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18y ago
swiftweasel + firebug
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if u buy that 10% improvement by 10x effort and mapping the 10000 hours: 10000 -> 99.9% 1000 -> 99% 100 -> 90% 100 hrs is about 13 weeks (a quarter) of 3 uni 1hr credits + 1.5hr practice = 13 * 3 * (1 + 1.5) if u take deliberate
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I use vnc firefox on my dev box safari on my living room mac mini G4 (vnc from dev box) IE? i call my friend to test or just go to internet cafe iirc vnc server can take external ip ... so presummably you can connect to vnc server half glob
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18y ago
people who criticize wikipedia are insecure
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i'm unfamiliar with social security what happens if a person can live to 200 yo? Will USA, starting from retirement age, pay till s/he dies? what if the person only lives to retirement+1 age? can descendant carry over the benefits? ot it ju
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how much does it cost digg in bandwith dollar?
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this reminds me of a professor in probability who didn't have formal education iirc, he was a 'magician' with cards or something ... who plays a lot with probability he impressed a prof from ivy league uni, then got into grad school without
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18y ago
how about zune?
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even 37s products embrace free/no-money strategy to some extent she can charge $ because the products have business use next, the challenge for 37s is to make a pay-for-use 'wasting-time' sites ... with NO free trial impossible?
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18y ago
$ echo " this is a text it will be appended to file 'note' don't forget double '>' otherwise you override " >> note
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18y ago
ZERO resumes never win me any job offers, neither does schooling; however, past projects and works do on topic, my 5? years old lost resume was 1 page long
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"I can’t stand having 60% of the work day tied up with: copy-and-paste chunk of code, then tweak for new field names, then make sure to update the correct database fields, add validation, ad nauseum." no wonder with that approach (copy past
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when i took math courses, we used maple, and R (for statistics) engineering courses i took focused on matlab, and C (for embedded microcontrollers) I never use java as 'domain-specific-language' for those projects. The intro to CS was java;
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i looked up a sample code for single file upload, tweaking it to handle corner cases; however, there's a cgi library for that shrug ... better, simpler but as a bonus, i now know http request better :D ... extending the cgi library, for e
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i remember my graduate level class on simulation (engineering course, not math/cs) we had first assignment on generating 10000 random numbers a guy fired up excel, generated rand in one cell, dragged to the bottom 10000, and gasp printed
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18y ago
when there's crisis, some people can use it for manipulation For example: Yesterday, NCC bank got acquired stock-for-stock 0.0392 ratio (2.23 / 56.89) by PNC bank. NCC did not get TARP money. PNC got money from treasury in return for prefe
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I don't use emacs simply because it's GNU/FSF; tried it but prefer vim so much because vi follows unix philosophy I can't stand GNU unnecessary complexity, reflected in very long 17997 bytes GPL license (the COPYING file) I do use GPL softw
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Thomas A Edison lacking talents to get into a grade school has physical limitation (deaf) but invented? phonograph? i would even say as far that limitations (talent, physical, money etc) are necessary to make it big
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18y ago
on another news, the more espresso machines a country has, the bigger its startup problems
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In Linux/BSD/Unix, it depends more on the window manager (dwm/wmii/ion3/ratpoison/etc nullify the need of 2nd monitor) I guess the 2 monitor programmers are windows guys (nothing wrong with that) ... and then they migrate to osx/linux, brin
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the list mostly consists of 'spend/buy this and that (mac, 2nd monitor, aeron, espresso machine, etc) to save more money further' those seem to be in direct opposition to the epitome of startup: steve wozniak "All the best things that I did
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python + matplotlib + [numArray]
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with nuclear, you still have a centralized source ... resulting loss in cables and converters with solar, it's decentralized ... loss should be minimal ... maybe no need for AC converters ... can u directly use DC ?
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should i include a 17997 bytes COPYING file as comment in my js ... and call it GNU/Javascript?
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i keep natural 'no-tech' aquarium as a hobby after reading 'ecology of planted aquarium by Diana Walstad', i basically say bye bye to weekly water change, lighting, aerator, pump, fertilizers and other fancy stuffs now i only have soil (any
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Lighttpd 1.4.20 is out
(lighttpd.net)
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with all these positive and negative thinkings ... will they converge to ZERO thinking?
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i wanted to play with microcontroller for drip irrigation, pumps, solar powered etc Simpler, natural solution exists for plant+fert+pesticide: wet field: a combo of rice+azolla+sheep+duck+fish dry field: a combo of rice+white clover Similar
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well, here resto and kfc seem to emphasize that they cook chicken at 350 deg C (or some high number like that), ensuring 'avian flu free' i don't have direct experience with avian flu (I was in Taiwan during SARS, wearing masks, but didn't
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I don't mind about off-topic posts since what i'm looking for mostly is short, witty / insightful comments for example, pg may not comment on obviously "hacker" stuff like php thread, but he might on 'non-hacker' posts like healthy food, st
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