cellularmitosis

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by cellularmitosis 16y ago
it isn't coming up for me either
1112.
by cellularmitosis 16y ago
Ugh, the ui for browsing the comics is inconsistent and "makes me think" (the next comic is in a different spot each time, forcing me to hunt for it). the xkcd interface is significantly better than this, and probably took much less time t
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by cellularmitosis 16y ago
'cat christmas_list.txt | sort > christmas_list.txt' the above is wrong. that will clobber the file.
1114.
by cellularmitosis 16y ago
you really have to just bite the bullet and go talk to a shrink. I had some hang-ups about this initially, but afterwards I realized the outside perspective was so helpful that I was a fool not to have done it earlier. I think you might ha
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by cellularmitosis 16y ago
I stuck the engine from a 300SD into my 67 chevy pickup. http://www.peachparts.com/shopforum/showthread.php?t=241922 My next trick will be to transplant a modern variable vane turbocharger onto it and develop a fly by wire throttle and va
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by cellularmitosis 16y ago
I used to work as sysadmin in a research institute. the language difference between researchers who program, vs your typical coder in a software shop was interesting. the researchers were in the habit of referring to "a code". to a progr
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by cellularmitosis 16y ago
during college I came into the habit of trying to speak about a class of things in a general way, rather than speaking about one specific thing. this works great for math and computer science. this does not work great with your girlfriend
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by cellularmitosis 16y ago
I have a friend who valet parks at an up-scale hotel, and over the years he's become pretty good at sizing up whether someone isn't aware that a tip is expected. So he's come up with a little code between his fellow employees. While the new
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by cellularmitosis 16y ago
For me this issue isn't so black and white. If an engineer being paid $100k/yr pulled something like this, yes I'd say he's stealing from his employer. When someone making $2.85/hr does this, I'm not sure it's stealing. The employer has th
1120.
by cellularmitosis 16y ago
For those of you unfamiliar with beer, I'll rephrase this article in terms which might be more familiar to you. Hopefully you'll have the same "wtf?" moment I did. We had people place five cars on a perceptual map. The five vehicles consist
1121.
by cellularmitosis 16y ago
my brain wants very badly for the data to flow chronologically from left to right, rather than its current arrangement.
1122.
by cellularmitosis 16y ago
searching youtube for "gantto" yields nothing. you have to search for "ganttointro".
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by cellularmitosis 16y ago
there is an excellent episode of Top Gear in which Clarkson and co. ride across Vietnam on mopeds. The percentage of the motoring population which use motorcycles, rather than cars, is simply staggering. They throw out some interesting st
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by cellularmitosis 16y ago
It seems it would be great to have the inverse of codility, where job seekers take a bunch of coding tests, and then employers start sending them job offers based on their scores. it was only after completing their warm-up problem that I re
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by cellularmitosis 17y ago
wtf? whenever my mouse happens to be over any of the orange "heading" text, the scroll wheel doesn't work. how could he have possibly broken that?