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by maw 15y ago
Probably because it's interesting.
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by maw 15y ago
Agreed. I'm still hoping for e-ink monitors. I'd be willing to shell out decent money for a large e-ink screen. It'd need color and would have to be faster than current screens. For writing and for reading mostly-text webpages, I think t
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by maw 16y ago
Maybe not entirely on-topic, but I'm very willing to pay a dollar or three for a book in the public domain that hasn't had the Project Gutenberg treatment.
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by maw 16y ago
Duh, just read a few paragraphs up: "[funds] could soon be relocating ... to defy the laws of physics". It's pretty obvious to anyone with half a brain that if they can defy the laws of physics, selling stocks at 90% of the speed of light
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by maw 16y ago
We need common sense & neutral specialists in control. This world is clearly becoming far too complex for the electable caste. How do you reconcile those two sentences? As I read them, they directly contradict each other, even if by
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by maw 16y ago
Agreed. Polls like this one don't work well for orthogonal ranges, and here there are at least two: how well you know C (from knowing nothing to being a master) and how often you use it (never [anymore, if you happen to know it well] to it
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by maw 16y ago
IST sounds friggin awesome, at least compared to MST (Mexican Standard Time). We've had guests invited for 8:00 arrive at 10:30.
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by maw 16y ago
Hmm... I suppose so. However, selling drugs has two salient points that, I think, make it unique: it is lucrative and it shouldn't be illegal. I might put prostitution in this category, but I'm not sure how profitable it really is. I unde
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by maw 16y ago
Indeed. And also consider the opportunity cost here: all the drive, creativity, and talent that is going into making subs (in just this case; the incentives are such that drug dealers high on the food chain surely do a lot of interesting,
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by maw 16y ago
Agreed. It's a childish attitude, to say the least. Still, the idea an informal insurance fund to pay fare evasion fines is interesting -- this is why I posted it.
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Freeloaders Unite to Fight Subway Fares(online.wsj.com)
1 points by maw 16y ago|2 comments
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by maw 16y ago
I don't think you can generalize much about a group of three hundred million people. If you accept that premise, then there just isn't very far you can go when talking about a country's honor or morality. The people calling the shots in a
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by maw 16y ago
There are more than a billion people living in India. I don't think you can say much about them collectively, aside from obvious banalities.
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by maw 16y ago
Mistake one: thinking its his country. It is not. Mistake two: the idea of a country's honor is ludicrous. I'm with him, otherwise, although I don't think the case is as clear-cut as I used to.
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by maw 16y ago
Yep, very handy. After finding a match, you can hit C-r again to find earlier matches.
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by maw 16y ago
I'm reminded of what was probably my favorite single Calvin and Hobbes strip: "You know how Einstein got bad grades as a kid? Well, mine are even worse!"
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by maw 16y ago
Interesting question. I think there are some. Does N hz "sound like" N*2 hz and N/2 hz across cultures? I expect the answer is yes, but I don't really know. Have a look at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A13_QGMtlRE . I think Bobby McF
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MIT NSE Nuclear Information Hub (mitnse.com)
64 points by maw 16y ago|19 comments
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by maw 16y ago
I agree that reproducibility is very important, and it's worth going out of your way get it. On the other hand, it's not entirely clear that you should include all that stuff inside a source control repository. This is something I've grapp
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by maw 16y ago
I agree that many developers on Macs aren't traditional Mac users, but disagree that OSX is a better Unix. I'd say it's an ok-to-good Unix, but one where sound, copy and paste, and wireless networking all work--and that it's these that com
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by maw 16y ago
It wasn't github. It was the fact that, at first blush, Noisy seemed to fail the actually-does-something test. It turned out not to be so, but it did take me a lot of control wiggling to figure out what was going on.
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by maw 16y ago
The source is available: see ftp.redhat.com:/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/6Server/en/os/SRPMS for instance. Maybe explicitly asking for the source is considered different somehow from just ftping it, but I doubt it very much.
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by maw 16y ago
When in doubt: whois ie6countdown.com Sure, but how many people know how to do that? Or even how to find out that information on the web?
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by maw 16y ago
Amazon would start paying us to take Kindles I fully intend to take delivery of a Kindle once a day or so instead of working. It's gonna be pretty sweet.
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by maw 16y ago
As soon as I have an idea. Some ideas don't get far, and I therefore have no few one commit repositories floating around, but so what?
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by maw 16y ago
I think it's even worse than grey-on-black, which is an achievement of sorts.
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by maw 16y ago
Reading a book you've already read is definitely a good idea. Seeing the grammatical forms you might have heard, and even tried to use, written out (and well-edited!) was for me immensely helpful. It also helps that you already know what h
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by maw 16y ago
Pretty sure the GP is referring to pattern matching as it exists in ML or Scala. Or, somewhat less elegantly (given the constraints of the language) something like what https://github.com/jfd/match-js does.
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by maw 16y ago
It doesn't hurt that its interface is far more pleasant to use than select's, either.
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by maw 16y ago
there's no perfect substitute for a specific book I mostly agree with this, but at the same time I can't help but wonder if the author Dale Brown would get such prominent shelf placement if his name were something else.

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