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by ics 12y ago
Years ago I thought DragThing ( http://www.dragthing.com/ ) was the coolest thing around. I went around making all sorts of clicky things to litter my desktop with. It's apparently still developed though I don't thi
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by ics 12y ago
Homebrew does both as well for popular packages; 'bottles' are binary packages, with the option (--build-from-source) to build it yourself.
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For anyone who isn't aware, NYTimes has a steeply discounted subscription rate for college students that can be tremendously helpful for light research (it gives access to their full online archives): http://www.nytimes.com&
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Keep the lights on in our 52 floor, RPBW/FXFOWLE-designed, midtown Manhattan skyscraper. I'm pretty sure those people who want to give more are probably happier to get their name on the wall in the downstairs lobby rather than p
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by ics 12y ago
I still use Mac OS 9 off and on again, simply because it's the latest OS that runs a program originally written for System 6 (I think, but it was before I was born so I'm not sure). In the early 2000s there were plenty of people d
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by ics 12y ago
I've never heard of a company paying an employee's wife directly (except after a death), but it is common for married salarymen in Japan to turn over their finances to their spouse. In return they are given kozukai or "pock
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Were evaluations mandatory? Did they have any required length? I've done plenty of evaluations in the past which only asked for written responses but was generally disappointed to hear from classmates that they either scribbled gibberi
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The machine and example configurations: http://www.instron.us/wa/acc_catalog/prod_list.aspx?cid=833&... http://www.instron.us/wa/applications/test_types/flexure/con... ---
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by ics 12y ago
The Programming Languages course on Coursera ( https://www.coursera.org/course/proglang ) spends about a third of the course on SML before moving on to Racket and Ruby. It might be of interest to others who want a somewh
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Give it time and Amazon might start offering electronic locks to landlords free of charge so that they can do just that.
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Looks to me like the repl will display images but you can't just embed an image in the source code as in DrRacket. Any ideas?
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I see no mention of it in the readme, but one of the things I missed while learning Racket was the ability to use images and media the way that you can in DrRacket. It's a silly feature if you are actually experienced with either tool,
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by ics 12y ago
For those of you keeping score: - Yes, Rails 3 was released four years ago - Yes, the current stable version is Rails 4.1, which left us two major versions behind We had work to do in order to live in the
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Trimble acquires Gehry Technologies(trimble.com)
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At the very least, it's a challenge to all the habitual readers on HN.
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http://feeds.99percentinvisible.org/99percentinvisible
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A Short Introduction to the Art of Programming by Edsger W. Dijkstra [pdf](cs.utexas.edu)
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> [...] because the moment you sign up for things, you will almost certainly be entered in a database somewhere, [...] Oh, you've lost the game long before that. Grandma's email chain? Welcome to the database as soon as anyone
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> it doesn't say whether they considered giving Dr. Khan the drug secretly Sounds like an easy way to worsen the worst-case scenario by quite a bit.
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Yet he's no manufacturing guru... "[...] graduated with a triple major in economics, international relations and political science." Aside from helping start the DHS, wiki says he's chief strategist for... Morgan Gold, a
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http://store.y-3.com/us/y3store/cardigan_cod39402247tg.html Same price, now that it's "50% off".
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I did not vote for your comment either way because of the limited information. Bragging or not I wanted to know what you were bragging about, so thanks for the extra info.
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Everyone reading this thread would probably appreciate it if you provided more information. Your brevity almost sounds like gloating as it says nothing in regards to the well-being of your employees except that the money that you managed to
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_by_Google
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I have sympathy for left-turners in particularly busy intersections where there is no turn light. Driving in NYC, you pretty much have to nudge as close to the opposing lane as you can until the light turns yellow/red and you can scoot
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> [...] inconveniencing everyone behind them for the self satisfaction of having helped the one person they can see. Or because you know that otherwise they'll be at that crossing for the next hour if nobody's willing to let th
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Just in the last few days I started reading through this: http://learn.shayhowe.com/advanced-html-css/ Edit: Keep in mind that the features discussed in the parent link are not usable today beyond Opera (of which the a
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Searched 'clojure om' and came up with this: https://github.com/swannodette/om/wiki
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There are times when having an English word for "no, well– yes, but I don't know why you'd want to" would be very useful. It'd have to be pretty short to save breath every time a computer scientist must answer the q
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by ics 12y ago
Especially helpful in emacs with projectile (which has a function projectile-ag). Create a quick binding to locate all the FIXMES and feel free to experiment. Maybe it should also open file and mark the lines in a new frame for ultimate bug

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