sammyo

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by sammyo 18y ago
Because some people deeply lust after the page turn effect. No accounting for taste...
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by sammyo 18y ago
Any you booted the machine by togging in a program in octal directly into memory from the front panel.
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by sammyo 18y ago
The only good thing about this blog entry was a certain comment: Plus, we also demand human sacrifices.
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by sammyo 18y ago
I don't know much about Bartz but I've always been impressed with Autodesk, or rather the products 3DMax, Maya and the pro video tools. Max is the first product I'd heard of where the developers were not tied to an office, they were all ove
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by sammyo 18y ago
They missed #1: 10% inspiration, 90% perspiration.
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by sammyo 18y ago
House is the result of a group of very smart english majors (scriptwriters) carefully crafting both sides of an argument.
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by sammyo 18y ago
As much as I appreciate your sentiment, I would beg to disagree. It is possible to imply scatological sentiment without resorting to 'swear words' and is occasionally appropriate. Although it requires effort, constructing a sentence or phra
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by sammyo 18y ago
Found my town from the ip address and then when I tested a post it appeared as fast as I could switch windows and reload.
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by sammyo 18y ago
Why should one have 'a' philosophy? There are many fine mutually contradictory philosophies, I choose all.
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by sammyo 18y ago
If you do date two women at the same time, give each a present: a small bottle of the SAME perfume. (Just passing on some advice from a smart guy I worked with)
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by sammyo 18y ago
Many of those areas are mountainous infertile wasteland and forests that are mostly logged off. Shoulda just sold off the lower half of Manhattan last year ;-)
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by sammyo 18y ago
The irony is that Groucho was almost immediately invited to join the country club that inspired that comment.
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by sammyo 18y ago
"Ergo, Zed is Hannah Montana." Hello? I thought "Zed is dead", but now really, all that needed was an overt HCE reference to boost such a fine diatribe into the literary flame sphere.
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by sammyo 18y ago
If you're a hacker you might look for a niche in the R project and do some development.
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by sammyo 18y ago
This crowd should be familar with rule 34: http://xkcd.com/305/
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by sammyo 18y ago
Yep, you are your 'Horrible'. Deal.
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by sammyo 18y ago
Funny name? Cheap & Easy? Woo! (thread creation that is) I think it will not really take off until the general infrastructure (millions and millions of cores) is more generally pervasive.
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by sammyo 18y ago
Let's just hope that's not the price of a loaf of bread.
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by sammyo 18y ago
Back in the olden days there were clipping services, pay a fee and each week/month a selection of xeroxed articles would arrive in a plain manila envelope.
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by sammyo 18y ago
Me and my shadow Strolling down the avenue Me and my shadow Not a soul to tell our troubles too And when it's twelve o'clock We climb the stair We never knock For nobody's there
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by sammyo 18y ago
Quick quiz, which is more deadly AIDS, Auto accidents or Hospital errors?
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by sammyo 18y ago
Just download the files direct: http://mit-ocw-thai.eng.chula.ac.th/OcwWeb/Global/OCWHelp/he...
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by sammyo 18y ago
And choose grandparents that lived a long life.
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by sammyo 18y ago
An example of how not to use regular expressions?
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by sammyo 18y ago
Old riddle: How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice, practice, practice.
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by sammyo 18y ago
> Reduce speed with 30%, and you'll reduce the total energy consumption by a considerable amount. This is one of the (few?) cases where government regulation is appropriate, one airline would go out of business but if every route change
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by sammyo 18y ago
The GPS chip/unit embeded in cell phones is incredibly minimal (at least when I reviewed the topic a couple years ago). The phone itself does not calculate lat/lon. The phone captures the bare timebase GPS signal, uplinks the raw sat number
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by sammyo 18y ago
e^i*pi + 1 = 0 is clearly a refutation.
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by sammyo 18y ago
I noticed this while looking for cute kitty photos on reddit this morning, surprisingly the discussion remained remarkably on topic. That Arc spurs a mostly rational discussion on reddit is perhaps an indicator of the value of the exercise.
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by sammyo 19y ago
It'll catch on when articles don't include so many if/but/maybes. My eyes tend to just glaze over whenever I read about OpenID, so many fuzzy caveats.

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