mahmud

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by mahmud 15y ago
CHORUS 100x ~From big things, little things grow~
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by mahmud 15y ago
Greetings fellow disciple of Taleb! :-)
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by mahmud 15y ago
That's true. IIS still leads in Frobs per Clonq index. What other growth metric is there for a web-server besides market-share?
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by mahmud 15y ago
FuckedCompany.com was the place to be. Also the chapter on the dotcom bubble in A Random Walk Down Wallstreet has a nice selection ;-)
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by mahmud 15y ago
wouldn't a cash palette just be #00ff00 ?
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by mahmud 15y ago
Do people earn their humanity by their proximity to Standard American Ideals? What about those who are very much unlike Americans? Do you they deserve to get nuked back to the $EPOCH?
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by mahmud 15y ago
Has nothing to do with "Halal". NOTHING about Islamic jurisprudence (Fiqh) makes a mention of anything but edibles when it comes to Halal. If you hear some autocratic douchebag call something Halal or Haram when speaking of non-food items,
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by mahmud 15y ago
Meh. Those of us who run ed-nightly have already enjoyed those features since New Year's Eve. <3 Gentoo.
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by mahmud 15y ago
Fairly idiomatic code. Just minor nitpick. To traverse directories use fad:walk-directory from CL-FAD. It takes a starting directory and a single-argument function, then traversing that directory recursively calling the function with each
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by mahmud 15y ago
asinine fluff. NK imprisons millions of people. Now why is the minor cosmetic alteration of a photo such big news?
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by mahmud 15y ago
Unix was only rebranded in the early 80s at the exact time DOS was released. However, Unix's unintended "re-branding" was at its birth: due to its portability & availability in source, every installation was almost a "port".
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by mahmud 15y ago
Paypal is very well protected from 3rd party attacks. However, it's very much susceptible to random but real plundering of depositor money by itself .
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by mahmud 15y ago
Greeks are foundational to the mathematical theory of finance. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greeks_%28finance%29
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by mahmud 15y ago
Scribd, the most useful way to share a plan file on the internet.
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by mahmud 15y ago
Algol(W) comes from the messy world of Algol standardization, has its tails in the early days of mainframe programming, before structured programming was fully crystallized, and the modern epoch. Pascal is a clean up of the early Algol effo
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by mahmud 15y ago
The "rock stars" of mathematics are all mostly romanticized youth, but its bedrock is mostly gray-matter tucked under grayer hair.
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by mahmud 15y ago
Pro-tip for self-taught mathos: It's pronounced "Gal-wah theory". Also, "Lee groups", "Paul Erdish", "Kurt Gurdle", "Leonhard 'Oiler'", etc.
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by mahmud 15y ago
(apply #'max (mapcar #'age-of (list-all-recipients))) ==> 21
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by mahmud 15y ago
Rick Patnel, creator of AdBlock Plus died two years ago. I don't think he would have approved this new development. Just saying.
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by mahmud 15y ago
To those wondering "why"? He's creating artificial crowding in a very niche market, which will ultimately deter competitors, effectively creating a monopoly for him in that niche.
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by mahmud 15y ago
Chaser's war on everything.
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by mahmud 15y ago
Yep! And when he's done with it, he will read The Great Gatsby.
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by mahmud 15y ago
The original paper that introduced Functional Reactive Programming was the Fran paper: http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/dsl97...
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by mahmud 15y ago
People who have Symantec anti-virus will already have this flagged. No, not the malware but nmap itself! Many anti-virus software packages flag nmap, netcat & other network utilities as malware. Thankful for apt-get install beauty.
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by mahmud 15y ago
First "app store"? Hello, Simtel? Tucows? and before them countless BBSes?
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by mahmud 15y ago
itworld & computerworlduk as well.
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by mahmud 15y ago
Naah, wasn't that big of a deal. If anything, it was a security lesson for all of us, albeit a very vivid one.
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by mahmud 15y ago
minor nitpick: there is a naked fat man covered in poop on your front page.
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by mahmud 15y ago
Somali law(s) are definitely NOT based on Sharia, their claims to the contrary. Rather its based on clan/family cooperation & paid protection. The 14 corporations are not "legal" in any sense of the word. They might be registered overse
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by mahmud 15y ago
Fair point, and the magnitude of this feat was not lost on me. I was just speaking in general, we need a better metric for one-linerness than s/\n//g.

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