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by fendrak 15y ago
Beautiful! A suggestion, though: Use the whitespace to the right of the status codes to display their explanations, rather than linking to a new page; it would be easier to browse this way.
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Tipsy Fruit Flies on a Mission(nytimes.com)
1 points by fendrak 15y ago|0 comments
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by fendrak 15y ago
When I read I have structured my city into smaller circular satellite cities (C1 to C6) which in turn are placed within a circle *with the airport at the center.* I found myself wondering how happy the inhabitants would be about cons
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Led by the child who simply knew(articles.boston.com)
1 points by fendrak 15y ago|0 comments
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by fendrak 15y ago
A true blackout would be hellish: I don't know that there's a day that goes by that I don't read something on Wikipedia (which is the point, of course). A simple, but effective, solution would be to simply change the site's style to draw al
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Download.com Response to Nmap Offer Bundling(download.cnet.com)
34 points by fendrak 15y ago|26 comments
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by fendrak 15y ago
The rebellious nature of Unix sharing in the early days taught an important lesson for would-be sharers today: either take pains to make sure your software can be used by anyone who wants to, or risk being shackled by lawyers and corporatio
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by fendrak 15y ago
makerbot has the distinct advantage of having open-sourced a (largely) physical product. For me at least, paying them for the bits and pieces to put their printer together would be an order of magnitude less effort than compiling and instal
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Australian Currency Geo-Tracking(moneygoround.com.au)
1 points by fendrak 15y ago|0 comments
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Guido van Rossum on the History of Python(youtube.com)
3 points by fendrak 15y ago|0 comments
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by fendrak 15y ago
Is it just me, or have all these implementations of fast Fibonacci servers missed the original intent of the 'Cancer' article? As I read it, it was more of a commentary on giving novice concurrent programmers enough rope to hang themselves
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by fendrak 15y ago
This is why probability is such a useful math: it turns our intuitive reasoning on its head and gives us solid descriptions of the processes at hand. Another great example of probability in action is the Monty Hall Problem ( http://en.wikip
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by fendrak 15y ago
Being a software developer sometimes feels like an especially thankless position -- if you're doing your job well, users never think of you.
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by fendrak 15y ago
The best way I've found to learn a language is to use it for some non-trivial project. A good place to go for varied programming challenges is http://projecteuler.net/ . The problems are generally math-related, but lend themselves nicely t
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by fendrak 15y ago
Bitcoins breach the divide between the physical and digital worlds, and it seems that when that happens the old guard throws a fit (cf. digital music/games).
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by fendrak 16y ago
In an ideal future, we'd have something like x86, but for graphics hardware. Standardizing the assembly language would go a long ways towards encouraging good compiler design and third-party libraries for rendering.
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Computer Workers exempt from Overtime Pay(dol.gov)
1 points by fendrak 16y ago|1 comments
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Terrain Generation in MineCraft, Part 1(notch.tumblr.com)
4 points by fendrak 16y ago|0 comments
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Playboy's 1976 Interview of Jimmy Carter(playboy.com)
3 points by fendrak 16y ago|0 comments
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Hotpot Marketing: Rate something, Google donates for water(studentsforcleanwater.org)
1 points by fendrak 16y ago|0 comments
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by fendrak 16y ago
"Such rapid and direct application of biomedical advances to humans is now inconceivable, not only in the US, but virtually anywhere in the world." This is true, but for one very simple reason: at the time of these inventions, there was no
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by fendrak 16y ago
Exactly, that's why UNIX is for knights! Those who use it (at least, via the terminal) eventually become knights, and it's through that process that the curve shown in the article develops.
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by fendrak 16y ago
The reason we become experts as something (interacting with a computer here) is that we spend time thinking about it. By making user interactions harder, we're actually training people to think in a way that will allow them to extrapol
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Rainbird: Realtime Analytics at Twitter(slideshare.net)
37 points by fendrak 16y ago|2 comments
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by fendrak 16y ago
This would find its best use in cell phone cameras. I don't remember the last time I took a non-blurry picture with one...
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by fendrak 16y ago
At what point will LibreOffice and OpenOffice diverge far enough for LibreOffice to stop adopting the improvements OO creates? At what point will these projects truly diverge? Until then, I see little reason to use LibreOffice instead of
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Textgrounder: A system for connecting language to space and time(code.google.com)
4 points by fendrak 16y ago|0 comments
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by fendrak 16y ago
"I don't have conclusive data on radiation but absolutely we have measured ~12 kW (at steady state) of energy produced with an input of about just 400 watts." Free energy? Something smells fishy...
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by fendrak 16y ago
Alternatively, if you know you're going to want to do this beforehand, check out the 'nohup' command. It does basically the same thing with any command it's given. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nohup
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by fendrak 16y ago
This page demonstrates a true hacker ethic: playing with interesting phenomena to find out how they work. Aren't we lucky that you don't need electronics to hack!

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