dlaw

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Tetris on the MIT Green Building (includes source code)(tech.mit.edu)
4 points by dlaw 14y ago|0 comments
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by dlaw 14y ago
The 9/11 hack was the first test of the same lights used for Tetris.
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by dlaw 14y ago
The lights in the windows are custom fabbed PCBs, completely independent of the building lights.
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by dlaw 15y ago
I was an intern at Google when this change was first rolled out internally. Google employees had quite similar reactions. The change was not implemented because people liked it, or didn't like it -- it was implemented because there was col
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by dlaw 15y ago
I must admit that this strikes me as rather dull: make the equation complicated enough and you can obtain any shape you'd like. I would far be more impressed by a simple one-line equation that drew this shape.
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by dlaw 15y ago
No, he connected to MIT's wireless network using a guest account. JSTOR grants full access to all MIT IP addresses.
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by dlaw 15y ago
He is a great lecturer to be sure, but other aspects of the class were not ideal. The course staff was unable to return any assignments promptly, and students were eventually allowed to late drop the class due to the complete lack of feedb
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by dlaw 15y ago
...but the pentalobular screws in question are not standard 6-pointed Torx screws.
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by dlaw 15y ago
Recently I was looking for a new laptop. The new MacBook Airs arguably have the best-designed hardware of any laptop on the market, but I object to certain hacker-unfriendly steps Apple has taken: namely, the use of pentalobular and triwin
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by dlaw 15y ago
I agree that the cost of a college education is increasing, perhaps disproportionately, because demand is so high. However, I would not call higher education a bubble: as an undergrad, I have found that my education does not lack rigor or
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Making Math Fun (Seriously)(online.wsj.com)
3 points by dlaw 16y ago|0 comments