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by nfnaaron 17y ago
From my C days, I second and third Harbison & Steele. I learned from K&R, but I learned better from H&S. From this list (can't say how current they are), http://www.c-faq.com/resources/sd19.html I liked: - K&R and H&#3
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I've never had a problem with affiliate links. I don't think they're dirty. I can recognise a valuable review opposed to a worthless review, so whether there are affiliate links in the review doesn't affect my reception of the review. It do
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Silence. I rarely listen to music when I'm working, because I like music, and when it's playing I pay attention to it. And then I can't work.
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I searched but couldn't find info on time spent in school across nations that included Finland. Why Finland? I "heard" somewhere that Finnish students spend less time in school, and/or on homework, than American students. Why Finland? This
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
"An executive for Kimberly-Clark, the owner of Kotex, notes that US TV networks have no such compunction about references to "erectile dysfunction" in prime-time ads for Viagra and Ciallis." Yeah, but they never say what it is that's erect
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Does Murdoch's wife sing opera, by chance?
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
Maybe someone is reviewing a book that they purchased elsewhere? Whose business is it where I purchase (or check out) a book? I don't think erring on the side of privacy is a bad thing. I was checking a book out of the library yesterday, a
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What he's talking about is branching in code to avoid all subversion branches. That's probably pathological.
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Guilty pleasure.
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Computers compress everything, including the time it takes to feel like an old fart.
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$75M of anything inside, and not even a rent-a-cop on site?
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Having been to the moon.
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And if you carefully examine my parent comment, you'll find that it works here on HN.
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Very clever．Nicely done.
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With billion dollar toys that they will take and go home with if you don't play the way they want.
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
I think the golden light that would be in such a scene would look better shining through the golden coat of a golden retriever.
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
http://www.google.com/search?q=project+903 The youtube link in the above search shows the thing "in flight."
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New CU-Boulder hand bacteria study holds promise for forensics identification(eurekalert.org)
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Impatience was my reaction. It's actually not too bad, it was just twice as long as it needed to be; probably too much adlibbing.
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
By the logic of the report, the New York Times should have been shut down or marginalized when Daniel Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagon_Papers Maybe a better response by the government to Wikileaks
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
I've been involved in a couple of "please participate in some interactive feedback on my app" wave discussions with some friends. People had to email me to make me aware of the waves. I'm not normally signed in to google. So there's a parti
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It does feel like the world is passing us by.
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
Hmm. Has anyone tried a purgatory ban (I just made that up). Basically give individual users the ability to never see posts or messages from other individual users, but no indication to the ban-ee.
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The monetization period is going to be relatively short lived.
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Usefulness is good.
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"Probably any company today that has at least 500 factories has similar (modern) hierarchical system of control in place." Yeah, it's called Walmart.
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
I had this same thought during my twice yearly meditation on Daylight Savings Time. I concluded that most peoples' jobs do not allow them to leave an hour earlier merely because they want to. DST is probably the least disruptive way to keep
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The item pics, pointing to map locations is cool. Sometimes the pic obscures the map location though.
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
Nicely done, plain and simple. You have what looks like the back-tick character sitting below your google ad box on every page. I would change your screen name to something else, like SiteAdministrator. Creator is a little too Old Testament
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It was for us. :-/

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