rabidgnat

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by rabidgnat 17y ago
Some of the subreddits are very reasonable, actually! I have had good luck submitting articles to Proggit without external support. When my submissions slip through the cracks, I can usually find fault with my approach: either the timing or
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by rabidgnat 17y ago
The author is ignoring a very fundamental concept: Ideas are as cheap as the transmission medium 20 years ago, the two cheapest ways to mass-transmit ideas were television and newspapers. With the Television, advertising dollars allowed the
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by rabidgnat 17y ago
"BJJ works well in a cage and between two people. Keep in mind that's a very controlled environment." I knew a cop in Philly who said it's saved his life countless times, and asserted it was more useful than Judo and Tang Soo Do. YMMV
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by rabidgnat 17y ago
I had a similar problem in the past. I did some soul-searching, and realized that the projects that I undertook were huge, and would take at least a month of work in order to "finish." During this time, it was completely unusable up until t
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by rabidgnat 17y ago
If I had to guess, Eric Schmidt thinks he can't apologize. At this point, they've set a big precedent: they're willing to automatically network you based on information that you've given them. If they apologized, they'd have to neuter futur
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by rabidgnat 17y ago
The registry's implementation is bad, sure. However, a global key/value store is extremely useful. I changed the default background color in Windows from 'White' to 'Light Gray,' and it works for almost every application I use. Visual Studi
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You can now disable Google Buzz if you're willing to delete your Google Profile(i.imgur.com)
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by rabidgnat 17y ago
I'm sure that it's not great, having never heard of Fav4.org before today. I landed on the page and saw 4 buttons with links to pages that I visit regularly. "That's great, but I already have them bookmarked," I thought. I closed the tab, b
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by rabidgnat 17y ago
Prelude> let developers = "developers" : [x | x <- developers] Prelude> print developers A Haskell tribute to Steve Ballmer
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by rabidgnat 17y ago
Yes-ish. I posted weekly programming essays in college, and post sporadically now. I had developed lots of opinions about programming, and I couldn't clearly articulate any of them. Writing them for a broad audience forced me to adopt a con
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by rabidgnat 17y ago
Research libraries need books for a very obvious reason: Authors before the 90s did not write their content to be easily indexed by a search engine. That's what the keyword card index was for! I agree that the internet is the best first ste
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by rabidgnat 17y ago
I vastly prefer handwritten presentations to Powerpoint presentations, but because it's so dynamic. First, look at content. When you're delivering a Powerpoint presentation and a great side conversation arises, you are pressured to return t
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by rabidgnat 17y ago
To clarify, I was only focusing on their approach to emerging markets. How many successful products/services have they created and launched in the last year? The last 5 years? The last 10 years? Also, sometimes it's a mistake to separate wa
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by rabidgnat 17y ago
All of the internal issues wouldn't be a huge problem if consumers wanted to buy their products, but they just don't know how to tell a compelling story of improving lives. Microsoft just launches products that they think will compete well
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by rabidgnat 17y ago
Science had little to do with the failure of the anti-Global Warming movement. It's just an example of how bad marketing can be worse than no marketing. They've hit two home runs since the beginning of the movement, "greenhouse gasses" and
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by rabidgnat 17y ago
"I see no good reason why they refuse to do svg in text/html mode" This probably breaks major assumptions inside the browser engines. Rendering most image types is a one-and-done type deal, just setting up a few calls to libjpeg or libpng,
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by rabidgnat 17y ago
The way I thought of immediately uses 0 pointers: (defun nthFromEnd (lst n) (labels ((from-end-helper (lst n) (if (null lst) 0 (let ((ret (from-end-helper (cdr lst) n))) (if (eq ret n) (th
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by rabidgnat 17y ago
On the other hand, do big companies ever get BETTER at something? Large companies tend to walk off their own skyscrapers. Microsoft toppled IBM with the "PC on every desk" mantra. In turn, Microsoft never won on the Internet, because they j
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by rabidgnat 17y ago
I bet someone in Boston will hear the announcement and think, "An iPad? So what? I've had an iPad for yeahs" This was probably the most predictable Apple "new product" release I've ever seen. I'm not really thrilled about it, but then again
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by rabidgnat 17y ago
The best thing about this program is that it shows the power of Clojure's Java interop. Doing graphics programming in other languages often feels like a dirty hack, but this isn't so bad. This might lead me back to try Clojure again Aside:
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by rabidgnat 17y ago
In the Flash VM's defense, the new alpha releases work pretty well on Ubuntu 9.10 x64. My laptop still can't handle two Youtube videos at once, but there's a lot less flickering and I haven't seen the 'flash crashed' gray square in a while
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by rabidgnat 17y ago
I'm red-green colorblind, and the best color-based systems have a few things in common: 1) High contrast colors 2) Unique icons assigned per color 3) They use traditional color intensity conventions Usually, I can differentiate red and gree
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by rabidgnat 17y ago
"What languages would be of enough importance for, for instance, Americans, to make it obligatory education?" My aunt forced her young children to learn conversational Spanish because she was convinced that "they're taking over." It was ext
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by rabidgnat 17y ago
Because it looks like the attack is a government-based attack. As presented in the media, IP theft is par-for-the-course in China, but the only benefactors from reading the personal information of activists are those in the government, or t
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by rabidgnat 17y ago
"I'm disgusted by the levels to which the Chinese Government can stoop." Half of the surprise I received reading this article was my shock that the Chinese government would attack profitable companies like Google. Sure, they've always attac
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by rabidgnat 17y ago
http://www.vocabdojo.com : A website used to study vocabulary for the SATs, GREs, etc. I made a Django app to do this after I discovered that making 900+ flashcards is a huge pain in the neck, and then decided to turn it into something th
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by rabidgnat 17y ago
"Don't expect to actually develop websites in it" I just tried to develop a website with SBCL and Hunchentoot, and it works relatively well for small examples. There's pretty good MySQL support, and it's all pretty fast. I couldn't figure o
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by rabidgnat 17y ago
Cuil answered that question very definitively :D
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by rabidgnat 17y ago
For some test English words, it doesn't look any better than Wiktionary: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pants http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ostensibly http://www.google.com/dictionary?aq=f&langpair=en|en&#38... http://www.google.c
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by rabidgnat 17y ago
Hopefully they'll help clean up Wiktionary. I downloaded the English dataset the other day and it's a mess. IIRC, less than 1/3 of the words are properly tagged as English words, and a significant fraction of the words aren't even rendered

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