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by etal 17y ago
A press release from a typical company will throw as much glitter on their own brand name as possible, and usually butcher the surrounding language a bit too: "the new FRISBEE [TM] brand Flying Disk..." If a writer takes this literally, a c
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by etal 17y ago
"Killer app" usually means the app that motivates you to switch platforms. For PS3 or Xbox 360, it's the game that made you want to buy the console. For Windows in the '90s, you needed MS Office to get your work done, so you bought a PC.
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by etal 17y ago
They lived and hunted in dark forests, so black would have been good camouflage. Cold doesn't have anything to do with it as long as the creature can get enough vitamin D through its diet.
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by etal 17y ago
It's common in C where functions return an error code instead of a value that you would use again. Then the conditional just checks that you're OK to go ahead, and you don't need to declare another variable to store the error code. (If a la
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by etal 17y ago
If you code in a style that uses data literals (lists/arrays and dictionaries/hash tables) to represent how an important part of the code is going to work -- e.g. a table that maps letters or keywords to argument lists used in some correspo
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by etal 17y ago
Try this: http://www.bmj.com/collections/statsbk/index.dtl The examples you gave make me think you've done some applied things with those specific techniques, but haven't covered the theory and related areas in depth. That's fine; the Squ
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by etal 17y ago
San Diego's downtown airport is comically tiny, so this has been an issue for awhile. The ideas proposed, in order, were: 1. Convert the Marine base at Miramar into an airport -- nixed by the wealthy residents of nearby La Jolla 2. Partner
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by etal 17y ago
From the description, it seems like this project has the same goals as Gnome's new language, Vala: http://live.gnome.org/Vala Given the syntax choices, the main advantage I see in Zimbu is that creating a new language is more fun than por
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by etal 17y ago
Regarding (1): Pull out the card and look at it. It says "driver license".
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by etal 17y ago
I've had better results with a siesta schedule -- 6 hours asleep at night, half-hour nap during the day, awake for both night life and morning obligations and nobody thinks you're crazy (as they would with the Everyman schedule). The Wikipe
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by etal 17y ago
As a historical note -- git and hg didn't become popular and trivial to use until the past couple of years. When YouTube was written, free DVCSes were tricky to use, documentation was shakier and the best alternative, SVN, is a pain to set
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by etal 17y ago
A gem: The better part of learning is making mistakes, and most grading penalizes mistakes. This is true; it makes students unadventurous. Fortunately, most science PhD programs already work nearly the way he's proposing: - Students are a
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The nomadic programmer(yosefk.com)
14 points by etal 17y ago|1 comments
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by etal 17y ago
Developers! Developers! Developers! Even at the peak of Windows' dominance, Microsoft never forgot that applications were the reason everyone bought a Windows PC instead of a Mac (or 'nix on the server side). No matter how great OS X is, th
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by etal 17y ago
It would be less if an issue if the iPhone weren't so popular and AT&T weren't involved. But the iPhone takes a nearly dominant share of the smart-phone market right now, and AT&T has even been convicted as a monopolist in the past.
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by etal 17y ago
Or, start with the various leaders who discovered that anti-intellectualism is a great defense against criticism of bad ideas that they want to do anyway. This tactic isn't new -- remember Adlai Stevenson? Notice that the issues where publi
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by etal 17y ago
If the front end and back end can be separated cleanly, then a company could put their proprietary compiler back end behind the GCC front end without violating the GPL. Stallman has always worried about things like this; his objections to v
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by etal 17y ago
It's not so bad as long as you don't push any untested changes. If I do something freaky with the index, I usually stash the leftovers and test the last commit. Like this: git add -i git commit git stash ./some_tests # ...shoot,
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by etal 17y ago
Try duplicating something you liked about the place you just visited. I cook, and I had plenty of new ideas to try out after visiting Barcelona, for example. Sharing a session of chips, olives and beer before dinner was also nice. The routi
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by etal 17y ago
Thanks, I knew the law but hadn't seen the original article. It's eerie how broadly it applies -- as another example, my degree program has 5 tracks. One of the tracks is an utterly essential topic, really the core of the discipline, and th
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PowerPoint Does Rocket Science--and Better Techniques for Technical Reports(edwardtufte.com)
9 points by etal 17y ago|2 comments
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by etal 17y ago
Does it matter? Either rsync.net is clean, or it's not. Once surveillance begins it could continue indefinitely, and once law enforcement decides rsync.net is a threat it's likely that they'll become a regular target. After that point, if y
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by etal 17y ago
The official guideline ( http://python.org/download/ ) is fine: Note that both Python 2.6 and 3.1 are considered stable production releases, but if you don't know which version to use, start with Python 2.6 since more existing third party
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by etal 17y ago
One of the top researchers on the topic of self-esteem being snake oil, along with Roy Baumeister, is Jean Twenge. She has a couple books: Generation Me [1] and The Narcissism Epidemic [2]. The online presence for both is strong: [1] h
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by etal 17y ago
"Follow the money" is Deep Throat's famous line in All the President's Men : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074119/quotes Great article, by the way.
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by etal 17y ago
The design of OLPC's XO laptop might have been the root cause. That had Sugar, a custom icon-based desktop environment. Asus is a hardware company; it made sense to take whatever software design choices were made by the OLPC team as a good
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Spintronic - The New Electronic?(cordis.europa.eu)
1 points by etal 17y ago|0 comments
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by etal 17y ago
It's interesting that CPython has picked up Jython/Java conventions for what's "right" over time. That list is from the Python 2.0 era (pre-2002), and most of the items that say CPython should be fixed have been fixed since then -- even d
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Experts Say Chinese Filter Would Make PCs Vulnerable(nytimes.com)
1 points by etal 17y ago|0 comments
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by etal 17y ago
You might also want to take advantage of: from foo import bar, baz, quux if you aren't already.

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