zimbu668

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by zimbu668 11y ago
After we remove support for vertical tab can we drop octal literals from every language? As fun as it is to snicker at a young programmer who spent 2 hours debugging x = 0123 it's time for octal to go away.
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What Waco Police Still Won't Reveal About the Biker-Gang Shootout(theatlantic.com)
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by zimbu668 11y ago
> It may be time to upgrade your garage door opener. If you're worried about this, make sure your garage door can't be opened with a coat hanger as well: http://lifehacker.com/5549366/how-to-unlock-your-gar
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Ad Campaign Hilariously Wants to 'Save the Bros' from the Junk in Protein Shakes(adweek.com)
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by zimbu668 11y ago
http://pure-gas.org/
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by zimbu668 12y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7925375
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Eleven former teachers and administrators guilty in cheating trial(ajc.com)
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Stock market rigging is no longer a ‘conspiracy theory’(nypost.com)
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by zimbu668 12y ago
> Effective for your own people That's why nation states exist. > For example. Let's take WWII for example And your evidence that Switzerland would have helped prevent any of that? While we're throwing unbacked statemen
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by zimbu668 12y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_relations_of_Switzerlan...
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First photographs emerge of new Pacific island off Tonga(telegraph.co.uk)
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A general technique for automating NES games(cs.cmu.edu)
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by zimbu668 12y ago
"Secretary of State Colin Powell also used a personal email account, before the current regulations went into effect." http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/04/us/politics/using-private-...
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The Danger of Being Neighborly Without a Permit(theatlantic.com)
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by zimbu668 12y ago
> the great social development he's missing out on. Don't worry, we're going to hire a tutor so they know how to properly ostracize the weak and the non-conformists.
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How a short sale taught me rich people’s ethics(salon.com)
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by zimbu668 12y ago
I was doing laps in college one time when an ROTC class was practicing this. At the same time they were learning how to use their M16s(or something in the family) while swimming.
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by zimbu668 12y ago
He also has an awesome story about his parents on This American Life( http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/214/t... ) even though he (and they) are Welsh.
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by zimbu668 12y ago
I don't know about people being arrested for comments about Charlie Hebdo, but people have been fined and imprisoned for statements about the Holocaust: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laws_against_Holocaust_denial#P.
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by zimbu668 12y ago
I keep trying with the Dune series, but the big-O time is n^2 when you read them like this: Dune<pause> Dune, Dune Messiah<pause> Dune, Dune Messiah, Children of Dune<pause> Dune, Dune Messiah, Children of Dune, God Empero
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by zimbu668 12y ago
At the peak I was reading "Goodnight Moon" at a pace of ~5000 times per year, that was only for a couple weeks though.
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by zimbu668 12y ago
The study went until 1972[1], that's not that long ago. Have humans changed that much since then? [1] http://www.cdc.gov/tuskegee/timeline.htm
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by zimbu668 12y ago
In high school geography they called it a megalopolis: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megalopolis_%28city_type%29 And the US Eastern Seaboard was the canonical example, from Northern Virginia/DC up through Boston is
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Stats Show the New England Patriots Became Nearly Fumble-Proof After 2006(sharpfootballanalysis.com)
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by zimbu668 12y ago
See for yourself: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ecclesiastes+1
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by zimbu668 12y ago
>You can't exactly mass-produce houses There are certainly companies trying, depending on your definition of "mass produced". http://www.bluhomes.com/our-process Doesn't seem much cheaper than conve
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Kissing Your Socks Goodbye(nytimes.com)
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Debug your programs like they're closed source(jvns.ca)
126 points by zimbu668 12y ago|30 comments
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by zimbu668 12y ago
To any Brits reading this, "pasties" means something very different in the US. Google image search will show you the difference.
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Theory, Practice, and Personal Experimentation(williamhertling.com)
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