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by dewarrn1 12y ago
Yes, it's all part of the experience. Reportedly, DFW liked the idea of jarring readers out of a steady progression through his text and used all kinds of notes to effect this.
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Microsoft cuts Surface 2 prices by $100(microsoftstore.com)
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by dewarrn1 12y ago
No. NPR derives about 5% of their funding from US, federal, state, and local governments. Source: http://www.npr.org/about-npr/178660742/public-radio-finances NPR certainly has its own biases in reporting, but i
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Garry Kasparov loses bid to be chess kingpin(bbc.com)
1 points by dewarrn1 12y ago|0 comments
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by dewarrn1 12y ago
Agreed, the MS 4000's split design helped tremendously with my ulnar nerve irritation. Keeping my wrists aligned with my forearms is the key. I've also been keeping an eye out for a mechanical keyboard in a similar form factor w
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by dewarrn1 12y ago
Gonzo journalism targeting a tech audience. Turning back to Twitter, I like the service, and find 140 characters refreshingly brief. I don't know how to preserve it, but they've got huge mindshare and should be able to leverage t
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by dewarrn1 12y ago
OK, so you don't think much of ESR. Any alternative recommendations in the same topic area?
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by dewarrn1 12y ago
I like the idea of hosting my own web-accessible repository, but am most familiar with Mercurial. Does GitLab support non-Git repositories, or is there an alternative that does?
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by dewarrn1 12y ago
"The surgeon claimed that the destruction was precise, but the autopsy actually determined that damage was much more widespread than expected." This is flat wrong. Based on structural neuroimaging evidence, Corkin et al. (1997) s
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by dewarrn1 13y ago
I've been in this meeting myself. The situation is nicely rendered in a scene[0] from Cryptonomicon in which a main character feels like a dwarf among hobbits. [0] http://www.euskalnet.net/larraorma/crypto/sl
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by dewarrn1 13y ago
No part of this acquisition makes sense. I just hope that the product doesn't disappear without a trace after a write-down in a couple of years.
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by dewarrn1 13y ago
Cumming had a short treatment of the subject published in Psych Science recently: http://pss.sagepub.com/content/25/1/7.short ; doi: 10.1177/0956797613504966.
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by dewarrn1 13y ago
Works like a charm.
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by dewarrn1 13y ago
I've been burned before, so now I use a mix of incremental networked backups and offsite storage. My home server runs ZFS, snapshotting every hour/day/week. Critical files get sent off to TarSnap each night. Friday nights,
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by dewarrn1 13y ago
Scoville was overambitious and underinformed, but it's also important to remember that HM was living with debilitating seizures that made daily life almost unbearable. And for context, this is the era in which Walter Freeman was perfe
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by dewarrn1 13y ago
Anterograde amnesia is definitely a greater challenge for a storyteller than retrograde amnesia because the amnesic character is essentially static in the story, and that's one of the reasons that Memento is such an extraordinary film.
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by dewarrn1 13y ago
Those of us who study the cognitive neuroscience of memory have been waiting for Dr. Corkin to publish this book for a while. I'm looking forward to reading through. Regarding another commenter's concerns about ensuring that seve
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Pogue on iOS 7(pogue.blogs.nytimes.com)
1 points by dewarrn1 13y ago|0 comments
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by dewarrn1 13y ago
I had the same reaction at first, but then recognized (possibly after reading someone's Slashdot or HN post) that the slowly increasing output is actually quite welcome in some circumstances (e.g., late at night, first thing in the mor
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by dewarrn1 13y ago
Happy birthday, indeed! I love the independent spirit of the Debian project, including such extraordinary measures as wrapping their userland around the FreeBSD kernel in addition to Linux[0]. Recently, I've enjoyed using Crunchbang[
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by dewarrn1 13y ago
I suspect they'll wait a few more alpha-beta point releases before updating PyPI, but not sure. Any devs reading?
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by dewarrn1 13y ago
Searching the current page for links in Firefox (using ') is a great feature and one of the things I miss most when I have to use Chrome.
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HashCheck Shell Extension: calculate and verify checksums in Windows Explorer(code.kliu.org)
2 points by dewarrn1 13y ago|0 comments
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by dewarrn1 13y ago
This is the impression that I took away from his remarks, too. However, this prompts a question: is it feasible to capture everything , store those data, and filter after the fact? How much traffic are we discussing, how much storage ove
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by dewarrn1 13y ago
It's worth noting that if you cancel your Pro account (I just did), Flickr pledges to return the balance of your membership fee (prorated).
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by dewarrn1 14y ago
I'm planning to develop a scientific programming class (likely focused on Python), and I'd love to make use of something like LightTable to make assignment, loops, and functions less opaque to first-time programmers. I think that this kind
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by dewarrn1 14y ago
I'm an avid Python user. A beautiful aspect of the language is that, once installed (often as simple as running the default python.org MSI under Windows), the experience is essentially homogeneous whether the machine I'm running is Windows,
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by dewarrn1 14y ago
Netflix is conspicuously absent, for one. https://signup.netflix.com/openconnect/software
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by dewarrn1 14y ago
The "Touch Cover", which I'm assuming is the bit with the keyboard, will run you an extra $100-120. Given the attention to the Touch Cover in the promotional material MS has distributed, I'm surprised that it's even optional.
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by dewarrn1 14y ago
Interesting find: "Sherlock Holmes" avoids the Argument/Philosophy loop; "Poirot" does not.

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