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by drblast 14y ago
Seriously, MS has been going toward easy scripting for years: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_PowerShell And Powershell ISE is like bash with Intellisense. You can access .Net from Powershell and pretty much do anything you want. Yo
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by drblast 14y ago
More efficient techniques, such as? It would be interesting for me and others here to learn from what you know rather than be left with what you wrote.
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by drblast 14y ago
I wouldn't be worried about the effect on the business so much as the effect on the personal relationships. I'm sure working with friends and family is no worse for the business, and in many cases better, for the business. If your life is
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by drblast 14y ago
http://notfound.org/lkasjdlkasjdasljk
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by drblast 14y ago
Personally I've decided that life is absolutely meaningless, and I've found that to be incredibly liberating. It's helped me to not put so much pressure on myself to achieve (achieve what?) and live more in the present. It's a shame that
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by drblast 14y ago
My favorite thought experiment that I think is relevant here is to try to pick a truly random number. If you think about it, this is impossible, because the act of picking a number limits you to a finite set of numbers that you have conside
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by drblast 14y ago
Yeah, Win7 runs acceptably on my daughter's circa 2008 Asus EEE netbook with 1 Ghz proc. Don't know how much RAM it has though.
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by drblast 14y ago
Either way, it looks to me like this approach has to manipulate HTML strings to find a {{tag}} like that. Which seems like it's a lot more work than this: <div id='thingToReplaceWithData1234"></div> and then adding a child
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by drblast 14y ago
Does anyone going through all this this know how to manipulate the DOM directly? It's ridiculously simple. The whole approach strikes me as odd, unless I'm missing something.
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by drblast 14y ago
Anything have to do with binary formats and I/O would qualify. Let's say for example you're trying to load a binary file and the header format is like this: 16 bit magic number, 8 bit file size, 3 bit version, 5 bit header size Now, are you
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by drblast 14y ago
It's fascinating to watch people totally underestimate the lock Microsoft has on the corporate computing environment. This article suggests that it would be easier to break into the business/enterprise desktop than it would be to sell to c
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by drblast 14y ago
I've found that in instances where my ability is 7 and motivation is 34 but opportunity is something like, say, 23, I've had better performance than when my ability is 22 and my motivation is 12 compared with a 13 opportunity. This is to sa
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by drblast 14y ago
You're right. The dartboard experiment would be better (faster) if you had just as many dartboards as investors. Then you could compare the distribution and not just a single result.
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by drblast 14y ago
Great article about the best "hacker" movie ever made. Wish there were more like it.
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by drblast 14y ago
While you're correct, the personal jabs are unnecessary. This kind of thing cheapens the discussion here. Please take it somewhere else.
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by drblast 14y ago
This article is unintentionally an excellent argument against patent protection for Apple's products. If Apple is a company that uniquely has the talent and taste of a good chef, the patent protection is unnecessary. They will be able to c
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by drblast 14y ago
Cable channels seem to be so short-sighted here that I think they're going to be blindsided by this model. Using the TV model, the maximum amount of shows I can provide are limited by the amount of prime-time hours in a week. I think this
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by drblast 14y ago
Why would anyone care that someone else has purchased a cheap knock off of something he owned? Unless, of course, the only reason to own it is status. But I'd hesitate to equate a Samsung smart phone with a knock off Louis Vitton handbag, f
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by drblast 14y ago
I like the two axes idea, although "Rewatchability" would probably be better as "How much I liked it." There are very high quality, well made movies that I don't like, and there are some really crappy ones that I do. And that's a good dist
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by drblast 14y ago
It can be done, but it's much faster in Win8, for example. The start menu search in Win7 is noticably slower. And there are new shortcuts, like "Windows-x." It's the closest I've come in a while to feeling as productive as in my old FVWM
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by drblast 14y ago
I'd posit that threaded discussions are a problem. Particularly with the nerd community, the ability to reply and pick apart what the parent post said almost ensures that every discussion devolves into inanity. I try to make it a point, if
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by drblast 14y ago
I'm in the same boat. I really like W8, and I think it's a shame it's getting a bad rap because it's different. I'd give it a shot with an open mind for a day or two. It's fantastic on a multi-monitor setup; the start screen and full scr
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by drblast 14y ago
It's not too instructive to look back on things that occurred mostly due to happenstance and try to assign reasoning to it. And it's a bit of a stretch to associate Linux with "Worse is Better." A major reason for using Linux in the early
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What an incredible world we live in if this system is cheaper to operate than owning a guard dog.
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Wow, it's horrible. The way the logo is placed, it looks like an ad for another site. The whole page is reminiscent of the adwords aggregation sites that grab the mis-typed domains of popular sites.
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Wouldn't they have used a mechanical film camera? I don't believe that would be susceptible.
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Many companies I've dealt with seem to forget that the person they're interviewing probably isn't interviewing with just one company. The last place I worked for (government) was maddening in this respect. We'd find a great candidate and H
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by drblast 14y ago
I don't think it's as simple as all that. There are legitimate parties at either end of a stock transaction, and the HFT's are pretty much just siphoning off small amounts of the proceeds. The reason this can occur is that our government
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by drblast 14y ago
Or the "click, click" empty revolver sound on a semi-automatic pistol. This pretty much only happens if you're evil though. The slide just never seems to lock back like it should unless the hero has two guns that need to be thrown on the g
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by drblast 14y ago
This might have been true about five or ten years ago, but CNC machines have really revolutionized the cheap guitar industry. The cheapest Squire strats today are on par with what you would have paid over $600 for ten years ago. I've owned

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