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by dandrews 16y ago
At the end of the article the OP admits: "... you will never be able to replace the social element of attending a university, arguably the most important part of it". This is so true; even in the early 70s the system was broken, and I got
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by dandrews 16y ago
Let's not fixate on the examples, folks. Perhaps they're arguable, but the original point is still valid: languages gain traction through prominent projects.
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by dandrews 16y ago
There's also Nokia's N900, which runs Maemo - a Debian derivative.
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by dandrews 16y ago
Having competition got us into space to begin with.
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by dandrews 16y ago
A man stopped at Murray the Tailor's shop to pick up his new suit. Trying it on, he noticed that one sleeve was longer than the other. Murray waved it off: "Just pull your right shoulder back and bend your elbow a bit." The man did this,
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by dandrews 16y ago
I'm fond of re-telling the following story, which I first heard when I was an undergrad 30+ years ago. (I'd love to be able to cite a reference. Is this familiar to anyone?) A brand new office tower was unveiled, the architect was on hand
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by dandrews 16y ago
The smaller codebase may be easier to secure, but the OBSD folks had problems with Apache's version 2 license changes, which they characterized as "less free".
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by dandrews 16y ago
My N900 runs MVS 21.8 with the help of the s390 Hercules emulator. It's amusing to watch it IPL and run TSO sessions with about the same response time as a circa-1980 IBM mainframe. It's a data center in a handheld, 30 years out of time.
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by dandrews 16y ago
That's what I was thinking - a second thin system on the shelf with VNC.
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by dandrews 17y ago
What you mustn't do is set a fire, shoot off flares, try to attract attention to yourself. If there are any humans out there they may be predators, and you don't want to give away your position without knowing theirs. Think defensively!
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by dandrews 17y ago
Perhaps not hacker-worthy, but this brings to mind an incident from my youth that amuses me. In 1965 I was an eighth-grader in Mrs. Ray's English class, where we were studying The Taming of the Shrew. The school had distributed paperback c
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by dandrews 17y ago
In the discussion that followed the video answers entry on lesswrong, Wei Dai quoted Eliezer: "I have to remind myself that it's not what's the most fun to do, it's not even what you have talent to do, it's what you need to do that you ough
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by dandrews 17y ago
So what specific problem in NASA's development methodology do you think would be fixed by your favorite VCS? From the few references I've bothered to google the existing development process is heavily regimented - if expensive - and their
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by dandrews 17y ago
The article also contains a link to a detailed discussion of PALs - "Permissive Action Links" - that control arming and detonation, and guard against tampering. See: http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/nsam-160/pal.html
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by dandrews 17y ago
This is what I was told: "We're in business to stay in business."
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by dandrews 17y ago
Mister Dog http://www.redbug.org/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/2003/11/10#Peanut_...
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by dandrews 17y ago
Since you mention COBOL records were variable-length I'd guess that they probably contained ODOs (Occurs-Depending-On, variable length arrays for those of you who aren't COBOL literate). In order for a group or record MOVE to work properly
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by dandrews 17y ago
Easy enough to download and run through mplayer. Beckman's an interesting character, and he asked intelligent questions. I was unaware of him before this (I don't know anything about the M'soft or CLR worlds) but I'll have to keep an eye o
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by dandrews 17y ago
My home network uses names from Alien (ash, jonesy, mother, nostromo, ripley). A pal's network used jazz musicians (mingus, monk). Once upon a time some MIT machines were named after cold cereals (frosted-flakes, sugar-smacks). A work frien
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by dandrews 17y ago
"Same problems as the segway has" ... let's see: "too expensive" - check! (Got me there.) "range is too short" - I'd like more range, but after 20 miles your feet have had enough of the Segway. Miles of sidewalk cracks beat you up and yo
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by dandrews 17y ago
Also consider Hofstadter's "Metamagical Themas", a collection of his Scientific American essays. A broad range of topics, lots of stuff to think about, and something on my shelf that I return to just for the pleasure. Good stuff.
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by dandrews 17y ago
Posters on e.g. segwaychat.com have often said they'd like to have more speed. But I can't imagine falling at 20mph... it's bad enough falling at 12.5mph, believe me. (The "dork factor" is what prevents me from doing the smart thing and we
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by dandrews 17y ago
I get way less than I used to, but people have gotten used to seeing me. When there are insults, it's usually high school age boys screaming out the car window as they drive by. "Faggot!" "Mall cop!" "Walk, you lazy bastard!" Funny: the
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by dandrews 17y ago
"That Summers suggested women lacked a natural ability for sciences did not help matters one bit." That isn't quite accurate. Summers had prefaced his remarks saying "I'm going to provoke you", then pointed out that math and science test s
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by dandrews 17y ago
About "throwing lives away" - it's a volunteer gig, and there will always be people who will take risks that you won't. Jim McLane points out that the easiest part of mounting a one-way flight to Mars would be finding people to send.
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by dandrews 17y ago
I'd imagine that Segways are useful for police officers doing crowd control duty. First off, standing on that platform gives you an eight inch advantage over everyone else -- you can see pretty well. But more importantly: you can be SEEN.
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by dandrews 17y ago
I'm an owner (about 30 months now) and won't part with it. I ride about 200 miles per month on the seg, and use it for all of my workaday transportation. Gave my Volvo to my Mom in fact -- I just don't use it anymore. Too true, when I fir
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by dandrews 17y ago
'scuse (I'm not very MS-Windows literate). Why doesn't rdesktop fit your RDP needs?
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by dandrews 17y ago
I can't even consider a Pre unless I know there's a reliable ssh client for it, and casual googling doesn't turn one up. So there's something for your to-do list.
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by dandrews 17y ago
I don't think I ever once had the patience to solve a cube that someone handed me. The puzzle just never interested me, much like a 15-puzzle fails to interest me. But I certainly spent lots of time playing with the mechanism itself, tryi

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