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by jff 14y ago
Put several instances of each song into a playlist and hit "shuffle". Try to identify which is which. That's the best way to make sure it's a real difference, not just your head playing tricks.
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by jff 14y ago
> However the static is soon forgotten as Whole Lotta Love rumbles out of the speakers and fills the room. Clear and all encompassing, it's as if the audio spectrum has opened up to me and now I'm swimming in the sound, rather than jus
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by jff 14y ago
And without one of those spite-filled, frustrated, venal, political distributions, Debian, they could never have created Ubuntu.
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by jff 14y ago
If you find the crystal separately, there's nothing left to print. The tool is fully functional as nothing more than a lump of crystal.
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by jff 14y ago
When you figure out how to 3d print a birefringent material, let me know. In fact, when you get a hobby-grade 3d printer to print something you can actually see through, let me know.
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by jff 14y ago
Go is very similar to Limbo. Seriously, really similar, because some of the same people wrote both. Limbo is a programming language that compiles to instructions for the Dis VM, which is what runs the Inferno operating system. Inferno came
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by jff 14y ago
I'm sure the supercomputing community would love to hear how communication costs and Amdahl's law are pretty trivial.
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by jff 14y ago
Some of these things are there because they exist in the kind of stories that inspired Tolkien in the first place. Characters appear at just the right time by chance or fate, "can't be killed by man" is taken literally, a simple disguise fo
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by jff 14y ago
The best and brightest are working as US diplomats, or are doing intelligence gathering on NK's capabilities, or are maintaining our nuclear arsenal. It's only within the HN, Silicon Valley echo chamber that the "best and brightest" are wor
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by jff 14y ago
Ubuntu in a nutshell.
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by jff 14y ago
His example changes permissions for directories only, which I believe your example does not.
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by jff 14y ago
The standard process seems to be to violate the Constitution, then continue doing it until the Supreme Court tells you you've been very naughty.
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by jff 14y ago
This is the attitude that puzzles me. I install Debian. I launch X, with no configuration. My WM starts in the optimal resolution. Sound, which has for years been a major pain point, pretty much just works; Pulse and ALSA may suck, but I've
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by jff 14y ago
You got tired of manually managing CFLAGS, so you moved to... Gentoo? Home of "hope you didn't want to view a GIF in Firefox, because you forgot to build it with that USE flag"?
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by jff 14y ago
What is wrong with my brain I don't even know
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by jff 14y ago
We managed for 50+ years allowing knives, lighters, etc. on flights--hell, they used to let you smoke in-flight, and nobody started a fire (maliciously).
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by jff 14y ago
Well, and after years of his project slavishly imitating Windows, its latest iteration is slavishly imitating OS X. So, good work all around. Edit: vvvv I stand corrected. Double Edit: What exactly do you mean, anyway? Things like http://w
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by jff 14y ago
Crap, there I was thinking developing Go for my employers was "real programming"! I guess I should go add a lot more boilerplate and un-needed complexity, maybe rewrite it in a true enterprise language like Java. Then it would be a big enou
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by jff 14y ago
gccgo might solve your problem, if you actually want the problem to be solved.
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by jff 14y ago
Oddly enough, I know several people who are giving up 30 years of C and Fortran programming to use Go because they find its features sufficiently compelling--and they're changing minds throughout the organization. For about two years, many
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by jff 14y ago
I debug it using Printfs as needed--it just doesn't need a ton of debugging, and Go makes it easy with the %#v format in Printf giving an appropriate, annotated representation of pretty much any data type. Stack traces are also very informa
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by jff 14y ago
Ham is not an acronym. Nobody's quite sure of what it means, but it doesn't seem to be an acronym.
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by jff 14y ago
At least they give him credit: https://www.kernel.org/theme/css/main.css
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by jff 14y ago
Oh hey now it looks like every other site on the Internet.
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by jff 14y ago
I think you end up wasting time deciding what combinations of w, b, e, f, F, t, T, h, j, k, and l you need to type to get you to the right place. Then you feel really good and efficient because you hit "just a few keys" and got where you wa
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by jff 14y ago
My experience with Arch has frequently been: 1. Run pacman -Syu 2. Pacman failed. 3. Go to Arch website 4. Learn that I shouldn't have run pacman just then, and now I have to follow these steps to un-break my system The most notable instanc
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by jff 14y ago
Big Sweetener.
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by jff 14y ago
The big stacks of money she's being paid, and the enormous golden handshake she'll receive even if she runs Yahoo! into the ground, probably help with that.
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by jff 14y ago
Do you want to sell sugar water, err, todo list apps for the rest of your life, or do you want to change the world? Big organizations have the potential to be great places to work. How can you criticize the ethics of hiring at large organiz
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by jff 14y ago
We spend more money on training and prevention of Waste/Fraud/Abuse than we would actually lose due to the occasional person buying beer with his travel card, but as you said, it's more important to prove we're trying than it is to actually

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