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by ojiikun 14y ago
Serious (non-snarky) question: are projects like this no longer standard fare for undergraduate CS majors? This example is rather comprehensive and well-documented, but is almost spot on what all 50-75 of us had to do for a Junior-level cl
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by ojiikun 14y ago
It is a sad day for computing when - hackers can't read an RFC - hackers don't know octal - hackers can't trial-and-error an interesting behaviour until they see a pattern and learn for themselves.
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by ojiikun 14y ago
I love these old articles. For those curious (like me) but too lazy to look, the current valuation of AMZN is about 116B, up from the 300M in the article. How long until we get an equivalent of "history" class for technology businesses to
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by ojiikun 14y ago
On the other hand, LaTeX should almost be a required skill for developers and dev managers. If you use it rather than M$Office, your development docs can be source controlled, easily diffed, and otherwise gain all the benefits of code! De
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by ojiikun 14y ago
Oh, how I am yearning for the inclusion of a "Discussion of Language Design As If Ruby and Python Were The Only Two Languages Ever Made" article followed by some article with a snarky title about Java and C++ devs quietly making hillariou
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by ojiikun 14y ago
Obama himself gave a speech before the UN just yesterday extolling the virtues of free speech: http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/president-obamas-2012...
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by ojiikun 14y ago
This looks very cool, indeed. My only question is: is this mac-only? Puppet is great for deploying developer desktops (read: linux), but, as the presentation points out, requires a few K lines of code. Templates would be awesome!
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by ojiikun 14y ago
(Mildly offtopic, but replying to my own thread, so TIOLI.) Just reading this makes me wonder how any person on this planet ever manages to successfully exchange work for pay. How did we get to a place where governments go on and on about
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by ojiikun 14y ago
Thanks in particular for this! A perspective from Japan can be hard to come by and (as others will observe) tends to be different than elsewhere.
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by ojiikun 14y ago
Doesn't run that well on my android phone, since my browser has only 2 modes of pop-up handling: deny all and confirm each. In firefox-ESR on Win7-64 it seems to get stuck in one of the SVG tests, unless it's supposed to take an extraordina
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by ojiikun 14y ago
The series of posts is great stuff so far. I've long been curious about freelancing, both in considering it for myself during certain phases of my career and in wanting to hire independent folks in the near future. I've so many questions I
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by ojiikun 14y ago
This might not work as well as they'd think. We did an experiment in my primary school physics class: hook a fluid pressure sensor up to the class faucet and start graphing the water pressure. We then sent a team to the restroom to flush a
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by ojiikun 14y ago
Would you any more go to a 3rd-world country without appropriate immunizations than you browse the public Internet without appropriate flash-blocking plugins?
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by ojiikun 14y ago
Worse yet, how many users will write it off as a technical error, shrug, close the window, and move on to read other things? Instapaper has found a way to stifle the readership and mindshare of whomever they choose, that, for non-HN reader
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by ojiikun 14y ago
Very handy. What I really want to see next is a side-by-side comparison of how much Glacier and S3 Classic cost for given usage pattern(s). It's deceptively simple how Glacier is hands-down cheaper than S3 if you write only for backup, bu
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by ojiikun 14y ago
Most of the interview is old info that won't surprise anyone following Elon's career. The info on "Hyperloop" starts at around 18m20s into the video and is very brief.
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by ojiikun 14y ago
Very nice! I've wanted something like this for as long as I've been a RecordStream ( https://github.com/benbernard/RecordStream ) fanatic.
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by ojiikun 14y ago
The the state of Georgia there is just such a law: http://www.lawskills.com/code/ga/16/11/38/ Interestingly, this occasionally sparks trouble with the police at geek/nerd conventions where costuming is popular.
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by ojiikun 14y ago
That article is refusing to load for me, but I found a cache and the answer we're looking for is: "numerals at the beginning of an article are one possible heuristic to identify linkbait, as top-N or list-style writing are a common approach
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by ojiikun 14y ago
I must be pretty strange . . . along with half the people I know. We follow a lot of twitter accounts (celebs, bloggers) in GReader or NewsBlur to keep our twitter feeds focused on real-life friends.
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by ojiikun 14y ago
The RSS feeds are an awesome feature if you want to follow high-volume, public feeds without cluttering up your twitter feed itself. I follow several dozen close friends, and like to keep my twitter client free of noise from anyone else so
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by ojiikun 14y ago
Does anyone have any insight about the basis for this rule? Most of the guidelines seem pretty understandable, but this looks very arbitrary to a non-veteran.
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by ojiikun 14y ago
I supported a local bakery here in Seattle with the promise of some (literally) delicious rewards and they delivered several days before the begining of the estimated delivery month. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1185564491/hot-cakes
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by ojiikun 14y ago
The primary reason is that you want keep two wallets. One you treat like a safe-deposit box, keeping the secret keys strongly encrypted or on removable storage and only loading them onto very trusted computers to make transactions and then
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by ojiikun 14y ago
Have a great care in how you attempt to cast Japanese priorities into your western morals. Devotion to work is devotion to family. Selflessness is expressed via success, not conspicuous gratification. Joy is found in greatness, not trivi
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by ojiikun 14y ago
Minor niggle: do you perhaps mean "flash-free" or "pure HTML/javascript"? It's starting to weird me out that folk are building up 'HTML5' as an meaning client-side, script-heavy, and fancy. Otherwise, very cool idea! I always figured QR r
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by ojiikun 14y ago
Every time a healthcare discussion comes up and everyone gets derailed on whether (or how much) to socialize things, I wonder the following: from a technology, taxation, and moral standpoint, what the hell led to a system where some heavy-d
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by ojiikun 14y ago
I'd generalize this all the way out to say: most modern hardware runs Linux just fine with a little effort; most modern keyboards, however, are far from ideal for extended use. I have no idea why things have gone so steadily downhill for so
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by ojiikun 14y ago
Okay, fought this for 10-15 minutes and discovered that it was my security settings in Firefox and my c-t-p settings in Chrome that were breaking things. Please switch to HTML5 or make the flash element visible. And now that I have it up .
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by ojiikun 14y ago
In both Firefox(ESR) and Chrome(v22) I am getting a message that I don't have the latest Flash installed. When I click on the message, adobe says I already have it. (no flash blockers enabled)

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