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by fendrak 16y ago
Is it just me, or would Xmarks and Delicious make a good match? Both live in the same realm, and both have large and interesting data sets. I know Xmarks has been purchased, but would a match like this make sense?
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by fendrak 16y ago
Something that's always struck me as odd is the "importance" of prime numbers. It seems so trivial that a number having only 1 and itself as common divisors would be useful or special. Nevertheless, they're important indeed. In other word
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by fendrak 16y ago
My Multiagent Systems class at UT Austin (taught by Peter Stone) discussed the Kiva system, along with many, many other topics pertaining to AI today. A couple of videos about Kiva: http://www.raffaello.name/KivaSystems.html A paper on Ki
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by fendrak 16y ago
I can vouch for Flask, at least for simple projects. It's immature, sure, but it's also pretty bare-bones (I say this as an upside), allowing you to roll-your-own just about anything. For simple stuff, it gets out of your way and lets you
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by fendrak 16y ago
Hmm, using hg for Windows last summer, it never failed to do exactly the opposite of what I described. Perhaps its just a Windows thing, or the version of Mercurial I was using.
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by fendrak 16y ago
"GUI" is never explicitly mentioned, but after re-reading, I'm still not sure he _didn't_ mean a GUI, but neither am I sure that he certainly meant the CLI. I've never had a problem with the git CLI, I actually preferred it over the hg one
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by fendrak 16y ago
Interesting fact: I was asked to program something that did just this for my interview with Yelp.
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by fendrak 16y ago
Am I the only one who thinks picking a DVCS tool based on the GUI is a bad idea? It seems to me that hg and git were designed to be used from a command line, and (for git at least) it works brilliantly. The GUI DVCS frontends try to hide
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by fendrak 16y ago
This reminds me how most people seem to see programming as some sort of black magic that only happens when the stars align just-so. If only they were aware of how different things actually are... Python solution: def under_the_limit(respon
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by fendrak 16y ago
For a little background information on DES password hashing, check out this assignment from my Computer Security class at UT Austin: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/byoung/cs361/crack-assignment... It gives a little bit of background infor
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by fendrak 16y ago
The best free issue tracker I've used is the one on Google Code. I use GitHub for hosting, but the Google Code issue tracker has plenty of options, and can fit just about any bill you want it to. It also has a built-in wiki! Since there'
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by fendrak 16y ago
Some definitions of "steal": From http://www.lectlaw.com/def2/s074.htm : "the wrongful or willful taking of money or property belonging to someone else with intent to deprive the owner of its use or benefit either temporarily or permanentl
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by fendrak 16y ago
A friend of a friend who works for the government apparently was recently doing some work on high-speed interactions between orbiting bodies. Orbiting bodies like satellites and space planes? Time will tell...
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by fendrak 16y ago
This stands as an important lesson: no matter how loudly anyone screams that the sky is falling, things rarely turn out as anyone expected. Who would have thought that iTunes would come along? Certainly not the RIAA...
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by fendrak 16y ago
"How is it that a CS major pays tens of thousands of dollars for a degree, and has little to no concept of version control, project roles, design documentation, functional specs, or a bug tracker?" Simple: this isn't what Computer Science i
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by fendrak 16y ago
Xmarks is a prime example of why it's better to be lucky than good sometimes. Had these guys bothered to ask for money before simply deciding to pull the plug, they may simply never have raised the necessary funds and gone under like a shi
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by fendrak 16y ago
You know, I'm always impressed with the clarity that the EFF posts explain their situations and how they affect them/us. If every group took such trouble to explain their cause, they'd have more supporters by the simple virtue that people
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by fendrak 16y ago
The only problem with this argument is that it's made only with regard to you, the consumer, vs. the content creator/distributor. If theft is defined only as the removal of a physical good from one individual to another without consent, th
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by fendrak 16y ago
"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin
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by fendrak 16y ago
That was indeed the point. I took the "learn what you like" route and was not rewarded for that as much as I could have been rewarded for gaming the system.
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by fendrak 16y ago
I think this is something many high school seniors realize at some point or another: had we known how easy it really was to game the system, we might have started playing the game earlier and earned more points. We aren't rewarded for inte
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by fendrak 16y ago
Once again it would seem that the love of money is the root of all evil. "Do No Evil" indeed...
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by fendrak 16y ago
My favorite reaction to bpython was showing it to somebody, watching them use it for about 30 seconds, and them watching them alias it to 'python' without even thinking :) It blows the default python interpreter environment out of the wate
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by fendrak 16y ago
From what I hear, it seems like a good introduction to the principles of programming, if nothing else. I didn't learn to program until my freshman year of college (and had no prior CS experience), but found that some similar-sounding softw
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by fendrak 16y ago
For many I think it comes down to one number: GPA. When companies screen applicants who don't meet minimum GPA requirements and most measures of performance are based solely on the grades put down on paper, there is little incentive to act
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by fendrak 16y ago
That's what prompted me to look him up. I caught parts of the interview while browsing the web, and decided that he sounded interesting enough to warrant a quick search, and this article turned out to be better than the interview (at least
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My Empire of Dirt(nymag.com)
63 points by fendrak 16y ago|39 comments
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by fendrak 16y ago
It's a shame that most of my Comp Sci peers don't seem to take much pride in actually building readable code. Building something that works is important, of course, but so is how it looks on the inside. Kind of analogous to building a hou
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by fendrak 16y ago
This is an elegant solution to a common problem I didn't even realize I had. You'd think the number of times I've cd'ed to the same directory or misspelled 'emacs' as 'enacs' or 'emac s...' would have prompted me to alias them to something
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North Korean cutting all ties with South Korea(reuters.com)
1 points by fendrak 16y ago|0 comments

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