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by teach 13y ago
Good to know. I JUST bought a green WD drive (still in transit from Amazon) so my future thanks you.
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by teach 13y ago
I took an undergrad Compilers course at my school. We wrote a compiler from scratch in one semester. Our compiler parsed and compiled a useful subset of Pascal, but changing it to a novel programming language would have been trivial. It doe
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by teach 13y ago
I'm logged in as root to a headless server that doesn't even run a GUI. I pretty much only install software from the Ubuntu repository. The server is only used by me. I think it's okay if I log in as root if I want.
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by teach 13y ago
Creating a new programming language is MUCH easier than creating a novel video codec that beats H.264.
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by teach 13y ago
I only stay logged in as root on my personal server. For more public servers I of course disable password logins, ssh in using a key file, etc. (I wonder what about my post makes you think you should talk down to me and make (incorrect) ass
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by teach 13y ago
I'm not talking about vitamins in general; I'm talking about vitamin D and how embarrassingly low the U.S. RDA is. There are a great many Americans who would see immense benefit by taking (say) 1,000 to 2,000 IU of vitamin D per d
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by teach 13y ago
Why on earth would I "never log in as root"? And I'm pretty sure it's not a "noob mistake" if I've been using Unix since 1994.
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by teach 13y ago
At work I'm required to use a locked-down Windows 7 machine, which has antivirus software I can't disable. (I would disable it if I could.) At home I use Linux and do not use antivirus software. I also always log in as root. I lik
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by teach 13y ago
Hypervitaminosis D is incredibly rare. Taking 1000 IU per day ought to be harmless for literally everyone. Even 10,000 IU per day is WAY below toxicity.
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by teach 13y ago
Changing public education in America will be hard. But changing the culture would be even harder.
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by teach 13y ago
Gödel's incompleteness theorem does not imply that NOTHING can be objectively true or false.
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by teach 13y ago
Can bots not read the labels next to the form fields?
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by teach 13y ago
And they took another big risk with the WiiU, which may end up being their undoing as a console manufacturer.
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by teach 13y ago
"In the summer of 2011, Bob Lee - the [CTO] at Square and a former engineer at Google - announced... that the web was 'on the cusp of a Java renaissance.'" I'll bet he wouldn't make that same announcement today
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by teach 13y ago
I would disagree that Carmack's work at id "was not particularly groundbreaking". Commander Keen, Wolfenstein, Doom and Quake were all absolutely ground-breaking. Probably ditto for the megatexture stuff in Rage.
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by teach 13y ago
> I learned by doing small project after project... slightly outside of my skill-set Not to toot my own horn, but this is exactly the approach I take when I teach students to code (which I have done quite a lot of). You can see the basic
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by teach 13y ago
I think the writing is already on the wall that the Microsoft App Store is no threat to Steam. The Android market, maybe.
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by teach 13y ago
It does. Probably 'purple prose' as well.
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by teach 13y ago
This is an interesting story but the writing style is so poor I can't make it through. Prose this disjointed would probably make a decent screenplay but it's a bad fit for an essay.
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by teach 13y ago
See bdarnell's comment a few above yours. The problem is that India has a very strictly enforced 'do not call' list.
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by teach 13y ago
Those sites seem to fit the "Computers" category to me. (Note that sites can be in more than one category.)
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by teach 13y ago
Not to mention the tube is steel, which isn't traditionally light-permeable.
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by teach 13y ago
> "VR headsets are just not going to catch on." There are a lot of very smart people who seem to disagree with you.
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by teach 13y ago
He's not leaving id. A recent tweet: "My time division is now Oculus over Id over Armadillo. Busy busy busy!" https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/365126783290445824
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by teach 13y ago
This is really cool. But my 80% case is just installing Dropbox headless on a server. Then I can use 'ls', 'cp' and 'rm'.
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by teach 13y ago
RSS is tiny and static. If your server can't handle a million hits a day to your RSS feed, you're doing it wrong.
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by teach 13y ago
I used to read Dilbert every day, because my feed reader reminded me. Since they changed a week ago, I've only read it once, and that was days ago.
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by teach 13y ago
You can have my hard tabs when you pry them from my cold, dead, RSI-crippled hands. :)
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by teach 13y ago
Stephen King[1] relates a similar idea: "Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open. Your stuff starts out being just for you, in other words, but then it goes out. Once you know what the story is and get it right -- as right as
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by teach 13y ago
You may hate "fixed-width narrow columns" but I find Matt's blog FAR easier to read than yours. Your line length really is too long.

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