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by julian37 16y ago
* Read the summary of changes in Python 3: http://docs.python.org/release/3.0.1/whatsnew/3.0.html * See Guido Rossum's Transitional Development notes here: http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=208549 * Read Mark Pilgrim's e
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by julian37 16y ago
Headache-relieving maybe, but also eyesore-inducing. Some simple, good advice for choosing color combinations is that in terms of HSB, never vary more than two aspects of a color. That is, you can vary hue and saturation, but then don't va
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by julian37 16y ago
Joshua Bloch gave a talk in 2006 that was about "real" API design, not REST API design, and is mainly concerned with much-loathed Java, but despite all this I think it's still very relevant and well worth watching. It's about an hour long.
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The Great Zero Challenge Remains Unaccepted (2008)(hostjury.com)
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by julian37 16y ago
I find relaxation with a countdown decidedly un-zen. It's a well-meant attempt of bringing some calamity into our lives, though, thanks for that!
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And innocent phrases are getting ripped on Phoronix: such as the words "free software", which on mouse over produce a popup that asks me to "Earn Cash Completing Surveys". More on topic, to the people who are saying that GPL users had it co
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by julian37 16y ago
Someone has rolled this into a script: http://www.isi.edu/~yuri/dupx/
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Paranoia and deletion: the wipe man page(boingboing.net)
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by julian37 16y ago
Here is a link to the actual project: https://github.com/apenwarr/redo#readme
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by julian37 16y ago
Point taken, but I think there's a difference between casual and professional, extended use. For casual use I can see touch taking over more and more, and for professional use - such as for graphic designers or compositors - the mouse isn'
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by julian37 16y ago
That is not entirely true. Our head isn't mounted on our torso, it's mounted on our neck which can swivel! That's why you don't have to hold a book or your mobile phone or tablet at eye level. Also, many marvelous masterpieces have been c
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by julian37 16y ago
See also http://www.minecraft.net/stats.jsp About 850K units was the alpha sold for about 10 Euro, the remaining 150K were the beta for 15 Euro. This works out to a revenue of about 10,750,000 Euro (US$ 14m roughly). Not too shabby, con
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by julian37 16y ago
$ find emacs-23.2/ -name \*.c | xargs cat | wc -l 339497 $ find emacs-23.2/ -name \*.el | xargs cat | wc -l 1391690 Seeing that about 80% of Emacs code is Lisp, not to mention the countless extensions that don't ship with Ema
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by julian37 16y ago
You haven't actually read the article, have you?
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Like this, linked from the article: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/12/12/
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by julian37 16y ago
Yep, or vice versa, put a bit of tape over the hole to make disks writable that weren't intended to be. Good times!
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An Interview with C++ Creator Bjarne Stroustrup(codeguru.com)
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by julian37 16y ago
According to this article, Pixar doesn't treat its employees as nicely these days: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lee-stranahan/lucasfilm-and-pi...
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by julian37 16y ago
> so if you're doing work targeted at a computer screen, it probably doesn't matter anyway Actually, it matters regardless of output device. With higher bit depths, less rounding errors accumulate over time as the image is processed, fo
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Zzuf – Multi-purpose Fuzzer(caca.zoy.org)
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OLPC Bitfrost (2007)(wiki.laptop.org)
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Kinect: Star Wars Trailer(youtube.com)
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Map Showing Recent Mass Animal Deaths(maps.google.com)
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NVIDIA's Project Denver CPU puts the nail in Wintel's coffin(arstechnica.com)
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Eight barriers to effective listening (2006)(sklatch.net)
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by julian37 16y ago
I understand that the current, lucrative but unsatisfying, job that you mention in the summary is being a patent lawyer [1]. I don't really know what it's like working that job but I would imagine you will indeed find coding a much more fu
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by julian37 16y ago
In the comments he clarifies that he still washes his hands with soap.
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The paper says they used an Araneus Alea I (hardware) RNG. See http://dbem.ws/FeelingFuture.pdf page 12.
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"Plus, don’t let a plane take off if someone has checked in luggage but isn’t on board" I'm pretty sure that is already the case, at least for international flights. I've been on numerous planes that got delayed because a passenger didn't
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"Please visit our sponsors" and "please visit our advertisers" are phrases that I've seen very often on the Internet (Google Search has 18m and 750m results for these phrases, respectively.) I'm curious, do many of these sites use a differ

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