farmer_ted

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by farmer_ted 13y ago
Almost 50. I laugh through the tears at fart sounds.
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by farmer_ted 14y ago
That "hairy" stuff is a straightforward use of GCD semaphores to signal when an animation has finished. I just spent 20 minutes reading up on GCD and dispatch_semaphore_wait(). This technique is elegant rather than hairy.
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by farmer_ted 15y ago
"While we thought this was a fun, harmless comment poking fun ..." "Poking fun". Ha ha. That sounds like more brogrammer code to me. Probably RASCAL.
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by farmer_ted 15y ago
At least it was SOCA, not CHAOS or SPECTRE. Then we'd be in real trouble. Bond: "Do you expect me to talk?" Goldfinger: "No, Mr. Bond. I expect you to die."
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by farmer_ted 15y ago
"The ethics of military robots is quickly marching ahead, judging by news coverage and academic research." Perhaps the author means that the _use_ of military robots is quickly marching ahead, outpacing any consideration of the ethics of su
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by farmer_ted 15y ago
This patent describes a system for interactively polling users of a system about their preferences and/or opinions regarding that system's features. The stated intent is to enable users to provide feedback to potentially inform the creator
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by farmer_ted 16y ago
I just spent some time looking over PSFoundation and it's a great aggregation of useful classes from all over the place. AND there's some great original code. E.g., PSActionSheet, that let's you assign a block to each button. I hate coding
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by farmer_ted 16y ago
Parallels and 1Password for $50 is a sweet deal. The two DVD rippers are icing. You could invert those two, I suppose and still be valid.
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by farmer_ted 16y ago
Yeah, the last few episodes of Sarah Connor Chronicles were really exciting. The last episode is a twister, and you really want to know what happens next in the story. Disclosure: I never saw Terminator 4, so my knowledge of the series is n
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by farmer_ted 16y ago
I assert that Firefly without Fillion or Baldwin would be a travesty of entertainment and not worth the attempt. I'd buy two subscriptions to Netflix if it carried a new season of Firefly. Now I'm sad that Wash and Book are gone. Crap.
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by farmer_ted 16y ago
Whenever I need an Actor, I go with Nathan Fillion.
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by farmer_ted 16y ago
Hey. He's Al Franken...and you're not.
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by farmer_ted 16y ago
Xar addresses a lot of the issues presented in this article. < http://code.google.com/p/xar/wiki/xarformat&#62 ; < http://code.google.com/p/xar/wiki/whyxar&#62 ; But not with the nice descriptive graphics found in the new archive fo
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by farmer_ted 16y ago
This is one of the ideas put forward in Taleb's "Black Swan": by increasing your exposure to positive "Black Swan" events, you can improve your chances of being successful (with something ). One way to increase your exposure to positive Bl
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by farmer_ted 16y ago
Is anyone still using Facebook?