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811.
by burke 17y ago
I've wondered that sometimes. I think it's because a lambda opens to the left, and starts with "l". Rhonda opens to the right, and is a similar word starting with "r". It's not supposed to make sense; it just cracks me up :P
812.
by burke 17y ago
I remember in my first year statics class, we decided a backwards lambda is called "Rhonda".
813.
by burke 17y ago
afaik, everything is stored in memory. I might be wrong though.
814.
by burke 17y ago
More information on calorie restriction: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calorie_restriction http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRON-diet
815.
by burke 17y ago
The LD50 is apparently 12mg -- 80-240 times a typical dose. Still, not bad, considering water is lethal at a smaller multiple of the typical dose :) http://www.erowid.org/chemicals/lsd/lsd_dose.shtml
816.
by burke 17y ago
While true, suggesting safety goggles as a guard against exploding white-hot aluminum just makes me think of that goggles meme. What was it again?...
817.
by burke 17y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNA_world_hypothesis I seem to remember hearing about some organism that only has RNA, but I couldn't find it with a quick search through wikipedia.
818.
by burke 17y ago
I was very close to doing this (for Pizza Hotline) for my IEEE Student Branch, but I was pretty sure I'd forget to cancel it for a holiday some time, so I never did.
819.
by burke 17y ago
"...more expensive Kindle... test-market to college students." Good luck with that.
820.
by burke 17y ago
Somebody might find this useful: http://github.com/burke/cljtemplate -- a barebones template project for clojure, using ant, with compilation for java and clojure source.
821.
by burke 17y ago
It's an unfortunately common misspelling.
822.
by burke 17y ago
> But there is no choice to be made between spreading happiness and spreading logic - they're orthogonal. Religion.
823.
Advice for setting up a small corporation?
1 points by burke 17y ago|0 comments
824.
by burke 17y ago
Agreed, but I don't see how starting yet another site will fix the problematic lack of discussion.
825.
by burke 17y ago
Kurzweil's oddly-specific dates have usually been correct.
826.
by burke 17y ago
Nope: different colour, font, and font-size -- and he didn't use a gradient. EDIT: And even if it was, big deal. It's just an "S".
827.
by burke 17y ago
Read the comments on the site. It's disheartening how many people seem to agree with him :(
828.
by burke 17y ago
No, sadly. All GSM. :(
829.
by burke 17y ago
Whatever it is, I doubt you'll be paying $50 for 2MB/mo.
830.
by burke 17y ago
Running a binary as root is pretty different from uploading all of your company's intellectual property to a foreign corporation's servers.
831.
by burke 17y ago
So roughly how much would this cost for a small team, say <10? I'm assuming far too much for me, since it's not visible anywhere, but I'm still curious :)
832.
by burke 17y ago
Yeah, I heard it only took him four hours, too.
833.
by burke 17y ago
Oh, you haven't heard? He ported WordPress to C. I was pretty impressed.
834.
by burke 17y ago
The increased productivity of writing in a scripting language typically outweighs the cost of extra servers. Whereas with a desktop application, you only have X resources to allocate to a task, you can always "just throw more servers at" a
835.
by burke 17y ago
CSS is perfectly fine for what it was designed for. Unfortunately, when it was being designed, tables were still viewed as perfectly acceptable for layout, and as far as I can tell, CSS didn't really aim to replace it. It seems to me that i
836.
by burke 17y ago
Does anyone else find it odd that a programming language has a Screenshots page?
837.
by burke 17y ago
It's always bugged me how few scholarships there are for white males, and how taboo it is to suggest that perhaps society may be overcompensating in certain areas. On a related-yet-unrelated note, I think we should start a left-handed pride
838.
by burke 17y ago
Like most critics of Twitter (Twitics? No. Definitely no), he's completely missed the point. He seems to be expecting Twitter to be a drop-in replacement for his blog, but it serves an entirely different need -- at least, I suppose, when yo
839.
by burke 17y ago
Apart from the obvious "seek help" answer, try meditating. Some practice clearing your mind might help.
840.
by burke 17y ago
"...without shooting ourselves in the foot, head, or other parts of our anatomy." I hear macros are useful for shooting yourself in the gun.

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