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by nfnaaron 16y ago
Would be curious to know if IMAP is slow for Weinberg specifically . Others report good web experience, and disjoint others report good IMAP experience.
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by nfnaaron 16y ago
[comments] " ... um, they're a private company. ..." Screeeeeeech! http://www.google.com/finance?q=goog [comments]
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by nfnaaron 16y ago
"I use !bangs a lot, but I wish they worked at the end of your search terms instead of just at the beginning." In addition to, not instead of. (And why not just allow it anywhere in the terms?) I like seeing that my previous search was a !
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by nfnaaron 16y ago
My profile is blank. So is my life.
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by nfnaaron 16y ago
They don't need to "go" anywhere. They can just quit. I deleted today. I'm not looking for a replacement, I already have email. My email privacy settings haven't changed in twenty years. Oh, wait -- I don't have privacy settings. It's just
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by nfnaaron 16y ago
skip everything but the last three paragraphs.
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by nfnaaron 16y ago
"I want to suggest abandoning the article for the constantly updated topic page (a la Wave). The problem with an article online is that it has a short half life and gathers few links and little ongoing attention and thus Googlejuice. It’s f
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by nfnaaron 16y ago
this is sweet
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by nfnaaron 16y ago
Are there good backend web frameworks for C, C++ or Java, with enough users and mind share that they won't die from lack of interest?
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by nfnaaron 16y ago
The one that pays the most money. Donate most of it. Edit: added second sentence.
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by nfnaaron 16y ago
If "the hacker" is truly brilliant, at hacking, then he likely will be brilliant or smart at other things too. Besides your options 1-5, think about things that are wrong or lacking in the world, and work on fixing some of them. That might
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by nfnaaron 16y ago
"Nasa claimed that a software problem with the flight data system was the cause but Mr Hausdorf believes it could be the work of aliens. This is because all other parts of the spacecraft appear to be functioning fine." The display on my car
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by nfnaaron 16y ago
http://ipython.scipy.org/doc/nightly/html/config/editors.htm... "TextMate¶ Currently, TextMate support in IPython is broken. It used to work well, but the code has been moved to IPython.quarantine until it is updated. vim configuration¶ C
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by nfnaaron 16y ago
Upvoted for the "sensible" solution of freeform, but I'd like to hear from folks who need each piece broken out, and why. I imagine zip codes are useful for auto-filling/formatting city information. Shipping account software?
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by nfnaaron 16y ago
"Meanwhile, The Longest Day was reissued in 1994 for the fiftieth anniversary of D-Day. It still sells—a fact that belies the glaring omission of Ryan’s work from so many anthologies of literary journalism, and also offers a powerful lesson
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by nfnaaron 16y ago
No. Not to learn C. These books, and others like it (for C and any other language (including Python)) have exercises. The guy was looking for exercises. You can implement the exercises in whatever language you're learning. Python, for examp
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by nfnaaron 16y ago
Implement (without looking) or re-implement (after looking) the examples and exercises from the following or similar books; the book's language doesn't matter: The C Programming Language, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_C_Programming_Lang
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by nfnaaron 16y ago
http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/?biz
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by nfnaaron 16y ago
No, just that the track is limited and easy to navigate.
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by nfnaaron 16y ago
Those are all "go fast, turn left" racing, with relatively little navigation load on the driver, and almost no way to get off track. Memorize the course, plan your strategy and tactics, and run the course over and over. (Not to trivialize t
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by nfnaaron 16y ago
"What if it is being controlled by a foreign superpower ..." Or a foreign minor-power with delusions of super.
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by nfnaaron 16y ago
Crossfit.
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by nfnaaron 16y ago
Yes, it's a rule of thumb called called "Tillys anything but a law" as discussed here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1319054 The idea is that a network is more valuable the more connections there are in the network. Think of the dif
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by nfnaaron 16y ago
"Laurent Eschenauer, one of the OneSocialWeb developers, says his project and Diaspora share the goal of providing a “free, open and decentralized alternative to the social networking silos that are Facebook and Twitter.” He says he hopes t
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by nfnaaron 16y ago
"100% is impossible" is never a good argument.
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by nfnaaron 16y ago
Me: You've taken all my curtains! Them: Here's a better lock!
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by nfnaaron 16y ago
What the imap server dovecot seems to be named after. I never knew such a thing existed, but after reading the page then "of course something like that has to exist." * 1 History and geography o 1.1 Columbaria in Ancient Rome
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Dovecote(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by nfnaaron 16y ago|1 comments
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by nfnaaron 16y ago
It may not (or may) be a privacy issue, but it still feels creepy when the Eye focuses on you, even if the Eye doesn't know who you are.
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by nfnaaron 16y ago
I almost never read Modest Proposals, Open Letters or Dirty Little Secrets anymore. The use of those phrases in the title tells me that the body probably won't have much original thought either. Can we have some new cliches? These things ar

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