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Analysis of award winning map of the US
(slate.com)
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ghfdrvtsyup
15y ago
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ghfdrvtsyup
16y ago
I'm somewhat disappointed that he referred to the last error message as "cryptic" - it's a nod to the old text based game "Adventure"
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ghfdrvtsyup
16y ago
I'm not sure exactly the type of functionality he's talking about, but in a shared session, the ability of two people to modify a file simultaneously would be extremely useful in certain circumstances.
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ghfdrvtsyup
16y ago
whew! I'm glad I passed, though it should be obvious from my submission that my C is far from fluent! I am looking forward to the analysis - thank you for doing this RoG!
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ghfdrvtsyup
16y ago
using words like 'erudite' is a perfectly cromulent way of displaying your intelligence.
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ghfdrvtsyup
16y ago
Honestly, this comment boggles my mind. Diaspora is a perfectly normal word describing what they are trying to do perfectly ; I doubt many people would have trouble spelling it or looking it up on Google.
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ghfdrvtsyup
17y ago
I agree with the article to an extent, but I don't agree that musical education will necessarily make people like instrumental music in general or jazz music specifically. The truth is most people don't really care about music and pop/radio
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ghfdrvtsyup
17y ago
I find that for each of these e-mails, I make a decision about what to do based on who the user is. Some users are much more careful about writing an 'End of the world' e-mail than others and should be handled accordingly.
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ghfdrvtsyup
17y ago
If you have that many passwords, why not make some sort of base password and then riff off of the base password for everything that needs access (and have a mental sequence for when an item needs a reset)? If your base password is at the hi
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ghfdrvtsyup
17y ago
Remember, though, the harder you work, the luckier you get.
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ghfdrvtsyup
17y ago
I agree. The idea that a martial art can help with programming is a bit of a carryover from when they were considered 'mystical' or 'dangerous' in the mid-late 1970s/early 1980s. Having studied a few and wrestled in HS, I would agree that t
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ghfdrvtsyup
17y ago
exactly. Is it worse in the eyes of the world to say that you're 'fighting a war on terror' and invade a country or secretly kill high-ranking enemy officials for years before finally getting caught? The second is more expedient, but if you
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ghfdrvtsyup
17y ago
I agree, that's about as far as I got. It's almost a new record for Godwin's law, I think.