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by jarin 15y ago
This reminds me of a short story I read when I was a kid, where a guy discovered a shape with zero sides. I think at the end he made his boss disappear by folding him into the shape.
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by jarin 15y ago
I know a decent number of people I would want to be my first hire, and I think they might be interested. The biggest mental hurdle for me is "How can I ensure that I can pay them every month?"
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by jarin 15y ago
I don't think there's anything wrong with being a little socially considerate. Only a Sith thinks in absolutes.
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by jarin 15y ago
I can't wait until advertisers and SuperPACs get a hold of this.
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by jarin 15y ago
I'm still going to pay the 5 bucks, because far be it from me to take advantage of an honest comedian's technological incompetence.
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by jarin 15y ago
Update 2: http://sdwiki.org :D
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by jarin 15y ago
Update: http://sd.localwiki.org
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by jarin 15y ago
Here's something I noticed: If I spend all day browsing around the web unproductively, I don't feel motivated at all. If I say "You know what, I'm not getting anything done. I'm going to play video games for a few hours.", I feel energized
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by jarin 15y ago
I think maybe changing it to "install" might be good, because it does take someone with basic sysadmin skills to set up anyway. I'd also consider putting the "find a community" stuff at the top too, since that's probably the first thing you
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by jarin 15y ago
Pretty cool, I'm setting up a VPS to test this out for a possible San Diego wiki. Definitely would need some help with administration and populating it with content though, if anyone's interested. Edit: Temporary home here - http://173.255
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by jarin 15y ago
Hoo boy, that could be dangerous if there's something physically wrong with the plane (a non-functional aileron or stabilator, for example).
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by jarin 15y ago
"And for nearly two decades, automatic landing systems have been able to drop and stop a jet on the fog-shrouded deck of an aircraft carrier that's barely twice as wide and three times as long as the jet's wingspan—and the ship is moving. M
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by jarin 15y ago
Hmm, worked fine for me in Chrome.
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by jarin 15y ago
Alan Kay: "I asked Ivan Sutherland, 'How can you possibly have done the first interactive graphics program, the first non-procedural programming language, and the first object-oriented software system in one year?' He said, 'Well, I didn't
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Sketchpad: The first object-oriented software system (1963)(youtube.com)
2 points by jarin 15y ago|2 comments
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by jarin 15y ago
Well I mean, how would you define intelligent life that does not possess metacognition at a minimum?
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by jarin 15y ago
Both Venus and Mars have good odds of having had liquid water oceans in the past. From what I understand, Venus would possibly be habitable today if it had a carbon cycle and planetary magnetic field to prevent the runaway greenhouse effect
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by jarin 15y ago
Well I mean it runs kind of counter to your argument that there is not just one, but multiple sentient species on the planet. It also didn't take very long in cosmological terms for humans to go from sentient to supercomputers, either.
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by jarin 15y ago
If it's true, then it's essentially image-based telepathic communication.
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by jarin 15y ago
Hmm, yeah I'm not really so sure that the problem with our educational system is that the tests are too hard.
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by jarin 15y ago
I have a porn site as a client, and it would actually be very useful for them. There are a lot (dozens to hundreds) of generated gallery-style landing pages for affiliates to choose to send traffic to, and having thumbnails of the pages aut
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by jarin 15y ago
I really don't think all that trouble is necessary. A particular user is probably only going to see the homepage once or twice before creating an account, so even just hand-picking 5 images and rotating between them with JavaScript is proba
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by jarin 15y ago
Before reading the comments, I clicked on the link and saw meatspin. I'm glad I work at home, so I can laugh about it instead of being embarrassed.
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by jarin 15y ago
I've said it before, but I really think Microsoft would be a completely different (and better) company if Microsoft Research was a bigger part of their product development. Just look at the insane stuff they're doing with Kinect, for instan
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by jarin 15y ago
Probably the main reason I'd still pick Hubot over Hubot′ is that it's quick and easy to deploy to a free Heroku account. Plus there are a good number of modules available nowadays for node.js if I don't feel like reinventing the wheel.
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by jarin 15y ago
There are some images from Hubble: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pluto_animiert.gif Pluto only fills up a few pixels on Hubble's camera, but it's possible over time to generate a rough image: http://www.boulder.swri.edu/~buie/pluto/m
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by jarin 15y ago
I'm glad I'm not the only one who still calls it a planet :) > … until its closest approach – about 7,767 miles (12,500 kilometers) from the planet – on July 14, 2015 > But by the time New Horizons sails through the Pluto system in
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by jarin 15y ago
Seems kind of strange to be trying to run: rm -rf ./* instead of just: rm -rf * Is there a difference between the two that I'm not aware of?
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by jarin 15y ago
I've been using acts_as_api [1], since (aside from the other features) it makes it really easy to version and "subclass" your APIs, and it keeps the presenters for each model separated (really useful for nested responses). I've found that i
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by jarin 15y ago
Bitcoin is squarely at the bottom of the dip in the Gartner Hype Curve right now. It's a little bit of a gamble, but it could pay off. The risk to Dwolla of facilitating Bitcoin transfers is pretty minimal.

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