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The Big Bloop(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by pook 17y ago|0 comments
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by pook 17y ago
What is interesting is that this is precisely the kind of signal that SETI is looking for. Yet, by its very nature, such signals would be almost impossible to intercept a second time: what are the odds our planet would stumble back into the
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by pook 17y ago
"tomorrow's highly literate person may prefer to change, by programming, whatever story or other media he or she is interacting with to suit individual preferences, and might then, with a little more programming, distribute those changes to
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by pook 17y ago
Why doesn't he actually step through the macro to format? It's one thing to rave about Emacs, it's another thing to actually show its power. A line of elisp would have been much more of an argument.
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by pook 17y ago
University gives you two benefits: 1. Free time. You will never have as much time to hack and experiment with stuff as you do now. 2. Other people who also have lots of free time and similar interests. Honestly, the people you meet in all n
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by pook 17y ago
It's called a Glitch Attack. A good explanation of the method: http://rdist.root.org/2007/05/07/glitch-attacks-revealed/
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by pook 17y ago
http://ideone.com/pevus2IP# Seems like they have some measure of security. edit: http://ideone.com/fAKNPIh2 pwd returns my dir as /home/APiDcF. http://ideone.com/ZY3tZ93M echo $SHELL returns /bin/false an ls command indicates this dir
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by pook 17y ago
How about integrating this into a collaborative programming quiz site? Imagine if TopCoder used this. The idea: people sign onto teams, then collaboratively hack at a problem in real-time, in public. You could pop some popcorn and watch the
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by pook 17y ago
I wouldn't be concerned so much with glass shrapnel, as with almost molten wax spraying out. Have you ever opened up a lava lamp? The bottle is capped with an old-fashioned pull-off bottle cap. I guarantee that if anything goes pearshaped,
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Personal memory devices: right around the corner(hplusmagazine.com)
1 points by pook 17y ago|0 comments
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by pook 17y ago
If you haven't read Clay Shirky's essays on the difficulty of maintaining an online community, do it now ( http://www.shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html and http://www.shirky.com/writings/group_user.html ). Actually, read all the sour
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by pook 17y ago
Considering that http://www.google.com/search?q=monetize+twitter gets >6M results, including several lists of strategies, you may wish to be a bit more informative.
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by pook 17y ago
The requirements are rather vague. Who nowadays does not consider himself "well versed in social networks" and "not too busy to make money"? Seriously, you've got to narrow the pool a bit. Telling us your startup plan will do X will not mea
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by pook 17y ago
http://www.rebelscience.org/Crackpots/nasty.htm Do I need to spell out the similarities with Time Cube, or enumerate John Baez's Crackpot Index in an oddly self-referential strange loop? It is indeed not rocket science. Or much of any sci
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by pook 17y ago
http://ruby-doc.org/docs/ProgrammingRuby/ is a wonderful introduction to Ruby. http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Python_Programming ( wikibooks itself is a great resource. You might ask the children to contribute, thus helping them learn bot
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by pook 17y ago
"Mathematicians notwithstanding, a computer is a class of automaton known as a behaving machine. As such, it must not be seen as a function calculator that takes input arguments and returns an answer. It should be seen as belonging to the c
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by pook 17y ago
I am starting to think this blog is an elaborate Markov-generated hoax. That said, I've often wondered what Sokal is doing nowadays.
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Hole In The Wall: bringing computers to the slums [2000](greenstar.org)
10 points by pook 17y ago|2 comments
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by pook 17y ago
Have you read about the Hole In the Wall project? http://www.greenstar.org/butterflies/Hole-in-the-Wall.htm I'd suggest a similar model for education. If this is to be within a school you don't need such an emphasis on durability, so you
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by pook 17y ago
He does sound interesting, and like a fun coworker. However, you must admit that if working with him, you must update your prior probability of "work being interrupted by a SWAT team and an not-coincidental family of rabid ferrets."
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by pook 17y ago
Wow. I don't think even Zed Shaw has ever gotten fired in such a spectacular manner. Abrasive personalities can sometimes be a good thing, but "I've got getting new jobs so well figured-out that not even behavior which was borderline insane
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by pook 17y ago
What do you mean? "Design" as in the memetic evolution has an unnaturally recursive feedback system compared to our biological evolution, thus producing patterns of regularity determined by initial tiny quirks? Or what the people who downmo
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Gabriel G's Ruby music projects [livecoding](github.com)
1 points by pook 17y ago|0 comments
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by pook 17y ago
Check out Sorenson's collection of livecoding videos: http://vimeo.com/impromptu/videos Trust me, Impromptu does not need a narrator to speak for it. Too bad Sorenson has no plans to port it to *nix ( http://lists.moso.com.au/pipermail/i
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by pook 17y ago
At the risk of sounding an ass-kisser, this is good, but not as good as PG's Why Nerds are Unpopular ( http://www.paulgraham.com/nerds.html ) I tend to think of sociability more in terms of the opportunity cost of Chinese-Walling blackbox
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Senate Finance Committee is very backwards browser-compatible(finance.senate.gov)
1 points by pook 17y ago|0 comments
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by pook 17y ago
The Making Of videos are great as well.
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by pook 17y ago
A naive bookmarklet isn't what you really want. What you ideally want is a personal karma filter. A way to track your interests client-side in addition to the HN sieve. "Clickety on the Ignore button and goodbye human interest stories invol
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by pook 17y ago
I thought this would be an algorithmic analysis of stride-lengths and personal bubbles to determine the most scientifically comfortable arrangement. But, still good.
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by pook 17y ago
He and _Why are obviously forming an underwater hacker's paradise.

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