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by pook 16y ago
I love this. Simple idea, but brilliant in its effect. The pungency of the recommendation contrasts nicely with the delicacy of the actual dish.
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by pook 16y ago
Larry Osterman's "MEASURING TESTERS BY TEST METRICS DOESN'T" essay has some good bits on where metrics give perversely wrong conclusions. http://blogs.msdn.com/larryosterman/archive/2004/04/20/11699...
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by pook 16y ago
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2790475/ini-file-reverse-...
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Removing hidden metadata in jpegs [2006](sites.google.com)
1 points by pook 16y ago|0 comments
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by pook 16y ago
Is #2 an illusory rickroll?
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by pook 16y ago
I'm going to assume you have self-diagnosed yourself with Asperger's, and have somehow mistaken autism for a superpower. http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/asperger/detail_asperger.... compared to http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Ma
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by pook 16y ago
I love Chrome's translate feature. iret, have you considered creating a Japanese fork of Stackoverflow?
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by pook 16y ago
" This means that the ring pattern of a tree-ring sample carries the "intellectual fingerprint" of the dendrochronologist who measured it, every bit as much as this text carries my intellectual fingerprint." This is, as far as I can tell, i
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by pook 16y ago
Hah, I ranted a bit about this evolutionary arms race years ago, from a different angle. http://hamstermotor.motime.com/post/683104/the-future-of-spa...
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A hole in space... no really, an actual hole(blogs.discovermagazine.com)
9 points by pook 16y ago|1 comments
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by pook 16y ago
http://www.paulgraham.com/hackernews.html PG says that the comment quality is the most worrying part of the site ("Bad comments seem to be a harder problem than bad submissions. ") Perhaps a better way of measuring the difference, would b
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by pook 16y ago
Hm. Maybe a "hinting" gesture would work well. Tap in the upper left corner, and all clickable text/borders becomes distinct (tinted background, etc).
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by pook 16y ago
Do you mean OpenWetWare? http://openwetware.org/wiki/Main_Page
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by pook 16y ago
Cobol is still being written. There is a future, but the real question is: is it a future worth going into? I wonder if there's any attempt to fork Symphony onto a different templating system.
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by pook 16y ago
MIT's OpenCourseWare is an excellent way for him to study CS on his own while in high school. I would recommend, at 14, getting him utterly hooked on the mindset of CS and related subjects. Godel, Escher, Bach, etc. If you can get him fasci
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Genetic edge-case in sexual development(medhelp.org)
33 points by pook 16y ago|11 comments
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Always mount the scratch monkey (1987)(edp.org)
34 points by pook 16y ago|6 comments
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by pook 16y ago
http://edp.org/monkey.htm
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by pook 16y ago
I can imagine it possible to require a commit-style comment, visible only on a user's profile list of comments.
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Google Sky (look in infrared)(google.com)
3 points by pook 16y ago|0 comments
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GleeBox: keyboard navigation for Chrome and Firefox(thegleebox.com)
1 points by pook 16y ago|0 comments
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by pook 16y ago
"The most common symptoms of Williams syndrome are mental retardation, heart defects, and unusual facial features... many cardiac problems, commonly heart murmurs and the narrowing of major blood vessels as well as supravalvular aortic ste
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The ruins of Detroit [photoessay](marchandmeffre.com)
4 points by pook 17y ago|0 comments
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Happy symbolic birthday, Internet(faqs.org)
1 points by pook 17y ago|0 comments
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by pook 17y ago
RMS's birthday is today. "The string 03161953 occurs at position 30,263,003 counting from the first digit after the decimal point."
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Mathematical Fiction database(kasmana.people.cofc.edu)
2 points by pook 17y ago|0 comments
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by pook 17y ago
I still get spam from colleagues who signed into Quichup years ago and gave it access to their gmail accounts. This behaviour is absolutely Evil. Why do companies think that we want such coup d'etats in our accounts?
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Flyspeck: generating a formal proof of the Kepler Conjecture(code.google.com)
5 points by pook 17y ago|0 comments
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by pook 17y ago
The combination of the title with gems like: "One of them said he was upset when you talked about nasal sex with plants." I had actually demonstrated this perverse act with the bouquet on the table, at dinner the night before I was sent hom
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by pook 17y ago
It's a snowclone of the "price of tea in china" dismissal. But I've never heard it used in such a poor context.

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