ninjackn

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by ninjackn 18y ago
Finally, someone with some sense about this netbook rubbish.
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by ninjackn 18y ago
At first I thought this was a garbage comment but it's actually a fairly clever reference. The article is about harvesting methane gas hydrates (which can be thought of as methane gas trapped in ice). But I question the use of methane gas h
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by ninjackn 18y ago
I agree. He starts off making some good points outlining the vulnerabilities of our economy due to our capitalistic ways. Then he talks about the most ridiculous predictions for the future of the economy, workforce and government regulation
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by ninjackn 18y ago
I'm tired of all these apple netbook rumors.
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by ninjackn 18y ago
The lack of syntax highlighting in books don't bother me too much, it's the size of the book. I've gotten used to a wide screen monitor for code so it's nice when that long if statement is on one line. For the purpose of learning from a boo
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by ninjackn 18y ago
Ditto. I've never wanted to get rid of my pinkie, I always wanted it to be stronger. I'm sure the author would also agree seeing how he broke his.
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by ninjackn 18y ago
I require more data! So San Francisco/San Jose/Oakland and Seattle/Tacoma is on the at risk list because: "relatively high numbers of residents who watch analog over-the-air television broadcasts and relatively low participation in the NTI
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by ninjackn 18y ago
Odd... I'm getting linked to: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9818482...
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by ninjackn 18y ago
How exactly is carbonating fruit an "Edible Electronic Birthday Cake"?
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by ninjackn 18y ago
Here I thought it was a poorly titled article, perhaps for something like a super lower power microcontroller running linux powered by a potato. Instead I find totally senseless satire (which I do appreciate, just not on HN) mocking the lin
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by ninjackn 18y ago
This is such a crappy link covering the details of this case. Here's better information: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081124-teacher-in-por... To summarize: She was a substitute teacher. She lost her teaching credentials instead
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by ninjackn 18y ago
According to the Zen of Python ( http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0020/ ), and the whole idea upon which python is created: "There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it." That right there sums up the whole point o
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by ninjackn 18y ago
I don't have a friend at cisco but I have friends in other large name companies and usually when they force shut down (esp. around the holidays) It comes out of the employees vacation days.
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by ninjackn 18y ago
According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memristor it would probably be utilized as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossbar_latch
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by ninjackn 18y ago
Maybe it was Visual C++ you were programming in. ^ is for a handle to a object on the managed heap so it's almost the same as pointer. http://msdn.microsoft.com/de-de/library/yk97tc08.aspx
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by ninjackn 18y ago
I have actually thought very deeply about this question and would often ponder about it in my spare time. Hypothetically speaking if I could go back in time and tell my younger self one thing it would be: DO NOT FORGET February 13, 2002: 1,