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by ratsbane 16y ago
Maybe not in the usual sense, but the Stanford Theater on University Ave is a really neat place. They show old movies, mostly from the 30s and 40s, every night. http://www.stanfordtheatre.org/stf/
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Google-sponsored free inflight wifi(freeholidaywifi.com)
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by ratsbane 16y ago
Also 26. The average on HN seems a bit higher. I wonder if there's some selection bias towards reporting higher answers.
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by ratsbane 16y ago
The GA safety record also includes student pilots, weekend pilots, crop-dusters, and other high-risk flight operations. Scheduled airlines are operated under FAA Part 121 rules, charter operators work under Part 135 rules, and everything be
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by ratsbane 16y ago
I wondered the same thing. Can anyone tell if that really was an Apple III or a clone or a coincidence? (I tried pausing in various places but it's inconclusive.)
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by ratsbane 16y ago
That clearly wasn't my point. http://blog.rescuetime.com/2010/06/17/google-is-eating-micro...
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by ratsbane 16y ago
The Apple SQL Server is MySQL or Postgres. The Google Zune is Android. Lots of people still pay the premium price for Microsoft Office but they don't need to. I haven't used it in years. Instead I use Google Docs and OpenOffice.
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by ratsbane 16y ago
The Wash Post article listed below only states that the vendor has discontinued the card - so it's still a vendor lock-in problem. The bankruptcy mention must have been a red herring. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2
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by ratsbane 16y ago
Something doesn't make sense here. DC Metro's card is made[1] by Cubic Corp[2] which is not in bankruptcy. The general idea of avoiding vendor lock-in is a pretty big deal and the board member's comment in the linked article was right: "A
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by ratsbane 16y ago
I saw an Android tablet in Macy's today for $169 (might have been $179.) It was an off-brand Chinese model and the display had a dead battery and wasn't plugged in, but the fact that it was there at all, next to the shoe department struck
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by ratsbane 16y ago
Without getting into whatever statistics she based the article on, there is a much more logical explanation to the projected 3% drop in programmers and a 32% increase in software engineers: there will be a 29% increase in software engineers
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Teacher recognition
1 points by ratsbane 16y ago|0 comments
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by ratsbane 16y ago
Having spent an unpleasantly large part of my life enmeshed in it, I strongly disagree with the last statement "with really good application software on top of it." Otherwise, spot-on.
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by ratsbane 16y ago
Microwave. Followed shortly by evacuating the office for the rest of the day to escape the horrible stench.
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by ratsbane 16y ago
Well said. Here's another way of looking at it: if you select an element from a hash (or dictionary or associative array) you're doing the same thing as a simple query. A query is like a higher-order version of a key lookup.
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by ratsbane 16y ago
When I was (more) young and foolish, I rebuilt the turbodiesel engine in a 1983 Mercedes 300SD. The day after we got it all back together two friends and I drove it over a thousand miles to a wedding in Philadelphia. In hindsight, this wa
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by ratsbane 16y ago
Last 30 days: Google: 90.7% Yahoo: 4.8% Bing: 3.0% Same 30 days, one year ago: Google: 91.96% Yahoo: 5.18% Bing: 1.8%
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by ratsbane 16y ago
I thought about that inverse modulo thing too, and then I remembered what Falken said... I hope yummyfajitas posts some of the answers.
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by ratsbane 16y ago
I though about a more elegant approach and then just brute-forced it too when I realized a brute-force solution wasn't really very expensive. cloc shows 7 lines of perl code for my part 1 solution and 22 lines for part two. [edit] time for
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by ratsbane 16y ago
Note to everyone who posted an open position here - we might all find it interesting if, after a few days, you post a reply to your own thread characterizing the responses you received: how many, how relevant, and what caught your eye about
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by ratsbane 16y ago
Thanks. I wondered if the puzzle might encourage more responses in addition to filtering out the send-a-resume-to-everything ones. The puzzle differentiates you from most of the open positions.
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by ratsbane 16y ago
Nothing specific. Just that I've been listening to music more and more on my Nexus One lately, even when I'm sitting in front of Macbook. It just sort of subconsciously works. The default Android music player does have some annoying quir
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by ratsbane 16y ago
How many people have solved it so far?
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by ratsbane 16y ago
PA could be Palo Alto - except for the city name "Conshohocken." Which almost sounds like a verb - like something you might say after getting a parking ticket on University Ave. I can see "Conshohocken PA" generating a parser error.
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by ratsbane 16y ago
Yes, I'm sorry; I did misunderstand. Is story rank only a factor of up/down-votes to the story weighted by time or does it also include a factor based on number, depth, and scores on comments under that story?
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by ratsbane 16y ago
I saw that same demo booth at Maker Faire - except that I never saw the demo. The two or three times I stopped by that booth they were waiting for someone to bring something or out of tshirts. It was a neat-looking contraption, though, bu
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by ratsbane 16y ago
There's also a minor personality-cult voting phenomenon at work here. It may just be because some HNers follow the comment threads of high-score or celebrated HNers, but I've noticed some people do get a lot more upvotes for mundane commen
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by ratsbane 16y ago
I just signed up at your site. Initial impression: it looks good and works well, though I'm wondering if dododo's comment about competition with last.fm might be right. Can you write some more about the story behind the site? How big &#3
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What's going right in Perl(modernperlbooks.com)
3 points by ratsbane 16y ago|0 comments
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by ratsbane 16y ago
I remember reading a paper about marking with respect to software patents - since marking is required in order to enforce software patents, if a patent holder fails to cite patent numbers on applications that use the patent, there are limit

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