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by wickawic 11y ago
"Help, I used a PRNG and I accidentally destroyed all known universes"
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by wickawic 11y ago
Is this anything more than a puff piece for Bose? I really like the vignette of a dying old man being overjoyed by the state of their noise cancelling technology
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by wickawic 11y ago
In Minneapolis Target is experimenting with "Express" locations. Think of a Walgreens with a fully functional grocery section.
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by wickawic 11y ago
"Cheapest cloud hosting service as a service"
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by wickawic 11y ago
It seems silly that typing a single extra character at the end of the line (noting that the left parenthesis was previously a space) is "dragging you away from python". It is also worth noting that the IPython repl will close pare
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by wickawic 11y ago
I used to work at Subway ~10 years ago and a deaf couple would always come in and order with their sidekicks. They would even tell us jokes! Thanks for digging up that memory for me :)
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by wickawic 11y ago
Could the energy we get from the sun make it so that we did in fact reduce entropy in some cases?
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by wickawic 11y ago
Eventually people in a certain environment just start talking like that. He might not even realize how silly that sounds.
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by wickawic 11y ago
I've noticed that solving a sudoku is something of a rosetta stone for how people program. Norvig's solution is very straightforward in hindsight, but I think that code was either the result of many iterations or of a career of ma
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by wickawic 11y ago
To your point about analogies, there's a wonderful Q/A session with Feynman where he refuses to make an analogy about the electromagnetic force because any analogy that would make sense (rubber bands, etc.) actually only work bec
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by wickawic 11y ago
This doesn't appear to be social science either, though; more like a horoscope. To the point of your comment though, I don't understand why anyone would think that applying scientific principles to humans and human interaction is
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by wickawic 12y ago
"What do you think about the situation in the Middle East?" "on the situation in the middle east? Just fantastic, what is there not to like about the cardinal compass point that is at 90 degrees."
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by wickawic 12y ago
The classic "How does your site perform if your cat is standing on the F11 key" test
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by wickawic 12y ago
It isn't quite programming, but your assembly line comment reminded me of http://pleasingfungus.com/Manufactoria/ which is a game about making state automata.
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by wickawic 12y ago
I've always wondered why this wasn't the case already. The great part about targeting Apple hardware is that there isn't that much of it (comparatively).
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by wickawic 12y ago
The Good Wife takes lots of stories from real life. I'm thinking specifically of the episode when a show (like Glee) lifted a cover of a song (like Baby Got Back) from an artist (like Jonathan Coulton) who didn't technically own t
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by wickawic 12y ago
The above commenter was saying that there is no way to find a user's MAC address by looking at their IP packets alone. MAC addresses are used by link layer protocols (ethernet), but an IP address is used for identification in higher le
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by wickawic 12y ago
If you liked that, you might like this similar video about how a mechanical watch works: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=508...
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by wickawic 12y ago
I don't think that's true for physical businesses. Technology actually allows businesses to be more monolithic and centralized because it reduces the pain of managing lots of moving parts. Making purchasing and delivery decentrali
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by wickawic 12y ago
http://docopt.org/ This project attempted to make argument parsing and the help string synonymous. I'm not sure if it is being actively maintained.
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by wickawic 12y ago
qwdtytdw qertytre qxctntcx zxctbtvwq The scales produced by typing along one row reminded me of the castle theme from Super Mario World. If my javascript-foo was greater, I would write a function that types this, but alas.
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by wickawic 12y ago
From Wikipedia: "...SEQUEL (Structured English Query Language), was designed to manipulate and retrieve data stored in IBM's original quasi-relational database...The acronym SEQUEL was later changed to SQL because "SEQUEL&quo
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by wickawic 12y ago
I love how strikingly editorial changes show up: "Theater" vs. "Theatre": http://chronicle.nytlabs.com/?keyword=theater.theatre As well as how quickly culturally accepted terms are replaced: "Mrs.&q