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by phr 16y ago
See Phil Greenspun on women in science: http://philip.greenspun.com/careers/women-in-science
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by phr 16y ago
The trouble with rules that remain on the books despite not usually being enforced is that they create opportunities for selective enforcement when they decide to crack down on you for other reasons, such as your political views.
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by phr 16y ago
Sounds like you're well on your way to the right attitude for that store visit ;-)
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by phr 16y ago
I've always thought Dasher (project at http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/dasher/ ) was interesting. It's intended for people with disabilities, but maybe it could be adapted for program text entry?
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by phr 16y ago
Great to hear themes are close! I know lots of people like the black-background-light-print look, but it's essentially unusable for me--serious eye strain. I'm eagerly awaiting a theme with dark print on light background so I can give Bes
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by phr 16y ago
I keep wondering what they did about the finger holes.
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by phr 16y ago
Store encrypted data redundantly in the cloud, with peer-to-peer crypto magic for key distribution? I have no idea how you'd protect against one of your "friends" deciding to release your stuff in plaintext.
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by phr 16y ago
Very true. I've already got a nice mixer, so I use it.
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by phr 16y ago
Tip: Use the bread-maker (or a heavy-duty mixer with dough hook) to save time on the initial mixing and kneading, but do the remaining steps by hand -- it's much more satisfying, and once you practice a bit, you'll get better bread. You'l
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by phr 16y ago
Take a weekend and check out Central or Eastern Washington. Lots of sun here, though not much of a tech startup scene.
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by phr 16y ago
I think your scale is off a bit. I'm not sure what "these far off galaxies" refers to, but according to this Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nearest_galaxies all the local group galaxies are within 10 million li
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by phr 17y ago
Nice. Just registered. Various glitches on the website where you fill out a form (received via https), hit submit, and get the API error page saying https required.
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by phr 17y ago
What I'd like to try sometime is NIX ( http://nixos.org/nix/ ). Getting it to work well on OSX would be the trick. Edit: They say it should run on Mac OS X.
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by phr 17y ago
Received a recommendation for this book this morning, because I had bought Peter Norvig's PAIP and other books on Lisp.
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Would you pay $62 for a Wikipedia article?(amazon.com)
30 points by phr 17y ago|26 comments
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by phr 17y ago
The first form screams "Add me to your prospects database, so your automation can start your sales people hounding me". The second form softens that impression a bit. I suspect it might work better on me.
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by phr 17y ago
Maybe you had to be in the right mood for it. I found it very entertaining, though long. I liked the neophilia vs neophobia with mushrooms. Referring back to the white-on-yellow highlighting several paragraphs along is a clever way to un
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by phr 17y ago
Someone in the thread mentions a plan that seemed inevitable at that time to convert GNU emacs to the guile flavor of scheme. Obviously that never happened. Does anybody know the story?
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by phr 17y ago
I gave up after the first 30 seconds of the main talk. Does the audio get any better later on?
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by phr 17y ago
Reminds me of interfaces in Google Go. No rigid class hierarchy to cram our objects into. Just implement a list of methods and you're good.
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by phr 17y ago
I think there is some truth in the advice to avoid sub-vocalizing. It seems to improve my reading speed, but does take an effort. The other day I was reading something that included a word I have some trouble pronouncing (sorry, don't rem
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by phr 17y ago
Thanks for mentioning Monoprice. Cool company.
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by phr 17y ago
Very cool. Here's one for Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice: http://diagrammr.com/edit?key=dvvAjKyVhCs
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by phr 17y ago
A new technology needs to be MUCH better than any technology it hopes to supplant. Of course "better" can have many different meanings. Is Parrot 1.0.0 radically better than other (non-perl) VMs?
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by phr 17y ago
Sussman is one of the authors of Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics. Free web version online. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure_and_Interpretation_of...
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by phr 17y ago
Nice summary. On finding a problem you'd be happy working on for a few years, he said "fall in love with the problem". I like that. One of the interviewers asked what source control he used, and admitted that he himself just makes director
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by phr 18y ago
I use 3oz cans, feed my cat 1/2 can at a time, and still have quite a bit left over.
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by phr 18y ago
You're driving away new submissions by asking for a login or registration at that stage. At this point you can't afford any barriers between the submitter and getting their item up on the list. I suppose you could include the login/registr
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by phr 18y ago
Not the kind of stuff I'm interested in shopping for, but seems like it might appeal to some. I'd think it might work for a lot of product categories where people have strong views and like to exchange them. For shoppers on a quest for a
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Microsoft Layoffs?(microsoft-watch.com)
1 points by phr 18y ago|1 comments

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