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by nertzy 18y ago
If it isn't, don't read the article ... then state what the article is actually about. At the very least I hope that you would read the article before deciding what it's actually about.
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by nertzy 18y ago
I had the pleasure of taking a course on synchronization with Prof. Allen Downey at Olin College. He made the topic very understandable, and even added student problem examples to this text! I wrote the "Faneuil Hall problem". Prof. Downey
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The problem with how opportunity assessment is taught to engineers(eatthepath.com)
4 points by nertzy 18y ago|0 comments
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by nertzy 18y ago
"I recently had an e-mail from a Windows developer in the Ruby community who pointed out how opaque many Ruby projects are regarding Windows." I guess my response to that would be that Microsoft is quite opaque regarding Ruby. By being such
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What message does Austin send?(geekaustin.org)
7 points by nertzy 18y ago|0 comments
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by nertzy 18y ago
I understand your sentiment but frankly I disagree. Your first paragraph presents a straw man. Sure, in extreme cases, reproducing a bug is not mandatory. Again, the author does not claim that reproducing a bug is mandatory, but rather that
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by nertzy 18y ago
The headline seems a bit sensational to me. They have found a way to cause an unusual interaction, but that doesn't make the whole of chemical knowledge up to this point any less useful or correct.
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by nertzy 18y ago
I think you're reading it a bit too extremely. His point is that you always try to reproduce the bug before you assume you understand it. His comments don't say anything about what to do if you're unable to reproduce. He's just suggesting i
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by nertzy 18y ago
LinkedIn lets you decide whether or not to have a public-facing profile. That profile is fully indexable by search engines. You can choose to turn it off. Nothing to see here. Move along.
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by nertzy 18y ago
There is a reason that the common login process has evolved into what it is today. While I wouldn't want to discourage trying new things, it's definitely worth it to read the other comments on this page and then decide if the convenience yo
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by nertzy 18y ago
Geoffrey Grosenbach has a Ruby library for generating Sparklines: http://nubyonrails.com/articles/2005/07/28/sparklines-graph-... And, as usual, Why the Lucky Stiff has a wacky minimalist one: http://redhanded.hobix.com/inspect/sparkline
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by nertzy 18y ago
Find a much more detailed article here: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/04/16/070416fa_fact_...
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by nertzy 18y ago
Table layouts work well when it comes to visual display of web content. They don't work in the context of screen readers, helping to make content easily scrapeable, search engine indexing, and the rest of the ways the web are used which are
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by nertzy 18y ago
How about installing a plugin to compensate for the lack of a feature on several disconnected websites all around the world? You can't really convince every single page out there to auto-link, but I'm sure you will come across a plaintext U
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by nertzy 18y ago
I really like this idea for links in general. My only hesitation is that someone might see it as a reason to create false accounts to game upvoting. Maybe a certain threshold of upvotes by users with high karma is what it takes to remove no
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The Boutique Website(ascii.textfiles.com)
2 points by nertzy 18y ago|1 comments
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by nertzy 18y ago
Allen Downey (the author of Think Python) was one of my CS professors at Olin College, and he always had a great and simple way to get his ideas across. Also check out his book on Synchronization for a fun look at the world of mutexes, etc.
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by nertzy 18y ago
I'm sorry, I don't follow... was this comment meant for a different article?
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by nertzy 18y ago
I have followed this technique to the letter several times when I need to get away from the computer and flesh things out more succinctly. It really does work wonders, because it keeps you moving along instead of getting hung up on some min
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by nertzy 18y ago
Ah, surely the Queen has finally discovered Game Genie and was finally able to beat Zelda for the NES, so she found it fitting to return the favor by honoring them.
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by nertzy 18y ago
Setting a CSS width and overflow-x:scroll on code blocks would fix the problem quickly.
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by nertzy 18y ago
Doesn't Internet Explorer have an option for this? I remember back in the dark ages when I used Windows that I would enable the multi-process feature.
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by nertzy 18y ago
This is a Mac-only plugin, so I think evince doesn't really apply. Most Mac users would probably rather use the built-in PDF libraries, which form the basis of Mac OS X's graphics system. They are well implemented, fast, and work great with
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by nertzy 18y ago
A lot of people would consider social engineering part of hacking. Either way, a hacker doesn't feel the artificial limitation of rules. He had a mission to complete, and he had the passwords to help him complete it, so he took the simple p
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by nertzy 18y ago
The problem is that companies with proprietary power adapters can charge a premium for them, probably earning a significant margin. It's not currently in a manufacturer's economic interest to support a standard adapter when that means their
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by nertzy 18y ago
Here's an idea: If Google determines that a particular ISP is throttling access to one of Google's properties, Google could post a message on the Google homepage aimed only at users from that ISP alerting them and giving them a phone number
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by nertzy 18y ago
That may be true in the eyes of enlightened consumers, but there are a lot of people who cannot easily discern these different types of wine, and to them wine is a commodity. Consider a commodity like steel. To most people, steel is steel.
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by nertzy 18y ago
Reminds me of joelonsoftware's recent Architecture Astronauts post. A relevant quote: "The hallmark of an architecture astronaut is that they don't solve an actual problem... they solve something that appears to be the template of a lot of
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by nertzy 18y ago
"This project is currently on suspension while I work on Shoes. Expect a new release, based on Shoes, some time before 2008's end." from http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/hacketyhack/ Given the amount of work he's put into shoes, I think h
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by nertzy 18y ago
I'm pretty excited, actually. There are a lot of rough edges on the operating system that affect me, one of which is the support for FireWire audio interfaces using the standard built-in Core Audio driver. It's not a new feature, it's an ex

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