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by lsb 16y ago
If you've got a bunch of math, I'd say stick with CM, unless you want to reconfigure a bunch of stuff. For mostly text, set with sturdy fonts, you can use the "Serif" and "Sans" in Ubuntu with \usepackage{bera}, which stands for B[itstream
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by lsb 16y ago
Remember, they can't copyright facts, no matter how much sweat of the brow it took to compile those facts. Recall Feist v Rural, wherein someone made another phone book: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feist_Publications_v._Rural_Tel...
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by lsb 16y ago
Memcached by default only connects to localhost. Were these people using it like that and/or does that matter?
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by lsb 16y ago
By that logic, if you want to be rich, win the lotto.
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by lsb 16y ago
Ironically, the NYT's web design was led for the past few years by Khoi Vinh, whom they hired from the Onion.
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by lsb 16y ago
YC puts effort into Hacker News to find new prospects for investing and, secondarily, to have a solid place to read interesting stories and try out language-creation. How are you able to assess the ROI, when even YC takes a 5-10-year look a
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by lsb 16y ago
I'm not so sure. Heck, there was pretty mixed reaction to 0% cap gains taxes yesterday: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1555363
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by lsb 16y ago
I saw three great-aunts and one grandfather die before I was over 18 from cigarettes and related effects, so I never dreamed of starting.
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by lsb 16y ago
Apparently FarmVille makes more money selling ringtones and credit cards and such than they do by actually charging people for things in the game. (So said Jesse Schell of Schell Games.)
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by lsb 16y ago
As a Java-for-pay programmer, I'm not extremely experienced in the Java ecosystem; why use Swing to make a GUI instead of using HTML?
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by lsb 16y ago
Are we, really? If you can put a satellite into space for 8k, why not put a thousand satellites into space, accept that some of them will fail, and have that much more of a network for the money?
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by lsb 16y ago
Sure you can! Webkit html to pdf: http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/
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by lsb 16y ago
The "tortured academic" motif is especially problematic; academics are mostly employed to expand the sum total of all world knowledge, but it's often supremely frustrating.
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by lsb 16y ago
Programmers who are able to evaluate their code every second (in a read-eval-print loop) are more productive than programmers who need to compile their code for a minute, and those are vastly more productive than programmers who write their
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by lsb 16y ago
Just like how "mad" became "angry" instead of "crazy" in American English, or how "bade" more often rhymes with "fade" instead of "sad", the meaning of "begging the question" is becoming "begging one to ask the question".
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by lsb 16y ago
if($('email-body').value.match(/I have (attached|included)/i)) { confirm('Did you mean to send an attachment?') }
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by lsb 16y ago
3M rows, 70M relationships? Sounds like it could fit in a hash table in memory in your programming language of choice.
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by lsb 16y ago
If you'd like really cheap web hosting, try http://nearlyfreespeech.net . Write something in PHP, and you can use a SQLite database for free (just put a high timeout on write locking) or a MySQL database for $0.01/day or something. They
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by lsb 16y ago
To be fair to Apple, they've had same-sex couples' benefits the same as different-sex couples' since the 1970s (back when being a 'mo was a mental illness, not cool and cowboyesque like Jake Gyllenhaal). It's a tricky business, being in the
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by lsb 16y ago
In Providence Rhode Island, the city paper submitted dozens of résumé pairs to jobs, differing only by obviously-classed name (like William Strathmore vs Tyrone Jackson), no cover letters. The Tyrone Jackson ones got no calls back, whereas
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by lsb 16y ago
Strings are an easy way out. You don't, actually, want a log parser. You want to easily work with your logs as a data structure, and your server writes its log as strings. I wish logs were n-ary trees of objects. Imagine, we could replay
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by lsb 16y ago
And in Haskell, foldl (+) 1 (map face_value dice) would use fusion to avoid causing map to create another array!
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by lsb 16y ago
I like that the configuration language is a sqlite database; sounds far easier than parsing ini files, for example.
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by lsb 16y ago
Not exactly. If you target designers and developers, you'll have much lower IE6 market share. If you target enterprise users trapped by a fearful and incompetent IT department, it'll be much higher.
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by lsb 16y ago
Yes -- antirez who wrote Redis wrote linenoise, a replacement of the 20k lines of the old GNU readline in about 400 lines of C for only the 99.99% of users who are on VT100 terminals. http://github.com/antirez/linenoise
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by lsb 16y ago
As a Latin major, I wholeheartedly agree. You can learn a lot from any major, and you can create something valuable from any major, and it's irresponsible to try to just give up because there's nothing immediately valuable to create. Can't
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by lsb 16y ago
The reason we didn't like Embrace and Extend was because we didn't have the source code. IE6 was exasperating because we couldn't easily study how it rendered pages. Webkit embraced web standards and extended them, but they show the sourc
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by lsb 16y ago
If you want to build a model on English text, you have terabytes of webpages to use. Exposing sensitive information (like, the phrase "Adam, I'm sorry your cat has feline AIDS" compresses via LZ to position 1230352024, so your account has 1
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by lsb 16y ago
Why isn't he mad he doesn't have the chip wiring diagrams? I'm not trying to be a dick, I'm just wondering, at what point should a FOSS enthusiast be content not to have the source?
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by lsb 16y ago
The article doesn't mention that his moniker "Mendax" in the book Underground is Latin for "liar".

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