stray

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481.
by stray 14y ago
Build it yourself. Two men can only keep a secret if one of them is dead.
482.
by stray 14y ago
A more likely source is neustar (a spinoff of Lockheed), who also has all that information and is actually in the intel business.
483.
by stray 14y ago
They are controlled for me by the females of my species.
484.
by stray 14y ago
Lisp's condition system allows you to handle the condition without unwinding the stack. That's the whole point.
485.
by stray 14y ago
wow just wow
486.
by stray 14y ago
for contributor in contributors: precrime_arrest_queue.append(contributor)
487.
by stray 14y ago
> anyone remember NetWare? I was a CNE (which means I was a badass at at NetWars)... Btw, I still think syscon was amazing.
488.
by stray 14y ago
Better and worse. One thing I sorely miss is printed documentation -- especially the (unix) permuted index. Even today, I'm convinced that I understand and remember information better when I can hold an actual book in my hand as I read
489.
by stray 14y ago
Chattanooga looks interesting. They have reasonably priced, supafast internet access and there are quite a few startups in the area already.
490.
by stray 15y ago
Look, a great idea and a couple bucks will buy you a grande americano. A mediocre idea however, can make you rich beyond your wildest dreams. The trick is to reproject that idea into working code -- and if you aren't going to do it without
491.
by stray 15y ago
> What exactly is a ninja or a rockstar in terms of programming? Someone who enthusiastically engages in RDD (resume driven development). Someone who knows whatever is currently fashionable in the blogowhatever...
492.
by stray 15y ago
To solidify thought.
493.
by stray 15y ago
I really don't have a facebook account (we children of the cold war are sometimes a bit wary of any system that looks too much like a KGB wet dream). Or twitter. And on reddit I remove all my messages and delete my accounts whenever I pass
494.
by stray 15y ago
Nothing creepy about that (!)
495.
by stray 15y ago
Um... there's no "there" there.
496.
by stray 15y ago
I suspect you read about it while reading some MBTI-related stuff. INTP?
497.
by stray 15y ago
[incr Tcl]
498.
by stray 15y ago
Ah, yes. And of course, the young padawan who has built a rube-goldberg monstrosity that kinda works will be furious when you suggest simplifying.
499.
by stray 15y ago
Nice try, cocaine dealer.
500.
by stray 15y ago
> Things like this remind me of "serious inquiries only" on craiglist which I find insulting and I'm sure that turns off inquires that could result in sales. Just this past week I had my first experience trying to sell something on crai
501.
by stray 15y ago
Whippersnappers.
502.
by stray 15y ago
>LOL. Great, anyone got a spare Alpha lying around? IIRC, there's a Linux version that owners of Open Genera for the DEC Alpha are allowed to download.
503.
by stray 15y ago
I would definitely not migrate to any editor that runs in the browser -- unless my entire environment were in the browser -- which FSM willing, will never happen. What you have to understand about my editor (emacs), is that it sucks. There,
504.
by stray 15y ago
After all, nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition...
505.
by stray 15y ago
Real world experience may be king, but it won't get you past the guards at the gate (HR) as readily as a sheepskin.
506.
by stray 15y ago
Don't you think it would be a good idea to consider the problem you're trying to solve first? If you start by specifying the tools first you're almost guaranteed to be wrong.
507.
by stray 15y ago
It should happen by accident, when one person says "lunch" and the other person thinks he said "launch".
508.
by stray 15y ago
It was correct...
509.
by stray 15y ago
SOPA has no more to do with piracy than the PATRIOT Act had to do with patriotism. It's really about control of information.
510.
by stray 15y ago
You can't get become a citizen of a different country without renouncing your American citizenship.

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