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by decode 17y ago
I decided to do the comparison for him. Using a 386 build of today's tip of Go from the hg repo and stackless python 2.6.4 built from source. Running on Ubuntu 9.04, running the binary 2.6.28-16-generic kernel (32-bit) from Ubuntu. Hardw
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by decode 17y ago
Don't forget to take your grain of salt with this article. The timing comparison is between two different computers of unknown hardware, running two different operating system versions.
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by decode 17y ago
"How in Cthulhu's name does this not mention that Warren Buffett's father was a Congressman, Howard Buffett of Nebraska" Because he's trying to make a general statement about estate tax in the United States, so talks about the general condi
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by decode 17y ago
I'm a CouchSurfer myself (in fact, I'm hosting a traveler right now) and I have to say a couple of things about his CouchSurfing advice. 1) Do not use CouchSurfing if you just want free accommodation. The author says this, but it needs to
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by decode 17y ago
I'd never heard of this guy or his speaking, so I looked around for something. Here's a 1-hour lecture on innovation, that is at least quite entertaining, and possibly informative: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amt3ag2BaKc
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by decode 17y ago
I read that sentence as tongue-in-cheek. It's a jab at both the normal way of doing law and also the trade negotiators (they're still doing chicanery, just behind closed doors). The second part of the sentence also makes it seem like the
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by decode 17y ago
I think you are mixing two unrelated concepts: "language purity" and "language preservation". Places like France (and apparently Iceland) are very concerned with excluding foreign loan words, but not because it makes more people become nat
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by decode 17y ago
It might be easier to just go to a list of all the ISOs and torrents available: http://mirror.anl.gov/pub/ubuntu-iso/CDs/karmic/
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by decode 17y ago
My undergrad program has been doing this for about 10 years, and I'd say it was an extremely valuable way to bring together the prior 4 years and give you a taste of professional programming. My school certainly isn't Ivy League, but it is
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I just can't wrap my mind around how having a piece of technology obligates me to use it. It's the same as if you had a landline, bought an answering machine, set it up, and never listened to the messages. Then you blamed your friends wh
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by decode 17y ago
"Windows 7 has become the biggest-grossing pre-order in Amazon's history worth even more than the most recent JK Rowling book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows." That's cute and everything, but Win7 Pro costs 12.5 times as much as the H
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by decode 17y ago
That seems to be correct: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sticky_Fingers#Cover
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by decode 17y ago
If you're assuming the attacker has physical access to your laptop, you can also assume they have access your USB stick. Even the article admits this is a problem: "somebody who can get access to my Disk Hasher USB (e.g. when I’m in a swim
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by decode 17y ago
Those are all much less efficient than a single click on a known location. The point is that it's harder to do than in the environment that's familiar to me, not that it's impossible to do. This creates a little bit of frustration each ti
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by decode 17y ago
It works, and it's slightly better than alt-tab, but the point is that it's much less optimal than on Windows 98.
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by decode 17y ago
Here's my problem: if I have 4 console windows open at the same time, and they're all hidden behind other windows, how do I switch to that one console I want? In Windows 98, each one had a button on the taskbar that didn't move, and it was
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by decode 17y ago
Over the past three releases of Windows, I've noticed that I've become more alienated from the UI with each release. First with XP, then Vista, and now Windows 7, it seems like each release is just a little more annoying to use. It's like
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by decode 17y ago
Dramatic play, he said, was the training ground where children learned to regulate themselves, to conquer their own unruly minds. This makes intuitive sense. Dramatic acting is almost by definition doing what you think you should do, ins
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by decode 17y ago
I'm not sure adding more structure is always useful. When I'm throwing a party for 30 people at a set date and time, I use event organization software, like Facebook events. If I want to get a feeling for my friends' thoughts on the local
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by decode 17y ago
In the abstract of that paper, it says "the significant negative correlation could be observed only in groups with above average mental abilities and not in a random sample from a general population." Are there other papers that say there'
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by decode 17y ago
In some cases that might be true, but I'm observing a lot of communication among people my age (mid/late twenties) that used to happen over email is moving to Facebook. I'm Facebook friends with a number of people that I spend time with re
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by decode 17y ago
I always write useful subjects in Facebook messages and so do all of my friends. Taking them away would make my Inbox unusable because of my primary use case: organizing groups of people for some future activity or series of activities. Ri
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by decode 17y ago
Maybe I'm not thinking about it in the right way, but I don't see how most of those things signal status (and some don't signal anything at all). Or perhaps I was just too terse in my list. Here are examples of what people might be thinki
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by decode 17y ago
When an email client arbitrarily adds a "Re:" it messes it up. I'm pretty sure Thunderbird uses the Message-ID and In-Reply-To headers to create the threads, not the subjects. But some people don't always use the Reply function, or Reply
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by decode 17y ago
He makes it clear throughout the article that he knows nothing about fashion, and even admits in the first paragraph that he has no interest in clothing or fashion: "I want simple, good-looking apparel that covers my nakedness and maybe eve
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by decode 17y ago
I think the important thing here is that the term "backup" only makes sense within the context of what kind of thing you're protecting against. RAID is a useful backup for drive failures, if you're able to replace failed drives within a cer
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by decode 17y ago
He makes an argument for making money, but not for getting (or being) rich. What societal advantage is there to one person amassing wealth? It seems like Cuban is saying that if you create wealth, you can pass it on to others. So wouldn'
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by decode 17y ago
"Right, so I bust my ass in school, non-paid internships, contracting as much as possible, and 50 hour work weeks on my startup... and the reason I'm making money is b/c I'm more "fortunate" than the slob who is still playing video games in
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by decode 17y ago
She recommends using a password manager, presumably one that stores your passwords in it. I've recently started using PasswordMaker, which I like better, because your passwords are never stored anywhere. Instead, I have it generate a SHA-
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by decode 17y ago
I suspect the changes in your wants are a result of maturity , not income . The cars, clothes, and restaurants are really just toys, of the same type you wanted when you were five.

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