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391.
by vorador 17y ago
On a side note, It's seems that the xkcd strip on "correlation and causation" entered into geek culture.
392.
by vorador 17y ago
And don't forget the spirit. The spirit is more important than the product.
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Twittjr, or using a PC-Jr to browse twitter(grantovich.net)
16 points by vorador 17y ago|7 comments
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Rob Pike on Richard Stallman(commandcenter.blogspot.com)
85 points by vorador 17y ago|54 comments
395.
by vorador 17y ago
A compiler doesn't protect from segfaults.
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by vorador 17y ago
Why do you believe that ?
397.
by vorador 17y ago
It's amusing to see that his prose style is between Atwood and Zed Shaw. It'd be interesting to study the cross-pollination between bloggers and to chart that.
398.
by vorador 17y ago
But I still think that the number of feeds for a free user is ridiculously low. I think that you should double it even if it means reducing the refresh rate for all feeds (or maybe having a "normal" refresh rate for the ten first feeds and
399.
by vorador 17y ago
What's particular about the ssn ? Why is it used so widely ? (I'm European)
400.
by vorador 17y ago
by the way, why do you limit the number of feeds in a free account to ten while apparently an user without an account could create an unlimited number of feeds ?
401.
by vorador 17y ago
I didn't say that. Art and science require a different kind of creativity, and it's irrelevant to compare them. And I don't think that the only thing needed to be an artist is an "attitude".
402.
by vorador 17y ago
Well, it doesn't look that fun. To show that science is fun, he should give them more "hands-on" experiences to do.
403.
by vorador 17y ago
I didn't use the right expression. I wanted to say that with science, there's an objective way to assess the validity of a method.
404.
by vorador 17y ago
You should listen to some atonal music. It may sound wrong but it's because of our culture (western music is based on scales, atonal music is not).
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Reverse-Engineering DOS 1.0 - Part 1: The Boot Sector(pagetable.com)
4 points by vorador 17y ago|0 comments
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by vorador 17y ago
Yes but in the end you know if your right or wrong. Could you tell that Edgar Varèse was wrong when he composed atonal music ?
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by vorador 17y ago
You've got an interesting vision of artists. Don't you think that creating requires at least as much dedication as science ? After all, in art you never know that you're right, whereas in science you could verify it quite easily.
408.
by vorador 17y ago
What would be the advantages of a preprocessor knowing the syntax ?
409.
by vorador 17y ago
Well, I'm sure you could find a gazillon race conditions. And you know what ? Most of the time it doesn't matter.
410.
by vorador 17y ago
Being nineteen, I have to say that this text is true on so much points. gourneau: Thank you for the link.
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by vorador 17y ago
I guess you've found the next installment of the series.
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SARS Sleuth Tracks Swine Flu(blogs.sciencemag.org)
1 points by vorador 17y ago|0 comments
413.
by vorador 17y ago
I found #9 liberating. Perfectionism could really be a problem.
414.
by vorador 17y ago
Remember that Mercurial is a dvcs.
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by vorador 17y ago
Yes, but it's proprietary.
416.
by vorador 18y ago
You should consider using irssi, ( http://irssi.org/ ) a console irc client which is _way_ better than chatzilla.
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by vorador 18y ago
St-Germain des Prés, Paris.
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Old-school programming techniques you probably don't miss(computerworld.com)
20 points by vorador 18y ago|31 comments
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by vorador 18y ago
Notepad++ is available only on windows. There's, of course, emacs http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs
420.
by vorador 18y ago
Well, I don't think that 4chan has an ideology. Or, I hope they don't.

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