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by jballanc 12y ago
Nice visualization, but it's missing one of the newest locations (understandably, as it just opened on April 22nd): Bodrum, Turkey! What's interesting about this location is that it is, essentially, show room only. There's a
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by jballanc 12y ago
If you've never seen it, this is (supposedly) the daily schedule that Thompson stuck to when writing: http://mentalfloss.com/article/33487/hunter-s-thompsons-dail...
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by jballanc 13y ago
Agree completely... I think _why said it best with his "Little Coder's Predicament": http://viewsourcecode.org/why/hacking/theLittleCodersPredica...
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by jballanc 13y ago
Agreed, and after you've worked through the source to the canonical implementation of Lua, you can level-up by looking into the source of LuaJIT: http://luajit.org/download.html
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> What I disagree with is that one event happening means that another event very similar to it is likely in a statistical sense. Why? It makes perfect sense to me that, when one type of vulnerability is discovered, many more of same type
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by jballanc 13y ago
Unless Puppet Labs gets into the business of office/school supplies, I don't. Trademark protection is limited by the type of product, which is why "Apple" the computer company and "Apple" the Beatles record lab
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by jballanc 13y ago
One that's missing that I've found rather useful: add ".pibb" to the end of any Gist URL to get the "HTML Only" version suitable for embedding in any other site. Time was, before a lot of blogging engines had G
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by jballanc 13y ago
If you think Steve is the only person in the Valley to have lied to a business partner...I have a bridge that might interest you. As for the specific event in question (the Atari money), do we know what Steve did with the extra money? Seems
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FizzBuzz implemented with Clojure's core.logic(github.com)
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by jballanc 13y ago
I can almost guarantee that, if your code bases version history is too messy to find old code, then it will be even worse if you were to favor commenting out to deleting. That said, I do see where you're coming from. Part of the issue
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by jballanc 13y ago
You should never commit commented-out code. That's what version control is for. If you need that code back, just fetch it from the repo.
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by jballanc 13y ago
I've often found that when an issue divides a group that would otherwise cooperate willingly, the problem is that the two sides are battling over the wrong issue. In this case, the CEO-ship of Brendan Eich has been continually rehashed
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by jballanc 13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%BClen_movement
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If you say "we don't have office politics at our company" the reality is that you do have office politics and it's completely unrestrained due to the blind eye turned on it by "management". If you notice that
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by jballanc 13y ago
It would be interesting to hack Lua into NetHack so that some of the game logic/AI could gradually be moved over...
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The folks over at airliners.net have pointed out that the 777's collision avoidance system only works if both planes' transponders are turned on. That doesn't mean this scenario is impossible, but it does raise the level of s
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by jballanc 13y ago
Probably an overall win for safety, redundancy, and (maybe more importantly) security. That said, considering the number of different exploits that have been assembled for large attacks in the past (how many zero-days were in Stuxtnet?), I
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by jballanc 13y ago
Saw the "CSAIL" domain and I expected steps 4-20 to describe how to attach an electric motor, some actuators, and software to automatically direct the chair to a specific monitor based on facial recognition from the webcams in eac
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by jballanc 13y ago
I can't help but feel like there's a fairly simple heap invariant hiding in the solution here...
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by jballanc 13y ago
Given HN's recent obsession with Bitcoins, it's probably worth noting that the "double-spend" problem is a variation on the Two Generals problem (or, more accurately, the Byzantine Generals problem). Regardless of your v
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by jballanc 13y ago
This is something I don't understand about the "bitcoin days destroyed" metric. Yes, it filters out rapid back-and-forth moves of small amounts over a short time frame, but it also over-empasizes transactions such as this. Se
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by jballanc 13y ago
Hahaha...well played! This guy, whoever he is, is definitely one step ahead of the rest of us. Anyone with a modicum of intelligence would know that it's effectively impossible to remain truly anonymous in this day and age. So what do
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by jballanc 13y ago
Not to mention the robustness of that damned machine... > The aircraft is designed to fly with one engine, one tail, one elevator, and half of one wing missing.
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by jballanc 13y ago
Exactly! I know how to fire a gun, tie a tourniquet, extinguish a structure fire, and set aside an emergency fund. I also know that paying someone else to relieve me of having to worry about these things is money well spent. You call it reg
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by jballanc 13y ago
Gosh, it would be nice to have some sort of assurance that the group holding on to my monetary reserves met some sort of minimum level of competency in dealing with quantities of currency. Or, lacking competency, some guarantee that any ban
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Why am I Angry with the Video Game Industry in Turkey?(medium.com)
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by jballanc 13y ago
I used to get recruiter spam, then I tried this one weird trick and all the recruiters stopped emailing me... Actually, it wasn't that weird. I just moved out of the US. Changed my location on GitHub, Twitter, and LinkedIn, and the rec
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by jballanc 13y ago
The old Unix ways are dying... Or, at least, I think that's the best way to summarize the essential miscommunication between these two camps. Vim is, in the spirit of Unix, a single purpose tool: it edits text. Why would it need thread
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by jballanc 13y ago
Evolution proceeds without regard for complexity, efficiency, or anything else for that matter, except survival. I think the most common misconception about evolution is that it is not a system of "best" but rather "just good
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Jim was a phenomenal teacher, speaker, hacker, and all-around good guy. He probably attended more programming conferences than anyone I know, and he was always more than happy to stop in the hallway, during lunch, or whenever to talk. If yo

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