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by joshdick 12y ago
Bill Clinton was the first president to send an e-mail. He sent exactly two e-mails during his eight years in office.
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by joshdick 12y ago
This is known as the interesting number paradox: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interesting_number_paradox
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by joshdick 12y ago
Yeah, if this could also tell me through Untappd whether I've had a beer before and how I rated it, that would be perfect. I'm on a mission to try 1,000 different beers on Untappd, and this could really help with that.
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by joshdick 12y ago
One worrisome trend that the author didn't really consider is that YA fiction isn't just for young adults anymore. Countless adults are reading it instead of anything else.
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by joshdick 12y ago
I couldn't help but think that I would've handled this so much better than these two knuckleheads. You don't need tens of thousands of dollars a day. Just go in to win one jackpot, lose money on some other games to lessen sus
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by joshdick 12y ago
Actually, this has been working great in other first-world countries for years. The U.S. is one of the last places to get this.
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by joshdick 12y ago
The captcha was introduced to Project Euler a few years ago in response to someone spamming the site with requests to check an answer. Apparently, someone had trouble with a question, so they wrote a script to submit every possible number.
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by joshdick 12y ago
A UI ripped from video games would be a big improvement for many: WASD + mouse, for example.
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by joshdick 12y ago
Our history is filled with explorers and frontiersmen. We've grown to fill the world. We climb mountains and explore valleys. We cross oceans and fly around the world as soon as we know how. Why would you expect space to be any differe
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by joshdick 12y ago
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by joshdick 12y ago
If it was good enough for the ancient Greeks, it should be good enough for you.
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by joshdick 12y ago
How to Tell If Your Web Hosting Sucks
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by joshdick 12y ago
Reminds me of The Economist. They don't use bylines either.
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by joshdick 13y ago
Did the article do a bad job talking about the UX of search boxes? Did the author try to hide their interest in the topic? I really don't see the problem here.
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by joshdick 13y ago
Instead, they're helping people doing mobifotosocialgames. It's a good business selling pickaxes during the gold rush.
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by joshdick 13y ago
I had a math professor who put it this way: Just think of a general n-dimensional Euclidian space, and then set n=4.
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by joshdick 13y ago
This question was asked and answered at Nuremberg: It is not a valid dense to say you were "just following orders." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superior_Orders#Nuremberg_Trial...
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by joshdick 13y ago
Could the rock have been blown there by the wind?
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by joshdick 13y ago
You can: by closing the tab. Which is what I plan to do to any tab that plays sound I didn't ask for.
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by joshdick 13y ago
I like that Project Euler encourages me to learn more math.
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by joshdick 13y ago
After the first hundred or so, you start to need more and more math. If you don't know what to look for off the top of your head (which you probably wouldn't without a math degree), try to google around for math that looks relevan
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by joshdick 13y ago
I think the key is to get used to hitting Ctrl+space to do everything. Pretty much everything that Light Table is capable of is through that interface.
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by joshdick 13y ago
This is great news. I love using Light Table for Clojure development, and it's exciting to know that it's open for contributions now.
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by joshdick 13y ago
I was just thinking how sad it is that Netflix has all this great data on movies (as Pandora does for music), and it's locked away from us.
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by joshdick 13y ago
Yeah, publishing remarks made to a reporter as part of background on a story is unethical.
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by joshdick 13y ago
Not if you find the right job for you first.
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by joshdick 13y ago
Sports contracts generally prohibit the player from playing other sports, even recreationally, to reduce their risk of injury. Here, for example, is the NBA's take: http://bammgt.com/?page_id=339
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by joshdick 13y ago
There's is an indicator: When you choose a subscription frequency, "Subscribed!" appears beneath the box. It disappears after just a few seconds, though. That might be why you missed it.
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by joshdick 13y ago
Procurement rules are more to guard against corruption and cronyism than incompetence. Without them, you could reward your friends with fat government contracts, regardless of what's in the public's interest.
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by joshdick 13y ago
"If you have four groups working on a compiler, you'll get a 4-pass compiler" -- esr

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