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by graywh 18y ago
Cat by itself is insufficient. You'd at least need to pair it with sed or head and tail. Or maybe you enjoy retyping entire files just to correct that misspelling on line 1.
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by graywh 18y ago
And @: repeats the last Ex command. And wow, this list of commands is awful. Just use "vimtutor" instead.
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by graywh 18y ago
Real programmers stopped using the IDE in favor of a good editor.
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by graywh 18y ago
Don't be too quick to suggest dropping the double major. It's more of a "dual" major since most CS and math programs have a bit of overlap. In fact, at my university the CS major had a built-in math minor. I actually started as a math ma
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by graywh 18y ago
Agreed. Don't forget that unpaid leave is often an options.
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by graywh 18y ago
Which _is_ the newest form of hacker.
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by graywh 18y ago
I get mixed feelings from this. Some of the "laws" sound like they're trying to be funny, but others a very real.
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by graywh 18y ago
From the comments: Your book is actually copyright “37 Signals, LLC ”. Seems a bit harsh to dock people on how to type the name if you guys aren’t 100% consistent with it yourselves.
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by graywh 18y ago
I was talking about becoming a father, not finding mine. But I guess I didn't make that very clear....
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by graywh 18y ago
And a preemptive congratulations to any Hackers celebrating their first Father's Day. (This will be my second.)
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by graywh 18y ago
Don't worry, it's been suggested several times before. If someone is that "needy" for karma, let them. I prefer to earn mine the old fashioned way.
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by graywh 18y ago
"Computer scientists" is kind of awkward and would only be valid for labeling academics (aka professors). Besides, "computer science" is a terrible term. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3674140982294628000...
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by graywh 18y ago
Do you mean the Eee PC?
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by graywh 18y ago
Don't forget about all the available TLDs. Perhaps one of them can make your URL even better. Just be careful about leaving vowels out to look cool.
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by graywh 18y ago
Almost every Linux distro is free as in gratis and libre. Start with something easy to install and maintain like Ubuntu and go from there.
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by graywh 18y ago
And as N approaches infinity, the probability of winning after N tries with a p=1/N approaches 1 - 1/e. (Proof left to the reader as an exercise.)
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by graywh 18y ago
I think he's more concerned with public messaging on a website where anyone else can read it. Do you post your emails or chat logs to a blog?
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by graywh 18y ago
Not necessarily. If you get the same results every time, repeated testing provides nothing.
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by graywh 18y ago
Why is friendfeed on this list? And does anyone else consider tumblr closer to friendfeed than twitter/pownce/jaiku?
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by graywh 18y ago
People didn't worry about that (i.e. formal education systems) until only recently, but I guess what's "important" has gotten more complex and the rate of "dysfunction" has increased.
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by graywh 18y ago
That one's not the problem. Perhaps Bayes' theorem?
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by graywh 18y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayes'_theorem#Example_.232:_Dr... Basically, an extremely low rate of incidence (in Cory's example, 1 in a million) will render a "highly accurate" test meaningless.
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Cory Doctorow: Our dangerous statistical ignorance(guardian.co.uk)
65 points by graywh 18y ago|56 comments
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by graywh 18y ago
In other news, one fifth of (U.S.) Americans don't get SPAM and have empty inboxes.
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by graywh 18y ago
It's technically not "public domain", but it is open-source.
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by graywh 18y ago
Funny, my Bible doesn't have that one--just something called "Revelation".
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by graywh 18y ago
There is actually some incorrect information in there: Vim already has built in syntax highlighting for python but I have a small tweak to vim to give you notifications of small syntax errors like forgetting a colon after a f
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by graywh 18y ago
Why?
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by graywh 18y ago
How about another one that also applies to open-source software: * Corporation to blame for its problems and shortcomings.
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by graywh 18y ago
Programming and some system administration. I avoid using computers on the weekend.

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