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by jfb 13y ago
Seen a movie in the theater recently? JP2k lives on in the DCI [1]. [1] http://www.dcimovies.com
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Windows 8 and the Microsoft Surface(ignorethecode.net)
200 points by jfb 13y ago|157 comments
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by jfb 13y ago
I find it embarrassing, but I chalk it up to a lack of experience. I always assumed that "hacker", as a term of regard and a social signal, could only be granted by others -- it was gauche to use it to refer to oneself. Me, I wri
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by jfb 13y ago
Sure. They did at Chicago when I was there, lo these twenty four years ago. CS 115-116 was just MIT's SICP 6.005 or whatever. Of course, when I was there there wasn't a CS degree -- you got a math degree with a concentration in
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by jfb 13y ago
goto cleanup; /* ... */ cleanup: foo(); ... is perfectly idiomatic C. It was the brace style that was the real stinker there.
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by jfb 13y ago
The limits of Friedman's understanding should come as a surprise to no man.
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by jfb 13y ago
BURNS This is a thousand monkeys working at a thousand typewriters. Soon, they'll have written the greatest novel known to mankind. (reads one of the typewriters) "It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times"?! you s
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by jfb 13y ago
Well, it hasn't been in common use for, what, 400 years? But it's a perfectly cromulent usage.
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by jfb 13y ago
As it can in English ("one beef, two beeves").
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by jfb 13y ago
19, you mean?
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by jfb 13y ago
One irony of mental health services is that the people who most need the help are often not in a position to use the services optimally; it is perfectly valid to break up with your therapist if they're not helpful. In fact, it should b
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by jfb 13y ago
My Panasonic plasma is in many ways a superior technology than my Thunderbolt displays, particularly when watching TV or movie content. Different use cases, different technologies.
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by jfb 13y ago
It's a hard problem, because the market and regulatory frameworks are very different for me, in San Francisco, than for my dad, on the Big Island of Hawai'i, and both in turn are very different from people in Manhattan, or Montana
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by jfb 13y ago
The contrast of PG saying, "Lots of people should try startups" and the fact that the vast majority of startups fail is kind of weird. They're not logically distinct, however, if (like PG) you think that you're better
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Facebook launches employee ferry service from SF(blog.sfgate.com)
51 points by jfb 13y ago|47 comments
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by jfb 13y ago
I know I'm risk averse, but even still this seems like the basest insanity to me.
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by jfb 13y ago
I'm not reading that -- did he explain how rich he was? Or give a tendentious lecture about ( shudders ) sex?
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by jfb 13y ago
Sell the 15" for a Thunderbolt display and get the 11". That is a killer combo.
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by jfb 13y ago
Noted. I'm looking forward to it. My dad (a retired professor of Anthropology) has no more reliable trigger for a sputtering rage than talking about University administration.
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by jfb 13y ago
It would be useful for someone to write a good, long piece tying together the growth of a managerial class and the decline in the power of the faculty; the cheap money that is pumping them full of ridiculous capital improvement campaigns; t
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by jfb 13y ago
Yeah, the threat models are different, and again, scale.
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Now all Last.fm tracks are playable on Spotify(engadget.com)
1 points by jfb 13y ago|0 comments
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by jfb 13y ago
I'm curious as to what exactly Lenovo is getting out of the deal. I hear good things about the new Motorola phones, but is the midlevel handset business really that attractive a one? I doubt HTC or Sony are feeling particularly good ab
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by jfb 13y ago
I have a shockingly large "read-only" English vocabulary, at least relative to my age (42) and native language (American English). I still get caught out from time to time -- "quay" was a particularly humiliating bête no
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by jfb 13y ago
Good times. I used to have emacs mode hooks that ensure that "$Id$" was written into files. I don't miss that.
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by jfb 13y ago
If the only job you can secure after killing a company is as "cube rat", consider whether your prospects as an entrepreneur are really all that much better. People like to believe that entrepreneurship is something totally differ
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by jfb 13y ago
The one guy on the Internet who is happy that Google fell over today?
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by jfb 13y ago
I would argue instead that it is a movement that is making a strong ethical claim.
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by jfb 13y ago
It depends on who your end users are. They are not necessarily strictly consumers of software -- in fact, RMS' history clearly points to a concern for the rights of the interactive web of hackers circa the early 1970s. It is open for d
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by jfb 13y ago
FSF is deontological and the "open source" movement, consequentialist. My personal ethics lean former, but I just can't quit my unethical Macintosh.

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