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by fish2000 15y ago
Blech. The reason I was enjoying Quora was its lack of explicit gameified geegaws -- versus StackOverflow (and to a lesser extent the whole StackExchange federation). SO has become less and less useful, if you've got a novel and/or slightly
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by fish2000 15y ago
One of the best things in this article is how the kid, in the quote wherein he describes his 11-year old experience, spells the prefix "pseudo" as "sudo" -- that one little blip of an error totally reinforces the autodidact angle of the pie
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Best of craigslist: you stole my freakin' cameras(craigslist.org)
1 points by fish2000 15y ago|0 comments
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Django-delegate: chain Django ORM queries queries with no runtime dispatch costs(github.com)
1 points by fish2000 15y ago|0 comments
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by fish2000 16y ago
What's nice about this is that the color palette he creates in the course of doing this looks as though it'd work well for a syntax-highlighting theme.
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by fish2000 16y ago
+1 innumerate
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by fish2000 16y ago
Relatedly: what is with MSDN bloggers always referring to themselves as 'junkies'? A "script junkie" probably won't steal their mother's VCR and pawn it so they can get more scripts to stick in their arm. It's kind of a bizarre convention.
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by fish2000 16y ago
A novel answer to that question could be the basis for a startup, in an of its own right, I should think!
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by fish2000 16y ago
My friend Christian wrote this library -- I would recommend that you take a look at the "halfviz" demo to get a sense of its upper bounds: http://arborjs.org/halfviz/#/date-with-destiny Christian's site, with some of his other work, is at
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Arbor.js - HTML5 graph visualization library(arborjs.org)
193 points by fish2000 16y ago|37 comments
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by fish2000 16y ago
The article says that one of the potential military applications would be the ability to disarm or redirect a weapon as it reenters the atmosphere -- Having taken the same topical look at the article that you have, I am not sure why you thi
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by fish2000 16y ago
SQL gives some people the howling fantods. I think a large part of the programming-nerd population looks at it and sees it as a kludgy chimera like JCL, or an inscrutably unfunny INTERCAL variant. Maybe they've been forced to use a shitty O
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by fish2000 16y ago
This is sometimes true. I think that Parallel is more interesting as an instant server-farm for "taco bell programmers" -- q.v. http://teddziuba.com/2010/10/taco-bell-programming.html and http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1818816 for
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by fish2000 16y ago
Ah, the grass is always greener. The adobe tools mentioned are excellent for what they do, but they are never without interface quirks that can range from mildly irritating to bizarre -- I have consistently found the Edit Styles box in InDe
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Delayed Choice Quantum Eraser(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by fish2000 16y ago|0 comments
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by fish2000 16y ago
I love me a good arithmetic/algebra review -- but in the end, I am not qualified to rub elbows with the geniuses of Mensa, as I lack the essential requisite domain-specific kitten/mitten training. References aside, I certifiably lack enough
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by fish2000 16y ago
it's especially calming if you haven't lived near any of them.
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Bedbug history map/timeline for NYC(samizdat.cc)
4 points by fish2000 16y ago|2 comments