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by cubix 18y ago
I find the minimalist lines of the iPhone much more pleasing than the Panasonic P905i, which except for the colour perhaps, looks pretty commonplace: http://www.feelphones.com/2008/01/02/panasonic-p905i-picture...
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Clojure event sourcing(blog.higher-order.net)
4 points by cubix 18y ago|0 comments
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Road to Clojure Survey(groups.google.com)
17 points by cubix 18y ago|8 comments
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Giz Explains: Why There Isn't a Perfect Ebook Reader(i.gizmodo.com)
1 points by cubix 18y ago|0 comments
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Here comes the e-book revolution(computerworld.com)
23 points by cubix 18y ago|40 comments
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by cubix 18y ago
There is a demo video of Subtext here: http://www.subtextual.org/subtext2.html . It looks like it would be fun to play with. Too bad we can't download it yet.
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by cubix 18y ago
I'm not suggesting he work himself into a foaming-at-the-mouth sort of rage, but there's an unsettling disconnect between the subject matter -- the plight of generations of students caught in bad public schools -- and his emotional tone. Pe
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by cubix 18y ago
I always feel a little frustrated when I listen to Gates. He's notorious for his bluntness in business, behind closed doors. However, in public he can come across as disingenuous -- passive-aggressive even. Why doesn't he chastise the incom
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Long Ring Fingers May Point to Wealth in Traders, Study Says(bloomberg.com)
13 points by cubix 18y ago|21 comments
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New old-fashioned drug makers: goats(latimes.com)
1 points by cubix 18y ago|0 comments
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by cubix 18y ago
In all things have no preferences. Even when it comes to lists of precepts?
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by cubix 18y ago
This isn't a straw man. It was open speculation (I doubt...) on my part. I wasn't attempting to misrepresent their argument, but making the point that the presentation is completely unbalanced. They make vague reference to modern day synthe
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by cubix 18y ago
They're not putting things into the proper context: Sure, these chemicals probably are threats to human well-being, and figuring out how to remove them from our environment is worthwhile. However, the 20th century saw an unprecedented incre
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A Respectful Blend of Old and New(nytimes.com)
1 points by cubix 18y ago|0 comments
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by cubix 18y ago
A nice gesture on Microsoft's part, but unfortunately it's probably in vain: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2008/11/05/crisp-body.html
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by cubix 18y ago
W. R. Stevens: TCP/IP Illustrated Vol. 1-3, Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment, and UNIX Network Programming Vol. 1 and 2.
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Attack code for critical Microsoft bug surfaces(nytimes.com)
1 points by cubix 18y ago|1 comments
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High-quality unboxing photos: late 2008 15" MacBook Pro(appleinsider.com)
2 points by cubix 18y ago|1 comments
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AWS Start-up Challenge(aws.amazon.com)
4 points by cubix 18y ago|0 comments
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by cubix 18y ago
It's not specifically about the current situation, but as I said, it sets the broader context. Also, it does bring up the issue of bailout occaisionally, e.g. they mention that LTCB was nearly nationalized to avoid a wider collapse, but ult
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by cubix 18y ago
This documentary brings some context to the current financial turmoil. Also on Google Video: The Commanding Heights Part One: The Battle of Ideas: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1466397368167658753... Commanding Heights Part Two
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The Commanding Heights - 6hr documentary on the global economy (2003)(pbs.org)
9 points by cubix 18y ago|5 comments
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by cubix 18y ago
As a Canadian, I would be awfully surprised to see Canada up there with the US. Note that religion hasn't been a factor in Canadian elections for several decades.
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by cubix 18y ago
The Austrians were predicting it in '02: http://mises.org/story/986 Raines may be in a dream business, but the net result of Fannie Mae’s actions in the credit markets is a nightmare of resource misallocation and massive systemic risk.
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by cubix 18y ago
unless you've got ninja-like skills and can write an appropriate filter to see just the data you're interested in, the signal-to-noise ratio in Wireshark can be overwhelming. Nina-like skills? I would consider that just basic competence w
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by cubix 18y ago
Why did you decide to switch?
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Morc: Mock Arc Programming Language as Scheme Extension(planet.plt-scheme.org)
10 points by cubix 18y ago|7 comments
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by cubix 18y ago
If you're a keyboardist and use OSX, give QuickSilver a try. Awesome little app -- I hardly touch the mouse all day. I'm so dependent on QS that I look clumsy using a stock OSX install without it.
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by cubix 18y ago
Who thought that was a good idea? Well, Ken Iverson did, and he won a Turing for his trouble.
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by cubix 18y ago
From what I gather, it's used mainly by quantitative analysts in finance (so called "quants"), but I'm sure it could be applied to a wide variety of other fields.

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