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by smanek 18y ago
There are already protocols better designed for that sort of thing (think SNMP or Syslog). RSS is really just an XML schema optimized content syndication - it just isn't the right tool for the job. Not too mention that you probably don't wa
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by smanek 18y ago
You should look into the Bulverism Fallacy.
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by smanek 18y ago
If you're into these sort of pranks look at these books: http://www.amazon.com/Nightwork-History-Hacks-Pranks-MIT/dp/... http://www.bookstore.caltech.edu/caltech/shop_product_detail...
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by smanek 18y ago
way that their reacted Noun fail!
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by smanek 18y ago
There are dark pools ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_pools ) that are under far less regulation at least ....
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by smanek 18y ago
Usually that does work but there are a few issues. First of all, since there is no package management to speak of, you often run into dependency hell (A requires B requires C requires D ...). Thankfully, we have macports (think of it like a
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Microsoft to Release 'Windows Cloud'(computerworld.com)
7 points by smanek 18y ago|1 comments
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by smanek 18y ago
The article doesn't actually mention anything about jews ... In fact, it seems fairly reasonable - stop with the ad hominems. Even if some other article from the same author is b.s., that doesn't have any impact on the legitimacy of this.
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by smanek 18y ago
There's a great chapter in "Surely your joking Mr. Feynman" about mental arithmetic. Here's an excerpt, from when Feynman was eating at a cafe and an abacus salesman walked in and challenged Feynman to an arithmetic contest: "He writes down
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by smanek 18y ago
The SAT was trivial in the exact same way fizz buzz in. It isn't meant to find the next Einstein, it's just meant to weed out the grossly incompetent. A lot of stupid people can probably do well on SAT math because it's too easy. But I prom
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by smanek 18y ago
Like I said, simple tests always have false positives. Of course a lot of poor coders can do fizz buzz. But, if you can't code fizz buzz in under five minutes, I guarantee you are a bad coder. It's a simple way to eliminate half your applic
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by smanek 18y ago
If the SAT was so easy (and I agree that it is), what's the big deal? It's 3 hours of your life and costs under 50 bucks (and they waive the fee if you can show need). You didn't have to spend a huge amount of time studying or money taking
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by smanek 18y ago
In my experience, SATs are one of the few good predictors of intelligence (in a necessary-but-not-sufficient sort of way). Truth be told, the SATs aren't particularly hard so most bright people could walk in and take the test cold turkey an
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by smanek 18y ago
It's almost impossible to take notes in math with a computer too. I tried writing all my notes in LaTeX for a semester, but I'd waste so much time/energy worrying about typesetting that I didn't pay enough attention in class. That being sai
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by smanek 18y ago
My apologies. I didn't realize it was a duplicate - I just assumed if it was the dupe filter would catch it. I can't seem to delete the submission now though ... I'd appreciate it if one of the mods could. Thanks.
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by smanek 18y ago
I had read A Random Walk Down Wall Street in college. I truly thought that the markets were efficient, that any available knowledge about a company was already reflected in its stock price. Yet I saw Raleigh using the information I gave hi
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Letter to a Young Procrastinator(slate.com)
35 points by smanek 18y ago|13 comments
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Why I Will Never own an E-Book(softwareblogs.intel.com)
2 points by smanek 18y ago|0 comments
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Dropbox Invites for Clever Code(arantaday.com)
1 points by smanek 18y ago|0 comments
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My Stupid Site Killing Mistake(arantaday.com)
1 points by smanek 18y ago|0 comments
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by smanek 18y ago
Humans are not getting smarter. If we can't even propose an idea for an AI today That's kind of silly. First of all, the Flynn Effect ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_Effect ) says we are getting smarter in a very real sense. Second,
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by smanek 18y ago
For Math, I'd really recommend The Road to Reality and Beardon's Algebra and Geometry. TRtR is ostensibly a physics book, but it is one of the best math lessons I've ever read. (I have a bit of a review of those two up at http://arantaday.
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by smanek 18y ago
thanks. I was shooting for people who had already read sicp, htdp, design pattern, etc (and who have at least tried their hand at taocp ;-)). Those are all great books of course, but there are a lot of topics outside their domain. I was hop
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by smanek 18y ago
A new and improved post, based on the feedback I received for my first post ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=296641 ) from PieSquared (thanks!).
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The New Classics of Computer Science(arantaday.com)
41 points by smanek 18y ago|9 comments
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by smanek 18y ago
This is my first blog post (I know, I'm behind the times). I'd appreciate any feedback (writing style, site aesthetic, etc). Thanks
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The Problem with Python(arantaday.com)
5 points by smanek 18y ago|3 comments
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by smanek 18y ago
Of course active desktop is still around. It lives on in mac widgets, the vista sidebar, and so on.
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by smanek 18y ago
Wow. It comes with a javascript/dom debugger ... it seems roughly on par with firebug. And the task manager is amazing, exactly what I've been wanting. (all the good stuff is under the Page menu, then the developer submenu. Took me a while
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by smanek 18y ago
I was thinking the same thing. One of my favorite set theory jokes is based on Russel's Paradox. A mathematician starts a proof: "Consider the set of all sets that have never been considered. Oh wait ... never mind"

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