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by qohen 17y ago
Given the demographics here, perhaps this might be of interest: Jimmy Jean-Louis, who plays "The Haitian" on the TV series, Heroes, is actually from Haiti (and has family affected by the quake) he runs a charity called Hollywood Unites for
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by qohen 17y ago
Kibo -- The man: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Parry The myth: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibology The lore: http://www.kibo.com/menu.shtml
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Turning Cellphones into Microscopes(nytimes.com)
28 points by qohen 17y ago|4 comments
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by qohen 17y ago
> Does anybody do memcache-in-the-cloud yet? You might want to look at what Northscale is up to: http://www.northscale.com/ Related: http://blog.northscale.com/northscale-blog/2009/08/mrroboto-...
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by qohen 17y ago
+1 -- the article is a must-read if you're interested in checklists (or health care, for that matter).
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by qohen 17y ago
Speaking of the Arabian Nights, coincidentally (or not), the WSJ also had this today, in its Masterpiece column, about that work: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405297020488630457430...
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by qohen 17y ago
Speaking of iPhone, the book is available as an iPhone app for $4.99: http://appshopper.com/books/the-ruby-programming-language They say that they worked with Lexcycle, makers of Stanza, the iPhone ebook-reader, to make this work well. At
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by qohen 17y ago
The following page explains "Famous Sed One-Liners", including the one you mention (it's #36, though you'll likely want to work your way down from the top): http://www.catonmat.net/blog/sed-one-liners-explained-part-o... (CatOnMat.net is
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by qohen 17y ago
In fact, they say it'll be out by Xmas... http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2008/01/what_the_perl_...
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by qohen 17y ago
FWIW, Google.com has the Wikipedia link up top: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_Technology_Infrastr... Though it is interesting to see that ITIL originated in the UK, which might explain why not everyone has heard of it. BTW, her
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by qohen 17y ago
Just for the record, Philip Greenspun is many things, but Harvard professor is not among them (he's simply using a blog service run by the Berkman Center at Harvard Law School, which you can find out about by, as per the article, "hacking"
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by qohen 17y ago
Lots of useful info about Chris Anderson available via this site: http://letmegooglethatforyou.com Or, if you'd rather not type, you could just click on the Guardian review linked above.
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by qohen 17y ago
I highly recommend going to multiple recruiters. If for nothing else but to critique your resumes and see how they would go about selling you. Use that to either get the job or get a better idea. I'll second this--I got a lot of useful su
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by qohen 17y ago
2. Don't send 10 resumes. Narrow it down better, concentrate, and work hard and fast to get some offers on the table. This doesn't seem like very good advice. After all, getting a job is all about the numbers--the more times you're "at ba
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by qohen 17y ago
1. Post your resume to http://monster.com , http://dice.com and the rest. Also, post it to the resume section of http://craigslist.org (assuming you live in a city served by Craigslist). This way, recruiters and companies will find you
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by qohen 17y ago
4) This is incorrect; the Ayatollah did not approve of the election; that is why they have launched an investigation into irregularities. Eh, actually...from http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090615/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iran_e... : "The day aft
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by qohen 17y ago
...and special Emacs keyboard shortcuts that make bookwriting a little bit like playing an organ. A bit of trivia: Knuth has actually studied the organ--in fact, he has a pipe organ at his home: http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/
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by qohen 17y ago
(1) First of all, definitely see a doctor--depression, anxiety, and/or whatever else you've got can and should be treated. There are some other things worth doing as well that may help alter your mental state for the better: * Get exercise-
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by qohen 18y ago
That lovely business about "code to delete all the files on their hard drive" is from this cll thread, from June 2006 (it's in msg #4, with the justification in msg #8): http://bit.ly/ta8Ni
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by qohen 18y ago
And, for those of you reading down this far, some videos of related material. Not on "The Transformed Man"--but on YouTube for your pleasure--is another famous Shatner interpretation, this one of "Rocketman": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v
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by qohen 18y ago
Yes--"Mr. Tamborine Man" was quite a discovery! Quite... memorable, as you say--I think more interesting than the more well-known "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds" track. And: I think we may be able to draw a line from the final moments of th
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Amazon deal (Apr. 1): $0.99 for William Shatner album, "The Transformed Man" (MP3 dwnld)
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by qohen 18y ago
May I suggest, then, buying only Forever Stamps? They cost whatever normal first-class stamps costs, but they can be used even after first-class postage rates go up, with no need for extra make-up stamps, hence the name, "Forever Stamps". M
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by qohen 18y ago
The link to "I Love Pair Programming", a post on the nomachetejuggling.com blog, was posted on HN yesterday. The post describes in detail the advantages perceived by the author to using pair-programming. And, it got many comments here on HN
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by qohen 18y ago
No, Graphviz is truly free--it's open source, under the Common Public License Version 1.0. And, since no one has described it here yet: aside from making pretty-pictures, the really neat thing about Graphviz is that it is declarative--you d
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by qohen 18y ago
Then there's a guy who started doing the SICP problems in Arc: http://sam.bluwiki.com/blog/2008/05/working-through-sicp-in-... And, here's a page of translations of the problem-solutions into a whole bunch of other computer languages: ht
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by qohen 18y ago
Possibly, though I'm not sure, given that there are a number of bloggers who blogged their journey through SICP -- Googling the two terms, SICP and blog, gets me these blogs, among others: http://www.michaelharrison.ws/weblog/?p=46 http:
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by qohen 18y ago
Mandatory mention that the classic SICP ("Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs") aka The Wizard Book, by Sussman and Abelson, is also available free online from MIT Press, here: http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/ Lecture-videos, f
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by qohen 18y ago
The book--which has been mentioned favorably on HN before--can be thought of, basically, as: "Perl meets SICP". Which provides tangible support for my notion that Perl can be viewed as a kind of blue-collar Lisp :-)
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"Higher Order Perl" book now available free online (PDF is 2nd ed.) -- kudos to Mark Jason Dominus(hop.perl.plover.com)
5 points by qohen 18y ago|5 comments

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