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by mjhoy 12y ago
> Do any movies do it justice? I have not seen any, my guess is no! Sometimes I think Monty Python comes close.
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by mjhoy 12y ago
Masters of Doom I read recently and devoured it in about two days. I am apparently starved for stories like that. I don't even like video games!
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by mjhoy 12y ago
I'm about 40 chapters (~350 pages) through. I wouldn't say it gets better, or worse: I loved it from the beginning. If you aren't hooked by 100 pages, I'd put it down. However I'd recommend coming back to it later,
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by mjhoy 12y ago
Don Quixote . Touches on a lot: perception, value, narrative, ethics, creativity. Above all it is funny as hell and beautifully written. Types and Programming Languages , Benjamin Pierce, slightly intimidating mathematically for me but wo
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by mjhoy 12y ago
The second parenthetical of this sentence sums it up, I'd say. > He learned how latex condoms are made (by dipping phallic molds into vats of liquid latex, which is peeled off after it dries), and how they are regulated (the Food an
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by mjhoy 12y ago
There's a good post on marginal revolution that puts California in some perspective. http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2015/03/the... > As David Zetland points out in an excellent inter
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by mjhoy 12y ago
> Then superscalar came to microprocessors with the Pentium Pro. Hmm, but wasn't the PowerPC 601 superscalar?
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by mjhoy 12y ago
I had this very same thought today, reading Inside the Machine by Jon Stokes. Recommended. Amazing how abstract the programmer model can be from the real hardware.
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by mjhoy 12y ago
I've never tried evil-mode, but I always thought it would confuse me when using things like helm and magit and org-mode that (sometimes) use emacs-like bindings for their controls. Do you run into any problems with this?
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by mjhoy 12y ago
I was a heavy Vim user, and what worked for me was forcing myself to use emacs for a project. Other people use evil-mode, but I kept the standard key bindings. Use the help as much as you can, and learn about functions like C-h k and C-h m.
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by mjhoy 12y ago
All the more realistic given that the issue -- or a big fat hint at the issue, anyway -- was sitting in the public issue queue for nearly a year . https://www.drupal.org/node/2146839
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by mjhoy 12y ago
I will defend shitting in a bucket (although I agree with you in general). With a nice seat, some sawdust, and some care, there's absolutely nothing wrong with it, and in fact after using it for a while normal toilets seem outrageous.
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by mjhoy 12y ago
Back in college I used to check "rate my professor" when picking classes. I learned pretty quickly to avoid the highly-rated.
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by mjhoy 12y ago
Not quite related, but if you haven't seen how emacs and org-mode handle ascii tables, it's pretty amazing! It will reflow automatically, and tabbing works just like you would expect in a spreadsheet application.
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by mjhoy 12y ago
I once found Introduction to Algorithms in one, in Boston. I was impressed.
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by mjhoy 12y ago
I was about to post about John McPhee, too, when I saw your comment. Excellent book, recommended. Somewhat related, also great: Looking for a Ship .
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by mjhoy 12y ago
Isn't it in Google's interest not to have a store filled with spammy stuff that confuses users?
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by mjhoy 12y ago
http://khason.net/blog/computer-languages-and-facial-hair-%E...
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by mjhoy 12y ago
The method of teaching might be the problem, but I think it's the wrong thing to focus on. A teacher who loves math, who is inspired by it, will teach it "right" (I think) even if ultimately they need to teach all of the bori
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by mjhoy 12y ago
I couldn't really tell you anything about category theory. But I am beginning to grasp monads. (At least in the context of Haskell programs.) I think the important thing is to see how they work, see what they do. btw, you might try thi
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by mjhoy 13y ago
LastPass puts vulnerable in scare quotes. But to my understanding, with this bug session information to the website could have leaked, and they don't seem to address this. Could an attacker have hijacked logins?
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LastPass and the Heartbleed Bug(blog.lastpass.com)
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by mjhoy 13y ago
Nice. Works well for drawings/comics. http://imgur.com/a/Xvu7K
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by mjhoy 13y ago
> Should all high-ranking employees in the USA be vetted for appropriate (leftwing?) political views before being hired? That doesn't seem right. That's a sly way of phrasing it, Dolimiter. Those crazy leftwingers are enforcin
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by mjhoy 13y ago
> ... legally ... Hence the problem (in my view). Because "marriage" has important legal ramifications in the U.S., you are denying people rights if you deny them marriage. I think you should be free to think about marriage _as
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by mjhoy 13y ago
The counterargument to fears about disease is ridiculous: > But nature is totally random. Does David Haussler really believe that? That whatever species exist in an ecosystem today is just some random set? That evolution is noise in th
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by mjhoy 13y ago
> I'd be sweating the fact that I can't parse the meaning of a word based on the context it's used in. I would say that's _exactly_ what he's doing. He's considering what companies might actually mean by thr
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by mjhoy 13y ago
There's too much competing text, IMHO. Focus more on the message and photo. And it's really bad to have a big sign-up box that pops up before I've got a chance to let the inspirational message sink in. That just makes me want
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by mjhoy 13y ago
It's an interesting exchange. Scherer kept asking him where he had sung his songs; Pete kept insisting that he instead ask about what he had sung — that he would sing for anybody, so it wasn't relevant, and that his songs were
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by mjhoy 13y ago
> In 1955 he was subpoenaed by the House Un-American Activities Committee, where he testified, “I feel that in my whole life I have never done anything of any conspiratorial nature.” He also stated: “I am not going to answer any question

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