removable battery ) and I still see 5 - 6 hours of battery life. I can usually get more if I'm just watching movies on it. Youtube & Hulu et. al. seem to be the biggest batt
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by brettnak 17y ago
Leaving out "I think" tends to make people think that you are stating a fact that you learned somewhere or somehow, and that it's a step above a "normal opinion"; if that makes any sense. The offense comes in the future as well when they d
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by brettnak 17y ago
> Additionally, having to write out content in longhand slows down the amount of info you can cram into a lecture. I'm not sure if you meant that as a positive or a negative, but that was the biggest advantage for me when I had chalk bo
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by brettnak 17y ago
On the handwriting note; some of the lectures at UW in bifurcation, chaos and some others were part of the 'UW Engineering Extension' program ( or something similarly named. ) It was really great because only the best professors with the be
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by brettnak 17y ago
Flash actually has one cookie & data store. It exists between browsers. You can see your flash cookies at this website: http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplay... You'll notice that they are the same no matter wh
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by brettnak 17y ago
Sorry to nitpick, but it's usually a good idea to link your header logo to your homepage. It's something that a lot of people expect - even if you have a tab that says "Home". Just a small usability thing.
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by brettnak 17y ago
The author has a problem with this comic: http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/abstraction.png Before anyone reads this blog post, let me quote you a gem in response to some xkcd text, "An x64 processor is screaming along at millions of cycles per
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by brettnak 17y ago
I should probably try to learn lisp. I primarily use emacs, so it would make a lot of sense. Some of the ruby/rails stuff out there for emacs really isn't very good.

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