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by mmc 15y ago
In computer science, you will sometimes get to choose which 20 hours of the day you want to spend in the lab. Luxury!
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by mmc 16y ago
Maybe failure at something really hard wouldn't be so bad. I saw a movie once about a bike race north-south along the continental divide. Most who started quit at some point, but they didn't seem like failures to me. Anyway, good luck. I be
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by mmc 16y ago
I use BibDesk to search for and organize research papers and Skim to read them (both Mac OS). I like to write company-confidential notes on the papers, so I don't sync them anywhere external, so as to comply with security guidelines. That e
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by mmc 16y ago
What a great essay, if out of date - I suppose maybe Windows' PowerShell might have changed his opinion of NT? I wonder if the whiff of elitism he mentions is still a reason for people to avoid UNIX, or if the availability of Linux has chan
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by mmc 16y ago
As others have said, it can be. He certainly isn't making any of the situations up in those comics. But of course, the good parts of grad school aren't as funny - so they don't show up as much in the comics, but should help balance out all
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by mmc 16y ago
Good points - always good to get multiple views. It's worth pointing out that at least in CS, you can keep doing research after getting a PhD by joining industry labs, which shouldn't cost you as many houses. Re: your footnote, the exact co
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Mark Hurd in Talks with Oracle(online.wsj.com)
2 points by mmc 16y ago|0 comments
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Lightspark: LLVM-based Flash Player for Linux(lightspark.sourceforge.net)
158 points by mmc 16y ago|13 comments
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by mmc 17y ago
See also http://www.rooijan.za.net/?q=ack_el - you can compare each from within emacs.
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by mmc 17y ago
Screen has apparently had this in CVS since 2008: http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?15442
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Perfectly Closed : Greg Matter(blogs.sun.com)
2 points by mmc 17y ago|0 comments
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by mmc 17y ago
For systems programming, I've learned a lot from reading the source for open solaris: http://src.opensolaris.org/source/ And the LLVM compiler is far more understandable than gcc sources: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project/llvm/
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Sun F5100 Flash Array - up to 1.92 TB of Flash in 1 RU (sun.com)
2 points by mmc 17y ago|0 comments
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by mmc 17y ago
"But were the effects of an accident limited solely to me, I am sure that the utility I get from being able to coordinate with others while on the road is greater than the cost of a marginal increase in the chance of an accident." Are you s
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by mmc 17y ago
This quote is one of the better mainstream-media explanations of cloud computing I've seen: "Armonk, N.Y.-based IBM is responding to the increasing corporate demand for inexpensive e-mail that's run on computers owned by an external supplie
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by mmc 17y ago
I built a prototype of something like this for the Mac OS X Cocoa text system several years ago - I called it "TextShapeView", and I was intending to make it into a Cocoa text system plugin (InputManager) so you could pop up this view next
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by mmc 17y ago
Nice name - I once had an idea for an accountability buddy web site for grad students, called 'e-advisor'. Basically you sign up and it sends you an email every so often asking about your progress. If you don't reply fast enough, it notifie
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by mmc 17y ago
1. set noprocrast on HN 2. use a separate browser for Gmail 3. don't check emails automatically. Only if I think of it. 4. only read online news once during the day, at lunch, and use instapaper.com to defer articles that might take more th
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by mmc 17y ago
Very interesting. This was about managers and executives, but are there any companies out there that are known to have a poisoned technical or design culture?
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by mmc 17y ago
Lots of places (in the US) have this, but it's ineffective to prevent Awkwardness - they only cover the height of the urinal itself. To fully prevent Awkwardness, I think you need full-height walls, so you can't see your fellow visitor's fa
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by mmc 17y ago
another vote for lambda-the-ultimate.org gpgpu.org insideHPC.com
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by mmc 17y ago
+1 I'm sure there are plenty of us Austinites here, it's just too hot to scroll this far down.
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by mmc 17y ago
With some preparation, you can transform the problem from one that may not be part of your job (solving completely new problems in front of an audience) to one that certainly will - explaining your solution clearly to an audience. If you tr
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by mmc 17y ago
I didn't think it was government supported, so I checked - from http://www.npr.org/about/privatesupport.html : "A very small percentage -- between one percent to two percent of NPR's annual budget -- comes from competitive grants sought b
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by mmc 17y ago
On top of not really seeming to help kids learn anything, these toys certainly push some gender stereotypes. What if a girl wants a penguin that shoots rockets and kicks soccer balls, or a boy wants a gorilla that hugs? Call me when the rob
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by mmc 17y ago
I say, pick your battles. "fail" as a noun rankles far more. Killing "(epic) fail" would be truly awesome. I'd even be willing to bring back "tubular" in trade.
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by mmc 17y ago
OK, I'll buy this. At first I couldn't think of a real use-case that matched your description, but then I realized one that might be close - Say I want to copy some pictures in a directory that relate to a craigslist posting over into anoth
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by mmc 17y ago
"but I suspect that managing buffers (and making sure they end up in the right pane) will take as much effort as dragging a few windows around." I think you'd be surprised. In my experience I have a fixed set of windows (not os windows, but
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by mmc 17y ago
A friend of mine just got his first mac recently, and he mentioned this same complaint to me - I had no idea, because I almost never use the Finder for file management. (I assumed you could do cut & paste) I always just use 'mv', etc. f
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by mmc 17y ago
Honest question - what exactly does a "professional networker" do? Who pays them, and for what?

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