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jdoliner
16y ago
Why is that? I'm assuming it's because when you see a link you check the URL to make sure you trust the location it's about to send you to. But surely this get's unscalable pretty quickly. Does it not?
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jdoliner
16y ago
I still think that at some level Michael Arrington approved this deal because it meant one more story he could break. He's clearly crossed from dedication to addiction.
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16y ago
This right here is a very bad attitude toward software development because it prevents you from making the product that proves its worth to users and developers. It seemed in the original article that they justified almost every design deci
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16y ago
While I think it's completely correct that the best software is produced when a programmer recognizes one of his own needs which isn't being met and decides there's a better way to do it. It's bad to take such a disdainful stance toward pro
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jdoliner
16y ago
To be fair. The current concept would appear to have this flaw as well.
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Sleazy Celebs Inspire Brilliant New Marketing Strategy -- "Unbranding"
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16y ago
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Easier debugging with custom GDB pretty printers
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Waiting for unconsciousness is neither a bad idea nor should it be considered a last resort. Thinking of it as such is exactly how you get yourself in trouble yourself. It's amazing how quickly you can get incapacitated in the water, you mi
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How Enrico Fermi Takes Integrals
(joedoliner.com)
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17y ago
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17y ago
A raytracer as part of a class project.
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χdb: A didactic RDBMS
(people.cs.uchicago.edu)
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17y ago
I beg to differ. I just found this little gem and asked out every single latent crush I have. All yeses every single one of them, I'm telling you guys it can't fail guys. Now this is going to a crazy formal :-/. I didn't really think about
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jdoliner
17y ago
Wait so you're saying that in programming languages today not only does every single tool do its job perfectly, it does every other tools job perfectly too? Am I misunderstanding your meaning here?
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17y ago
Girls would be even more underwhelmed by this if engineering was the language of love. These cups are the equivalent of "Roses are red\ violets are blue\ sugar is sweet\ and so are you."
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17y ago
Google automatically setting up your followers for you is bound to draw a lot of ire. Anytime a company takes data which users thought of as private and make it public users quite rightfully feel violated. However I don't think that Buzz is
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17y ago
The article actually claims completely falsely that BMI measures body fat percentage (a much more accurate metric). I wonder if this is actually poor reporting of the fact that body fat % is taken in to account. If you look over the school'
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17y ago
These are good books for graph based algorithms, which may well be what you're looking for. But for a more proof based approach you could take a look at this: http://books.google.com/books?id=HuDFMwZOwcsC&printsec=f...
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17y ago
I'd love an invite: http://mailhide.recaptcha.net/d?k=013c2OCV1EGRCuV52rBL6QNQ==...
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17y ago
grep -l textregex fileregex print the names of all the files satisfying fileregex with text satisfying textregex. Nice if you need to find out where a function is defined.
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The Netflix Zenmaster Revisited
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Don't Always Do Your Best
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17y ago
Yeah let's hear some guesses as to what the name is. My guess is The Leibniz.
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17y ago
Well since you asked, let's see if can't get this for you :). Also I found your site through Netflix itself which I take to mean that they don't wholly disapprove of such a venture. Did you have to get your app concept cleared with them at
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17y ago
Hmm, I don't think that's necessarily true. For new releases Netflix often doesn't have enough to go around and has to make people wait. I bet efficiency there is appreciated.
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The Netflix Zen Master
(joedoliner.com)
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As the article mentions log( n! ) is the theoretical lower bound on the comparison sorting unstructured data. This is a neat little argument so I thought I'd share it with you. Given an unsorted list of data (of length n), sorting is equiva
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17y ago
I contribute actively to BRLCAD. Although I do get paid to do it.
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The existing developers of a project will almost certainly be willing to help you get started. Man power is always in high demand on open source projects so many of them even have mentoring programs for new developers. Hanging out in the ch
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Is Google Voice Sweet? - My Thoughts After 2 Weeks
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Desktopography 2009 Exhibition - Shiny New Wallpaper
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