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by scrame 16y ago
The algorithm design manual is a great book. The only downside is that the CD that comes with the book is full of media in 1995 realmedia format.
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by scrame 16y ago
There is an old track by The Arsonists called "Frenemies": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxJAnfTDkwU
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by scrame 16y ago
Funny, I was just talking about them not being able to remove the GIL today while working through a tornado app. I wonder what the future holds for pypy.
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by scrame 16y ago
I did, I just don't think thats funny.
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by scrame 16y ago
I don't get it.
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by scrame 16y ago
502 -- bad gateway.
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by scrame 16y ago
I've long thought talent was akin to "potential energy", some people do seem to have an aptitude for math, or music, or art, but it really doesn't go anywhere unless they work through and develop it. Talent is a yardstick for saying "you co
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by scrame 16y ago
"Oh, did you really just eat lunch at Subway? Why the hell do you think anybody cares to know that?" Thats not an uncommon opinion of facebook or twitter. Coming from a facebook fan site, the vitriol throughout the article seems misplaced,
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by scrame 16y ago
The first time I read it straight through. I was in the middle of college, and transitioning from a dual bio/chem major to a math/cs major, and the book really hit a sweet spot for me with the nature of the universe. If you're a programmer,
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by scrame 16y ago
I hate php, and don't really like mysql. Yes. It is quite practical.
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by scrame 16y ago
Not so much that this is a question, but that this particular question gets 100+ points on "hacker news", when its not even a question or explanation, just a link to google result of adding numbers in java. If it was at least a homework que
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by scrame 16y ago
http://www.theonion.com/video/new-apple-friend-bar-gives-cus...
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by scrame 16y ago
This is fantastic. The early web is a treasure trove of an interesting time in history. It was the first time average people could just write public documents to express themselves. Naturally the pages were terrible, covered in things that
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by scrame 16y ago
I'm generally very wary of these services because they usually lump a lot of stuff I don't like into it, but the results starting from Nas' Memory Lane have been great so far. It'd be nice if there were a better way to tell if the youtube v
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by scrame 16y ago
If the server is down, you can play offline, but disables updates and custom avatar skins.
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by scrame 16y ago
If you are hiring a developer who has been working professionally for 3 years and is applying for a junior position you should not be surprised that they don't know sql.
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by scrame 16y ago
Malcolm Gladwell writes books about "success" where he uses many anecdotal (albeit fascinating) stories to come to a very vague conclusion of how people can be "successful". GP was referring to "qualities of success" (passion, writing somet
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by scrame 16y ago
Its also one of the 3 jokes they use on family guy.
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by scrame 16y ago
Microsoft has a long history of terrible advertising. Here's ballmer in a tacky suit selling windows 1.0: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGvHNNOLnCk Windows 386 (second half, bear with it): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGO2hVA3P58 Son
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by scrame 16y ago
Intercal
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by scrame 16y ago
No, threads and processes are different. Threads are pieces of concurrent execution with a shared state from the containing process. Processes are heavier pieces of execution, they have their own memory and state, get a distinct PID. fork()
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by scrame 16y ago
Nice article; short, sweet and enough to pique my curiosity about modern assembly. Some aphorisms like "C has the efficiency and speed of assembler, with the portability and readability of assembler" come to mind, but those are from ancient
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by scrame 16y ago
No.
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by scrame 16y ago
Its from Techcrunch, thats pretty much their business model.
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by scrame 16y ago
Yuck.
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by scrame 16y ago
Right, nobody likes DBAs.
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The OpenDNS Stunt Show -- or how the NYT makes money in the new economy.(video.nytimes.com)
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by scrame 16y ago
I'd prefer the AMA's stay over on reddit. Everyone here knows what it is, and the good ones get linked, but its not really appropriate for the discussions here. Besides, there have already been a few facebook employee AMA's there. The discu
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by scrame 16y ago
"Look at him, he loves it...Just like it said in the encyclopedia!" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJ4B7G8Rw3Q [nsfw language]
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by scrame 16y ago
Although this is true, I think it is missing the point. What was the problem text messages was trying to solve? Responding to a phone call on a train during rush hour. Saying "I'm almost there", or "Ill be 5 minutes late" without getting

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