dfranke

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   by dfranke 18y ago

   Are you sure you want to stand by that? Do you think the government could get involved in this issue and manage to do more good than harm? More than likely we'd end up having to get permission from some bureaucracy before being allowed to
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   by dfranke 18y ago

   Last I checked, there haven't been any major overhauls to the Gregorian calendar since C was invented. So why aren't we all using the same, fully-debugged date library yet? Edit: Actually, I'm cutting it close :-). The last time we change
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   by dfranke 18y ago

   To hell with 98. They got the UI right with Windows 1.0. It was a tiling window manager, just like the one I'm using now.
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   by dfranke 18y ago

   I block-print in small caps. It looks decent but takes a long time to grind out.
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   by dfranke 18y ago

   2002 and 2003.
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   by dfranke 18y ago

   After hearing about the outcome of this game you'd think that you'd have to be an idiot to get sucked in, but you'd be mistaken. We once did a dollar auction in an auditorium at Canada/USA Mathcamp -- not exactly a dimwitted group -- and b
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   by dfranke 18y ago

   Seems like an odd conspiracy theory. Robo-dialers are nothing new and I haven't noticed any increase in my receiving them. Any evidence for this?
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   by dfranke 18y ago

   Not sure why you say that. C++ seems like it was the lingua franca of non-elite CS programs after Pascal and before Java.
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   by dfranke 18y ago

   On Lisp shows a Prolog implementation in CL. Port it to Clojure.
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    by dfranke 18y ago

    The damage was done by C++. Java was a step up from there.
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    by dfranke 18y ago

    Spontaneity is just a synonym for "I don't understand what's going on when this happens".
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    by dfranke 18y ago

    I don't think that would necessarily block him in the screening process. I've never been through either one, but I've always imagined that these things are a lot like screening for security clearance: they don't much care what skeletons ar
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    by dfranke 18y ago

    Wasn't this a User Friendly story arc?
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    by dfranke 18y ago

    Their free IPv6 tunnels are awesome. I'll be interested to see if they can somehow use their foothold in the IPv6 market to become a dominant player when the v4 address crunch forces v6 mainstream.
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    by dfranke 18y ago

    Those of us who pride ourselves at merely having gotten a non-zero score on the Putnam think otherwise :-)
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    by dfranke 18y ago

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degrees_of_freedom_ (statistics)
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    by dfranke 18y ago

    Haven't read the book, but I loved the movie. It's the only movie ever to succeed at giving me nightmares.
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    by dfranke 18y ago

    A grammar nazi would actually be a hilarious costume if you could hang out with a crowd that wasn't too easily offended.
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    by dfranke 18y ago

    I wore my fencing gear, but I was fencing so I'm not sure if that qualifies as a costume per se. If I weren't broke I'd have worked my épée into a musketeer costume.
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    by dfranke 18y ago

    Which resulted in widespread violence when landlords tried to make their tenants pay a full month's rent.
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    by dfranke 18y ago

    dfranke@feanor:~$ wc resume.txt 99 620 4016 resume.txt
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    by dfranke 18y ago

    Blindfold Go meets those criteria pretty well.
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    by dfranke 18y ago

    I'm not sure how "lose" got replaced with "fail", but hackers have been using "win" in the same sense since long before 4chan came along. Also, using a designated but unusual superlative -- "epic fail" -- is a common hacker speech pattern,
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    by dfranke 18y ago

    IIRC this just won an Ignobel peace prize.
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    by dfranke 18y ago

    This would encourage the wrong behavior, namely doing accounting shenanigans to put off the recession until your successor takes office.
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    by dfranke 18y ago

    Hmm. That and the PDF version of Obama's position statement suggest your interpretation. Obama's convention speech and the HTML version suggest mine. I wonder if he's even clear on the difference.
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    by dfranke 18y ago

    Wrong. He said he's going to eliminate capital gains taxes on startups not on startup investors . So if your startup buys stock in other companies and makes a capital gain, it doesn't pay taxes on it. Hear recently of any startup doin
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    Airport X-Ray Art(markstechnologynews.com)

    9 points by dfranke 18y ago|0 comments
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    by dfranke 18y ago

    San Francisco, and I'll choose to ignore the ad hominems.
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    by dfranke 18y ago

    I called them. They couldn't be bothered to show up.