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   by jmah 17y ago

   Wow: http://farmtools101.blogspot.com/ http://toolanswers101.blogspot.com/ I think they win the prize for best (ab)use of free Blogger accounts. And reading the answers page alone is better than the quiz, unless you already have some ag
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   by jmah 17y ago

   I just realized why I got a strange feeling. Her face looks like a Mii! (In the most tasteful fashion.)
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   by jmah 18y ago

   I assume he means "serial and parallel".
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   by jmah 18y ago

   This just reads like an ad for Dell. As the pages (and banners) roll on, the tips get less entrepreneurial, and far less "must-read".
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   by jmah 18y ago

   I use 1Password (for OS X and iPhone), which lets me generate random passwords for different sites. It can't auto-fill on the iPhone, so you have to go into the app and write it down somewhere (or remember it) temporarily. It's got syncing
6. 156.▲
   by jmah 18y ago

   Yeah, but then there'd need to be a karma penalty for up-voting stories that don't (or you could karma pharm by up-voting everything).
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   by jmah 18y ago

   I don't think he's passing judgment, saying that Cocoa is too closely coupled, I think he's just comparing why it works better with Objective-C than with Ruby. Amongst other interesting projects are Nu, a Lisp designed for Cocoa and Objec
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   by jmah 18y ago

   That's what Slashdot has had for comments for as long as I remember (+funny, insightful, etc.). You can tweak your settings for how those traits are projected to a one-dimensional number (e.g. making "funny" more or less valuable).
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   by jmah 18y ago

   So I guess in 2007 he could have claimed that Apple would take, uh, \lim_{x -> pi/2^(-)} \tan(x) years to surpass Palm's market share? (please excuse the bastardized TeX, but \frac is too verbose for ASCII)
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    by jmah 18y ago

    See also "Debunking Daniel Tammet" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=412355
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    by jmah 18y ago

    This totally reminds me of "The Other Half of Artists Ship" http://www.paulgraham.com/artistsship.html pg: "It's natural for organizations to learn from mistakes. The problem is, people who propose new checks almost never consider that th
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    by jmah 18y ago

    Is there a Mac equivalent for this available? I'd love to get my hands on one. uControl used to have it, but then it was removed because it was threatened with patent infringement. http://www.gnufoo.org/ucontrol/
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    by jmah 18y ago

    Does it solve the halting problem? I also need a version of this that tells me how to optimally pack my presents in polynomial time.
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    by jmah 18y ago

    Not sure about the title. It appears to help you feel a bit better, but not cure the cold. "The investigators found no difference in symptoms between the group that exercised and the one that rested. And there was no difference in the time
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    by jmah 18y ago

    Cmd-Left, Cmd-Right are the traditional Mac keys, or you can use Emacs-style Ctrl-A, Ctrl-E. iPhoto preferences, General. "Connecting camera opens: No application"
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    by jmah 18y ago

    SimpleDB is a service, whereas CouchDB stands alone. So you can install CouchDB locally, mess around with it and hack on the source. Aside from that, CouchDB has views, which add another layer of indirection when reading the data. You break
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    Relax with CouchDB book: Draft chapters posted (feedback wanted)(books.couchdb.org)

    3 points by jmah 18y ago|0 comments
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    Assessing your divorce risk (using census data)(freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com)

    1 points by jmah 18y ago|0 comments
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    by jmah 18y ago

    If the images on http://conal.net/pan/ are any indication, we'd best stay away (and stick to Processing http://processing.org/ ).
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    by jmah 18y ago

    The way it's described sounds similar to SMTP, where intermediate servers hold the entire message and keep trying until they succeed (or time out). Wikipedia's information is quite dense and hard to skim. (The "spray and wait" protocol does
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    by jmah 18y ago

    I wonder if they accelerated their schedule due to rejecting Mazo just a couple of days ago (a third-party Amazon client they denied API use). http://emptyfactory.com/mazo http://emptyfactory.com/mazo/rejection
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    by jmah 18y ago

    Randall Munroe, or perhaps his haberdasher friend. http://xkcd.com/494/
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    by jmah 18y ago

    The standard shortcut for this is :TOhtml (although I always screw it up and type :toHTML). Of course, you can ":help TOhtml" to get more info.
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    by jmah 18y ago

    What a poorly-chosen title. It took me a while to realize that "gears" is the verb; it's not about Google Gears. Non-title capitalization could have avoided the ambiguity.
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    by jmah 18y ago

    You could have a computer that can simulate one brain (or whatever "equivalent" means), but runs 6 billion times as fast as a human's -- or any of those factors in between (1000 brains, 6 million times speed).
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    by jmah 18y ago

    Perhaps this cost will be the overhead of managing the increasing amount of information, with its storage, indexing, and relationships.
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    by jmah 18y ago

    I've always wanted to learn to type with just my left hand. The Half-Keyboard idea goes quite a way to that end; http://gnufoo.org/ucontrol/ used to implement it on earlier Mac OS X versions, but they were threatened with a patent suit an
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    by jmah 18y ago

    Surely he could have picked a better name. "Yegge ejacs in your browser."
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    by jmah 18y ago

    http://www.siport.com/ : SiPort is a fabless semiconductor company, incorporated in 2004, that received its first round of funding in 2005. Sounds like they design ASICs for portable devices (audio, video decoders). Or perhaps "designed
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    by jmah 18y ago

    http://www.aweber.com/ (not that I've used it)