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by mark_h 18y ago
Every situation is different, but: Doing a PhD worked for me as a way to find out what I really enjoyed, by investigating all sorts of avenues (unrelated to my actual topic, which I soon hated), after aimlessly doing as I was told in underg
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Google open-sourcing their servlet engine (sort of)(google-opensource.blogspot.com)
17 points by mark_h 18y ago|22 comments
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Gabor on how engineering decisions get made(gaborcselle.com)
17 points by mark_h 18y ago|4 comments
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by mark_h 18y ago
At the other end of the hacker spectrum (the cry-yourself-to-sleep reality end not the fantasy end), there's Office Space.
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John Resig dissects the neural network javascript OCR captcha code(ejohn.org)
90 points by mark_h 18y ago|14 comments
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Gmail chat now embeds video links(gmailblog.blogspot.com)
1 points by mark_h 18y ago|0 comments
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by mark_h 18y ago
Good pick up; it was the first thing I thought of when I read the title too :)
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by mark_h 18y ago
Exactly, and thank you for reminding me -- I meant to add a comment pointing to this overview of what a monoid is, and why they're useful, from sigfpe: http://sigfpe.blogspot.com/2009/01/haskell-monoids-and-their... Very clear and accessi
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The best of explanation of Finger Trees (data structure) I have seen(apfelmus.nfshost.com)
3 points by mark_h 18y ago|2 comments
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by mark_h 18y ago
Something about working at big companies seems to turn many people into whiny children. I think it's because they aren't really responsible for anything. I think you've just nailed something I've been observing at my own place of em
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by mark_h 18y ago
I come here mostly for the discussion. It's honestly quite rare that the actual link is that interesting to me. I've been finding exactly the same thing, actually. Usually when I upvote it's because the discussion is interesting, rather th
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Upcoming Australian Android phone delayed indefinitely over screen resolution(theage.com.au)
9 points by mark_h 18y ago|2 comments
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by mark_h 18y ago
Yeah, that was exactly the one that stood out for me! I've wanted this several times recently, at work and at play.
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by mark_h 18y ago
Agreed; way better than the usual lists.
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by mark_h 18y ago
From 1994 by the looks of it; I don't think that's apparent on the (print-friendly) link, but it's all the more interesting with that in perspective! Related topic: who would you consider the Kay, Hillis, etc of today? (apart from Kay, Hil
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by mark_h 18y ago
Thanks for posting that. I read Book of 5 Rings a couple of times when I was younger and still obsessively practising martial arts. I hadn't come across this though. I don't stack up well against #13 unfortunately! (Unless that's intende
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by mark_h 18y ago
The best glider I've seen -- supposedly designed by a NASA engineer, although I have nothing to back that up -- is also one of the simplest. Fold an edge over itself a couple of times, about a cm or two, to create a weighted edge. Then cre
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by mark_h 18y ago
You are my hero. I presume that's built in? I've been using TMP to get the same functionality, but it uses F12 which gets swallowed by firebug if you have that enabled.
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Legal Documents served via Facebook (Australia)(google.com)
1 points by mark_h 18y ago|0 comments
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Polypage: jquery plugin for multiple-context wireframe designs(24ways.org)
3 points by mark_h 18y ago|0 comments
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by mark_h 18y ago
I didn't think it was that bad; most of it could have come from The Pragmatic Programmer. Certainly, nearly everyone mentioned netbeans, but it was usually in the context of a generic point such "learn to use your tools really well; for ex
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by mark_h 18y ago
I thought as much, thanks. I wonder what they have planned then..
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by mark_h 18y ago
What's most intriguing about this to me is the pics of the device ( http://www.eprice.com.hk/mobile/news/?news_id=6051 ) don't seem to show a hardware keyboard. Has android picked up a touch-screen keyboard already, or are they maybe just a
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Australian Android phone specs announced(kogan.com.au)
4 points by mark_h 18y ago|1 comments
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by mark_h 18y ago
wikimedia often has useful stuff if you're prepared to dig for it: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Icons
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by mark_h 18y ago
See also GitNub: http://github.com/Caged/gitnub/wikis
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by mark_h 18y ago
This looks like an awesome resource, thanks for posting. Is it WMV only though?
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by mark_h 18y ago
a graduate stipend can be a great basis for doing whatever you want. In my case, I used the last year of my fellowship to get back into programming. Man, that is my exactly experience! The thesis I eventually handed in bore almost no r
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by mark_h 18y ago
L-t-U discussion here: http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/3065
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by mark_h 18y ago
I haven't used this personally, but I remember reading about the web server behind okcupid.com: http://www.okws.org/ It uses c++: http://www.okws.org/doku.php?id=okws:tutorial

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