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by icky 19y ago
I'd imagine the second half would play just like Galaga. :P
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by icky 19y ago
> You could probably write a program to do it for you. But only Lisp would get it right...
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by icky 19y ago
Seconded DevHouse. Really, even if there were no other reason to be in SV, DevHouse would still beckon...
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by icky 19y ago
> The most important thing for your wrists is to keep the bones in your palm relatively straight with respect to your forearm. If you bend your wrists up, bad things can happen. Indeed: if you have to reach up to type, you are destroyi
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by icky 19y ago
Do it the Web 2.0 way! ;-) pwgen -A0 6
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by icky 19y ago
Computer-Aided Stalking :-/
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by icky 19y ago
I have the Firefox keyword 'w' set to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=%s So it really is at my fingertips :)
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by icky 19y ago
It's brilliant! Squeeze recurring revenues right out of people's egos! :D
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by icky 19y ago
A positive one, I hope! ;)
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by icky 19y ago
The moon eclipses the sun, but it's still a lot smaller... :)
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by icky 19y ago
I'm curious about how it handles air-flow/cooling.
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by icky 19y ago
Ah, that's more like it. :-)
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by icky 19y ago
> Some smart people started the meme that ideas are less important than execution. Ideas are less important than execution, but a head start is a big advantage in execution (and adoption). I like to give away ideas that I'd like to se
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by icky 19y ago
Possible privacy hole: What's to prevent someone from acquiring a sample of someone else's DNA and sending it off for you to test?
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by icky 19y ago
The number of the anti-Beast?
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by icky 19y ago
> IMO, hand coding a known algorithm in a generic fashion using Java does not involve meaningful thought. Nope. But doing it in assembly might... :)
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by icky 19y ago
Try learning and using regular Python (CPython) first. Unless for some reason your job requires the use of lots of Java libraries (in your own start up, that should NOT be the case ;-), I don't see any reason to favor jython over CPython..
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by icky 19y ago
> Do you have a reference? Sure: tautological by my definition of "really interesting" ;-)
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by icky 19y ago
Not only that, but they had to speak Latin!
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by icky 19y ago
Why jython specifically? Regular Python (CPython) is probably better for most uses.
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by icky 19y ago
> I guess it's like being a pirate. Being a pirate is an end unto itself!
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by icky 19y ago
> I have a lot of respect for women who like the idea of building novel applications but don't want to get their hands dirty with the programming/computer science involved. It seems to me that you were making an assumption that didn't f
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by icky 19y ago
Bubble Bert: http://img444.imageshack.us/my.php?image=berterniedj2.jpg
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by icky 19y ago
If you had USB GPS receiver, you could have stamped each frame with lat/long, and later overlaid a map with a path that showed your progress onto the video...
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by icky 19y ago
> The use of sophisticated libraries is progress. Just as the use of sophisticated calculators is progress, but totally inappropriate for a class in basic arithmetic. > Now we can think at a higher level, allowing us to quickly pro
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by icky 19y ago
No. The "older engineer" mentioned in the article is really old. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_core_memory (Search the article text for the first occurrence of "stack".) See also: http://www.pa.msu.edu/~laurens/cdc_memory/
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by icky 19y ago
Parse error.
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by icky 19y ago
Are trust ratings just raw sums, or can they be based on how much people you trust have rated someone? For instance, I don't care about how many sockpuppet accounts have endorsed someone, I only care about how they're rated by people I kn
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by icky 19y ago
He can't scale because he doesn't grok state: a direct consequence of his not understanding functional programming.
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by icky 19y ago
If you can keep your job and hack on the weekends, you can seed-fund your own damn self. Less worry about money will also allow you to work on what you enjoy, without the constant spectre of "How am I going to monetize this?"

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