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by kbob 16y ago
The paradigm shift is that in Python the most direct way is best. Examples. In Java, accessor methods are considered good style. In Python, directly accessing a member is better. (more concise, makes client code clearer.) If you need to
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by kbob 16y ago
Similary, RESTRAUNT -> restraint, restaurant
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by kbob 16y ago
Bug reports: 1. Try "BELIVES". The answer it accepts is "believes, beliefs". 2. How about erasing the input box on each new word?
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by kbob 16y ago
Finding the right job takes time. Staying in the wrong job for a while makes sense. Plus, the job market is very unhealthy now (though it's recovering, at least for engineers).
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by kbob 16y ago
Circa 1993 the speech recognition team at Apple was giving out T-shirts to their volunteers. On the front, there was a nice scene of an island lagoon with palm trees. The text read, "I helped Apple recognize speech." The back showed the s
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Peter Norvig's book reviews on Amazon(amazon.com)
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by kbob 16y ago
How long will China tolerate VPNs? While they are an essential tool for international business, they also completely defeat the firewall.
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by kbob 16y ago
It's also immature. I'll be sad if HN becomes Reddit. The original article's headline is much better - more descriptive, more informative.
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by kbob 16y ago
How about disappointed? I've seen intriguing non-Von architectures for decades, and they always lose out to Moore's Law and the fact that 1,000X more engineering resources are invested in Von Neumann architectures.
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by kbob 16y ago
I'm surprised you headlined it "even" Google. Google's policies are better aligned with hacker ethics than any other large tech company. (E.g., open source Android and Chrome, GSoC, efforts to free spectrum, Data Liberation Front)
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by kbob 16y ago
Where's the "musical" part? Is this a pyrophone?
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by kbob 16y ago
When I was an undergraduate, a friend of mine worked for a physics prof who was researching something with superconductors. He cooled his experiments with liquid nitrogen. So we had a ready source. We started by chilling our soft drinks w
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by kbob 16y ago
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4051/4573501165_3e682f495a_b.... Commissioned an artist friend to design and build the desk of hardwood and concrete.
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by kbob 17y ago
Your second and third points could be read as, "I like it because it makes the app store less competitive." I guess I like it too because I don't want the next decade of personal computing to be an Apple monopoly, and making the app store l
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by kbob 17y ago
Aeron. My wife and I have both spent our own money on Aerons, and if we lost them, we'd get Aerons again. They also last forever. My older Herman Miller chair from 1993 is still in good condition too, in spite of having logged something li
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by kbob 17y ago
In US law, I'd think the more relevant precedent would be US vs. Microsoft. Judge Jackson wrote a lengthy decision procedure for when a platform is a monopoly. Microsoft's position was that Windows is not a monopoly, because customers had
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by kbob 17y ago
The title is misleading. This page has nothing to do with carbon fiber.
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by kbob 17y ago
This came at the perfect time. I'm just starting to outline a series of technical articles for my 'blog, and I was having trouble getting them organized. Thanks.
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by kbob 17y ago
Should also consider the cases with zero head pointers. For singly linked lists, a pointer to any node gives you the downstream part of the list, but not the upstream. (Can't think of any non-contrived, simple examples.) For doubly linked
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by kbob 17y ago
$ /bin/date +%s 1269411909 $ /bin/date --date=@1269411909 Tue Mar 23 23:25:09 PDT 2010 $ Easy, scriptable, omnipresent. Why would you bother with a web page?
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by kbob 17y ago
"Rightsholders" sounds too respectable. They should be called Information Monopolists (IM).
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by kbob 17y ago
More times than I can count. Usually pthreads, a few times with Python threads, and also with various proprietary threading systems. Both for work and pleasure.
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by kbob 17y ago
That was a very clever marketing campaign. (a) It piggybacks on 26 years' worth of Apple's ads, and Apple has had some of the best ads in history. (b) By pretending to leak the images, they created a buzz among the people who hunted down th
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by kbob 17y ago
There are some things I understand. I've written parts of Unix/Linux virtual memory, network stacks, process management, threads, interrupt handlers, synchronization primitives, TTY line disciplines, various kinds of device drivers. I've
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by kbob 17y ago
Me too. Writing code to minimize DFAs. Personal project, though. Not a student any more.
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by kbob 17y ago
I, too, am a unique snowflake. Unique among 52,301. But here's a surprise. My UserAgent string is for the version of Firefox distributed three weeks ago as a security patch to Ubuntu Linux 9.10. One in 45.01 browsers has that exact rev.
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by kbob 17y ago
Jobs are created out of debt, not thin air. The gov't does indeed have the ability to create more debt and more jobs. We're betting that the stimulus' net effect on the economy is more growth than the debt's interest, so it'll be more prod
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by kbob 17y ago
It looks like the study just analyzed the direct employment effects of the construction projects -- how many ditch diggers, bus drivers, etc. would get paychecks either from the project or from the system the project creates. The headline n
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by kbob 17y ago
And who wants to start a golf game at 8:00 PM?
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by kbob 17y ago
Does T-Mobile provide good service where you live, work, drive, and play? If not, don't get a Nexus One. (assuming you're in the US.) Android vs. iPhone is a religious debate, and it's unlikely you'll receive enlightenment from flames. A

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