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by llimllib 15y ago
> I am in no way suggesting that almost 600 million people are wrong. The massive and highly engaged Facebook user base clearly gets value and satisfaction from the product. I am also in no way critical or judgmental about those who fin
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by llimllib 15y ago
This page looks to answer your question with a fairly comprehensive "we're not sure": http://www.desy.de/user/projects/Physics/Relativity/SpeedOfL... (I can't vouch for its accuracy. It seems that the grandfather paradox is the biggest pr
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by llimllib 15y ago
Even when it's illegal? Is this an action that you consider moral but illegal (re: CAN-SPAM and various state laws)? Should AirBnB's investors be worried about the potential liability of lawsuits? > Each separate email in violation of t
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What I Learned From Fixing my Laptop's Motherboard(spinellis.gr)
342 points by llimllib 15y ago|81 comments
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by llimllib 15y ago
1) "Speaking of worlds," implies that he's talking about global climate change. 2) "climate change is real" refers to the idea of global climate change, you will be unable to convince me that he's referring to a common belief in "Boston cli
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by llimllib 15y ago
> Speaking of worlds, climate change is real. Even my amateurish, admittedly clunky analyses makes that glaringly obvious A warming trend in Boston does not make global climate change "glaringly obvious", and for somebody with an obviou
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by llimllib 15y ago
I've been happy with Mensch: http://robey.lag.net/2010/06/21/mensch-font.html , A font based of Apple's Menlo.
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by llimllib 15y ago
Even this link is not working for me. Did anyone save the text? edit: https://gist.github.com/989727
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by llimllib 15y ago
> Unfortunately, most of these people are also deep in debt and have already made such cuts. You might be underestimating the middle-class-ness of the problem. My first job out of college was pre-screening people's credit reports (in 20
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by llimllib 15y ago
Here's another visualization of the Gray code: http://billmill.org/static/perm4.png (it's from a few visualizations of permutations I did a while ago: http://billmill.org/permvis.html )
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by llimllib 15y ago
I often have trouble getting my motor started on my current major project, but banging on a different idea for half an hour puts me in a good coding groove which I can then carry over into momentum on my major project. 750 code words would
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by llimllib 15y ago
I think a good comparison is to an iPad, where the top-of-the line model with 3g costs $829. So this isn't too much more expensive than that; the question is whether it's $180 better than an iPad 2.
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by llimllib 16y ago
:q in a split should close that split, not kill the whole app. I can't use this app until he fixes that, because that shortcut is hardwired into my brain. There's definitely some neat stuff in there, though.
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by llimllib 16y ago
I very often want to: 1) Look at docs in one pane and code in another 2) Look at some combination of the model/view/controller triad at the same time 3) Look at a header file and the implementation file 4) Work on a rake (for example) task
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by llimllib 16y ago
This visualization is 100% client-side, you're only uploading it so that your browser can parse it with Javascript.
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by llimllib 16y ago
I'll try. Let's say you want to upload files A and B to Dropbox from your computer. A is a 3mb file, and B is a 12mb file. The dropbox client first looks at A, sees that it's <4mb, and so hashes[1] the whole file. That means that it run
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by llimllib 16y ago
> I can't speak for Python, but in Java it's quite simple to do it right http://docs.python.org/library/random.html#random.randint
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by llimllib 16y ago
The FBI press release[1] says that they've shut down all the sites' bank accounts too, so you're unlikely to be able to pull your money out. I selfishly hope they go after everybody with money on any of those sites, because it might generat
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by llimllib 16y ago
This should get you started: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=forfei... edited to add a feature article he wrote on it: http://reason.com/archives/2010/01/26/the-forfeiture-racket
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A Crack Dealer on The Economics and Entrepreneurship of Drug Dealing(npr.org)
2 points by llimllib 16y ago|0 comments
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by llimllib 16y ago
> There are huge (irrational?) barriers for giving employees big raises or bonuses. Since they exist at almost every company, I think it seems probable that it's rational. Here's a simple possible argument for their rationality: Creati
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by llimllib 16y ago
I've had Home Depot cut wood to my measurements ~6 times at 3 different Home Depots. They've done a fine job each time. (Also, do you see the precision of that "woodworking"?)
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by llimllib 16y ago
I spent $8 at Home Depot for materials and 10 minutes of assembly for mine: http://i.imgur.com/Aoqpd.jpg They'll cut the wood for you, just measure before you buy.
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by llimllib 16y ago
> It's among the worst C code I've ever seen I already hated the interpreter before I dug into it, and my expectations were reinforced. I was a college intern, I didn't choose PHP!
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by llimllib 16y ago
work on the python or ruby interpreters! Beautiful code, both of them.
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by llimllib 16y ago
I learned C in college classes, but never really learned it until after a "WTF PHP" moment, so I could dig into the interpreter source to figure out what was going on. Later experience with Python's interpreter and debugging pyrex reinfor
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by llimllib 16y ago
Then you're arguing that it did hurt you in the end.
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by llimllib 16y ago
> the mother of all cross-language urban legends http://www.snopes.com/business/misxlate/nova.asp
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by llimllib 16y ago
I now have beautifiers installed for the following sites: news.yc reddit.com wikipedia.org reader.google.com As well as readability available for most blogs. I wonder if this is a trend or a temporary thing?
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by llimllib 16y ago
> Remote retrieval and display management of electronic document with incorporated images -- this patent actually falls in the ballpark that it might be reasonable. It was granted in 1998 and filed in 1996. I don't know if there was pri

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