cmars232

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by cmars232 17y ago
This is a bit off topic, but I related Avatar to Rudy Rucker's Postsingular. Same theme of technology becoming irrelevant when faced with superior natural/supernatural alternative, which I think reveals what we subconsciously desire, try a
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by cmars232 17y ago
Learn Scheme. I've been coding along with "The Little Schemer" over the break. I feel like I need a fresh perspective before I can approach Clojure -- otw I'll just end up writing a bunch of Java with parens.
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by cmars232 17y ago
This is real, not a joke, right?
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by cmars232 17y ago
I've been going thru SICP with Gambit. Wouldn't mind an alternative to Emacs at all, if/when this supports Gambit...
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by cmars232 17y ago
Be real, don't be redundant. When I used to interview contractors, I got so tired of reading "enterprise Java developer experienced with all aspects of the SDLC" blah blah blah followed by globs of alphabet soup. Just highlight the most re
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by cmars232 17y ago
This sounds funny, and well, let's face it, the idea of it is pretty funny, but then I think of the stories female friends used to tell me back in college of creepy old guys that would drive by real slow, fapping away, while they were walki
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by cmars232 17y ago
Yeah... look how well that works for the US auto industry. Hey, maybe we could fail too & get a bailout!
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by cmars232 17y ago
Is there an extension (could there be) for privacy protections similar to SRWare? I like SRWare ok but it'd be nice if these protections could be dropped into the latest Chrome.
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by cmars232 17y ago
I used to use pdb.set_trace() liberally to poke around at the internals of Django to figure out what it was doing in undocumented places.
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by cmars232 17y ago
This is good stuff. If these steps fail though, you're in a dysfunctional software development shop and probably need to leave. I say start looking immediately AND try the above, just so you have more options. Not every development shop s
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by cmars232 17y ago
How about a list of all the app ideas on there? It'd be fun to scrape and crunch that data if this takes off. Ideas have little value, but it'd be interesting to profile them.
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100 Phone Calls(blog.inc.com)
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by cmars232 17y ago
What if I don't store cookies? Or I delete them regularly? Or a Firefox extension does this for me?
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by cmars232 17y ago
I didn't choose my profession based on cash, but now that I have realized the potential to make cash with my talents, it's become my primary motivation. If you're not getting paid well, or in an environment which has a strong potential to p
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by cmars232 17y ago
I'd hasten the spread of coffee cultivation, production & distribution. Productivity boost!
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by cmars232 17y ago
I would invest in a sovereign not tied to a physical piece of land, because it would be an interesting sociopolitial experiment. Like Mr. Lee's Greater Hong Kong in Snow Crash.
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by cmars232 17y ago
Why do you have trouble finishing these products? What makes you lose the focus? Sometimes, attention problems can be corrected by taking better care of yourself. Personally, I've found my attention problems come more from ultimately not
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by cmars232 17y ago
So that's why my PC opened all those TCP connections when I typed in 'ammonium nitrate'.
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by cmars232 17y ago
Especially the in-vitro human meat. It'll probably cause mad-human disease or zombies.
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by cmars232 17y ago
Looking forward to the mods and jailbreaks for cheap subsidized Apple hardware.
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by cmars232 17y ago
This is fundamentally flawed, because the sources for infringing content are many. Piracy doesn't line up for the counting. Not even all torrents could be watched, let alone all protocols, and darknets abound. This would only create an a
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by cmars232 17y ago
Yes, Apple should protect us consumers against these hackers. They obviously know what is best for us. Maybe Microsoft should partner with the PC manufacturers and do something similar.
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by cmars232 17y ago
Before I whitelisted it, it was just a grey screen. You might want to put something in a <noscript> tag. I like how Stack Overflow deals with that, for example.
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by cmars232 17y ago
Its good for social media consultants, marketers and gurus.
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by cmars232 17y ago
Why don't we experiment with geoengineering some other planet before we screw up our own. Venus is covered in clouds, doesn't seem to help it any...
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by cmars232 17y ago
A worthwhile idea. After trying a few projects, I've come to realize that it's going to have to be something I care enough about to sacrifice my time and energy for and sell without feeling fake. I really have no clue what that is. All I
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by cmars232 17y ago
I wish Java would adopt len() and the like. Or perhaps a more general concept like Haskell's type classes.
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by cmars232 17y ago
It's not just that libraries are important. Platforms that are mature, portable and reliable can get products developed more quickly. Platforms that run on multiple target OSes improve my deployment options. It's not just lack of librarie
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by cmars232 17y ago
haskell, libSDL, and OS X are a match made in hell. I recently tried this, and all sorts of dylib problems on my system lead me to believe its just not practical. Are there other 3D/multimedia frameworks that play better w/Haskell? Or is
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by cmars232 17y ago
One of the most pleasant things about a conventional bladed fan is the soothing white noise. I can't sleep without it. I guess something like this is good for a novelty maybe? Or maybe some fancy CPU cooling getup?

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