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by middus 17y ago
whoops, this is missing a not. "we should not dismiss ..." sorry about that!
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by middus 17y ago
BTW: These are other sites by the same author. I think we should dismiss his 100fps articles based on the fact that he operates a strange dating tips site.
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by middus 17y ago
I could imagine that this might be helpful to convince a boss or a colleague that git is not some obscure hacker tool ("Look, even NASA uses it").
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by middus 17y ago
That guy really seems to be a marketing genius http://www.maryrobinettekowal.com/journal/one-more-fundable-...
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by middus 17y ago
Sounds like a bad conspiracy theory to me. I'd recommend the SPIEGEL article he references, though: http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,667262,00.h...
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by middus 17y ago
What's awesome is this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newgrange Built between 3100 and 2900 BC: at the winter solstice the chamber inside is illuminated by the sun.
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by middus 17y ago
Minerals in stones?
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by middus 17y ago
Am I the only one who thinks that his "Example 2: Write function to compute Nth fibonacci number" is a terrible resource hog? IMHO an iterative approach would be the way to go.
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by middus 17y ago
Absolutely! Great company. Though the KIS is a bit clunky.
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by middus 17y ago
Could you elaborate on that please? Totally new to me.
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by middus 17y ago
Well, you don't have to live 30 miles away from work. You choose to.
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by middus 17y ago
Yet another one? Quoting mcav "Just when I thought the URL shortener fad was on the way out..." http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=995050
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by middus 17y ago
"Kill 2 birds with one stone." I find your post extremely disgusting.
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by middus 17y ago
Again[1] an article that basically is just a quote. Why not link the original source? [1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=961203
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by middus 17y ago
Yeah, but they knew that their offer provider has chosen scammy offers before.
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by middus 17y ago
Why is this voted up? It's just a wrapper of some of php's mysql_* functions.
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by middus 17y ago
I don't get it. Zynga controls the ad content as they are free to chose with which offer provider they work and which they don't. Sounds like a lame excuse.
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by middus 17y ago
You should fix this: Warning: Unknown: write failed: No space left on device (28) in Unknown on line 0 Warning: Unknown: Failed to write session data (files). Please verify that the current setting of session.save_path is correct (/tmp) in
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by middus 17y ago
If I was dependent on Google Wave and confronted with this page when planning to use it, it would probably make me angry. Looks cool, though.
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by middus 17y ago
See also Peter J. Denning's reply "Beyond Computational Thinking": http://cs.gmu.edu/cne/pjd/PUBS/CACMcols/cacmJun09.pdf
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Jeannette M. Wing - Computational Thinking(cs.cmu.edu)
8 points by middus 17y ago|2 comments
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by middus 17y ago
I don't understand how one can share one's attention between driving and a screen without increasing the risk to get into an accident.
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by middus 17y ago
The pirates have the right idea? Seriously? If you do not agree with a piece of someone else's work, don't buy it, fine. But disagreement does not give you the right to steal it.
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by middus 17y ago
It didn’t take long for Twitter users to respond: How dare Twitter mess with … Twitter. A self-described “social, search, and viral marketing scientist” named Dan Zarrella posted a passionate cri de coeur, writing that Twitter was about to
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by middus 17y ago
I just read it and it is awesome!
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by middus 17y ago
Buzz + Buzz + Buzz = Boss Looks interesting, though.
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by middus 17y ago
He seems to be more of a UNIX kind of guy.
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by middus 17y ago
"(This is in reference to The Allegory of the Cave by Plato)" I think that it is pretty weak of him to mention it this way. I get the impression that he says "look at me, I'm so clever".
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by middus 17y ago
Wolfram is the company, Alpha the product name.
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by middus 17y ago
Maybe it is just some kind of fear of failure that you are going through at the moment?

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