warmfuzzykitten

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by warmfuzzykitten 16y ago
Well, aren't you the cheeky one.
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by warmfuzzykitten 16y ago
It's more like asking which musical notation is best.
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by warmfuzzykitten 16y ago
Great blog post! Winning is hard, sustained work.
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by warmfuzzykitten 16y ago
Doesn't do anything but ask you to install Chrome beta (did that twice). A little too beta for my taste!
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by warmfuzzykitten 16y ago
http://openjdk.java.net/
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by warmfuzzykitten 16y ago
I downloaded a free Gutenberg version of a Robert Benchley book to my iPhone, but was ill-formatted, particularly around illustrations, and hard to read. So I got the same title from Amazon. The formatting problems were fixed and the book w
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by warmfuzzykitten 16y ago
Should be titled "The unbearable lameness of Google." Google has all the technology needed to implement what he wants, including autotranslation, but Google doesn't know a human interface from a hole in the ground. Wave was incomprehensible
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by warmfuzzykitten 16y ago
HackerNews is an example of a larger problem: addiction to intellectual stimulation. Reality is, human brains move very slowly and most often in predictable paths. Therefore, the odds of you hearing of a breakthrough in your chosen discipli
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by warmfuzzykitten 16y ago
It's everybody's favorite interviewing technique: Ask a fairly esoteric question that you are thoroughly familiar with and sit there and feel superior while the candidate struggles to get to an answer you will accept. Three kinds of candida
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by warmfuzzykitten 16y ago
Overlapping Windows is a non-issue. Windows and full-screen intermingle with the new Mission Control. Windows and Linux get Java from Oracle; why not OS X?
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by warmfuzzykitten 16y ago
Life may be complicated, but the antitrust laws are very simple. Competitors may not collude. Ever. Even if some random blogger whines about it.
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by warmfuzzykitten 16y ago
Can't believe no one else responded: "Hello, Reginald!!"
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by warmfuzzykitten 16y ago
Great profile of a weak academic spreading his economic religion.
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by warmfuzzykitten 16y ago
Steve Ballmer couldn't find his ass with a stick and a mirror. (Thanks, Lee Childs.) What amuses me is that people can't bring themselves to say the obvious: the CEO of Microsoft is a fool.
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by warmfuzzykitten 16y ago
US to build giant pickup trucks that SUVs can drive under.
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by warmfuzzykitten 16y ago
Microsoft "innovation": Three rotten product generations followed by an Apple clone.
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by warmfuzzykitten 16y ago
They want to charge people more to read a magazine that is 90% ad pages. That could work.
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by warmfuzzykitten 16y ago
Welcome to Short Attention Span Theater. You must read email, but write as little as possible. Remove yourself from all email newsletters. Swear off facebook, twitter, HN and all other distractions for at least two weeks. When you discover
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by warmfuzzykitten 16y ago
Any book big enough to use for a pillow.
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by warmfuzzykitten 16y ago
Monads are the result of adult mumps.
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by warmfuzzykitten 16y ago
Because mosquitos are too stupid to fly around behind you where the air isn't moving and bite you on the neck and back.
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by warmfuzzykitten 16y ago
Is there anything that big idiot doesn't say? Actually, I hope he is CEO of Microsoft until no one recognizes the name.
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by warmfuzzykitten 16y ago
In other languages, yield is used for coroutine (continuation) return. Bad choice. There is actually no reason not to use return, or to disallow break and continue. These could all have the same meaning as they do in a SAM implemented with
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by warmfuzzykitten 16y ago
No, the SEC has greater discretion. The President's authority, as before, is limited to removing the head of the SEC and he can only do this for good cause.
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by warmfuzzykitten 16y ago
The assertion in this headline seems completely unsupported by any policy cited in the article or in the comments here on the article.
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by warmfuzzykitten 16y ago
I'm sure Dan is replacing his TV and cable hookup with a network-connected computer and HDTV monitor so he won't be forced to watch only the programming the cable network provides (and takes a cut of) but will be free to watch the vast arra
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by warmfuzzykitten 16y ago
Cherry-picked studies show alcohol is the devil. News at 11. To take just one example: Alcohol consumption reduces fat-burning. Um, so does consumption of any substance the body can use as fuel, esp. carbohydrates. However, unlike alcohol,