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by phr 18y ago
Wasn't TMA1 located in Tycho Crater (near side)?
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by phr 18y ago
They mention it fairly often on the day-time market-watching shows on CNBC.
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by phr 18y ago
WSJ stopped crashing so much when I disabled javascript, but that's pretty drastic.
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by phr 18y ago
"...as I get older I'm much more willing to "bail out" of a book." I used to feel honor-bound to finish any book I started, but now I'm smarter than that. Life is too short to keep slogging through something that doesn't interest me.
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by phr 18y ago
RKlophaus: Your stitcho.com site needs to tell the reader more about why they need Stitcho -- on the first page.
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by phr 18y ago
That's the first Erlang book, and is very good. Unfortunately, it's out of print, or was the last time I checked, but might be available used. It's very good for wrapping your head around programming with pattern matching, single assignme
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by phr 18y ago
Hire a mercenary army to conquer some third world sh*t hole, then give it a modern infrastructure, education system, etc., and turn it into a capitalist/libertarian utopia. With some of the profits, I'd pick another country and iterate.
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by phr 18y ago
It's nice to talk about being non-partisan, non-political, non-ideological, etc., but it's a lot easier said than done. One way might be to fund a series of huge prizes for the company that first achieves one of your goals. I'd start with
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by phr 18y ago
I've been disappointed with my MacBook Pro kbd. Usable, but not great. It helped a lot for emacs to remap the caps lock key to control. I also have an old Thinkpad T42 that I keep around for running Windows apps. The keyboard is quite n
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by phr 18y ago
I have an ancient Northgate with delicious feel. It's huge, and heavy, with some kind of mechanical switches that snick into place in the coolest way when you press a key. Feels like an IBM Selectric typwriter, if you remember those. I ha
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by phr 18y ago
I remember reading a great post somewhere about using the visual shape of usenet discussion threads (as rendered by common news readers) to spot patterns like trolling, political tangents, etc. This was only proposed as an NI (Natural Inte
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by phr 18y ago
Agreed. If you buy my house, that means I wanted your money more than I wanted to keep my house. So I've gained from the transaction. Likewise, you must have wanted the house more than the money. So you also gained. Barring fraud, we'v
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by phr 19y ago
Actually, that little yellow thing looks to me like a large boom lift. Note the cage at the front, away from us. For cleaning bird droppings off the array elements?