nogoodnik

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by nogoodnik 13y ago
Almost all of my books are on paper. I don't mind the space they're taking (six or so bookshelves throughout the house), and I'm past the stage of my life where I moved every other year, so there's no real incentive to g
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by nogoodnik 13y ago
Thank you for writing Apple Writer. 1. I wrote most of my high school reports on it. 2. I once wrote a set of WPL programs to automate the generation of multiple-choice tests, and sold it for $50 to my uncle who was a physics teacher. 3. Ap
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by nogoodnik 13y ago
The most interesting thing about all this is the fact that the researchers were required by paper authors to sign non-disclosure agreements and agree not to identify papers with non-reproducible results. This says a lot about the confidence
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by nogoodnik 14y ago
I used to have a Thinkpad T61. Best laptop I ever had. When it came time to upgrade, I looked in disbelief at the current Thinkpad line, and felt the same emptyness in my heart as when my old HP 42S calculator died and I went to HP's site t
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by nogoodnik 14y ago
Cool hack, happy daughter. What's not to like? Oh, hello patriarchy. Now I understand sinfest better.
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by nogoodnik 14y ago
Ugh, the anti-aliasing kills most of them for me. I realize I'm probably in the minority, and my opinion might change as screen resolutions get better and my eyes get worse, but I vastly prefer crisp fonts for screen use. When I switched fr
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by nogoodnik 14y ago
In a few weeks, "Don't buy Samsung laptops" is what I will remember from this.
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by nogoodnik 14y ago
Hey, this gives me a great idea: I could write a program that will gather email addresses on the web and automatically email my sales pitch to every single one of them. And I could sell both this program and my email lists to other companie