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by hernan7 17y ago
For more top-10-list writing advice goodness, see also: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/feb/20/ten-rules-for-wr... And the ur-text of all writing how-to's: Lester Dent's master plot formula for pulp fiction (Dent was the author of th
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That would be a "Winchester" drive. I remember for some time, the "stack of disks" icon was used in diagram as a shorthand for "hard drive" or "permanent storage". Not sure if that's still in use. Interesting example of how technology chang
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Murdoch's online newspapers to start charging this June(edition.cnn.com)
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Not to mention the author feels the need to put down Wikipedia for some reason: "wide but shallow knowledge gained from online sources is dominant; there seems also to be little discrimination between sources that employ review and editoria
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by hernan7 17y ago
Some redditors seem to think this is a hoax: http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/bhl3d/the_new_co...
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Reminded me of that article by P.J. O'Rourke where he compared Santa Clara County (I think) to Bangladesh. Both have the same population density...
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by hernan7 17y ago
Note to bloggers: Can we stop living Steve Jobs' life vicariously?
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My son has had his DS for about 2 years now, and our investment in games is far more than what the console originally costed. So, backwards compatibility is indeed an important consideration if we were to buy a new console.
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by hernan7 17y ago
I come from a C/Unix shell/Perl background mostly (with a sprinkling of Java). The main stumbling blocks that I found were: 1) oddly-named functions -- rplaca, cadaddaddr and the like 2) weird "macho" indentation -- more so than the much-ma
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by hernan7 17y ago
Which bash do you use? I get the "batch job" message about half the times I ctrl-D a Cygwin bash.
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Or that Jazz Flute Suite record by Bolling & Rampal.
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1985 I mean, I love music (I'm an amateur guitar & sax player, even tried my hand at writing some music software) but I can't listen to an album without doing anything else. Does that make me a bad person?
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For a more recent take on the subject (including opinions of some jazz musicians), see http://forums.allaboutjazz.com/showthread.php?t=42725 Personally, I don't have the foggiest idea of how one would go about marketing jazz. I got my tas
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by hernan7 17y ago
That rant is from 2000 indeed, where you could still like Java the language. Back then (late '90s) Java the language was nothing like what we have today. If your first language was, I don't know, C or Perl, you could read some short-ish Jav
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by hernan7 17y ago
I guess eye candy sells in general: http://apcmag.com/disco_public_beta__burn_baby_burn.htm I predict the next App Store success will be a tip calculator app with wooden side panels set on fire.
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I think I'll stick to bc for the time then.
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Too Dilbertesque for my tastes, sorry.
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That goes without saying.
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There's also the possibility that aggregator sites are actually useful for some portion of the Internet users (read: the "facebook login" set) and the advertisers that cater to them. Too bad "we" have to share Google with "them".
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I don't know about "average audiences", but some music-related sites that I read now&then have quite a bit of negativity. Not to mention political discussion sites...
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by hernan7 17y ago
Doesn't the new Safari have something like that? Those big "top site" previews that appear when you start a new page. Chrome too, only they don't pre-populate the list of sites for you.
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by hernan7 17y ago
That would be, sprezzatura (to make the hard look easy). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprezzatura
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Exactly. On a modern computer, the gain from not piping cats is almost always negligible. I don't think most shell scripts today ever get to the point where you have to worry about inner loops and the such. These days, if you hit a performa
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by hernan7 17y ago
Also check "El Aleph". Any book of Borges short stories or essays is a winner, IMHO.
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I guess it depends how much of a Borges fan you are. For fans like myself, seeing "Instantes" attributed to Borges is like seeing "Twilight" attributed to Shakespeare. Actually, "Instantes" started life as a Reader's Digest (prose) article
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Yes, he just fell on his knees and started shouting "I'm not worthy! I'm not worthy!"
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I agree that Watterson is not very fan-friendly on his comments and interviews. (Not to mention his constant diatribes against his publisher.) On the other hand, the interviewer here only asks "pushy fan" questions, so it's not surprising t
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by hernan7 17y ago
Maybe he meant "fully control the portion of the supply chain that matters". Which I'm not sure is the case either...
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The extent of Steve Jobs' comeback(futureofmagazine.wordpress.com)
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Astronomy pictures of the year(blogs.discovermagazine.com)
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