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by zck 16y ago
Add "inurl:pagewanted=all" to your search query.
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by zck 16y ago
Also, do we know what the value of the silent auction was when it was converted to a live auction? Several people had commented that they couldn't be there in person, but wanted to bid anyway.
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by zck 16y ago
Also see pg's review, referenced but not linked from Norvig's: http://www.amazon.com/review/R3G05B1TQ5XGZP/ref=cm_cr_pr_per...
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by zck 16y ago
>It gives you a zip file with all your contact info, photos, video, status updates, wall posts, etc. If somebody would like to write an importer for Diaspora, or Google Me, or even a non-vaporware competitor, they are well within Facebo
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by zck 16y ago
An engineer, a physicist, and a mathematician go to a conference together, and split a room in the hotel. They check in and go to sleep. The hotel is old (they couldn't afford anything better on professors' salaries), so the room is heated
606.
by zck 16y ago
Emacs, Lisp (but not Emacs Lisp).
607.
by zck 16y ago
You can set email notifications up, so you don't need a mobile device or a desktop application.
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by zck 16y ago
There are no keys that will work for everyone. I use Colemak -- the A and Z keys are in the same spot as Qwerty, but K is where N is on Qwerty, so that's a difference. Throw in Dvorak, and you only have A and M in the same place on those th
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by zck 16y ago
The next reply in that conversation is by...Julian Assange ( http://groups.google.com/group/comp.emacs/browse_thread/thre... ).
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LCD Soundsystem on failure and laziness(blogg.svt.se)
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by zck 16y ago
While accompanying my father to his financial advisor, I had the opportunity to decide what to do with some funds I had inherited. The advisor had given me several prospectuses to look over, and I had ruled out some funds because they had A
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by zck 16y ago
>Each book can be lent once for a loan period of 14-days... Only once? People won't enjoy that.
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by zck 16y ago
>It is amusing that these stern words, particularly regarding distribution, never seem to apply to the sender. Of course, they never apply to the recipient either, absent further contracts or social pressure. You can put whatever you wa
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by zck 16y ago
This is something different: >To be clear, this trial is completely separate from our community selection process ( http://www.google.com/appserve/fiberrfi/ ) for Google Fiber, which is still ongoing. The Stanford Project is a lot small
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by zck 16y ago
Why would they? There is literally no benefit to interviewers to do so -- they've already rejected you, so improving your performance won't help their company, and it could help their competitor that does hire you. It could cause problems (
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by zck 16y ago
"Plant plant for restaurants"?
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by zck 16y ago
He gets into that in point five: >To paraphrase Terminator II, the Valley is an order of magnitude closer to being self-aware, and evolving at a rapid pace as an innovation ecosystem. ...Whether it’s Y Combinator’s special access to Fac
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by zck 16y ago
My employment isn't worth mentioning. A minesweeper implementation for Emacs: https://bitbucket.org/zck/minesweeper.el . If anyone tries it, please let me know what you think. Also, I'm working on learning unicycling, juggling, becoming a
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by zck 16y ago
Read Emphyrio by Jack Vance. It's just one book, but it's a fantasy book set in space. The main character is a woodcarver, but there are spaceships that travel to many inhabited worlds. Vance is one of the best authors I know to make a worl
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by zck 16y ago
Already posted: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1790749
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by zck 16y ago
It's very hard to fall on your face on a unicycle. I'm actually learning how to ride one now, and although it's not easy to do "simple" things like turn, go backwards, or even stay in one place, it's very easy to fall off safely -- you just
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by zck 16y ago
I use my initials, as I'm trying to do for everything these days. I'd be much happier about it if I could get a decent domain name with them (I have the .me version, but that seems useless) -- obviously the .com, .net, .org are all register
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by zck 16y ago
That's not U.S. dollars, that's kroner. On December 31, 2008, that was $13 million on $71 million revenue ( http://finance.yahoo.com/currency-converter/#from=NOK;to=USD ; change the date to get historical data).
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by zck 16y ago
I was at this one (MP3 experiment 7) as well as MP3 Experiment 5 (Battle for Governor's Island), Cell Phone Symphony ( http://improveverywhere.com/2006/02/18/cell-phone-symphony/ ), and Camera Flash Experiment ( http://improveverywhere.com/
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by zck 16y ago
Ha, when first formulating the argument, I realized that the husband could have been married multiple times, but forgot that when I wrote my post. Excellent point. But it seems to me that if the whole reason for your group existing is that
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by zck 16y ago
It seems like 2 is improperly specified: >2. Jane went to visit Jill. Jill is Jane's only husband's mother-in-law's only husband's only daughter's only daughter. What relation is Jill to Jane? Here's the reasoning I think they want: Jan
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by zck 16y ago
There are two ways to do it: the first is to consider the "longest shortest path", as makmanalp said, and find the longest path among the set of shortest paths from an article to Hitler. The second is to not travel to any node twice in a gi
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by zck 16y ago
It makes a difference that you're a polarizing person -- there will be people next week mocking you because 37signals isn't a $100million company yet, so you have more impetus to actually achieve it compared to a person who tells his or her
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by zck 16y ago
>And I thought that would never confuse me again...thanks. In things like this, it helps to scale it up to 100% -- what happens if a $4 million company takes $4 million from VCs? Certainly the VCs wouldn't own the entire company, so you
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by zck 16y ago
AnonymousChef's comment is pretty helpful in explaining this, but there's one thing I don't get -- why would the NYT choose to pay back the loan early if they have to pay both the interest and the 5% early termination fee (larger than mos

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