keenerd

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by keenerd 17y ago
You should never have to ask to link something on the internet! I'd prefer to host it, mainly because my technique is pretty crude at this point, and I do intend to improve the quality.
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by keenerd 17y ago
You have it under a fairly tight CC license. Is my automatically ripped PDF version legit enough? http://kmkeen.com/mirror/lys_erlang_fgg.pdf It was an enjoyable read.
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by keenerd 17y ago
> hallucinogens are the one exception After training myself to remember at least one dream whenever I sleep, a few hours of REM is more than enough hallucinating each day. Some might say it is better to be hallucinating while running a
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by keenerd 17y ago
That is much better writing! Unfortunately still fractional sentences.
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by keenerd 17y ago
He talks about nuclear right on page two, column one. "Depending on who is doing the accounting, on the decommissioning and storage realities, and how the next four or five Chernobyls are going to pan out, I strongly feel that nuclear power
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Think of "using dollars" as "spending gasoline" [pdf](tinaja.com)
9 points by keenerd 17y ago|7 comments
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by keenerd 17y ago
> As much as I'd like to see big business curb their carbon emissions, there's simply no way they will be cut back by 75% anytime soon. Individuals do not have any significant influence, the industries need to cut back. The industries
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by keenerd 17y ago
I did that once back in high school. This was my primary source, and probably what you're thinking of: http://www.geocities.com/spm_stm/Project.html
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Productive work with the iPhone(engadget.com)
1 points by keenerd 17y ago|0 comments
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by keenerd 17y ago
You don't have to go global, you can be a nomad in you own country. This guy was doing it before broadband (or the internet as we know it) existed. http://microship.com/resources/technomadic-tools.html
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by keenerd 17y ago
There is also an extremely well developed open source stack: http://www.fourwalledcubicle.com/LUFA.php
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by keenerd 17y ago
A great book for inquisitive minds. I first read it when I was nine, and it got me started programming.
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by keenerd 17y ago
"Underground" by Susan Dreyfus It is about the phreaking/BBS era, specifically the Australian scene. The deadtree version is impossible to find, but the author has released it as an ebook. Download here: http://www.underground-book.net/do
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by keenerd 18y ago
This stems from a three page[1] discussion on the Arch Linux forums. And there are the five pages[2] discussing its developement. It could turn out pretty good, as the *box window managers compare to heavy desktop environments. It could a
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The Tools of Technomadics(microship.com)
1 points by keenerd 18y ago|0 comments
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Computing Across America(microship.com)
1 points by keenerd 18y ago|0 comments
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by keenerd 18y ago
> The problem with parsing ... Parsing them is easy.* Validating them is hard. * But ICM "could" mean 901 or 899, depending on order of evaluation. For very forgiving values of "could".
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by keenerd 18y ago
http://www.defmacro.org/ramblings/fp.html Uses a Java-esque language for code samples, and required reading for my new hires. This and others is part of a collection of introductory-but-mind-expanding articles.
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Parsing Roman Numbers - Beautifully(books.google.com)
21 points by keenerd 18y ago|10 comments
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by keenerd 18y ago
In the States, PBS does not run commercials. Yet the scarcity of people who watch public broadcast may be evidence against that claim. (Maybe average people prefer commercials?)
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by keenerd 18y ago
As a kid, reproducing stuff like this got me into EE. That said, making your own insulation sucks bigtime. The other popular technique involved long thin bands of silk, probably not a luxary they had. If you want to try something on a smal
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by keenerd 18y ago
It is also worth noting that Equal Rites was published 1-2 years after this speech. Was Prachett trying to gauge the reaction to his satire by explicitly stating it?
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by keenerd 18y ago
This was written by Don Lancaster, the fellow who invented the TV-Typewriter waaaay back in the day. For those who don't study arcane Apple lore, Woz used the TV-Typewriter for the I/O of the Apple I.
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How to Bash Pseudoscience(tinaja.com)
3 points by keenerd 18y ago|1 comments
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by keenerd 18y ago
You've just described dwdiff. Not the smartest diff algo, though its strong point is producing diffs of prose that are human readable. I used it as the core of a wiki with 'perfect' collision resolution. Two people could edit at the same
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by keenerd 18y ago
I've been doing something similar with my blog, except it is currently for people who do care what the text says. The diff algo is tricky, I should have built up a larger corpus of material before designing. It looks at paragraphs, sentenc