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by rkowalick 10y ago
I pretty much refuse to play any format other than booster draft. Flat price, loads of fun, and easy to get into for a brief period of time since you only need to know about the set you are drafting.
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by rkowalick 10y ago
I don't think anything matches paper in terms of annotatability. I print things put all the time to just mark them up with red pen.
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by rkowalick 10y ago
curl | json_pp
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by rkowalick 11y ago
This was one of my favorite resources for learning: http://www.acbl.org/learn_page/learn-to-play-bridge-software...
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by rkowalick 11y ago
Reading about the actual moment they transitioned from left-hand driving to right-hand driving is also quite entertaining: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagen_H
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by rkowalick 11y ago
I always find stories about common people from the past to be some of my favorite historical writing. While it's true that history is made by great people and great events, most people are not great and reading about the common people
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by rkowalick 12y ago
They do lead to humorous Court Case names: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantity_of_Books_v._Kansas
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by rkowalick 12y ago
The title seemed to be based on Timothy Chow's article "You Could Have Invented Spectral Sequences", a subject of mathematics that is regarded as unintuitive and advanced. ( http://www.ams.org/notices/2006
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by rkowalick 12y ago
Beta Alanine and Caffeine are quite different.
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by rkowalick 12y ago
The one thing I like about stow is that I can choose to only add configurations that make sense for the machine I am using. If don't have a certain application, I don't 'stow' the configuration for that application in my
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by rkowalick 12y ago
It is a very open-source unfriendly modification of the AGPLv3 license.
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by rkowalick 12y ago
It seems like a very good way of using vim knowledge to do non-interactive text processing. You could say, indent a javascript file that is ugly.
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by rkowalick 12y ago
It's been a while since I used vimperator/pentadactyl. I recall it not being compatible with newer versions of firefox, but from what I gather those issues seems to be resolved. I should take another look. Most of my day is spent
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by rkowalick 12y ago
I have used the awesome window manager ( http://awesome.naquadah.org ) for a long time. I think most of the big tiling window managers (DWM, xmonad) are similar. The only things I ever use a mouse for on my linux computers is brow
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by rkowalick 12y ago
Whenever the F-35 is mentioned, I am reminded of this interview with the designer of the F-16 about the concepts behind the design of the F-35: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxDSiwqM2nw
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by rkowalick 12y ago
Here's a Ruby solution that really does modify the + operation: class Fixnum alias_method :old_plus, :+ def +(*args) old_plus(*args).old_plus(1) end end 2 + 2 #=> 5
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by rkowalick 12y ago
Adding a query parameter of w=1 to a github page with a diff will ignore whitespace changes.
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by rkowalick 12y ago
I'm a big fan of ledger. Very easy to use and very powerful. One of my first ruby projects was creating a scraper for the Chase mobile website that outputed ledger-compatible text: https://github.com/rkowalick/auto
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by rkowalick 13y ago
My favorite explanation: y^x is the number of functions from a set with x elements to a set with y elements. Since there is only one function from the empty set to the empty set, namely, the empty function, we get that 0^0 = 1.
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by rkowalick 13y ago
I really wanted to like it, but the lack of syntax highlighting drove me nuts.
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by rkowalick 13y ago
This article and the previous one on North Sentinel certainly makes Uncle John's 24-Karat Bathroom Reader seem like a pretty interesting book.
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by rkowalick 14y ago
Oil is pure fat, and fat is the most calorie dense of all foods. Canola Oil, Corn Oil, Soybean Oil are all pure fat, so they are all around 120 cal per Tbsp (9 cal per gram). From a calorie standpoint, butter is better, as it is not 100% fa
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by rkowalick 14y ago
While Graham's Number is very, very large, there is another number that dwarfs it: TREE(3): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kruskal%27s_tree_theorem From the article: The TREE sequence begins TREE(1) = 1, TREE(2) = 3, then suddenly TREE(3) e
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by rkowalick 14y ago
This is the exact same argument the supporters of Ohio Senate Bill 5[1] used. One reason people in the public sector are willing to be paid less than their private counterparts is because their benefit plans are genuinely better. Saying the
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by rkowalick 14y ago
Try http://www.readability.com/articles/ap1ukxbk
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by rkowalick 14y ago
I have done this and it works wonderfully. It is very easy to do as well.
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by rkowalick 15y ago
Remapping caps lock to function as escape is pretty useful here.
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by rkowalick 15y ago
quakelive.com also works well with linux.
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by rkowalick 15y ago
The only thing I can think of is: 10th Enemy Has the Bomb
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by rkowalick 15y ago
I was also suspicious of the Amazon homepage. I seem to recall that they didn't even sell music until after they purchased CDNow.

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