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by saikat 17y ago
Regardless of the fact that the general idea of a social network was nothing new, the article hinges heavily on the fact that there was something called "the facebook" at Exeter. But I'm pretty sure the reason he called it the facebook was
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by saikat 17y ago
I have had a chronic pain in my upper back right above my right shoulder blade, below my neck, and a little to the right of my spinal cord (the area is about two square inches in size). I got this injury from (surprise surprise) a marathon
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by saikat 17y ago
Fair point - I changed the name in the article (though can't edit it here). I wasn't really sure what to call the post, but I'd say it's a bit more than a list =).
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by saikat 17y ago
You are right that that is a big difference, but I wasn't trying to compare these technologies based on their runtimes - I was attempting to compare them based on the type of application they attempt to produce. I wanted to make this a ver
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Code Project Management in Emacs, Part 3(lispservice.posterous.com)
24 points by saikat 17y ago|0 comments
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A comparison of client-side web application frameworks(lispservice.posterous.com)
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Code Project Management in Emacs, Part 2(lispservice.posterous.com)
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by saikat 18y ago
Thanks for the suggestion - I didn't know about ECB, and it seems useful. I want to try not using a Textmate like interface for now (and see if that makes me more or less efficient once I get used to it), but if I decide that I don't like
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How to find a file in Emacs using Icicles(lispservice.posterous.com)
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Code Project Management in Emacs, Part 1(lispservice.posterous.com)
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by saikat 18y ago
Another page with sorting algorithms animated (with some other algorithms): http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~harrison/Java/sorting-demo.html
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by saikat 18y ago
"The little guy with the big knife is Tsunenori Iida. He speaks not as an individual but as an emanation, the present voice, of the generations whose blood flows in him and who held the long knife in lifetimes before him, just as he speaks
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by saikat 18y ago
Additionally, I've found that the smartest people who go to prestigious schools care more about prestige and interesting work than about salary. The best CS and math students at Harvard wanted to be professors or do research. It was the a
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by saikat 18y ago
Bill Clementson has a nice write up on his setup that has more to do with how not to get hurt using Emacs that I have found very helpful. Not necessarily specific to OS X, but he has a few suggestions that seem helpful for OS X (like makin
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Killing Robot Being Tested by Lockheed Martin(schneier.com)
20 points by saikat 18y ago|42 comments
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How to Steal the Empire State Building(schneier.com)
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by saikat 18y ago
Apparently Lessig is less than happy about their reporting too - http://lessig.org/blog/2008/12/the_madeup_dramas_of_the_wall...
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by saikat 18y ago
Thanks for the suggestion. I use Evernote similarly but that mostly works for things that are okay for me to read later. I am wondering more for something to keep track of things that I need to read or do now - if I am exploring something
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Ask YC: How do you keep track of the different things you are doing?
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85 percent of enterprises using open source(news.cnet.com)
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Zynga’s Live Poker brings live social gaming to the iPhone(venturebeat.com)
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Everspin launches a new generation of MRAM memory chips(venturebeat.com)
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Schneier on Obama Discussing Security Trade-Offs(schneier.com)
15 points by saikat 18y ago|8 comments