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by msg 18y ago
I was on a pretty tight schedule for my MSCS, get in, write thesis, get out. I changed advisors once, but I probably should have done so again and worked on the robot instead of the image steganography. I regarded my thesis as an interestin
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by msg 18y ago
I'm in the middle of To Say Nothing Of The Dog by Connie Willis. It is the most hilariousest of the time travel paradoxes, at least that I've ever read. It won a Hugo and was nominated for a Nebula.
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by msg 18y ago
I forget where I read this (Andrew Sullivan?). Someone predicted that now the Democrats will put out a new bill and it'll be voted through the house along party lines. Bush could veto it in the middle of his financial armageddon, or sign so
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by msg 18y ago
Sorry. The snark I feel is never the snark you read. I made a pretty borderline comment anyway. Must remember </sarcasm> tag
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by msg 18y ago
Well said. My wife and child have some special needs as well. There's more than one way for developers to be on the hook, if they care about their families.
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by msg 18y ago
GW picked a great leader: Dick Cheney
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by msg 18y ago
I've been using for months. It took a while, and the O'Reilly book, Yegge's post, and EmacsWiki were all extremely helpful (in that chronological order). You might also consider just reading the manual too (although you might want to hold o
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by msg 18y ago
In Emacs, etags plus dabbrev-expand plus tags-apropos equals Intellisense (or close enough for shooting). A lot of Emacs' power comes from this Unixy ability to string together tools to create something unexpected...
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by msg 18y ago
17, 6 months I would be interested in knowing how many are still under the baleful Eye as well.
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by msg 18y ago
I'll add too that you don't need to credit all your ideas in general. There are three factors I can think of that play into this. The first is the genre you're writing/idea-using within. Academic scholarship has pretty stringent standards f
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by msg 18y ago
Slashdot has had karma for a long time. This FAQ refers to it, and it was last updated almost ten years ago. http://slashdot.org/moderation.shtml Good artists borrow, great artists steal.
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by msg 18y ago
RSS and site feeds are the DVR of the internet. Just thought I'd get that one in there. If you need to market it to someone, call it that. Come to think of it, that is a smoking hot idea. There really is no TiVo of the internet feed reader.
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by msg 18y ago
Right. And I didn't get it until I was a year out of college. When you know it's what you want to do, you go out and do it (this is a definition of adulthood).
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by msg 18y ago
software developer for defense contractor I'm not an entrepreneur at this stage of the game, I'm just here for the news.
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by msg 18y ago
The following thread didn't wrap text properly. It ran past the right edge and required a horizontal scrollbar. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=282844 Curiously, I could not duplicate on other comment threads on today's (08/21/08) fro
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by msg 18y ago
The text underneath the button also says "Power" for the completely clueless. http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~brossen/ve/images/wiimote.jpg
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by msg 18y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=277112 This comment was at -8. Its text was invisible in this thread. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=277053 No problem. However, I expected to see the text when I clicked on the link for the comm
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by msg 18y ago
Here's an interesting solution. CMU just put out a tool called Perspectives that runs public notary servers. The servers probe sites periodically to get a history of keys. This can go a long way toward determining whether there is a man-in-
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by msg 18y ago
I was a National Merit Finalist, honors student, and such. I didn't go out and get scholarships for college. I stayed in-state instead of going out for my own adventure. When I got to college, I didn't know what I was doing with myself and
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by msg 18y ago
I'm on IE7 at work. I am a little too lazy to go through the paperwork to get Firefox on. For a while I was forced to use IE6. I'll give this to IE7, it's no IE6.
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by msg 18y ago
At the risk of dissecting the comment, ruining it, I'm not trying to make an analogy. The point of my comment is that Dawkins' snowclone is not very telling when you can use it to suggest patent absurdities. The point of Dawkins' "atheists
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by msg 18y ago
Most baseball fanatics pull for only one team. People who hate baseball just go one team farther.
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by msg 18y ago
Most realists believe in only one observable universe. Solipsists just go one universe farther.
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by msg 18y ago
If you're allowed to talk about it, the data you get back is sparse, right? So how useful does the user feedback end up being? It seems like one of those areas where owning search share actually means something.
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Google's "Edit Search results" experiment(justinhileman.info)
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by msg 18y ago
And I heard it totally Cockney, not that I hear much of these accents outside of the telly (that's what you call it right?).
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by msg 18y ago
Not that I like it, but a lot of algorithms in papers use shorthand subscripting so they can write equations that aren't 300 columns long. Say you're doing neural network stuff like w_1,w_2,w_3,...,w_n for weights, inputs, outputs, etc. If
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by msg 18y ago
perl -n -e "s/(</li>)/$1\n/g; print" big_page.html > big_page_with_lines.html :)
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by msg 18y ago
Here's something like what I do at work. Syntax not quite correct, I'm sure. It's a C++ project, but you can probably adapt it to your situation. Making the TAGS file takes a while every now and then, so you might want to run it as a cron j
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by msg 18y ago
I've found I don't miss much from Perl 5. The only things I've found really funny are backslashing special operators that you don't in Perl, like \( \| and \{. Oh, and \s- for whitespace is very weird to me. And there's no \d. And instead o

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