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811.
by reeses 16y ago
I tried using a Newton back in the early 90s and...it did not work too well, except at distracting other people in class. I think the big value in managing notes with a computer is in the re-writing of paper notes after class/meeting/etc.
812.
by reeses 16y ago
TheBrain got close and then managed to stuff up the UI for the past 400 years or however long it has been around. FreeMind is nice but it starts getting ugly when linking between subtrees. I guess this is the spot where someone says,"semant
813.
by reeses 16y ago
That's why I make sure to throw in a !!!!!!!!!-e^(pi*i)!!!!!! every so often.
814.
by reeses 16y ago
Document retention policies are very common and rarely hush-hush. The only time they would have a need to make it "off the record" would be when they were subject to discovery regarding a lawsuit or criminal charge.
815.
by reeses 16y ago
:-) We're mostly a Java shop and I'm a "middle" manager, so I can easily play dumb. "I just read magazines about this computer stuff!"
816.
by reeses 16y ago
Having a package or two on Hackage (or even better, in the Haskell Platform) will demonstrate effort and aptitude at learning, and give the opportunity to review your work. If you want to become strong enough to leverage yourself into a Has
817.
by reeses 16y ago
I've walked people out of the office over things like this. Generally, people like this will shotgun every language and technology about which they've ever read a blog entry. It usually gets them past the phone screen (which I try to spre
818.
by reeses 16y ago
I wouldn't qualify as a geek any longer, but there are a lot of excellent things I've been hacking on in my evenings and weekends, or intending to hack on soon: 1) Wedging stupid languages onto the iPhone and whipping out an app or two a we
819.
by reeses 16y ago
You'll get to the point where you want the interview because you want to see what kind of weird situation you're getting yourself into. At this point in my career, I do most of the interviewing so I can size up if it's even possible to be
820.
by reeses 16y ago
Smalltalk is probably absent because they're happy and productive and don't care about other languages. I have to say my Smalltalk years were full of more,"Look what I made!" vs. "Look what I got the computer to do!" An alternative explana
821.
by reeses 16y ago
I greatly appreciate that style of response over the "this is a joke, you idiots!" style or the twee exaggerated response that accomplishes the same end.
822.
by reeses 16y ago
It's McSweeney's. It's a joke. I think having to point that out is a sign that HN's decline is near.
823.
by reeses 16y ago
I play a handful of 3-minute games of Quordy (Boggle, basically) on my iPhone right after waking up. If my scores trend > 60, I'm in the "rested and aware" day. If I trend < 40, it's going to be a brain-fog day. I don't often fal
824.
by reeses 16y ago
I really like seeing people with PhDs in completely random non-technical fields. "Ah, I see you have a PhD in Chinese Architectural History...umm, neat." MDs are even better, because they bring all that crazy doctor-talk with them. I stil
825.
by reeses 16y ago
What about extra points for my resume.tex file that includes the company's logo on the cover page and emits different versions based on whether it's intended for executives (summarized version) or engineers (detailed version) based on how x
826.
by reeses 16y ago
2 combined with 4 is a secret weapon when parsing record-oriented files from old mainframes or minicomputers. Replace 500 lines of Java with one--very long--line of Erlang.
827.
by reeses 16y ago
Apparently nothing that will result in time traveling humans coming back to kill him before he can create sentient robots.
828.
by reeses 16y ago
At my last job, our average cost to transport between Baltimore and the SF Bay Area for rail vs. trucking was $3500 vs. $6500 for a single container.
829.
by reeses 16y ago
Why is it that within ten seconds, I felt compelled to "hump" other arrows with my own? It was also interested to see if I could get other people to form lines and other constructs, without any communication other than my own cursor.
830.
by reeses 16y ago
Food is pretty much the archetype for commodities. Not because "you eat food," but because it doesn't really matter where your apricots, rice, or baby mice[1] come from. You'll buy the one that is either freshest or least expensive, and r
831.
by reeses 17y ago
I created http://nanocolo.com a few April Fools' Days ago, and had an amusing exchange with the macminicolo guys. Glad to see I was inspirational. :-)
832.
by reeses 17y ago
The problem with that is that the people who need editors are often the ones who don't believe they need them. If it's money out of their pocket, why bother? I agree that some of the Kindle-only (often of previously self-published books) a
833.
by reeses 17y ago
> You can always teach a girl how to dress and make herself up to your tastes, which I did for my last serious girlfriend who was getting her PhD in physics. Too much jeans and sneakers when I met her, lots of skirts and dresses and lea
834.
by reeses 17y ago
Having an IQ of 160 or above is not a life of sitting on clouds thinking deep thoughts about how string theory is obviously wrong. You run especially hard into the nurture trap so often discussed here. That is, hearing,"You're so smart," s
835.
by reeses 17y ago
In re (2), not always. For example, the Visitor pattern is one that is specifically eliminated by basic functionality in languages that support multiple-dispatch. No developer extension of compiler or language needed.
836.
by reeses 18y ago
The part where I said "non-reproducing people" and "(if you believe the "genetics" argument)" cover what you said. You refute your original argument with your first sentence.
837.
by reeses 18y ago
That argument would mean that non-reproducing people, particularly homosexuality (if you believe the "genetics" argument), would have been eliminated by now.
838.
by reeses 18y ago
It almost has to be at the level of myspace -- look, I can quickly add this picture, or this music, or this text to a page all my friends can see.
839.
by reeses 18y ago
We use the Google Web Toolkit to defer loading large pieces of data that compose slots around the page. The result, which you could achieve with any asynchronous mechanism, is that the page is up fast, and then details pop in as they're re
840.
by reeses 18y ago
If you do a cons cell diagram for this it will make perfect sense.

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