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by zck 16y ago
This is pretty cool, but there's at least one piece of data you're throwing out from your scraped pages. Compare The White Stripes' "Offend in Every Way" tab on your site ( http://cleantab.com/offend-in-every-way-guitar-tab/white-str... ) a
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by zck 16y ago
He is talking about being told too much about someone in the context of a marketing pitch: >And the next time you send me a marketing piece or invite me to visit your website or talk to me over the phone, don't lead off with talking abo
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It's not uncommon to partially cash out the founder in funding rounds. If the founder gets some cash, ey is less likely to push for an earlier exit. Eir goals are more aligned with the VCs, looking for a larger exit.
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With this kind of thing, here's what I worry about: what if the store decides to charge you $X+5, where the real price is only $5? When a receipt is handed to me at point of sale, I can catch anything different there and bring it up then. A
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by zck 16y ago
Colemak's instructions are here: http://colemak.com/Download Some of them can be modified for other layouts; I haven't looked into it much.
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To prove the solution works: Take ten chosen cards from the deck. Call this set of cards C. Number them c1 through c10. Similarly, number the face-up cards f1 through f10, such that if a face-up card was taken, it has the same number in bot
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by zck 16y ago
I've recommended it before; I'll recommend it again: improv. The other new people there won't know what they're doing either, so everyone else will be just as awkward as you are. It will teach you to be more comfortable in the spotlight, ev
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1. If they take more time -- since there is no lead investor to drag other investors in, the entrepreneur has to do that work. I don't know how this works out; it's certainly easier to convince someone to invest a small amount where they kn
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by zck 16y ago
Ebert's ode to Steak 'n' Shake is here: http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2009/01/car_table_counter_or... His discourse on the rice cooker is here: http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2008/11/the_pot_and_how_to_u... It's a shame the article do
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by zck 16y ago
This also shows that reddit's size has doubled in the past year.
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by zck 16y ago
My .emacs, which is commented, is located at http://github.com/zck/emacs/blob/master/.emacs . I need to update it and move it over to bitbucket, though. Specifically, my favorite things are show-paren-mode, ido-mode, and rebinding C-, and
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by zck 16y ago
>At best a handful of chemists remember what Einstein's Ph.D. was in. >Einstein's Ph.D. dissertation was a principled calculation meant to estimate Avogadro's number. He got it wrong. By a factor of 3. This is interesting. A quick s
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by zck 16y ago
I marked up the code pointed to by mrduncan with comments (a semicolon begins a comment in Arc). (def comment-score (user) (aif ;; (aif test true-part false-part) ;; if test is true, assign its value
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by zck 16y ago
>The solution is not to put the government in the akward position of self-imposing constraints that regular people do not observe. You have the right to peaceably assemble, but if you're on my yard, I can ask you to leave or have you ar
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by zck 16y ago
>To understand the details you'll need to know about group theory. I wrote up an algorithm to swap the minds back, and then proved its correctness, and its running time. It might be more understandable than the group theory proof. It's
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by zck 16y ago
I switched to Colemak last year, and I haven't had a problem with Emacs. But then, to call 'forward-char, I think "C-f", not "Control-left hand index finger home row". Having that extra layer of indirection in my head allowed me to make the
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by zck 16y ago
I say he trolls sometimes because, if I recall correctly, he's said that he (at least once) has made a post he doesn't agree with, so he could see how people responded. I'll see if I can find the post where discussed this. I guess that's ei
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by zck 16y ago
I still upvoted you for the last part of the post. I enjoy reading Adams's work, but he does do a fair amount of trolling.
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by zck 16y ago
There's also the units command: http://www.gnu.org/software/units/units.html
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by zck 16y ago
As mentioned in the article, Kittinger "only" jumped from 102,800 feet. Baumgartner will jump from 120,000. Also, Kittinger was in a "rocking chair" position, not head-down. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Kittinger )
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by zck 16y ago
The air's much thinner up there (99% of the atmosphere is below 20 miles up: http://www.albany.edu/faculty/rgk/atm101/structur.htm ). Also important -- the 120 mph seems to be in a spreadeagle position.
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by zck 16y ago
Can't it just be text? Why would you want it to be an image?
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by zck 16y ago
>My gut reaction is "learn to use git", but I am not sure I could rationally defend it. Git might be a good indicator, even if it's not a tool used in the organization -- provided the person the candidate talks to knows of git. If someo
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by zck 16y ago
Yeah, I'm using gomoku extensively. But there are some questions that are more about the langauge -- for example, it took me a while to figure out you can't have a default value for an optional argument.
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Minesweeper for Emacs. It's a pain, 'cause I'm new to programming elisp, which has some rough edges, and I haven't found great references for it.
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by zck 16y ago
By way of comparison, it's got similar search volume as Algol: http://www.google.com/trends?q=common+lisp%2C+algol&ctab... . It loses to Erlang and OCaml: http://www.google.com/trends?q=common+lisp%2C+erlang%2C+ocam... , and Clojure
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>...if they send you your password back in the clear in a password reminder email, rather than forcing you to create a new one. This only indicates they store the password in a recoverable format. It could be encrypted. It shouldn't be
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by zck 16y ago
But people also react to what is bad dancing; you'd have to know what reactions are favorable, and what reactions indicate displeasure. This would be hard for aliens, who wouldn't know what facial expressions mean.
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"Garbage collect Congress!"
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Justin Frankel on software development, Winamp, and more(bigthink.com)
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