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by speek 18y ago
bah... Global Cycling
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by speek 18y ago
"We're building a machine that will be proud of us"
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by speek 18y ago
The only way that more-than-2-dimensional UIs will work will be if there's an extra dimension _only_ for each of the elements ("in-and-out" for the window stack, etc)... otherwise people will get frustrated with mousing... Don't even get me
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by speek 18y ago
Learn Scheme -> Read/watch SICP. Work your way up to algorithms. Build stuff.
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by speek 18y ago
http://www.wolfgreenfield.com/ ?
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by speek 18y ago
I also work in an environment with people who should not be going near their command line. Well, its not that they shouldn't but they don't want to be forced to learn commands. I'm working on a Git GUI that should be fairly beautiful (I'm a
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by speek 18y ago
We've used ConstantContact for some time. It's nothing special but it gets the job done. I'm not a big fan of the logo on their emails, but I don't really mind. I do use phpmailer to send off some stuff to me on my server, but nothing for m
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by speek 18y ago
Trick question... (S)he celebrates festivus. Honestly, anything from thinkgeek.com should be fun, but I love what is going on with the donations from those T-shirts.
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by speek 18y ago
Why is it on a wednesday?
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by speek 18y ago
This is actually the distro I used before Ubuntu got big. I loved it, it did everything I needed it to do while still being debian based.
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by speek 18y ago
This is why we need to teach numbers and concepts, not names. I admit that the English number system is flawed, but that's what digits are for, right? 37 = 3(10s)7. Its just a shortcut, we can express 37 to be 3*10 + 7, but its just not wor
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by speek 18y ago
OO property 1: You're in a house. An appliance is a physical object that does something. A fridge is an appliance that keeps things cold, a toaster is an appliance that makes things warm, a blender is an appliance that blends things. If yo
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by speek 18y ago
C# has got a bunch of neat functional stuff in it (Microsoft's researchers have seen the glory of functional languages), but Java might be easier to start off with. Once you can get through Java, everything else you learn will feel immensel
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by speek 18y ago
Isn't this a major part of string theory?
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by speek 18y ago
For one of my blogs, we got fed up with IE6 compatibility... so we just made a little javascript that would forward users of IE6 to a page with screenshots of our site and a little "Dude, upgrade your browser." This was for a corporate blog
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by speek 18y ago
You're completely right. I probably should have explicitly said that, but I meant people should get educated as well.
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by speek 18y ago
What about Nader, McKinney, etc?
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Tell HN: Vote.
184 points by speek 18y ago|289 comments
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by speek 18y ago
Didn't people stop developing that?
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by speek 18y ago
Yes! More Erlang Frameworks!
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by speek 18y ago
I don't have any tangible credentials (read: I'm not a doctor), but my data comes from being mildly obsessed about nutrition (heredity isn't on my side) and from reading as much as I possibly can about nutrition (American Society for Nutrit
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by speek 18y ago
1 page. Simple. Eye-catching.
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by speek 18y ago
For most of my life I wasn't Lactose-intolerant... In the past year or so I've somehow managed to convince my body to start mutating the shape of those oh-so-wonderful lactase enzymes. Now, I don't _have_ to drink lactase-added milk, but it
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by speek 18y ago
lucky for me, my university (northeastern) teaches both java and scheme. I think one of the guys who wrote HtDP is a northeasstern comp sci professor. Intro to comp sci is scheme, honors freshman comp sci is java, and I think down the road
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by speek 18y ago
How's that for vertical integration?
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by speek 18y ago
As much as I like LaTeX, It's not something I would typeset my resumé in. Then again, I was a graphic designer in another life and I think that resumés that stand out, stand a chance. I can tell you that when I'm looking through a pile of r
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by speek 18y ago
SuSE makes me cry. I mean, it's a great desktop distro... but I'm not sure how stable it is for servers. I could be completely wrong, but I'm completely biased from the dep-hell I had to go through with SuSE a while ago.
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by speek 18y ago
but but but... OS X is really great! I like the *buntus, but I think that OS X is a little more polished and solid.
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by speek 18y ago
Wumi's advice is generally pretty good... but once again, nobody needs to exercise for 90 minutes a day. That's just a little crazy. All it takes is 30-45 minutes, 3-4x a week. A day of rest in between each session. Don't forget a whole bod
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by speek 18y ago
They just added some stuff to their site, so it should be working well now... I'm guessing that XunPlay has to do with their streaming, but I honestly don't know anything about it. I'll ask around though.

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