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by maw 17y ago
The idea is similar to Norman Borlaug's Nobel, although I'd argue that the case for Torvalds isn't nearly as strong, or, at least, far more diffuse. On the other hand, it isn't hard to think of worse recipients.
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by maw 17y ago
For me, the hardest part about working from home (been doing it since late 2006) is dealing with unproductive days. Some days, try as I might, I just can't seem to get anything done. I end up feeling guilty about this, far worse than I ev
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by maw 17y ago
My main gripe with Python is that it's impossible for autoindenters to work correctly. Consider this code: if x == foo: # do things if y == bar: # do something # do other stuff <-- at what inde
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by maw 17y ago
First phrase of just the second sentence: Despite the long-held view that natural selection has ceased to affect humans because almost everybody now lives long enough to have children Uh, what? Do people actually think that?
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by maw 17y ago
I guess you could look at the right to a trial by jury as the right to be not tried by a single person. Tangentially related, Richard Dawkins wrote an interesting piece arguing against trials by jury, although I confess that I'm having trou
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by maw 17y ago
I have two words for you, my fine feathered friend: Paul Krugman.
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by maw 17y ago
select doesn't scale particularly well, though. (And I'm not wild about its interface either; poll conceptually similar but much nicer to program to.) http://www.kegel.com/c10k.html (a now fairly old document, by internet standards) dis
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The McFarthest Place: 145 Mi to the Nearest Big Mac(strangemaps.wordpress.com)
2 points by maw 17y ago|1 comments
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by maw 17y ago
All of these compounded over hundreds and possibly thousands of years could have possibly affected the IQ of the Jewish population. There is one problem with this idea, in that most of that requires an elevated IQ to begin with. I don't u
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by maw 17y ago
He missed the case where verbs in the UI match the model of data within the program and not a normal user's mental model. Git, powerful and amazing and awesome and mind blowing and game changing as it is, is a prominent example.
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Braess’s Paradox and “The Ewing Theory” (gravityandlevity.wordpress.com)
3 points by maw 17y ago|0 comments
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Rush hour traffic and the price of anarchy (gravityandlevity.wordpress.com)
1 points by maw 17y ago|0 comments
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by maw 17y ago
I became good friends with a guy who worked in our company's Mexico City office. A few years later, I decided to take the plunge and move to Mexico City myself. It didn't hurt that the girls I chased (including the one I eventually married)
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by maw 17y ago
Not uncorrelated. Consider the many guys who are into girls that wear glasses. It's not because the glasses make them look better per se, but because the stereotype (which has some truth embedded in it, but probably not all that much) cor
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by maw 17y ago
It's true. An all black screen with no apparent content will indeed be hard to replicate without resorting to the awesomeness that is Flash.
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by maw 17y ago
Exactly. And to be fair, Novell and Red Hat have done similar things with SLE and RHEL and, come to think of it, openSUSE and Fedora. Since the code's open, it isn't quite the same, but both offer different levels of service and maintenan
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by maw 17y ago
AT&T isn't the only carrier with iPhones, though. I can't imagine Telcel bothering, for example.
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by maw 17y ago
Leaving aside actual errors pointed out in other comments, is this article even understandable to a beginner? Having learned and absorbed this stuff years ago, it's hard for me to be sure, but my impression was that it assumed the reader k
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by maw 17y ago
Slick, but isn't it only half the job? If I use mercurial to clone from a git repo, is there a way to publish the work I do on top using mercurial in a way accessible to git users? Still, this is a step towards it not mattering which tool
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by maw 17y ago
The "savings club" mentioned is known in Mexico (and possibly elsewhere in Latin America and among Latin American immigrants in the states) as a "tanda". The one I participated in (against my better judgement -- my wife signed us up as a f
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by maw 17y ago
This is easily the single most important question a nascent organization faces. Get it wrong and every bad thing ever mentioned in a chain letter will happen to you and each of your collaborators, many times over. (Honestly, I doubt it mat
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EconTalk: Boldrin on Intellectual Property(econtalk.org)
1 points by maw 17y ago|0 comments
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by maw 17y ago
Fusion works, but its full-screen mode is rather unfortunate—this is putting it kindly. While running full-screen, when you drag the mouse to the top of the screen, the Mac menubar appears. There's no way to turn this behavior off (please
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by maw 17y ago
Read the documentation of Java's Collection framework sometime; it's gloriously well done. Somebody had to write it. Both Yahoo and Google offer services interesting to programmers; presumably they want documentation of a similar quality.
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Where are Argentina's coins?(globalpost.com)
1 points by maw 17y ago|0 comments
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by maw 17y ago
All well and good, except that git doesn't explicitly store delta sets. Which doesn't mean storing SQL dumps in git is or isn't a good idea, but the git repository itself probably won't bloat up too much just from moving stuff around in a f
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In a digital age, vinyl albums are making a comeback(latimes.com)
8 points by maw 17y ago|7 comments
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by maw 17y ago
More than seven, since you can stress more than one word.
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by maw 18y ago
It can "only mean" that? No way, José. I'm absolutely positive, no doubts whatsoever, totally sure that it means that they can't but by saying that they can't they're trying to get you to think that they can and want their opponents to use
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by maw 18y ago
See also the <a href=" http://www.losanjealous.com/nfc/">Nietzsche Family Circus</a>.

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