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by jcdreads 17y ago
I love that just from the title, before clicking and without even having yet seen the little (harvard.edu) beside it, I knew immediately that this was a Greenspun article.
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In Boston, they then build in lots of random 30-minute delays after the trains have left.
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by jcdreads 17y ago
Decent commentary (and a more sensibly written article) can be found in this previous HN thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=804831
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by jcdreads 17y ago
This is a very cool idea, but when folks express power savings in units of kWh/year it makes my head spin. So... 100 kWh / year == 100,000 W / (years/hour) == 17.1 W. so we save 17 W per computer. This is good, though less impressive-soun
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It's Apple's attempt to convince people of the wisdom of enabling Time Machine.
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Do not assume that "scared away by compiler errors" means the same thing as stupid or not intellectually curious. I know at least one would-be programmer who is not scared away by complier errors, but he is almost comically infuriated by th
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by jcdreads 17y ago
Right. To pipe something is to use it as a conduit. A pipe is a tube for piping fluids. A pipe is also a typographic character: | The pipe character is used to indicate that the output of process A is piped to process B. I guess it's a
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by jcdreads 17y ago
Anyone with experience with both this and Oracle Coherence (formerly Tangosol Coherence)? I'd dearly love for this to be a reasonable alternative to Coherence, which I love but which is fabulously expensive.
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by jcdreads 17y ago
So I once happened to be at a company where I was lucky enough to have several colleagues join me in an SICP reading group. We squatted in a conference room once a week and plowed through as many sections as we could during lunch. The key
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Quote from the end of the article: “Will a company be able to operate completely on these games? No,” Mr. Yoshida said. “After all, we’re talking about the kind of games people make sitting in a cafe with a laptop.” A person sitting in a ca
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by jcdreads 17y ago
If I were hosting a SaaS offering that was Javascript-heavy, I might deploy the site in such a way that IE users were prompted to download the Chrome plugin, thereby allowing my app to run at a tolerable speed. We recently gave up on GWT at
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by jcdreads 17y ago
That people have the same legal rights as people is known as the "doctrine of corporate personhood." An indie film from a few years ago explored what _kind_ of person a corporation would be is here: http://www.thecorporation.com/ (spoile
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The original paper claims that highways are about 1/3 of the reason.
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Right. Divergence of B is still zero.
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by jcdreads 17y ago
Does putting on makeup before going to the beach like the model depicted in the article count as relaxing and enjoying yourself? Just sayin.
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by jcdreads 17y ago
Aquamacs Emacs ( http://aquamacs.org ) also lets you use a proportional font, and hey, it's emacs. It is, indeed, sometimes very nice, particularly when writing prose (Markdown or HTML or whatever), and particularly in version 2.0's new fu
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by jcdreads 17y ago
Given internet access, one could build such a thing pretty easily atop SpringPad, which has pretty extensive template generation and sharing features built in: http://springpadit.com I used to work with a number of these guys. Given what
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by jcdreads 17y ago
Great. Now I'll have that song stuck in my head just like I did for _years_ as a kid.
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> Since "standard" users are not going to learn SQL your market is narrowed to developers only. Power users aren't _that_ narrow a user base. There are an enormous number of data miners (analysts, integrators, etc.) out there who work
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by jcdreads 17y ago
The only proper response is to touch their glasses, leaving an identical smudge there.
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Interesting that he completely failed to predict the possibility of political punditry as an economist's day job. (Or, in the closing sentence, did he...?)
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by jcdreads 17y ago
It ain't bragging if you can back it up. http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview/id/503362.html
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More than one decade.
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by jcdreads 17y ago
I feel cautious optimism at this sign that the top folks at Apple realize that the app store approval process is a mess, and is perceived as such.
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by jcdreads 17y ago
Is the author the same Stuart Sierra from the Clojure lists? (Just curious.)
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by jcdreads 17y ago
So I wonder why Opera isn't that list of suggested replacements? Minority browser, for sure, but it has worked pretty well in my few stints with it.
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I think this is an interface design problem, not something intrinsic to GPS navigation. Provided that I set the unit to show my position on an always-north-facing map, I arrive at my destination knowing exactly where I am. If, by contras
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by jcdreads 17y ago
The two activities you mention seem pretty unrelated.
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I type large numbers of numbers with the numeric keypad, and I absolutely hate having a numeric keypad stuck on the right of my keyboard. It gets in the way of my mouse, and it makes me move my unnaturally far to the right of my desk in
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by jcdreads 17y ago
FSJ did, in fact, start posting again last week.

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