CraigBuchek

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by CraigBuchek 16y ago
Here's my answer on HOW to contribute to Open Source, if you're not a programmer: http://www.granneman.com/techinfo/linux/contributewithoutcod...
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by CraigBuchek 16y ago
Ooh - if I click that up-arrow icon, do I get to upload a version of the kernel?
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by CraigBuchek 16y ago
Another possible explanation is that interstellar travel is impossible. Perhaps there's too much debris between star systems, and it's not possible to create materials strong enough to make a spaceship that can withstand a collision with th
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by CraigBuchek 16y ago
I was listening to a talk on The Singularity, and it occurred to me that that might be a good explanation of the Fermi Paradox. (Which is similar to the author's idea, but a bit different.) Basically, our minds are likely to "merge" with th
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by CraigBuchek 17y ago
I used to be a lot like that, and I worked on changing it. So that's my number 1 piece of advice -- work on changing what you want to change. Work on the big things as well as the little things. I used to put my head down when passing peopl
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by CraigBuchek 17y ago
I think the point is that negative mass might be an explanation for dark matter and/or dark energy. Scientists don't really have any explanation for what either of those are -- they're really just "fudge factors" to make the theories fit ou
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by CraigBuchek 17y ago
+1 for FlySpray. It's PHP-based, and pretty easy to install and set up. It does take a few minutes to set it up to add your desired Task Types (TODO, Bug, Feature Request, etc.) and Categories. But once you've done that, it's quite easy to
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by CraigBuchek 17y ago
This is the advice I've seen from just about every financial adviser, for anyone not near retirement age. Another nice thing about a Roth IRA is that you can withdraw all the principal (the part you already paid taxes on) early with no pena
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by CraigBuchek 17y ago
Why don't critics of global warming ever present any evidence? That's how scientists do criticism. Any criticism of scientific findings without evidence is useless. Of course, the critics know this, and know that criticism without evidence
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by CraigBuchek 17y ago
Does anyone ever live on the water in the Bay Area? I saw some houseboats in Oakland when I was there last, and thought that it might be cool to live on a boat actually on the bay.
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by CraigBuchek 17y ago
Setting the threshold at 2 seems a bit high to me. It basically requires that (on average) at least 1 person upvotes every comment you make. That's unlikely to happen in a nested thread of back-and-forth conversation. And it's less likely t
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by CraigBuchek 17y ago
Not quite Comp Sci, but I like to listen to NPR's Science Friday podcasts. I have to rewind a bit once in a while if I have to pay attention to traffic, but it's nice to be able to listen to them, instead of "wasting" time listening to the
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by CraigBuchek 17y ago
Ditto. Pretty simple to install and configure. Looks decent, and works for me. Has some minor issues, and could use more integration with other tools. But only took a few minutes to set up on my LAMP server.
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by CraigBuchek 17y ago
Sounds like a good idea. I know that there are several non-profit organizations out there that help people apply for free medications. Basically, each pharmaceutical company offers free medications for those in need (partly due to governmen
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by CraigBuchek 17y ago
The health insurance problem is most certainly a moral/ethical problem. The problem is that insurance companies are rewarded for denying care to insured, when working (as most are) as a for-profit company.
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by CraigBuchek 17y ago
I've been using Komodo Edit a lot lately. The nice thing is that I get the same editor in Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. And the snippets are nice, similar to TextMate.
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by CraigBuchek 17y ago
My pseudo-code looks a lot like a mix of Python and Ruby. One thing I like about Python is the forced indentation, which allows skipping any closing braces or "end"s. But Ruby tends to be closer to the way I think of OOP, and is closer to E
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by CraigBuchek 17y ago
> OneApp’s very minimal on-phone footprint of just 150 KB makes installing it quick and easy. OneApp will launch only the parts of a mobile app that you want to use; that cuts down on additional installation time Can the OneApp develope
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by CraigBuchek 17y ago
So long, and thanks for all the fish....
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by CraigBuchek 17y ago
Perhaps you missed the part about CodePad compiling/interpreting the input. It's not just another pastie site.
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by CraigBuchek 17y ago
I'd suggest either Ruby or Python. Both have a pretty simple syntax, and are very self-consistent. In other words, there aren't too many rules to remember, and there aren't a lot of exceptions to the rules. I'd say that Ruby is a bit better
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by CraigBuchek 17y ago
Sounds like you're choosing the "cream of the crop". From what others wrote, I like "select", "cherry-picking", and "blessed". I don't like "filter", "screen", or "cull", because they imply getting rid of (bad) stuff; you probably want to c
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by CraigBuchek 17y ago
No, not usually.
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by CraigBuchek 17y ago
I'm not seeing how this is a big improvement over an HTTP redirect (via a Location header) to the HTTPS site -- beyond a single connection for each session, to redirect to the HTTPS site. Nor any improvement over RFC2817 HTTP Upgrade to TLS
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by CraigBuchek 17y ago
Note that the front page (which HN links to) does NOT have this feature -- only the article pages.
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by CraigBuchek 17y ago
Good to know that I'm not the only one. And not only do I highlight the text, but I just keep clicking, highlighting and un-highlighting. So I'm probably really overloading their servers with the AJAX callbacks.
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by CraigBuchek 17y ago
I think the biggest change coming to the computing world is iPhone-type devices. These will become our PCs. We'll have hand-held apps, but we'll also be able to plug them into real monitors and keyboards. So one of the biggest challenges wi
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by CraigBuchek 17y ago
This is why pair programming works so well. In writing things down, asking a question, or explaining things, you have to think about them in a more organized manner.
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by CraigBuchek 17y ago
Seems like a lot of wishful thinking on the part of the author. Sure there are a lot of similarities. But the article seems to be pushing her all-too-apparent agenda of taking down the porn industry the same way the tobacco industry was tak
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by CraigBuchek 17y ago
Variable/constant names aren't just used to keep DRY, and to encapsulate functionality. They're also used to express intent . To me, this is one of the most important reasons for using variables, instead of "magic numbers".

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