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by mirkules 15y ago
This makes me wonder about the times I found problems with the answers in the back of the book. It is incredibly frustrating to work on a math problem for two or three hours, look in the back of the book to see if your answer is right, only
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by mirkules 15y ago
"In fact, the blog post was in my folder of draft posts for a few months now, long before receiving my annual evaluation." In a few months, there was plenty of time to reflect on the negative points of that post and how they could be taken
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by mirkules 15y ago
On a related note (pardon me from replying to myself), as we should "...not accept anything and everything that may affect a hacker in some way, shape or form," I am strongly opposed to stories like "OS X Lion Released Today" or "Linux 3.0
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by mirkules 15y ago
Like I said, we've had this discussion many times before on HN. The short of it is, I don't want HN to devolve into a"current events" type of site either, but without the now-deleted article "Blast in Oslo," I wouldn't even know something
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by mirkules 15y ago
I noticed that "Explosion in Oslo" article from the front page has been removed. My guess is because it isn't considered "hacker news" - a discussion we've had many times on this forum. So sadly, we have to resort to finding technical reas
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by mirkules 15y ago
You can change the frequency, but you have to use an external app. There are a number of ones out there, for example: http://timesoftware.free.fr/timemachineeditor/ or http://www.klieme.com/TimeMachineScheduler.html Note: I can't rememb
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by mirkules 15y ago
This is a really interesting relationship triangle happening at the moment. On the one hand, you have Apple, a "traditional" hardware/software company, whose aim is to move as many devices out the door (IIRC, hardware is their primary reven
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by mirkules 15y ago
I have given up on TM because it chews up my external drives at an alarming rate. I have had three hard drives die in the last 2 years because of TM. My other drives of the same brand that didn't have TM are just fine still. Either I have e
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by mirkules 15y ago
Fair enough, but I've read research papers on pattern recognition that predate even 1996 (the field was pretty hot in the 80s before computing power caught up with theory)
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by mirkules 15y ago
Copying is only plagiarism if you don't cite/reference your sources. (I'm being somewhat tongue-in-cheek here)
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by mirkules 15y ago
From the link, the system: "...identifies structures in computer data, associates candidate actions with each detected structure, enables the selection of an action, and automatically performs the selected action on the identified structure
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by mirkules 15y ago
FYI, it's really hard to see the blue ocean / red ocean slides on my mobile device, and enlarging them only makes it blurry (samsung galaxy s). It's funny because I got to the punchline and couldn't read it. I still don't know what it says
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by mirkules 15y ago
I actually tried Peroni beer today just because of this thread. I gotta say it's not bad at all. But if you're ever in LA, I'll match the beer offer :)
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by mirkules 15y ago
So what is your point? I used low density disks in '94, so it's not a stretch to imagine they were around in '95.
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by mirkules 15y ago
I would love to be able to export my movie ratings before I cancel my account. Anyone know of a way to do this?
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by mirkules 15y ago
I had a CD-ROM by then, so I don't know what the floppy installs looked like.
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by mirkules 15y ago
Hopefully, they weren't low density floppies that they made you punch holes in and reformat as high density.
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by mirkules 15y ago
Thanks. I saw the COPYING file, but since I'm not a legal expert (and since I am considering using this as part of a big project), I was looking for a declaration of a specific license rather than a few terms. Plus, I'm not that familiar wi
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by mirkules 15y ago
Seems like most of the questions are watered down, and the answers are typical PR-speak. One of the tell-tale signs is the lack of any negative learning experiences, for example how explosive growth forced them to consider other architectur
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by mirkules 15y ago
I can't seem to find under what license is this released?
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by mirkules 15y ago
There are many instances where you need just one instance of a class, not just a hardware device driver (for instance, when you need GPS location coordinates on a mobile device across several different classes).
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by mirkules 15y ago
Don't fall the trap of the cargo culture thinking. Google has a completely different problem than you do. Their code spans hundreds of thousands (or millions), of code, in distributed systems, etc.. This is probably the single most useful
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by mirkules 15y ago
See: http://gigaom.com/apple/iphone-dev-sessions-using-singletons...
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by mirkules 15y ago
I have been wondering the same, about other developers. I am working on an application that periodically pulls information from a server about a physical object (sorry, I can't be more specific than this, so please don't ask). This informat
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by mirkules 15y ago
Also known as the nature of capitalism.
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by mirkules 15y ago
I read that Djokovic chalks up his awesome winning streak to a change in diet, particularly a no-wheat diet (I think he said he was allergic). But more to the point, I don't necessarily think that making small improvements in my "game" are
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by mirkules 15y ago
Knowing someone who was a contractor a few months ago at MySpace, I can tell you that the people that were there before the last major layoffs genuinely thought they were doing something awesome. When the first round of layoffs happened, du
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by mirkules 15y ago
This could happen to any developer. All it takes is a dumb installation package to screw up your permissions, or something similarly trivial. Also, it's not a matter of development, but security and system administration. They are often per
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by mirkules 15y ago
Do you work at an elementary school, by any chance? I'm not trying to be a wise guy - it's more of a comment that elementary schools are often last to implement technologically savvy solutions (i.e. solutions that cost a lot of money), so I
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by mirkules 15y ago
The licensing is really an issue, especially when you get into the higher-end. They don't charge per computer, they charge per CPU . So you'll have to pay 4x as much in a dual CPU system (I'm not sure if they have a similar licensing struc

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