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by jsomers 17y ago
Yeah, you have to get used to the "answer checker". Once you do, though, it's a breeze. (Maybe I'm biased because I have played hundreds of games (including 22 in one night!)).
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by jsomers 17y ago
I built this game using the data made freely available by j-archive.com (a wonderful site). It's multiplayer---so you'll get the most fun out of it if you've got some chums around. There is also a single-player "study mode" at /blast. I'm w
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"Don't just read it; fight it"(jsomers.net)
79 points by jsomers 17y ago|17 comments
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by jsomers 17y ago
The author's objection to graduate school in the humanities has less to do with a lack of intellectual rigor than with the structure of the job market in that part of the academy. So I think your comment is somewhat misleading in connecting
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by jsomers 17y ago
Essentially every sentence in this article includes some ungrounded, sweeping claim (parroted from a single "report") about boys in general. Unbelievable that this has gained so much traction here without comment.
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Project Euler problem 106 and the Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences(jsomers.net)
4 points by jsomers 17y ago|0 comments
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by jsomers 17y ago
The Dude doesn't not care . The Dude abides . There is a world of difference.
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Bill Watterson on his art, life, and Calvin and Hobbes(books.google.com)
2 points by jsomers 17y ago|0 comments
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by jsomers 17y ago
I like this idea of being able to hide comments and stories from submitters with accounts fewer than N days old, where N is a setting that each user can tweak.
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by jsomers 17y ago
Man, I can't wait to build this locally. In its raw form I expect it to work great for essay writing, etc., but I can imagine all kinds of cool modifications, like allowing cross-pad hyperlinks. Let the hacking begin! Edit: I realize that a
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by jsomers 17y ago
Is anyone surprised that "tenacity is a key attribute in successful entrepreneurs"? Has anyone learned anything by reading this post? In my view this submission is vapid to the point of being flag-worthy. Evidence: after two hours this pi
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by jsomers 17y ago
As an alternative, I've been using a fast feed scanner to digitize my books. The obvious downside is that they need to be cut first. I was inspired by this blog post: http://sealedabstract.com/?p=410
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by jsomers 17y ago
This is one of those stories I'll tell the next time someone asks me what's so special about the "hacker" community.
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by jsomers 17y ago
It probably helps that there are just three guys here, and that they have by this point already worked together very successfully on The Empire Strikes Back , which was a large, long, and very similar project. So there's an unusual amount
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Wandering the web stacks, or, fighting intellectual atrophy on the internet(jsomers.net)
17 points by jsomers 17y ago|2 comments
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by jsomers 17y ago
"costed" --> "cost".
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by jsomers 17y ago
Whoops, sorry about that. I've now calmed down the script and (significantly) limited the number of iterations. There is a small blinking orange square in the top left-hand corner of the page that should start the cascade if you click or hi
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Rule 110, or, how a little orange dot becomes a universal computer(jsomers.net)
1 points by jsomers 17y ago|4 comments
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Open books(jsomers.net)
1 points by jsomers 17y ago|0 comments
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by jsomers 17y ago
...signalling that its owner is so rich he can afford to copy the lower class and still get invited to parties. I don't think this explains why upper middle class suburban kids wear "ghetto" clothes. I think it has more to do with a kind
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by jsomers 17y ago
Sure the news is the same, but Jonah Lehrer is probably the better writer.
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By Inspection(jsomers.net)
1 points by jsomers 17y ago|0 comments
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The Snickers Trick(jsomers.net)
40 points by jsomers 17y ago|7 comments
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by jsomers 17y ago
Has anyone else tried this? I've only gone a few days (never on purpose), and the result is some pretty oily, flat, ugly hair. I never thought that going longer would restore things to normal.
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by jsomers 17y ago
A list of the predictions this guy got right (at the end of the article, and sprinkled throughout) is near useless when unaccompanied by a list of everything he got wrong.
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The wrong way to search Google in Firefox(jsomers.net)
3 points by jsomers 17y ago|1 comments
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by jsomers 17y ago
Wow. One way I could imagine this technology being applied is in a glove that white people could take to Chinese restaurants for operating chopsticks.
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by jsomers 17y ago
That seems true in general, but it's still dangerous to declare that you're working on a famous problem (P!=NP, 3n+1, Riemann); it's something you keep to yourself until you've made serious progress.
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by jsomers 17y ago
Maybe it could be used to reduce typos--when I mistakenly hit "K" on my way to "P", I bet I do it with less force (at least most of the time).
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by jsomers 17y ago
The crab cakes look good.

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