pataprogramming

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by pataprogramming 11y ago
And Windows is free if you your time is worthless and you pretend you didn't fork over a wodge of cash. Can we kill this meme already?
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by pataprogramming 12y ago
Philadelphia, PA, USA; Remote: Yes, Relocation: Only for an extremely compelling opportunity; Full Time Stack: Mostly writing Clojure, Java, and occasional Python these days. Also, org-babel rocks my socks. Resume: Contact via email for res
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by pataprogramming 13y ago
Primary hardware: Dual 24", 1920x1200 monitors; IBM Model M keyboard (manufactured in 1990) still clicking strong; computer is a 4-year-old 2.67 GHz Core i7 920 (which is plenty adequate now that it has 24 GB RAM). Laptop is a 3-year-o
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by pataprogramming 13y ago
Vanilla chess can be a hard sell at game nights. I'd recommend a variant: Bughouse. This is a lovely (and madcap) game that can be played with four people in teams of two. It's played as two simultaneous games of chess, with one p
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by pataprogramming 14y ago
I'm a CS grad student, by the way. Looking for relevant papers involves sifting through a LOT of chaff. For search results, I tend to want focused density in my results, and I want to do as little work as possible to get it. * Scannable
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by pataprogramming 14y ago
Very fast and unfiltered initial reaction: This site is very heavy. Literature reviews are a process of finding the tens of papers you need out of thousands of candidates, and this site gives ten results per slow-loading page. The results t
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by pataprogramming 15y ago
There's also the sequel, Mindhacker, which was published by Wiley earlier this year. Ron's stuff is great, and absolutely worth checking out. Info on the new book is at http://http://www.ludism.org/mentat/Mindhacker (Disclaimer: I contr
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by pataprogramming 15y ago
This looks similar to Bubble Babble (look at ssh-keygen -B, or the Wikipedia page). This method's advantage would seem to be that it's feasible to do by hand, but I'm not sure that the chosen set of words would actually reduce errors when r