nickzoic

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by nickzoic 14y ago
Thanks Alex for posting the first quote from a sportsperson I've every actually found inspirational. OP, hang in there and find someone you can talk about your feelings to, even if you have to keep your "confident face" on all day. Failin
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by nickzoic 14y ago
Good point(s). I was more addressing the techical "How can I tell if my computer is haunted?" question than the original poster's legal issues, on which I am not at all qualified to speculate.
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by nickzoic 14y ago
OK, the proper way to do this is to not touch the machine at all. Shut it down and leave it alone. Maybe borrow its hard drive and back it up using 'dd'. Set up a separate Linux (etc) machine with two ethernet ports as a firewall/router
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by nickzoic 14y ago
Even though I'm actually overall pretty positive on the value of higher education, the argument lost me at: > "The question is, “Can you be successful in truly meaningful ways without going to college?” The answer for most of you is “No
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by nickzoic 14y ago
As much as I kind of hate to admit it ... The cost to a hobbyist of an 8-pin 555 timer[1] is not significantly different to the cost of an 8-pin TinyAVR[2] -- and the TinyAVR gives you a lot more options -- so that's the way kids these days
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by nickzoic 14y ago
... Smith then produces a GUI with 14 sliders for viewing the lines. When the client still isn't happy he adds an "Advanced" dialog to let the user specify an augmented transformation matrix ...
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by nickzoic 14y ago
Nothing says "disposable income" like a diamond hoe.
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by nickzoic 14y ago
Thanks! (and the other guys too, but Dart seems most like what I was looking for ...)
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by nickzoic 14y ago
Yes, the move to UEFI worries me a whole lot more than the CPU being soldered to the board. I haven't upgraded a CPU in a very long time.
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by nickzoic 14y ago
I do this all the time to laptops ... boot Windows once to go through the whole "create backup DVDs" procedure, then put the DVDs away somewhere safe and wipe the machine. If you ever have to claim warranty, back up your Linux files, secur
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by nickzoic 14y ago
Yeah, I like to minify the HTML as well ... most template engines have an "omit whitespace" option or flag which lets you do this. Every now and then whitespace turns out to be significant though ... so you need to be slightly intelligent a
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by nickzoic 14y ago
Do any of these languages solve the debugging problem? I'd love to write my client-side code in something other than JS, but I'd still be debugging it in JS, and I have trouble believing that's going to help ...
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by nickzoic 14y ago
Wow, I didn't know that, it explains a lot.
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by nickzoic 14y ago
The "proper" Hayes AT drop-back-to-command-mode sequence was +++ followed by a long pause (1 second or so). Any characters sent during that pause time would invalidate the attempt to switch to command mode. So theoretically this shouldn't
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by nickzoic 14y ago
You guys really should have copied preferential voting while you were at it. Or skipped over us entirely and gone with proportional representation.
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by nickzoic 14y ago
My 6yo daughter was upset because she couldn't understand the first clue in one of those kids' word puzzle books. "My first letter is in TOAST but not in ROAST". Sometimes, dear daughter, you're just smarter than the guy who wrote
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by nickzoic 14y ago
Success contains a large factor of luck for sure, but I'd say also a large factor of something not measured by IQ tests. Charisma? "Emotional Intelligence"? Mental flexibility? Gumption? Who knows.
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by nickzoic 14y ago
Also Bog Butter: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bog_butter
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by nickzoic 14y ago
The count({condition}) one is a worry. I'm guessing it is slow in the case where it has to page the index in in order to count it. I wonder if it is still a problem where the index is used a lot anyway. A fix in MongoDB would seem a lot
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by nickzoic 14y ago
Next Up: Crackmonkey Nostalgia.
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by nickzoic 14y ago
Yeah, and there's a Perl Email::Valid http://search.cpan.org/~rjbs/Email-Valid-0.190/ which checks for well-formedness and the existence of the domain.
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by nickzoic 14y ago
Yeah, maybe. But you're going to have to send them there some time to do the "confirm email" thing, I was just thinking perhaps get that over and done with upfront. Ideally, all this would be done away with by OpenID or client-side certifi
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by nickzoic 14y ago
Here's another thought, just off the top of my head: get people to sign up by sending an email to "subscribe@example.com". You can include that as a "mailto:" link and many browsers will deal with it correctly. There's very good odds tha
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by nickzoic 14y ago
... for example if the IPv6 address is autoconfed from the MAC address, then you can exploit the structure of the MAC address to target a much smaller range of address suffixes, specific to the manufacturer of your target device(s).
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by nickzoic 14y ago
I'd like an App Store with a "if you delete it within X days you get an automatic refund" model. That would make buying apps risk free and refunding them hassle free, without the annoyance of having "Lite" vs "Full" versions.
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by nickzoic 14y ago
They should rename it "Malkovich": Malkovich saw what I was working on and showed it to Malkovich Malkovich (Art Director who worked with Malkovich Malkovich), and he said something like "that's Malkovich!"
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by nickzoic 14y ago
AVR microcontrollers, certainly. Edit: That's answering the question I think you meant, which was "Is memory mapped I/O in use anywhere ..." And yes, they're often programmed in C.
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by nickzoic 14y ago
> I think the difference is that you find the axis on which you are or aren't cheating (in this conversation, a degree) important and worth ranking and measuring people against. I don't. I'm perfectly happy to interview and hire people
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by nickzoic 14y ago
Which is interesting, because Google/Facebook also seem to be requiring a "Pen name", really ... until they start checking IDs for a serious proportion of users, and not just the ones which seem odd to them.
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by nickzoic 14y ago
I was about to point this out elsewhere in the thread where someone was saying that you can do anything you want with a hierarchical directory structure and hard links ... This is equivalent to hierarchical tags (if you allow that an "untag

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