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by dill_day 17y ago
"Yes, I am saying colleges should teach study habits, time management and hand writing." I agree these are good things, but shouldn't they be taught before college?
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by dill_day 17y ago
When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you. -- Lao Tzu
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by dill_day 17y ago
I just finished The Brothers Karamazov. It was excellent.
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by dill_day 17y ago
Sad. It was always a treat when the teacher would put one of these on in elementary school.
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by dill_day 17y ago
I'm doing a NSF `Research Experiences for Undergraduates' thing at school... the project is trying to help out with an optimizing compiler for Linear Algebra kernels. For a personal project I've been working on compiling Scheme to JVM bytec
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by dill_day 17y ago
I really recommend Alan Turing: the Enigma by Andrew Hodges... this was a great read
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by dill_day 17y ago
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ErikNaggum He contributed many patches to GNU Emacs from version 19.26 to 20.4. A fan of Common Lisp, he took Emacs Lisp in the direction of Common Lisp. He contributed early support for multiple character
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by dill_day 17y ago
You think he seems arrogant here? Maybe he didn't care that he was being a bit socially deviant! :-) My impression is he was just too excited about "opening up yet another fragment of the frontier of beauty" to worry about adhering to the
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by dill_day 18y ago
A couple of weeks ago, we posted an update to our Terms of Use that we hoped would clarify some parts of it for our users. Over the past couple of days, we have received a lot of questions and comments about these updated terms and what th
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Facebook reverts Terms of Use(facebook.com)
29 points by dill_day 18y ago|27 comments
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by dill_day 18y ago
Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for s
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by dill_day 18y ago
It looks like you can still view their pages. For example the people above wanting to view NYU: http://www.hndir.com/index/school/view/14
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by dill_day 18y ago
http://www.jython.org/Project/jythonc.html
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by dill_day 18y ago
hey brian this is erik... I went to LHS we used to play tennis and stuff. anyway yeah I'm in cs at cu now also and I definitely agree with everything you're saying!
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by dill_day 18y ago
I might be thinking of a different feature but I like how on LtU it says "13 comments | 5 new comments" for example
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by dill_day 18y ago
To become united and in line with the beauty and vitality of Nature, and to become united with those we love - what other ultimate object in life is there? Surely all these other things, these games and examinations, these churches and ch
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by dill_day 18y ago
http://blog.justin.tv/2008/11/moment-of-silence.html Justin.tv staff would like to take a moment to recognize and reflect upon the tragedy that occurred within our community today. We respect the privacy of the broadcaster and his family
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by dill_day 18y ago
Really good. I like this more than anything he's written for a while now.
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by dill_day 18y ago
...with four swift clicks of the mouse, I canceled my account. Gone was the entire online persona I had created for myself – profile pictures, interests and activities, work history, friends acquired Maybe! But all of those pictures, int
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by dill_day 18y ago
I'm sort of confused as well it was kind of cool and amusing but I don't really understand why it has had so many votes all day...
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The Bellic School of Management Training(steve-yegge.blogspot.com)
13 points by dill_day 18y ago|3 comments
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by dill_day 18y ago
I'm currently a cs undergrad in Boulder. Had an internship at a late stage startup this summer, it's a great place to be!!
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by dill_day 18y ago
For anyone who doesn't: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Modest_Proposal Had to read this in high school, I liked it
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by dill_day 18y ago
I didn't finish it. I browsed the author's website a little. He seems grossly arrogant.
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by dill_day 18y ago
Haskell
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by dill_day 18y ago
Not that one is the first to see something new, but that one sees as new what is old, long, familiar, seen and overlooked by everybody, is what distinguishes truly original minds. The first discoverer is ordinarily that wholly common cre
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by dill_day 18y ago
eval(compile("print 'Hello macro!'",'macro','exec'))
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by dill_day 18y ago
This reminds me of Socrates: I went to one of those reputed to be wise... and when I conversed with him... it seemed to me that this man seemed to be wise, both to many other human beings and most of all to himself, but that he was not.
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Done, and Gets Things Smart(steve-yegge.blogspot.com)
137 points by dill_day 18y ago|65 comments
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by dill_day 18y ago
I say, if you're going to read Hofstadter, read GEB! It's not really a "commitment" if you're interested in what he's talking about. The dialogs in particular are just brilliant and fun to read. Otherwise I also recommend his "Metamagical

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