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by burke 17y ago
"For the last six months, my friend and his programmer have been trying to figure out why their site is so slow. It could take literally 5 minutes to load a user page. Updates to the database were proceeding at one every several seconds. Wa
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by burke 17y ago
That, and the title is typo'd.
843.
by burke 18y ago
If you honestly understand how the internet works, _and_ are concerned about password security, how can you NOT be using a different password on every site? (or at least a throwaway password for accounts you don't care about) EDIT: I guess
844.
by burke 18y ago
Just a note: The page was unprotected about an hour ago. I don't know anything about the guy, but to anyone who does, edit away! http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fravia&action=...
845.
by burke 18y ago
"The plural of 'anecdote' is not 'data'" --Frank Kotsonis
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by burke 18y ago
This is what made it click for me: http://nex-3.com/posts/43-fun-with-the-y-combinator-in-ruby
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by burke 18y ago
> Wisely, the study did not rely on music pirates' honesty. Researchers asked music buyers to prove that they had proof of purchase. I haven't read exactly how this study was conducted, but it might be worth noting that some pirates wou
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by burke 18y ago
For those not wanting to create an account or sign in to find out, it's $20/mo or $200/yr.
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by burke 18y ago
Wow, I'm impressed. It works in IE 6+, Firefox 1.5+, Safari 3+, Opera 9.5+, and Chrome.
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by burke 18y ago
For any zsh users out there, I made a couple changes so it works in zsh: http://github.com/burke/j
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J: an alternative to cd that learns where you spend time(github.com)
55 points by burke 18y ago|23 comments
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by burke 18y ago
For all the interesting things _why does, I've always maintained that it would be completely unsurprising if he was in fact an entire group of hackers. He must never sleep.
853.
by burke 18y ago
Awesome. I hope I can sell my company on that.
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by burke 18y ago
I learned to program on my TI-83. Over the past few decades, computers have built more and more walls between typical users and programming, whereas on my calculator, it was right there... on a whim, I could, say, make a program to calculat
855.
by burke 18y ago
"...if the hypervisor exported all its APIs over 9P." Please sign me up for your newsletter. I need to find more excuses to use 9P. Wmii got me hooked.
856.
by burke 18y ago
Unfortunately, it only syncs calendars and contacts thus far. Here's hoping for mail syncing soon? EDIT: Setup instruction for iPhone: http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/answer.py?answer=13...
857.
by burke 18y ago
Better idea: stop throwing people in prison for nonviolent, victimless crimes like possession of marijuana, etc. Prisons should be used to prevent people from causing further damage to society, not for lack of a better punishment, assuming
858.
by burke 18y ago
Hmm, I can't imagine this working very well for the iPhone with no background application support, unless it makes it into the real Maps application and they provide an option to broadcast while it's not running.
859.
by burke 18y ago
Looks like you need a license to import Modafinil into Canada, and can't get it without a prescription. (Schedule F Part 1). Can anyone that knows how these laws work confirm that? EDIT: Confirmed. See Section C.01.045 of http://www.hc-sc.
860.
by burke 18y ago
> http://shouldiusetablesforlayout.com/ Why do I still laugh every time I see one of these? I always see it coming...
861.
by burke 18y ago
The kill ring is something I've always meant to figure out, but never bothered to. I can't believe I've been missing out on M-y all this time.
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by burke 18y ago
I've never been particularly unimpressed with GoDaddy, other than the abysmal site design and inescapable attempts to sucker you into extra "features" with each domain purchase. Their support seems decent, and their prices _are_ very low.
863.
by burke 18y ago
Actually, I threw together a book exchange in a weekend and sold most of my books on it. Quite a few people are still using it. Granted, it doesn't make any money, and it's operated through the Engineering Student Society, so I guess it doe
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by burke 18y ago
Apparently finding a full intact DNA sample is "impossible"... but here's hoping. :)
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by burke 18y ago
It's worth noting that Clojure has native support for hashes via the {} syntax. ( http://clojure.org )
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by burke 18y ago
I love the footer: "Code is Poetry". Eugh.
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by burke 18y ago
I strongly prefer light on dark, but hated pretty much every emacs theme I found. A couple days ago, I ported a friend's "IR Black" vim theme to emacs. I'm still not entirely happy with it, but: http://github.com/burke/color-theme-ir-black
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by burke 18y ago
I've considered switching to dvorak or colemak or otherwise, but the main thing that always holds me back is emacs. Have any of you emacs users out there used an alternate layout? What was/is your experience with it?
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by burke 18y ago
Very nice. I can finally add Hackaday back to my RSS Reader. I've occasionally thought about making a feed summarizer that determines the relative popularity of each item in a feed and only passes along those that pass a certain threshold,
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by burke 18y ago
I've casually skimmed a couple explanations of monads over the last little while, but this one finally made it "click" for me. Great post.

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