cholmon

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by cholmon 11y ago
Start with http://www.phptherightway.com/
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by cholmon 11y ago
The most interesting point I think is in the conclusion, namely the idea of central banks adding uncertainty in the hopes of bursting bubbles while they're small. "...if the policy-maker (Central Banks) intervened by randomly bu
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by cholmon 12y ago
or .test http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.test
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by cholmon 12y ago
"When I left home for college, I studied other religions and found that all the world's major religions teach giving up possessions and doing not for the sake of reward. If all the separated witnesses are saying the same thing, it
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by cholmon 12y ago
"Go around again!"
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by cholmon 12y ago
I agree to an extent, but instead of "enjoy coding", I'd say it's more "wanting to build things", at least in my experience; I do enjoy coding, but really it's the building of the things that's my pri
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by cholmon 12y ago
Programming and configurations: reading, particularly on the same machine where I'm following along with my own working code so I can copy/paste samples, and skip around. UI/Tools: video, especially when several tools are bei
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by cholmon 12y ago
> These experiences I think just make people prepare/focus better. Change is good when it comes to environments of learning. Is this change in environment actually beneficial though? One could argue that the social stress of such a
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by cholmon 12y ago
> If not, then what was the point? "He went to jail for piracy? I better stop pirating!"
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by cholmon 12y ago
Google instead "Nassim Taleb", in particular his ideas surrounding iatrogenics (harm done by the healer), and "via negativa" as a heuristic for fixing systemic problems, i.e., removing things (chemicals/drugs) from
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by cholmon 12y ago
I had to read the article to understand what on earth the title means. I guess "pips" is slang for "beats" or "surpasses"? It's also interesting that Turing's "bombe" is not capitalized, eve
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by cholmon 12y ago
https://imageresizer.codeplex.com/ for simple and quick right-click-to-resize functionality. Works for multiple selected files too.
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by cholmon 12y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sea_deluge_hypothesis
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by cholmon 12y ago
At first, I read this as an imperative, and tried googling the phrase, "a million miles away from the search engine of my dreams".
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by cholmon 12y ago
+1 for using Apache's vhost_alias module [1]; it's interesting how few people are aware of it. DNS wildcards + vhost wildcards make for a very convenient dev environment. [1] - http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2
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by cholmon 12y ago
COGS = cost of goods sold
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by cholmon 12y ago
It's also likely that the vector was a vulnerable module he had installed.
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by cholmon 12y ago
Nope. I had to think about Slide 3 for a few minutes: "...because old people die sooner than the young".
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by cholmon 13y ago
Another way to structure the chain is a chain of unbroken weeks, instead of days, especially for actions that stand a pretty good chance of being derailed by life. Like going to the gym. Mark a week as "checked off" if you hit the
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by cholmon 13y ago
I think it's silly to try to subscribe to a set of rules that just aims to get rid of all the bad stuff. It makes more sense to me to simply balance the consumption of these "drugs" (narcotics, alcohol, food, games, children,
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by cholmon 13y ago
Can you recommend any further reading on these innovations in teaching math? I'm interested, as I'm in a similar boat with my children.
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by cholmon 13y ago
He said that in the very next paragraph. FTA... "But I think Twitter is fundamentally broken in certain regards. You get a lot of mediocre stuff along with that. Everyone thinks they’re interesting. [snip] So I’m not sure that there is
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by cholmon 13y ago
How does Anti-fragile contradict lightcatcher's point-of-view? I understood him to say, simply, that terrorist attacks are from Extremistan, while car accidents are from Mediocristan, thus they aren't comparable phenomena.
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by cholmon 13y ago
It'd be tricky to avoid false positives
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by cholmon 13y ago
"Ferris, get off of the float!"
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by cholmon 13y ago
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