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   by llimllib 17y ago

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_tree would be an improvement.
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   by llimllib 17y ago

   How does OCW do anything but increase textbook demand?
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   7th Circuit Upholds Prison Rule Forbidding Inmates to Play Dungeons and Dragons(volokh.com)

   4 points by llimllib 17y ago|0 comments
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   by llimllib 17y ago

   neither of your points matters if you believe his assertion that (roughly) the 1000th most popular iPhone app generates 5x the revenue of the 100th most popular Mac shareware app.
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   by llimllib 17y ago

   Going meta on the logic of the argument, you've made a quantification error. The parent post said "Men need to be arrogant self-aggrandizing jerks to get women's attention" and you responded "it's definitely possible to find a mate without
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   by llimllib 17y ago

   > Do you want the international edition? I have a few of them, and they are better than nothing. But, the paper is so thin that I get distracted by the words/figures on the other side of the page. Yeah, I don't buy them for myself eithe
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   by llimllib 17y ago

   abebooks.com is usually the cheapest place to buy textbooks, you can often get the softcover international editions.
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   by llimllib 17y ago

   All of the comments here correctly note that this article is nonsense. Will one of the upvoters please explain why they found this article compelling?
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   by llimllib 17y ago

   While all of these are true, I find that they usually derive from a simpler rule: Have a laser focus on the users you're trying to reach, and everything you do should make their lives easier in some way. When I find people breaking these so
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    by llimllib 17y ago

    excellent choice setting the defaults to give very flattering results... there's a lesson in that.
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    by llimllib 17y ago

    I expected to see onion.com on the byline, not nytimes.com
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    by llimllib 17y ago

    I've previously gone through this course as a linalg refresher, and I love it. Gil Strang is an amazing professor.
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    by llimllib 17y ago

    I had a great experience at work, where networkx was too slow to work on the graph that I was working on, and igraph handled it perfectly, quickly, in python, and with just as simple an API. Worth the pain to get it installed (IIRC, was a w
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    by llimllib 17y ago

    Talk to Dave Troy, he founded the Beehive in Baltimore and could fill you in on the details and his experiences so far: http://beehivebaltimore.org/ http://davetroy.com/?p=599 There's an email address on the beehive page or drop me an e
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    by llimllib 17y ago

    My favorite bash aliases: alias aack="ack --all" alias rack="ack --ruby --follow" alias fack="ack --actionscript --follow" alias jack="ack --js" alias pack="ack --python" (mentioned because aack would have prevented his searching problem)
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    by llimllib 17y ago

    > But on the whole this User Guide app and the PastryKit framework are rather amazing. The $64,000 question, though, is whether PastryKit is something Apple intends (or that a team within Apple hopes) to ship publicly. It seems like a l
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    by llimllib 17y ago

    nothing I could find, seems either bogus or unreported to me.
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    by llimllib 17y ago

    158 days ago was July 7, 2009. Google news doesn't show a news story about a hang gliding death of anyone named "nicholas" this year, though that's far from conclusive.
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    by llimllib 17y ago

    I appreciate the links; I had to learn too, and I largely have done so. Just wanted to say that it is, in fact, difficult.
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    by llimllib 17y ago

    > Especially if this is difficult for you, I suggest that you take some time to study meat computers. I do, and I have. I just wanted to say that it's one of the most challenging things I've ever worked on in my life. I still occasional
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    by llimllib 17y ago

    And I've had the misfortune of meeting asshole border guards on both sides, many years apart. Do I win a door prize?
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    by llimllib 17y ago

    > It is quite easy to disagree with people without being impolite about it. Maybe for you; I don't doubt its possibility, I just want to say that I find it extremely difficult to do myself.
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    by llimllib 17y ago

    lala's been around for a long time. (About a year (?) in the current incarnation, much longer in a CD-swapping incarnation. I used both)
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    by llimllib 17y ago

    Hypothesis: The reference to Sailer is mainly a hit, intended to link Pinker and Sailer, and drag Pinker down. Therefore, Sailer's response is largely irrelevant. (Agreed that Sailer's response is valid. Further support for my hypothesis: G
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    by llimllib 17y ago

    To be honest, I just kind of think I know that there are stream XML parsers? I've used cElementTree when I have small XML documents and written my own regex for larger ones. (cElementTree is definitely not a stream parser)
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    by llimllib 17y ago

    I almost always write my own stream parser with regular expressions to deal with large XML files (especially very regular ones), though it should be noted that there are stream XML parsers.
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    by llimllib 17y ago

    Why reverse geocoding but not geocoding?
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    by llimllib 17y ago

    I de-edited the end of my comment, because of weird time-related issues. > The feature is good and Python should finish integrating lambdas rather than sitting on their half-cocked nod to it. They cannot now for 2 years, maybe more. It'
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    by llimllib 17y ago

    > Ruby's anonymous function syntax was pretty novel Ruby: {|x| x+1} Smalltalk: [:x | x+1] What am I missing?
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    by llimllib 17y ago

    that was a very good game back in the day.