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by cruise02 15y ago
I think the author needs to display a little bit of that compassion he's talking about and realize that learning social skills is not as easy for everyone as it might have been for him. The world is full of different kinds of people, and i
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by cruise02 15y ago
No, but I'm working on it. :) http://www.billthelizard.com/2009/10/sicp-challenge.html
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by cruise02 15y ago
The data in the article does seem to bear this out. The source domain is displayed at the end of each headline, which probably accounts for the shadowy spots on the right side of the veteran redditor heat map. You really only need to glan
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by cruise02 15y ago
The 8-day wait is for free streaming options, so it's not throwing money away. If you subscribe to Hulu+ you can still get shows the next day.
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by cruise02 15y ago
Are you really complaining that Twitter is too hard? It's taken me a couple of years, but I've accumulated over a thousand followers on Twitter. Some of those came through my blog, but most came through Stack Overflow where I'm a moderato
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by cruise02 15y ago
Right, Stack Overflow itself can never be mainstream by definition, but cletus is talking about the (slightly) larger Stack Exchange network of Q&A sites that SO is a part of.
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by cruise02 15y ago
I think Stack Exchange has a much better chance of going mainstream, but by going through the side entrance, not through the front door. Some of the SE sites will fail (a handful already have), but others will be successful in their niche.
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by cruise02 15y ago
Nice. They beat Haliburton by a full year. http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Se...
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by cruise02 15y ago
I had the same thought. I think the author is only warning against immediately looking on Stack Overflow for existing answers. Formulating a good question of your own for SO requires a significant amount of thinking about the problem, w
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by cruise02 15y ago
Because it's on the front page of both Hacker News and reddit/r/programming.
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by cruise02 15y ago
No, that was exactly my impression as well. Those comments remind me more of the Daily WTF where everyone points and laughs, but people rarely step forward to explain exactly what the problem is, and more importantly the solution.
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by cruise02 15y ago
I'm sure I saw this here first, but "Ideas are just a multiplier of execution." http://sivers.org/multiply
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by cruise02 15y ago
I found that the introduction to MIX (MMIX in the latest editions) at the beginning was hard to get through. I pick up TAOCP as a reference once in a while, and I agree that later parts of it are much more readable.
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by cruise02 15y ago
The joke was that no one actually reads TAOCP. It was rumored that Knuth once described them as the "most purchased, least read" computer science books. That rumor was also thoroughly debunked, here: http://markharrison.net/stackoverflow/
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by cruise02 15y ago
Did they want to make it illegal for people to read books without paying for them, or did they want to make it illegal to loan them out? There's a world of difference, particularly now that we're extrapolating that to digital media.
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by cruise02 15y ago
I very clearly wrote should have paid, not would have paid.
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by cruise02 15y ago
I don't want to split hairs, but if I steal cable for a month, the cable company permanently loses the money I should have paid for a month of cable. Just because they don't lose the 1s and 0s they're selling doesn't mean there's no perman
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by cruise02 15y ago
They're not stealing from the person who loaned them the password, but "theft" is definitely the right word.
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by cruise02 15y ago
The scenarios you're describing seem a lot more like libraries loaning out physical copies of books, each of which can only be used by one person at a time. I think loaning out your NetFlix password is more akin to cable theft than to loan
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by cruise02 16y ago
I'm taking it pretty slow, but I'm also posting solutions with explanations to the SICP exercises on my blog. See the ones I've done so far by starting at http://www.billthelizard.com/2009/10/sicp-challenge.html
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by cruise02 16y ago
Exactly. Add Google to the list of companies that have "never made a dime" from me too.
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by cruise02 16y ago
Before turning it off and back on again? What tech support manual are you reading from? ;)
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by cruise02 16y ago
Although I found the article amusing, I have to agree with you. Surely Feynman would have seen the "correct" answer as quickly as any of us mere mortals.
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by cruise02 16y ago
You chose a bullshit major.
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What would Feynman do?(blogs.msdn.com)
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by cruise02 16y ago
You don't have to make an account to answer questions on Stack Overflow. http://stackoverflow.com/faq#login
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by cruise02 16y ago
Instead of being surprised to see an answer missing, why not add the answer?
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by cruise02 16y ago
Stack Overflow http://stackapps.com/questions/1/api-documentation-and-help
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by cruise02 16y ago
You pointed out yourself in the comments to that answer that rsync was helpful, but that you didn't like the rude tone. The answer you accepted also agreed that you should use rsync until you edited the question to add more details. Now i
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by cruise02 16y ago
It tells you in the FAQ. http://stackoverflow.com/faq#reputation

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