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by kjak 11y ago
I really like Terminus. I started using it last year and I'd be hard-pressed to switch to anything else.
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The Mpemba Effect(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by kjak 11y ago|0 comments
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by kjak 11y ago
Ah... but now the title has changed. It was along the lines of "Incredibly funny implementation of netcat in open source Apple code"
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by kjak 11y ago
Yep. This "incredibly funny" implementation of netcat is... just like the original netcat.
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by kjak 11y ago
>> It seemed deeply unlikely at one stage to imagine Google would flush Code down the toilet > If you know Google you know this isn't the case. Google are ruthless with cutting ideas and products - just look at Reader. Well, y
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Pure to Applied(thepenngazette.com)
14 points by kjak 11y ago|1 comments
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by kjak 11y ago
For what it's worth, Feynman was on Wolfram's dissertation committee http://thesis.library.caltech.edu/2597/
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by kjak 11y ago
When I first saw it I thought "pico see". The "peacock" interpretation is funny and went unnoticed by me. Cheers!
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Inadvertently becoming a collector of things you really aren't all that into(blogs.msdn.com)
8 points by kjak 11y ago|1 comments
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by kjak 11y ago
I taught myself C as a young teenager (some time ago), only to much later learn languages with REPLs like Ruby, Scheme and Common Lisp. Using gdb in this way would have been an interesting learning experience... because back then I didn&#x
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OpenBSD 5.7 CD 2 Incorrectly Pressed(undeadly.org)
2 points by kjak 11y ago|0 comments
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by kjak 11y ago
I'm happy to see The Variational Principles of Mechanics (by the great Lanczos) on that list. It really is deep, and I think it does a fantastic job of explaining classical mechanics. I've read the vast majority of the book mult
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by kjak 11y ago
"Acuman" "I am ACUMAN, ACUMAN am I. ACUMAN knows all, ACUMAN is god. Therefore; I AM GOD!!! Just kidding, ACUMAN stands for Artificial Chatting Utility Matching Algorithmic Nodes." Nice :)
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by kjak 11y ago
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9375643 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9367438
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by kjak 11y ago
LoL's author has a collection of references at http://letoverlambda.com/references.lisp Many of the references are not for learning CL, but are interesting reads (such as Henry Baker's papers). Also there are refe
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by kjak 12y ago
> As in "we know that we can be in compliance, but we won't be wasting any resources on it until it's justified". It has nothing to do with the professionalism. It sounds like it has everything to do with professional
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by kjak 12y ago
I think Griffiths' E&M book is great. It's very enjoyable and makes a fine book to use before going on to Jackson (although more supplements are often needed to make it through that). I like Griffiths' writing and I lik
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by kjak 12y ago
Didn't you read the book? Everyone poops.
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by kjak 12y ago
Very cool! Nice descriptions and presentation (and the movie reference at the end is great). I look forward to going through this in finer detail.
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by kjak 12y ago
Oh, that's interesting. Thanks. And I wasn't suggesting using unsigned 32-bit integers now, I was curious why they weren't used before (the number of views seems to be a nonnegative quantity...).
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by kjak 12y ago
"Apparently, they never planned for a video to exceed a 32-bit integer mark and their counter can’t handle past the number 2,147,483,647." Hmm... any reason not to have used unsigned integers here?