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by jrp 18y ago
You can click on the function names and it opens a tab with the code.
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by jrp 18y ago
You're not being a dick. It's generally correct to say something short (eg "I teach high school") and to go for brevity over correctness. If the person shows interest then you can launch into the details (and probably glaze their eyes).
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by jrp 18y ago
It would certainly be evil, but not be unconstitutional, for the government to require government-funded researchers to publish their government-owned ideas wherever the government prefers. If I develop cold fusion 'using university resourc
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by jrp 18y ago
I never get these registration hassles people mention. Does the NYT not ask for registration coming from, say, the UK?
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by jrp 18y ago
I think for some of those things, it is legal to do yourself, but not legal to provide a program which does it -- so basically nobody will know enough to do it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Millennium_Copyright_Ac... http://lists
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by jrp 18y ago
Real article here: http://launchlab.co.uk/article/Entrepreneurial-Columnists/Bi...
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by jrp 18y ago
I wouldn't say that just because someone knows Haskell they are suddenly a good programmer. Some schools use Haskell for their intro programming classes nowadays.
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by jrp 18y ago
Indeed; recall Feynman and parallel computer.
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by jrp 18y ago
This seems expensive. $50/yr + one time $25 + $70 daily? The hourly rate is cool I guess ($10) but really, standard car rental places are pretty cheap.
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by jrp 18y ago
Is G1 really that cheap?
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by jrp 18y ago
You mean booting to singleuser? If you don't want it just use a grub password; nothing to do with CentOS.
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by jrp 18y ago
What is the difference between taking drugs / taking 5-HTP supplementals / "naturally" getting a lot of tryptophan in your diet? Seems like it's all drugs.
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by jrp 18y ago
Be careful with this. You'll start out reading the comments first. Then you'll begin ignoring the links entirely and we end up at <other news site>.
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by jrp 18y ago
I don't get it; how in character were they supposed to be when deciding? Sure, there could be convincing arguments for release made by an actual AI, but for ME the real person sitting in IRC it would be easy to just say no.
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by jrp 18y ago
In this case it was really the adopters though. mIRC for instance was as usable as AIM.
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by jrp 18y ago
Also, how about not having to see the same ad three times during a given show? At this point maybe we're getting too close to tivo for the advertisers to feel comfortable.
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by jrp 18y ago
Djikstra's reply is pretty cool: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd06xx/EWD666.PDF
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by jrp 18y ago
I think that if albums were $5, 3 times the albums might be sold, but more dollars would not be spent. I don't see anything but punishment stopping illegal downloads.
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by jrp 18y ago
I don't understand -- they seem to have been hosted by someone else; did the hosts not do backups or did the employee somehow delete those too? Seems like at least two things went wrong.
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by jrp 18y ago
>> translate.google.com that's as good as the average bilingual So, a few orders of magnitude harder than sci-fi?
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by jrp 18y ago
Don't install things until you're ready to use them; otherwise, you'll find yourself spending too long browsing packages.
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by jrp 18y ago
What is the meaning of this? "although he did not go to church, was religious and read the Bible in church every Sunday morning"
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by jrp 18y ago
So does Wikipedia let you look at deleted pages? I thought they did but from the article link I couldn't find it. edit -- I was thinking of this: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Why_Wikipedia_is_n... I guess not.
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by jrp 18y ago
I like it because I actually read it, unlike the LONG "How to be a programmer". You need to change you're to your in #5. The reason to do well in non-CS classes is that when you start letting yourself slide in one area it's quite easy to k
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by jrp 18y ago
Cool- however http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=215536 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=97515
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by jrp 18y ago
He mentions the also interesting Ulam spiral; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulam_spiral If you like this kind of stuff, you might try to understand the following pattern (F_n is Fibonacci, F_0 = 0, F_1 = 1). F_n%2==0 whenever n%3==0. F_n%3
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by jrp 18y ago
Old: http://www.google.com/search?q=%22called+a+confrence+with+th...
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by jrp 18y ago
Calvin wonders why movies are rated R for Adult Situations, eg paying bills, going to work, etc.
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by jrp 18y ago
This is a serious problem and it's good to see people working on nutrition in poor countries - we hear "poor nutrition" and think of too much sugar and fat, but it can get a lot worse. That said, IQ is normalized and there won't be any glob
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by jrp 18y ago
It's not source; just unzip and run songbird. However, it didn't work for me. It ran and imported media, but closed when I tried to play.

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