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by sweettea 13y ago
I've recently been reading an excellent book, Tinkering toward Utopia: A Century of Public School Reform (Tyack). Among its useful points is that the definition of illiterate has been changing throughout the history of school reform mo
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by sweettea 13y ago
I note that postscript has loops and methods, if I recall correctly.
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by sweettea 13y ago
Especially hard to catch up with Linux when Linux began development in 1991 and Hurd began in 1983. Linux is only -8 years ahead of Hurd in development, you'd think Hurd could have caught up by now.
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by sweettea 13y ago
Except that WWII and the Vietnam War both involved mandatory drafts in the US, and as a result, almost all US citizens of our age are barely two generations descended from a veteran of the US military. Even if your father didn't serve,
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MIT SIPB Network switch outage postmortem(blog.achernya.com)
1 points by sweettea 13y ago|0 comments
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by sweettea 13y ago
...and was fired from it.
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A homework in algorithms(corner.mimuw.edu.pl)
3 points by sweettea 14y ago|0 comments
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Please Stop Attacking MIT's Network(blog.achernya.com)
365 points by sweettea 14y ago|207 comments
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by sweettea 14y ago
See cogen.mit.edu for an identical note. It appears cogen was running IIS.
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by sweettea 14y ago
Both rledev.mit.edu and cogen.mit.edu are MIT departments (one the part of MIT powering much of campus, one a laboratory doing electronics). It wasn't a student's bad security.
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by sweettea 14y ago
I recently got a job without the beer test, and I'm glad. I understand the need to fit in, and I genuinely think I do, but I, like many others, don't deal well socializing with enormous groups of strange people. If subjected to a beer test,
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by sweettea 14y ago
Does scribtex do latex compilation as a service? (I emailed you guys about this at some point, and you said you had no plans to do this yourself, but how do ya'll work with scribtex?)
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by sweettea 14y ago
I hear from a person inside of Dropbox that they announced it early when they'd all gotten drunk and edited the planned well-written blogpost to go up immediately with the new prices.
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by sweettea 14y ago
about:config -> browser.search.selectedEngine
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by sweettea 16y ago
What in the nine hells is a .22 caliber shotgun ? Shouldn't it be a .22 caliber rifle? A shotgun tends to involve multiple, random pellets, which doesn't appear to be what the article talks about.
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by sweettea 16y ago
Organic farmer. Done right, if you have the skill, it can make enough money to live comfortably on; takes you closer to nature than you'll ever otherwise be; and in general makes for a Very Happy Athletic Job.