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by burke 17y ago
Like small-scheme. Problem solved.
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by burke 17y ago
Mmmm, NeoTech. One of the biggest reasons I wish @font-face was better supported.
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by burke 17y ago
The way I see it, the bandwidth is astronomically high, with 4.6 hour latency. Maybe they're using TCP/HiP (Highway Protocol).
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by burke 17y ago
I'm starting to sympathize with http://xkcd.com/386/ more and more. I wish I could just stop doing this already. Umm, ok, let's recap, shall we?: 1) His sister. This ( http://www.advogato.org/person/whytheluckystiff/diary/14.htm... ) sa
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by burke 17y ago
"I responded to the original, 400-person email in “Reply All” fashion, saying:" ARGH.
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by burke 17y ago
Actually, it is: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=774673 , particularly http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=775578 I agree though, dick move. Then again, this _is_ Zed we're talking about.
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by burke 17y ago
I wish it was standard practice to give patients access to this kind of awesome stuff.
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by burke 17y ago
Well look at that, it was him: http://imgur.com/yq9o1 dolphins.ram has "Jonathan Gillette" as the author. Yet another reason to hate Real Player. I would feel bad about posting this, but since everyone's apparently going to go around assu
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by burke 17y ago
But only Kristin C Gillette was listed as a relative. Could be though.
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by burke 17y ago
Yet more detective work: http://javuh.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/javuh/javuh/Model/Ps... He seems to have been working on the same file, in the same day, as Jonathan Gillette. Probably poking around this repository a little more could lea
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by burke 17y ago
~ % dig +short hacketyhack.net 72.232.19.34 ~ % dig +short -x 72.232.19.34 Cewki.com. http://cewki.com was registered today and says: where's _why? see: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=773106 EDIT: S
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by burke 17y ago
http://github.com/whymirror/potion/tree
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by burke 17y ago
Googling "kroford" returns a few results related to Star Wars, and the server is named "deathstar". I thought that at first too, but now I doubt it.
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by burke 17y ago
Also (too late to edit): Why apparently went to the University of Utah in Salt Lake City: http://web.archive.org/web/20010518151731rn_1/deathstar.eng....
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by burke 17y ago
That Jonathan Gillette was also going to school in Pennsylvania ( http://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathangillette ) when _why wrote that message, supposedly from Salt Lake City, Utah.
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by burke 17y ago
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1507505 Though I'm not entirely certain the authors didn't just make up a name to fit the citation style. I don't see any reason why they would have any information the internet at large doens't.
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by burke 17y ago
I have an espresso machine that partially implements this. EDIT: Here's the partially-incomplete and largely out-of-date source: http://github.com/burke/coffeeclock/tree/master
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by burke 17y ago
> 2) You can't visit any time before your time machine was built. I think this is a very strange assertion to make. I find it more likely that one of the following is true: 1) Time travel is not possible 2) We'll wipe ourselves our befo
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by burke 17y ago
2.5 here :/
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by burke 17y ago
If you're feeling hipster-ish, the paperback-sized Moleskine notebooks are great to take with you, but I have pretty sizeable stack of these : http://www.mead.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/product3_10051... by my desk. The pages are perfo
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by burke 17y ago
As well as Redis, cassandra, CouchDB, and more. It's a confusing space :P
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by burke 17y ago
I have that pretty much every time I sleep in late (usually Saturdays). I'll "wake up", then click on my phone, notice it's 6:00, and go back to sleep. About 10 seconds later, I usually realize I never actually woke up, wake myself up, chec
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by burke 17y ago
> Isn't that beautiful? Does it remind you of open source at all? Yeah, but not the GPL.
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by burke 17y ago
Maybe. I've heard a couple people with similar diets wonder why their plasma cholesterol is so high, whether or not it's from the dietary cholesterol. YMMV.
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by burke 17y ago
Eggs (yolks) have a load of cholesterol. Watch out for that. IIRC, they're about 200mg each, where a sensible daily limit is 300-400mg. EDIT: If you want to go all crazy-health-nut, the whites are 100% protein calories (~50/50 fat/protein i
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by burke 17y ago
We have palm-sized devices that can provide you turn-by-turn directions to friend's house, while streaming music over a (semi-)pervasive data network, and keeping you in constant communication with everyone you know (eg. IM, etc.). They can
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by burke 17y ago
http://timecube.com for the confused.
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by burke 17y ago
Current: Zen and the Brain Previous: Gödel, Escher, Bach (still working on that one, actually)
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by burke 17y ago
Despite it being far slower than GPU-magic, this contest was a great opportunity for me to brush up on my C and finally learn MPI. Thanks, Engineyard :)
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by burke 17y ago
Don't forget that caffeine is absorbed most efficiently sublingually :)

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