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Wordle generates “word clouds” from text - Very Cool Visualization(wordle.net)
15 points by smanek 18y ago|10 comments
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by smanek 18y ago
It seems like that there is a reason that names are tiny/gray: we should judge what is said on its merit, not based on who said it. I've had the good fortune to know and work with some extremely smart people, and none of them is always ri
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by smanek 18y ago
There was a thread a few years back on comp.lang.lisp about this very topic. Peter Seibel (of 'Practical Common Lisp' fame) replied: "Okay, here's how I do it. Of course I tend to overdo things--how do you think I dorked up my wrists in the
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Collection of 15 People's Google Interview Experiences(linkmingle.com)
1 points by smanek 18y ago|1 comments
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by smanek 18y ago
yep, it's just straight perl, and Leopard comes with perl
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by smanek 18y ago
I would argue that 'perl regexes' are a member of the set of 'perl compatible regexes' ;-)
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The Milgram Experiment's Results Today(thesituationist.wordpress.com)
7 points by smanek 18y ago|2 comments
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Crop Circle depicts the first 10 digits of pi(telegraph.co.uk)
1 points by smanek 18y ago|0 comments
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by smanek 18y ago
that's pretty neat. DrScheme has similar functionality built-in, which I always found impressive. See http://docs.plt-scheme.org/drscheme/Graphical_Syntax.html for some details - it may provide some inspiration for new features.
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by smanek 18y ago
True, part of the speed comes from it's (configurable) heuristics. But, it's faster even when doing the same thing. For example, see the benchmark at http://blog.i-no.de/archives/2008/05/06/index.html . Then end result is that, on the same
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by smanek 18y ago
Yeah, you're right about my example - several of those you listed would have been better. Hell, basic conservation of energy would be a good start.
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Ack - a faster, more featureful, grep(petdance.com)
13 points by smanek 18y ago|12 comments
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by smanek 18y ago
Which one? I don't remember anything like that ... And, I'll bet you dollars to dimes that most math/science geeks know more about the soft sciences (Economics, Psychology, History, Philosophy, Literature, etc.) than the other way around. M
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by smanek 18y ago
is it any less true or applicable now than it was two years ago?
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The Federal Bureau of Luddites(slate.com)
2 points by smanek 18y ago|0 comments
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The Best Computer Upgrade Ever(slate.com)
3 points by smanek 18y ago|3 comments
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Gears of War - The Google product that could augur the death of Microsoft(slate.com)
1 points by smanek 18y ago|0 comments
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How YouTube stifles creativity(slate.com)
1 points by smanek 18y ago|0 comments
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Why municipal wireless networks have been such a flop.(slate.com)
7 points by smanek 18y ago|1 comments
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A Librarian's Worst Nightmare: Yahoo! Answers, where 120 million users can be wrong.(slate.com)
2 points by smanek 18y ago|0 comments
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Speak English, Stupid Computer! (Powerset)(slate.com)
1 points by smanek 18y ago|0 comments
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Obama and McCain Debate on Twitter Tonight(summize.com)
1 points by smanek 18y ago|1 comments
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by smanek 18y ago
Compressed air has great power density, but awful energy density. I.e., you can unload power very quickly from it but can't store much at all. Looking at this http://www.popularmechanics.com/automotive/new_cars/4217016.... popular mechani
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Offline Advertising Still Rules(fitzblog.com)
1 points by smanek 18y ago|1 comments
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Bubblesort isn't useless! (binpacking)(mybiasedcoin.blogspot.com)
3 points by smanek 18y ago|1 comments
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How to get the best employees? Hire above the Mean(mybiasedcoin.blogspot.com)
5 points by smanek 18y ago|0 comments
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by smanek 18y ago
and those that list knuth or shakespeare are trying too hard ;-) this is fun! you may not be able to judge a book by its cover, but I bet you can judge a person by their books (in a 'sufficient but not necessary' sense.)
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by smanek 18y ago
That's a fair point. But the downside is that you now have this mysterious black-box in your code that you can't really do anything with. If, 6 months later, you decide that you want to add a feature or fix a bug you're only going to have t
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by smanek 18y ago
Not actually a Wiki, but similar in concept: 'Earth2100.tv is a project by ABC to solicit ideas from the public and experts about the dangers facing world in the next 100 years. "The world’s brightest minds agree that the “perfect storm” of
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The End-of-the-world Wiki(earth2100.tv)
2 points by smanek 18y ago|2 comments

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