spydez

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by spydez 17y ago
If you don't like swearing for emphasis, I would suggest formatting your sentences in a way that doesn't require your readers to swear for you. Most people will, after pausing to wonder why the shift numbers are there, just replace them wit
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by spydez 17y ago
The days I forget my iPod are horrible, unproductive days. I think that has to do with my noisyish work environment more than anything, since I can code at home with or without music. Though it may also be related to the way working at work
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by spydez 17y ago
Me and my crazy hacker skills... finding the "print" link. :P
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The Business of Software 2009 speaker lineup(joelonsoftware.com)
13 points by spydez 18y ago|5 comments
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by spydez 18y ago
There are a few ways to get around nytimes.com logins. My favorite is setting my referrer to google.com. Runner-up is BugMeNot.
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by spydez 18y ago
No love for the "I don't have a startup (yet)" crowd?
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by spydez 18y ago
I assume you're using Firefox... http://lmgtfy.com/?q=firefox+macro
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Intelligent Mistakes: How to Incorporate Stupidity Into Your AI Code(gamasutra.com)
5 points by spydez 18y ago|0 comments
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by spydez 18y ago
From its Wikipedia article: "The illusion has been incorrectly[3] identified as a scientific personality test that supposedly reveals which hemisphere of the brain is dominant in the observer. Under this unproven interpretation, it has been
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by spydez 18y ago
It does give 4 GB of addressable space, but many things are memory mapped by the OS, and so on a 32-bit system you end up with anywhere from 2.8 to 3.5 GB of addressable memory.
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by spydez 18y ago
When PG says jump, we don't bother with asking; we just jump til he says, "Woah! Too high." http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=512280
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by spydez 18y ago
Ah, I see. I lost interest after I saw "a verification link will be sent to your email", and didn't read the paragraph above the text boxes. I don't want to bother with emails unless I know there's something I want behind the registration w
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by spydez 18y ago
You need a sample document, so people can test out the "using your mouse to sign" part without signing up. I don't want to bother with the whole sign up, check email, wait, check email again, click verify link, go back to site, find documen
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by spydez 18y ago
My first R&D project at my company when I just got out of college was in image recognition, so this is pretty interesting. Here's 2 I did: http://webdemo.pittpatt.com/recognition_demo/view.php?id=JKW... http://webdemo.pittpatt.com/re
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The California Guys(antipode.ca)
6 points by spydez 18y ago|0 comments
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Not Lisp again....(funcall.blogspot.com)
178 points by spydez 18y ago|39 comments
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by spydez 18y ago
Anybots said yesterday during their live demo / Q&A session that they were going to use their QA bot to schmooze with folks before/after the conf. Does anyone have any more details? I don't remember them mentioning a url or anything...
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Less Wrong - community blog by Yudkowsky & FHI(lesswrong.com)
2 points by spydez 18y ago|0 comments
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by spydez 18y ago
Well, there is Trevor Blackwell (of YC), who started Anybots... http://anybots.com/
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by spydez 18y ago
I down-vote: * ad hominin attacks with no substance * unoriginal snowclone jokes with no substance * "+1" and "I agree", if that is the entirety of the post * if a post is vastly, enormously over-rated I try to reserve downvote
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by spydez 18y ago
Interesting note, for those of you uninterested in karma or user names, the bookmarklet will hide both. You'll still have your voting arrows and the comment text; you just won't know what everyone else thought of the comment (aside from the
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by spydez 18y ago
I tried a sentence at PolishMyWriting.com. The sentence was: "Onec upon at time, there was a potato." It found my misspell, but it: 1) Didn't capitalize the correction suggestions. 2) Ate the space between 'once' and 'upon' upon corre
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by spydez 18y ago
Maybe it's better for psych or english, but I'd like to see the results for math or engineering classes. In those classes, the slides were nearly useless, but anything written on the blackboard was gold, so the "audio and video of the slide
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by spydez 18y ago
He wants companies to give students homework? It sounds like he just wants companies to bypass college completely. I mean, isn't that the professors' jobs? They design a course, assign work (solo or in groups), give tests, and then give you
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by spydez 18y ago
It was supposed to be "12+ hours", I think, to line up with the options on the /. poll [1]. He just forgot a plus sign. [1] http://slashdot.org/pollBooth.pl?qid=1719&aid=-1
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by spydez 18y ago
Agreed. Vladimir, put a link in your profile if you want, but your resume is not "something that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity [1]", so it really shouldn't be submitted as an article. [1] http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by spydez 18y ago
I keep lists. Many different list of all sorts of things that need doing. Stuff to do in a text file, tabs in Firefox, post it notes scattered over my desk, lists in my head... So whenever I get bored with what I'm doing, I wander through t
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by spydez 18y ago
He's still using his old favicon...
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by spydez 18y ago
You can't see the grid they're talking about in the article's pic, so here's a link to it in Google Maps. http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&#38... It does look quite artificial compared to the surrounding ocean floo
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by spydez 18y ago
I have the TripleHead2Go. It works, but I wouldn't rate it as "works fine". The driver it came with didn't work (at all). So I had to download a new program. That one works, but it won't remember it's settings. So every time the computer sl

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