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by spydez 18y ago
Why do you say something, and the quote what you just said, Raganwald? There are other methods of emphasis that involve less deja vu...
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Simple Bash Domain Availability Checking(gilesbowkett.blogspot.com)
2 points by spydez 18y ago|0 comments
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by spydez 18y ago
Google? If it's a popular language, someone will have written about what you want to know. That's how I stumbled through my first lil' Ruby program a few weeks ago - read through a few intros I found on Google + judicious Google-fu for spec
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by spydez 18y ago
Difficult to play on a Dvorak keyboard. :( Perhaps you could add the arrow keys in addition to WASD?
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by spydez 18y ago
Talk to the grader. Tell him your handwriting sucks and that's why you typed it. (Show him your handwriting sucks, if you want.) Tell him you've talked to classmates with similar work who got full credit. See what he says. If the grader giv
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by spydez 18y ago
I use Cocoa Emacs.app. The only major keybinding change I've done so far (in 2 or 3 months of using Emacs on OS X) is Caps->Ctrl. Getting to alt/option is a thumb-contortion, so I'll probably try out Cmd->Meta soon. Only thing holdi
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by spydez 18y ago
AT&T uses SIM cards. So do the cheap pay-as-you-go phones from Walmart, etc. So buy a phone for $10, swap SIM cards, and you're good.
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Euler(billthelizard.com)
5 points by spydez 18y ago|1 comments
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by spydez 18y ago
Yet? It's been a few decades now, and all they've done is cement themselves more firmly in the "hacking == illegal" frame of thought. At some point you just have to give up and accept the dichotomy of the term...
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The Dark Lord of Broadband Tries to Fix Comcast's Image(wired.com)
2 points by spydez 18y ago|0 comments
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by spydez 18y ago
You have to pay money to get TC to call you "fail"?
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by spydez 18y ago
See also this Newsweek article, "It's Survival of the Weak and Scrawny", which is about hunting elk and other large game. http://www.newsweek.com/id/177709
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by spydez 18y ago
SearchYC.com can do some sorting of user's comments. e.g. http://searchyc.com/user/Alex3917
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by spydez 18y ago
The Aeron is actually a good buy if you agree with Spolsky's math. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/FieldGuidetoDeveloper... Next time I have a chance to buy a chair I'm going to consider the Aeron. Having to fidget every 5 minutes
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by spydez 18y ago
I'm not sure 24/7 pegging your blood sugar all the way to 11 is what they were thinking of as 'controlled blood sugar'...
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by spydez 18y ago
That article is from March. Since then, the stock markets have fallen 30 or 40 percent. I'm not sure how Gates is doing now compared to all the other ultra rich dudes, but there has probably been some churn in the top ten list.
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The Dumbest Interview Question(lbrandy.com)
36 points by spydez 18y ago|47 comments
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Rationality Quotes(overcomingbias.com)
3 points by spydez 18y ago|0 comments
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by spydez 18y ago
A friend of mine is a designer who started a business doing stickers, business cards, magnets, etc. I've had one of his stickers on my Dell laptop for... probably about 2-3 years. I did not treat that laptop daintily, and his sticker still
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by spydez 18y ago
And if you like a dark theme, but none of those do it for you, there's always Zenburn: http://www.brockman.se/software/zenburn/
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by spydez 18y ago
When I hit a wall, I usually do something like this: 1. Google 2. Stare at ceiling. 3. Do something unrelated, like read HN, while my subconscious ruminates. 4. Try again. I like to figure it out without bugging other p
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by spydez 18y ago
About time. Emacs is one of the few OSes that's still single core...
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by spydez 18y ago
Taking care of kids is a lot of work...
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by spydez 18y ago
I prefer https://www.grc.com/passwords.htm for my random password generation needs...
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by spydez 18y ago
My day job has me coding on Windows for 9 hours a day. My home computer is a Macbook Pro. I don't have any trouble switching between the two every day, except for the occasionally accidental keyboard shortcut (e.g. hitting alt-t in Windows
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by spydez 18y ago
Personally, I prefer GNU Emacs (aka Emacs.app) over Aquamacs. I have a rather large .emacs that's followed me faithfully from Solaris to Linux to Windows to Linux to Windows, and Aquamacs refused to work with it. I spent about a week trying
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by spydez 18y ago
How's this for anonymous: send me your sign-up fee, and I won't tell PG who you are. ;) ...which brings me to my point: The general spirit around here of discouraging snowclones and other common easy/thoughtless forms of humor seems to be s
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by spydez 18y ago
Concerning #2: Right below the giant "Install Now" button it says, "Beta | 14MB | Runs on Windows XP and Vista". I don't think they expect OS X folks to download it...
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Bayes' Theorem explained by Yudkowsky(yudkowsky.net)
57 points by spydez 18y ago|26 comments
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by spydez 18y ago
If you want a spoiler: http://ariya.blogspot.com/2007/11/random-number-15-to-17.htm... He gives a few different ways to solve it, most with uniform distribution.

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