MarkBook

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by MarkBook 16y ago
"Why would you want high karma ?" because I don't have one. Hit me
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by MarkBook 16y ago
That deserves karma!
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by MarkBook 16y ago
+1 Truecrypt. However my fingers get the password wrong regularly, today for instance! The reassurance it provides is very valuable, I have PCs laptop, netbook, ext HDD, and memory sticks all encrypted as confidential client data could be
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by MarkBook 16y ago
If wikileaks should be allowed to leak state secrets then why should some jokes be taboo?
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by MarkBook 16y ago
Extending the premise to the ultimate, if you have time to study just one book and one in which not a single word is wasted it's got to be : The Elements of Computing Systems: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles by Nisan and Sc
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Don’t Go Far . . . Your Dinner’s Nearly Ready(irishtimes.com)
3 points by MarkBook 16y ago|0 comments
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by MarkBook 16y ago
I think there's a lot in what you say. It's more like the approach kids have to learning stuff when left to their own devices
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by MarkBook 16y ago
There's a scavenging pack of higher rep OCD types on SO who immediately kill any question they perceive to be weak
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by MarkBook 16y ago
That's one name for it! ;)
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by MarkBook 16y ago
Where I live I can see a house where the delivery cost is $8 per issue less than mine
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by MarkBook 16y ago
Paramotoring looks more accessible http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlbQ0xbbpOQ
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by MarkBook 16y ago
I upvoted you because i thought people were in these things a belief sadly shown to be false by http://www.shallowsky.com/planes/weasel/slopetips.html Aerial combat should have alerted me!
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by MarkBook 16y ago
A well aimed arrow if ever there was one
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by MarkBook 16y ago
OTOH some colleges are easer to get degrees from than others. I'd be more impressed with a CS degree from MIT than pretty much anywhere else. For starters you were no mug to accepted there in the first place. While there you would have ben
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by MarkBook 16y ago
Thanks that suits me fine as it's easier to go with the flow of the book and I would like to try making a mobile app or 2
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Html or xhtml for newbie
2 points by MarkBook 16y ago|2 comments
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by MarkBook 16y ago
A better question might whether you think the code you wrote 6 months ago sucks as much as the code you wrote a year ago
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by MarkBook 16y ago
I think technical debt is a much better metaphor than the unhedged call option one. That's unnecessarily complex and worse, it's less accurate. The downside isn't unlimited as he suggests, there is a well defined limit, 0 sales.
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by MarkBook 16y ago
Found this https://downloads.embarcadero.com/free/turbopascal
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by MarkBook 16y ago
It seems to require turbo pascal to work. Is it possible to find this?
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by MarkBook 16y ago
Life was so much simpler back in the olden times when people worked 6 days a week, there wasn't the same demands on time.
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by MarkBook 16y ago
Take the podcast down then human nature being what it is people get interested in knowing what they've missed. This is a good technique.
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by MarkBook 16y ago
"Have a Clearly Defined Leader: Everyone knows ... Tony Hsieh is the leader of Zappos" I'm not sure but I may have heard of Zappos, I don't know what it does and I certainly never heard of Tony Hsieh.
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by MarkBook 16y ago
I was only kidding Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow
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by MarkBook 16y ago
Do you have no feelings at all for your fellow man? :(
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by MarkBook 16y ago
One of the good things about the MIT videos is that they don't have the amount of "administrative stuff" which the Berkeley lectures have (ie stuff about where this and that lecture will be next week etc etc). So the berkeley lectures could
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by MarkBook 16y ago
You never hear women described as creepy for saying "he's cute" or something similar.
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by MarkBook 16y ago
If current trends continue soon everyone will be above average. Go education system!
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by MarkBook 16y ago
If this were ancient times the Greeks would spend endless hours proving this whilst the Romans would just fire up VB VI and get an answer. Dim a As Integer, b As Integer, c As Integer, d As Integer, n As Integer n = II For b = n To I Step -
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by MarkBook 16y ago
I know that cost and cross platform capabilities are big issues but for someone using MS SQL server express (free if database size < 10 GB) in windows, are there any advantages that PostgreSQL has?

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