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by zck 16y ago
I think this is the video Gell-Mann is talking about where Feynman "advocated on national television that people not brush their teeth": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsgBtOVzHKI&feature=playe... . He doesn't actually advocate it, bu
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by zck 16y ago
TrueReddit is pretty awesome: http://www.reddit.com/r/TrueReddit/ . It's explicitly for "...thought-provoking articles, reddiquette, reading before voting and the hope to generate intelligent discussion on the topics."
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by zck 16y ago
This article isn't written by Neal Gaiman, but by Sudara Williams, one of the founders of Ramen Music.
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by zck 16y ago
It was probably done to get the article onto one page, not the five that the normal article is.
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by zck 16y ago
Arguably one card (and then more cards in their joke sets) that doesn't actually randomly choose, which they won't reprint [1], and which they've banned because of the way it works [2]. And the cards that force reshuffling do require time a
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by zck 16y ago
Computer-only CCGs also open up design space that can't be done for real-life card games. Picture "destroy a random permanent" -- that would be impossible to do if you're sitting with cards in front of you, but trivial if it's on a computer
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by zck 16y ago
It could be single-player but still played on the server.
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by zck 16y ago
Hack the tolls: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=I-9... Get off the highway, take a break, get some cheap gas, and get on the highway after the tolls.
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by zck 16y ago
You can buy tea, socks, domain names, t-shirts, nightlights, video games, books, pen testing, and more using bitcoins: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Trade
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by zck 16y ago
It's probably enough to have independently invented the techniques -- it's not like pg is going to stand up at the interview and yell that there was unpublished prior art in a Swahili book from 1902 explaining the same technique you came up
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by zck 16y ago
I'd be interested to know if Jennings had any influence on the title -- the phrase "unfair advantage" isn't used in the text -- he calls it an "advantage", but "unfair" lends it an entirely different meaning. The article is a very even-hand
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by zck 16y ago
The quote was regarding vimscript, not Elisp.
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by zck 16y ago
Their example of "Convert emails into tasks and clear your inbox" is amusing ( http://www.taskforceapp.com/?v=original_ft ): >from President Obama to me: >How are you? Was wondering if you could give me a quick intro to Julian Assan
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by zck 16y ago
I signed up, and Greplin finally finished indexing my data (it took a few days). However, a big minus for me is that Greplin doesn't search Gmail chat logs, and it doesn't disclose that until I searched through the FAQs. I hope they're able
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by zck 16y ago
>So I had to steer him into categories full of what I called "semantic difficulty"--where the clues’ wordplay would trip him up. This doesn't seem as useful as it's written here -- it's only useful under two cases: 1. Not all the clues
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by zck 16y ago
You're talking about two different things -- SMrF is saying that if Jennings or Rutter gives an incorrect answer, Watson is able to run speech recognition on what they said, ruling out the answer they gave. This would happen before the qu
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by zck 16y ago
Look how they test the brakes ( http://www.wired.com/autopia/2011/02/looking-inside-boeings-... ): >One of the final tests still on the agenda for the 747-8 test pilots is a maximum braking tests. The pilots will abort a take off at app
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by zck 16y ago
There's no example the author gives that contradicts it, but it's not quite RPN. In Lisp, the + operator is variadic -- it can take any number of arguments. So in reverse-Lisp, this would be legal code: (3 4 2 +)
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by zck 16y ago
I wonder what Github thinks about the changes to this program -- whether it's fast enough for their needs. I tweeted this at github; I hope they respond. http://twitter.com/zckzck/status/36447074698399744
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by zck 16y ago
They probably want more impressive things if you're older -- if you're 18, it's impressive to have created a single site and sold it for a few thousand dollars, and have that be your biggest achievement. If you're 40, it's less so.
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by zck 16y ago
The comment is here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1791800 Searchyc.com is your friend: http://searchyc.com/This+attitude+bugs+me+a+lot.+There+
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by zck 16y ago
Yeah, they're investing in Twitter stock , not Twitter itself.
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by zck 16y ago
"A string of characters acting as numbers? Hell no. People could put in anything. '234-fake-num' isn't a real phone number! This way we'll be sure the numbers are real. Besides, look how much space we'll be saving."
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by zck 16y ago
At least for reddit, there's http://www.karmawhores.net/ . You won't see much, 'cause it doesn't start keeping data until you add yourself. Here's mine, so you know what it will look like: http://www.karmawhores.net/user/zck
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by zck 16y ago
Can you elaborate how? I ask selfishly, but it would be interesting to know. I have a hunch that one of the main reasons I wasn't sent one was because I said I use Firefox instead of Chrome -- I thought that lying would be a bad idea, even
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by zck 16y ago
This is pretty cool. If I were in London, I'd use it. You could integrate Google Maps to show you the least busy places in a certain part of London, so it could be used for "I've got an afternoon to kill. I'm over here; where can I go?"
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by zck 16y ago
That certainly works, but it seems like a large part of this market would want numeric-only URLs, and so you couldn't have e.g., 1.2.3.4, or 1.1.2.3, etc.
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by zck 16y ago
In high school, I asked my mother one night to wake me when a meteor shower was happening. In the morning, I was angry at her, because she didn't wake me. She informed me that not only did she wake me and we saw the meteor shower, we had a
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by zck 16y ago
Well, only if someone tries to go to http://XXX.XXX.XXX.42 , which seems rare. I can't think of a way to tell whether XXX.XXX.XXX.42 is an IP or a website from that string alone. You could require that no subdomain has four "parts" (i.e.,
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by zck 16y ago
It's worth noting that there's a karma minimum one must have to be able to create polls, so emrahyalaz won't be able to create one.

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