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by qohen 12y ago
Easier to read than Feersum Endjinn, at least! A Feersum Endjinn reading tip/hack: from what I recall (having done it, years ago), you can save time (and annoyance) by simply skipping the chapters with the phonetically-spelled journa
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by qohen 12y ago
Not to be confused with Nokia's Disco project, which uses Erlang to coordinate Python jobs, for large-scale map-reduce: The paper: http://research.nokia.com/publication/12185 The project: http://discopr
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Read an authoritative source (K&R is good; there are better ones) K&R is a classic, but is it a good way to learn proper C programming technique? This makes one wonder -- from Zed Shaw's online version of "C The Hard Way
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Not sure why @rodcul tweeted (and submitted) this -- or why it was up-voted -- his tweet links to an out-of-print publication on Amazon from...1978, i.e. 36 years ago. And, to be clear, there wasn't any kidnapping -- the author of the
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[0] http://scottchacon.com/2011/08/31/github-flow.html
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Hopefully he'll continue to add to it! The PDF has a version # in the file name -- text.v1.0.1.pdf -- so your hope may well not be in vain :-)
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BTW, it appears the CIA has committed to not doing that sort of thing again, as a result of complaints from the public health community about this operation: http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/19/politics/cia-vac
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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/12/world/asia/12dna.html In the months before Osama bin Laden was killed, the Central Intelligence Agency ran a phony vaccination program in Abbottabad, Pakistan, as
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[Note: I'm not the guy you're asking and this isn't meant to be any kind of advice -- dental or otherwise] My dentist told me that Colgate Total was better at killing plaque-creating bacteria due to its use of Triclosan. I ju
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Today I learned that the Secret Service action against Steve Jackson Games [1] actually was not part of the Secret Service's anti-hacker campaign, Operation Sundevil [2]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve
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Hidden defects linked to small-aircraft crashes over five decades(usatoday.com)
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For anyone looking for an easier on-ramp for algorithms -- i.e. not a textbook -- I got an email last night from Manning about a book-in-progress of theirs called "Grokking Algorithms" [1], which looks to be pretty user-friendly (
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FYI, if you download the course materials, there are transcripts of the video lectures included, so you can get a good feel for what the lectures are like and, maybe, not have to spend over an hour per lecture. You can download the course m
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It's satire -- it's from The Borowitz Report section of The New Yorker, by Andy Borowitz [1], who, among other things, created The Fresh Prince of Bel Air (yes, really). Now, you'd think, even if one isn't aware that The
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No, he really wrote most of the episodes [1]: Creator and showrunner J. Michael Straczynski wrote 92 of the 110 episodes of Babylon 5, including all 44 episodes in the third and fourth seasons;[63] according to Straczynski, a feat never be
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by qohen 12y ago
Edit: What does the term "channel Socrates" mean? Colloquially, "channeling" X means behaving like X, or in a manner inspired by X, in this case, where X == Socrates. This meaning is a natural outgrowth of the term&#x2
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by qohen 12y ago
And show them this page, also from Google: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/66358 From the page: Irrelevant keywords "Keyword stuffing" refers to the practice of loading a webpage with keywo
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by qohen 12y ago
Best if that house is "worth" $1.5 million. You can borrow a lot more against that than against a $400k L.A. bungalow. Your understanding of LA-area real-estate -- and its appeal to Chinese buyers -- appears to be...incomplete:
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Even if I don’t know much about the medical aspects of the problem, I could try to learn his methodology following his decision-making process, and then I could use this knowledge to come up with a set of rules.” As the song says, "e
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The best way to find a company that hires directly is to simply assume that they will all hire directly, if you find the right person to talk to. This may be beyond obvious, but it can help to network by going to technical meetups[1], con
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by qohen 12y ago
What about Nokia's Disco project, which uses Erlang and Python? http://discoproject.org/ From http://disco.readthedocs.org/en/develop/intro.html What is Disco? Disco is an implementation of
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by qohen 12y ago
Years ago, I actually saw a story describing a warehouse run like this and sent it to Marshall Brain, having read this from Manna a while earlier. Sadly, I can't find that story just now, but, looking for it now, I just found out that
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Almost like we are a peripheral for the software. Go there, pick that up, take it over there Marshall Brain (founder of http://www.howstuffworks.com/ ) described this around 10 years ago in his book, Manna (free to read on
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Klarna is heavily into Erlang, btw: https://klarna.com/jobs/engineering-product Every day, thousands of merchants and customers use Klarna’s services. The task of making it all work is far from easy. Our system is bui
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Another tool you might want to check out is erlang.mk, by the author of the Cowboy webserver, Loïc Hoguin -- from the announcement[1]: erlang.mk is a rebar replacement. It was initially created for allowing a faster development process tha
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Tangent: ... or maybe just performing some tiny act of charity when you're 58 years old that unbeknownst to you ends up saving someone's life. A tangent on the tangent: this reminds me of the following, which I just happened to
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And, parenthetically, the "inland lake" would be the Sea of Galilee: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_of_Galilee#Ancient_and_Cla... Much of the ministry of Jesus occurred on the shores of Lake Galilee. In t
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by qohen 13y ago
A detailed discussion of the "JavaScript is like Scheme" meme's history and a critical look at it: http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2013/07/18/javascript-isnt...
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I just don't take these people seriously anymore. It seems like a uniquely north american woman phenomenon This reminds me how many in the Catholic Church had exactly the same attitude of denial about clerical pedophilia -- that it w
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He's alluding to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boy#Race Historically, in countries such as the U.S. and South Africa, "boy" was not only a 'neutral' term for domestics but also used as a

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