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by dtf 15y ago
Dread indeed. Little victories every day.
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by dtf 15y ago
They get better up to the point where you have to reinstall Windows because everything's turned to sludge. Frankly I suspect the same thing's happening to my MacBook too. I can't prove it, but it sure feels slower than when I bought it. I
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by dtf 15y ago
"Symbolic links make the Unix file system non-hierarchical, resulting in multiple valid path names for a given file." http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/lexnames
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by dtf 15y ago
Very true. Both offer the user an extreme vision, far outside their normal realm of experience. Of course, reading a book on psilocybin can be rather difficult.
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by dtf 15y ago
High-quality head scans that are free for general use are not easy to come by. Lee Perry-Smith has somewhat immortalized himself by releasing his scan to the community: http://www.ir-ltd.net/royalty-free-high-quality-scan But... for anoth
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by dtf 16y ago
Being depressed is not like being unhappy, it's like being dead. It's not sadness, or fear, or grief or any other normal human emotion. Grief and sadness are mental manifestations, and they have character and facets which may be approached
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by dtf 16y ago
Here's the original BBC Newsnight report: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPAX32lgkrw
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by dtf 16y ago
You seem to be saying that if we got rid of all the blacks and muslims we'd have far less crime. Did I misread you?
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by dtf 16y ago
Maybe the reason the Nesquik box is bright yellow and has a colourful cartoon character on it is that kids in the supermarket who might not be able to read or differentiate Arial from Helvetica can still recognise, point to and blackmail th
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by dtf 16y ago
Apple's too cool to donate. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/09/technology/09charity.html
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by dtf 16y ago
For some reason, half way through this great story I suddenly found myself contrasting it with that less great story that did the rounds last July 4: the Sun-Times' Terry Savage's "There is no free lemonade" (original article expired probab
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by dtf 16y ago
There's a great story in Cialdini's "Influence: Science & Practice" about window stickers and lawn signs that explains this common tactic. Website buttons are the thin end of the wedge.
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by dtf 16y ago
You don't want to piss off the State Department. They can make things very difficult you in the future. At least, I suspect this might be the strategic thinking of PayPal, Amazon, EveryDNS, MasterCard, Visa, most national media organization
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by dtf 16y ago
OVH, one of WikiLeaks' French hosting providers, just had to deal with a similar "request" from the French government. Their response was, "it's not up to politicians or OVH to decide the site's closure". http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/20
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by dtf 16y ago
"You've played right into my hands, Lieberman. Mwahahahaha... " .. ok he didn't quite say that. But Assange did just claim in a Guardian Q&A that choosing Amazon was a deliberate ploy to test/highlight the deficits in US commitment to f
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by dtf 16y ago
a) to whip up public outrage about the leak by declaring it an attack on US interests, US security and and endangering of the lives of US military and diplomatic personnel. b) be seen by the public to be doing something about a), in an effo
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by dtf 16y ago
And to think I wrote this less than 14 hours ago, trying to sound all ominous and dramatic: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1957467 :-)
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by dtf 16y ago
But how long will it be until some savvy internet user successfully riles people up against an innocent competitor or a personal enemy? Remember John Engle vs Stockart? http://blog.iso50.com/5778/save-jon-engle/
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by dtf 16y ago
Not just for inspiration, but for implementation too! Self's non-intuitive map optimisation has found its way into V8 and the latest PyPy: http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2010/11/efficiently-implementin...
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by dtf 16y ago
"Amazon and WikiLeaks did not return requests for comment."
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by dtf 16y ago
Unfortunately, once the big guns of the media and those opportunists in government find out, Amazon will be forced to make a statement one way or another. Do they support this kind of thing or not? I can even imagine calls for a boycott fro
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by dtf 16y ago
I've been using premake4 (after trying SCons and waf). But to be honest, I'm never happy. Here I really love the simplicity of just including a single file. I'll definitely give lazymake a whirl next time I make a small project.
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by dtf 16y ago
The crux of DTSTTCPW is defining the problem. It's difficult to work in the abstract if you don't have a very strong sense of what your goals are. You can see in the development of pipes that they had McIlroy's "Summary - what's most import
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by dtf 16y ago
Whatever you feel about Assange as a personality, it's pretty clear that this is the way things will be from now on - even if Wikileaks were somehow to be taken out of the picture. And it's much to our benefit, I think. The old school has f
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by dtf 16y ago
Room 101 therapy?
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by dtf 16y ago
I have to say I'm a huge fan of these "X in 100 lines of C++" adventures. They're a great starting point for people like me wanting to learn about a subject in a programmatic way. This global illumination ray-tracer was posted a while back:
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by dtf 16y ago
http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/ecw40/wikileaks_cu...
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by dtf 16y ago
They got passed classified information and they took it. When you take something that doesn't belong to you in that way, it makes you a thief. US officials stole classified information from the UN. Chinese officials stole classified infor
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by dtf 16y ago
To remove lens distortion? The Kinect has a fairly wide field of view.
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by dtf 16y ago
Larry seems to be channelling the ghost of Lee Van Cleef.

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