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by elblanco 16y ago
I've seen plenty Europlugs that close up without a plug in them. It can be a PIA when they fail to reopen without a lot of force!
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by elblanco 16y ago
I wish the physics model worked more like cyclomaniacs.
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by elblanco 16y ago
Lean back in your chair.
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by elblanco 16y ago
Right, and now they have millions of Android devices out in the wild with voice input collecting for them.
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by elblanco 16y ago
"I suppose we could debate this all day." In other words, the concept of minimalism is multi-faceted, complex, full of myriad options, and above all...not a minimal concept.
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by elblanco 16y ago
I'm not sure if your post was meant to be humorous or unintended irony.
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by elblanco 16y ago
Also called the "5 Ps", Prior Preparation Prevents Poor Performance.
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by elblanco 16y ago
I say this not as a kid who was bullied, but who had many friends who were bullied. And being a guy, this really applies to guys, girl bullying is a different dynamic. The best way to overcome a childhood bully is to get in an old fashioned
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by elblanco 16y ago
I just fire up a game while doing that.
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by elblanco 16y ago
Maybe the real answer is an entirely new label, having to start from zero (sign on new artists, establish new distribution channels, etc.), but with a corporate philosophy diametrically opposite the existing market and simply subvert the wh
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by elblanco 16y ago
It reminds me that it's an echo of the old cyber-punk concept of corporate countries. In Snow Crash, "Mr. Lee's Greater Hong Kong" and "Narcolumbia" represents franchised corporate/country soil entities one can slip into and out of as neede
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by elblanco 16y ago
I agree with this. Every so often a little humor slips through the HN downvote filter and it usually fits your supplied parameters. I'd also add (4) not ironic or sarcastic (5) not absurd. Crafting a joke that fits all that is probably wort
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by elblanco 16y ago
I wish comments on HN were sentiment scored for "humor" so I could go back and search for humor-as-comments (or at least attempts) as example. Almost nothing gets downvoted on HN faster than an attempt at humor. There are exceptions, but th
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by elblanco 16y ago
It comes down to culture. HN for example, generally frowns upon humor unless it really is providing some kind of insight into the discussion -- I've called this place the least funny site on the Web and I still mean it.
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by elblanco 16y ago
I think I'll start paying my employees with "relevance checks" instead of real money...if they argue with me I'll just tell them "forget money! just be more relevant!"
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by elblanco 16y ago
The entire backend of www.thinkgeek.com is written in Perl and that's a relatively high volume, big e-commerce site.
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by elblanco 16y ago
I'm sure a lot of it has to do with their enterprise customers. I'm sure 90% of them have never even heard of QNX let alone decided on some arbitrary policy they can begin to prepare to have meetings where they pretend to decide what kind
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by elblanco 16y ago
Wow finally! I've been trying to bang around using http://www.translation-guide.com/free_online_translators.php... but really run into problems at times with it. It's not too often one needs to translate Latin in general, but when you do.
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by elblanco 16y ago
1. I've just run into a couple of cases on certain types of public wi-fi network where having a public IP on my phone would have been very useful in just the last couple of days.
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by elblanco 16y ago
mmm....I find it hard to read as body text...the words all seem to run together.
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by elblanco 16y ago
First I generate a linearly interpolated 3d perlin noise offset along the y axis What an interesting application of perlin noise. Anybody aware of any other similar applications?
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by elblanco 16y ago
I remember when the Hesco barriers started showing up in Iraq. They quickly replaced lots of the concrete pouring in many area for explosives barriers. Amazing things. Plus, their booth at various tradeshows is basically an open free bar wi
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by elblanco 16y ago
Reminds me a lot of http://thedailykimchi.blogspot.com/2006/08/yongsan-electroni...
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by elblanco 16y ago
I don't know about Akihabara personally, but other markets in Asia (and elsewhere) allow you to haggle a bit. One easy tactic, "well the stall over around the corner said they'd sell this for $20, I'll buy it from you if you can go to $19")
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by elblanco 16y ago
I wasn't aware that people go to one school for their engineering classes, then haul ass across the country to a liberal arts college for their history electives. That notion seems absurd. :) If you want to major in History (and enjoy the
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by elblanco 16y ago
Who the heck in their right mind spends $100k (on average) on an undergraduate degree?! My local state university offers a decent education for <$40k. If you knock out the first 2 years at a local community college (because as an engine
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by elblanco 16y ago
Sounds more like burn-out at this point. Try a related, but different job if you can get it. I moved from straight up developer to a technology analyst to sales to product management (with some minor development) roles and this kind of move
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by elblanco 16y ago
Nearly forgot this similar effort: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/rex/
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by elblanco 16y ago
"Higher Order Perl" has a chapter on building one in Perl. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higher-Order_Perl I believe the full text is available.
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by elblanco 16y ago
Oh god, I've been wanting something like this for ages. I've always dreamed of a regex driven list generator, but where I can supply constraints on repetition operators (*->{0,2}, +->{1,3}) to limit the scope, but then get a compreh

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