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by jimmyjim 16y ago
For what purpose exactly would you want to put custom firmware on it? Why isn't the stock firmware good enough? I've a WRT54G router -- do I have any good reason to use any custom firmware? I'm guessing it's just for hobbyists -- "just for
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How I Met Your Girlfriend (DEFCON 18)(youtube.com)
11 points by jimmyjim 16y ago|0 comments
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by jimmyjim 16y ago
The article suggests this book: http://gustavus.edu/+max/concrete-abstractions-pdfs/index.ht... before embarking on SICP. Can anyone comment on the text please? I've not heard of it before.
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by jimmyjim 16y ago
> [...] Spanish (second most spoken language in the world, after Chinese), German or French. Spanish isn't the second most spoken language in the world. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_total_numb...
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by jimmyjim 16y ago
Curiously enough, I keep seeing smart people using Comic Sans font when they shouldn't. Very, very smart people. Some of my best professors, some of the most talented programmers I know, etc. Even SPJ! ( http://vimeo.com/15467880 ) And th
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The Lean Startup [Video](vimeo.com)
5 points by jimmyjim 16y ago|0 comments
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by jimmyjim 16y ago
A very good talk & slide -- unfortunately the audio seems to be unavailable (and the iTunes link is giving me a "Sorry, this clip isn't available to those in US" message) -- if someone has it, can they please put it up somewhere?
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Nine skills that separate good and great designers(cameronmoll.com)
17 points by jimmyjim 16y ago|3 comments
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by jimmyjim 16y ago
I use the zenburn theme for everything. In emacs, xmonad colors, my terminal colors, in everything . It's very easy on the eyes.
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by jimmyjim 16y ago
Are you running for office?
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by jimmyjim 16y ago
I was casually linked this by someone, and it made me think back to pg's criticism on the Segway. I'm linking this because it seems like a good word to let enter into our vocabularies. :)
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Chindōgu is the Japanese art of inventing ingenious everyday gadgets that ...(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by jimmyjim 16y ago|1 comments
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by jimmyjim 16y ago
It's often the foolhardy and the ignorant that tackle problems that are supposedly impossible. And sometimes end up succeeding. Wisdom is certainly something to take from, but embodying the limits imposed by someone as a roadblock to onself
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by jimmyjim 16y ago
Out of curiosity, how do you suppose that spreadsheet was created? How would one go about finding the sources en masse from a set of articles? What tools would be used?
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by jimmyjim 16y ago
Hey Daniel, I actually remember reading your Slackware book a few years back. I've no doubt that the quality of this text will be as superb as that one's! Cheers!
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by jimmyjim 16y ago
I had a guy in his late 70s in my accelerated Calculus II class this summer at a community college (power series, curve arc length, determining convergence/divergence, etc.) -- with a class full of students from second-tier schools. He was
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by jimmyjim 16y ago
Discussions on these topics is often not very nuanced. I think before talking about problems of distraction and/or the inability to maintain deep concentration we should dissect the premise of the original problem. For me, for example, it i
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by jimmyjim 16y ago
Are you sure the appeal is that it's a better place to work? Rather than a place that's pre-IPO?
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by jimmyjim 16y ago
Would it be possible to half and half? :D I actually happen to live in Wisconsin (Milwaukee)
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by jimmyjim 16y ago
Can you remark on how much these things cost you, all said and done?
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by jimmyjim 16y ago
By virtue of suggesting the very specific texts that you have suggested you have in essence suggested voting for a candidate of a specific set of characteristics. I could very well in turn suggest another list of texts, to reach a differing
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by jimmyjim 16y ago
Is that necessarily a bad thing? Erdos used to drink almost a gallon of tea a day (or so I've heard). And boy oh boy, could his brain work.
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by jimmyjim 16y ago
Now I do: http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/wishlist/3SFSFIGEGKWS4
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by jimmyjim 16y ago
I'm a first year CE student with not a lot of cash to spare-- I would absolutely love either SICP or K&R's 'C Programming Language'. I have them both in digital format, but it'd be extremely nice having them in dead-tree format as well
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by jimmyjim 16y ago
http://clc-wiki.net/wiki/K%26R2_solutions for more updated solutions
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by jimmyjim 16y ago
He explicitly complained to his friend of not getting a card or getting a raise. Celebrating holidays or not is a completely separate issue.
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by jimmyjim 16y ago
That he complained that he "never even got a card" meant that he was not appreciated as a friend by his manager-- that's something completely beside the monetary wage. They should have been friends, after 10 years together. And even if the
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by jimmyjim 16y ago
>If you want to see a draft of the essay I mentioned, send me an e-mail. Sure, I'd love to have a look at it. I've just sent you an e-mail (on your gmail address listed on your blog-site). Thanks!
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by jimmyjim 16y ago
Any tips on landing a decent internship position in researches headed by different universities? I am currently attending an institution where the highest level of education offered is a masters... so there's no research going on here. But
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Curl: analyzing ten years of more code and contributors(daniel.haxx.se)
2 points by jimmyjim 16y ago|0 comments

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