jberryman

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by jberryman 17y ago
The primary thing you need to know about holding your breath is... there is no breath.
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by jberryman 17y ago
There are many small, overlapping sets of people who will be excited about this. For example, my friends at the A3C3: http://www.crappycameraclub.org/
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by jberryman 17y ago
Relevant to this discussion is hoogle: http://haskell.org/hoogle/ It beats the pants off of google/apropos/anything else simply because the type signatures for functions in a purely-functional, statically-typed language practically tell y
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by jberryman 17y ago
Copyright is serious. Think of this as a Hannah Montana Album Non-Proliferation Treaty. These are many weapons of mass (cultural) destruction. They must be controlled.
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by jberryman 17y ago
Something I discovered: drinking a big glass of water right before bed, I sleep better and wake up without a sore throat or muscle soreness.
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by jberryman 17y ago
Same here. Helps keep my mind and my mood healthier and I can get more done.
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by jberryman 17y ago
I wasn't able to listen to the audio unfortunately, but visually I instantly thought of a guitar equivalent of the Ondes Martenot: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ondes_Martenot An instrument you've heard dozens of times. Also used by Varese
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by jberryman 17y ago
Exactly. It's important to remember that both copyright and patents are instances of the public willingly ceding, in very specific cases, some of their constitutionally-protected freedoms (in the case of copyright, freedom of speech) becaus
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by jberryman 17y ago
> Given the variation between the hottest and coldest places on earth are somewhere around 100 degrees celsius I have real problems with the term global warming as a whole. As do many climate scientists. I've heard the term "Global Weir
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by jberryman 17y ago
Wow, I just finished implementing a couple algorithms for binary De Brujin sequences in haskell and was working on a blog post when I read this. You can check out mine here if you want: http://coder.bsimmons.name/blog/2009/09/cracking-a-lo
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List of fractals by Hausdorff dimension(en.wikipedia.org)
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by jberryman 17y ago
thisweknow.org is fairly cool
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by jberryman 17y ago
Hmmmm... colon, open paren, close paren... curly brace... I think I've got it! :(){ :|:& };: ...now to run the script! NO CARRIER
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by jberryman 17y ago
Thanks for the explanation!
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by jberryman 17y ago
Sex-drive is a product of evolution, certainly. Rape is byproduct of that evolutionary trait (among others; rape in modern humans is a complicated thing). But there are many compelling reasons why rape is not evolutionarily beneficial to hu
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by jberryman 17y ago
So basically this will be like a LISP machine, execpt a haskell machine? Because that would be awesome. ...also this entire topic is completely over my head.
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by jberryman 17y ago
Based on a quick glance at the data here: http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/states/hf.jsp?incfile=sep_sum/pl... Florida, Texas, and California seem to be the leaders of the energy-use pack by a large margin (making up ~25% of the nation's energ
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by jberryman 17y ago
I'm not convinced that courage has much to do with it, but rather an understanding on the part of a jury of their duty and function in the legal process. Nor am I convinced that the concept of nullification should be more widely known, and
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by jberryman 17y ago
I think your comment would be perfectly reasonable if you were trying to argue against a rigid definition of a _Functional Language_. But I think it's off base to say 'There's nothing in "functional programming", as has been practiced for d
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by jberryman 17y ago
That was really well-written. I liked this line: > The Lambda Calculus is innocent of the notion of mutability
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by jberryman 17y ago
Why not use JPEG unless you really need transparency?
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by jberryman 17y ago
The photographer Weegee used to bring his camera with infrared film and an infrared flash bulb into darkened movie theaters and photograph the audience behind him. Back in the 40s! http://museum.icp.org/museum/collections/special/weegee/we
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by jberryman 17y ago
Thought I would post a blog entry written by my mother (a psychotherapist and new blogger) on the same subject: http://www.manageangerdaily.com/mad-blog/the-pitfalls-of-pos...
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by jberryman 17y ago
Kodachrome You give us those nice bright colors You give us the greens of summers Makes you think all the world's a sunny day, oh yeah! I got a Nikon camera I love to take a photograph So Mama, don't take my Kodachrome away!
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by jberryman 17y ago
We've known for decades that the western diet kills people (and increasingly so) and that traditional diets don't, yet nutrition science seems to be stuck in a reductionist view of food, obsessed with finding the precise chemicals responsib
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by jberryman 18y ago
I read a story a while back that mentioned a system like this being used for old people in the early stages of Alzheimer's or whose memories were growing weaker from age. Apparently wearing something like this and viewing the images in a q