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by fendrak 13y ago
You probably want to check out: https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki Specifically: https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki/blob/master/lib/how-to...
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Engineering a Better Artificial Heart(cnn.com)
1 points by fendrak 13y ago|0 comments
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by fendrak 13y ago
Under the hood, what's being generated is still a regex though. How can you be sure ANY code is correct, aside from testing it?
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by fendrak 13y ago
Am I the only person who thinks that things like this are totally unnecessary? Is learning/reading regular expressions really that difficult for most people? Here's the subset of regular expressions that has gotten me through near
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by fendrak 13y ago
Food items are often dealt with in dozens - eggs and doughnuts, for example. Presumably, most people will end up dealing in dozens of eggs at some point.
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by fendrak 13y ago
This is a perfect example of selling something for what it's worth, rather than for what it costs to build.
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Tube Physics and Tree Size(futurity.org)
2 points by fendrak 14y ago|0 comments
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by fendrak 14y ago
I select text compulsively while reading. I just double-click whatever paragraph I'm on to make it stand out from the rest of the text, and then just kind of keep clicking. Why? I have no idea, really. Just an odd habit!
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US Election Facebook Chatter Visualization by Demographic(cnn.com)
1 points by fendrak 14y ago|0 comments
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What a Very Old Menu Tells Us About the Price of Steak(npr.org)
2 points by fendrak 14y ago|1 comments
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The Expurgation of Maniac Mansion(crockford.com)
1 points by fendrak 14y ago|0 comments
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by fendrak 14y ago
Infochimps hosts lots of free data sets: http://www.infochimps.com/search?view=list&price_categor...
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by fendrak 14y ago
This strikes me as a good mix of Balsalmiq (www.balsalmiq.com) and Photoshop. One of my pet peeves is getting mockups from designers that clearly fail to take the actual abilities of browsers into account. Hopefully, this can change that, w
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How a shrimp could transform body armor materials(phys.org)
1 points by fendrak 14y ago|0 comments
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by fendrak 14y ago
Here's the accompanying Netflix blog post: http://blog.netflix.com/2012/06/announcing-netflix-open-conn...
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Netflix begins the deployment of their own content delivery network(zdnet.com)
76 points by fendrak 14y ago|43 comments
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by fendrak 14y ago
One suggestion: make the input box have a type of 'password'. I was only a bit put-off by seeing my plaintext password staring me in the face!
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Scrypt: A new key derivation function (2009)(tarsnap.com)
1 points by fendrak 14y ago|0 comments
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After 50 years, fire still burns underneath Pa. town(usatoday.com)
1 points by fendrak 14y ago|0 comments
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Why I'm thrilled Mark Zuckerberg is annoying the bankers(news.cnet.com)
5 points by fendrak 14y ago|0 comments
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by fendrak 14y ago
This appears to me to be an implementation of a gap buffer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gap_buffer I actually just implemented one in Python on top of the array module, planning to use it in a text editor: https://github.com/jasontbrads
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Richard Garriott: Behind-the-scenes on game development(youtube.com)
2 points by fendrak 14y ago|0 comments
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Street Mathematics(maa.org)
9 points by fendrak 14y ago|1 comments
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by fendrak 14y ago
This is all well and good, but it doesn't appear to add support for the one thing I've often wanted in Python: proper closure support for functions within functions.
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SQL Injection Pocket Reference(docs.google.com)
1 points by fendrak 14y ago|0 comments
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Slumber: Consume REST APIs in your sleep(slumber.in)
1 points by fendrak 14y ago|0 comments
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by fendrak 15y ago
Most people can't fathom what would lead a person to do this -- those people pick new surroundings, and don't see a reason modify their existing ones to suit their needs. This is what sets engineers apart.
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The Righteous Mind(nytimes.com)
10 points by fendrak 15y ago|0 comments
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by fendrak 15y ago
I don't think it's as bad. I use a Pro at work, and have used friends' Airs at times. Since the Air is much thinner, I don't recall the hard edge being a problem. As always, best to just walk into a store and try it out!
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by fendrak 15y ago
Right, but he's saying that if Earth's own signals fail to propagate even outside our solar system, alien signals will have to be exponentially more powerful than ours to even stand a chance of being received. The distance from Earth to Sat

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