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by newsdog 17y ago
I've been led to understand that the OpenBSD source code is of amazing quality.
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by newsdog 17y ago
The Bridge of Birds by Barry Hughart The Princess Bride by William Goldman The first is insanely superior. The second just really really good.
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by newsdog 17y ago
Dude, you're gonna hurt yourself. I say this as a lord high master of the reading arts crafts and sciences. Don't do it.
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by newsdog 17y ago
I know the feeling - I try to torrent a book and there's ten 300 mb mp3s of someone READING it but not 3 meg book itself....
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by newsdog 17y ago
Better one. Guy I knew - awesomely good - hex edited a DOS boot sector on a in house machine to use FUCK.SYS instead of whatever.sys it normally is (I forget). He renamed that file to fuck.sys, rebooted and the machine ran. Cool! We laughed
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by newsdog 17y ago
so it's your fault...
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by newsdog 17y ago
back in the day I ran the numbers on this - there's about a dime of gold in a ton of seawater - the salt is way more valuable....
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by newsdog 17y ago
Awesome. We need a video game with the MASTER COMPUTER's voice done with that.
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by newsdog 17y ago
Since it was all about the economy crashing, I figure when it died the other day, it was art imitating life.
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by newsdog 17y ago
not true - those guys got shot due to their gansta lifestyle, guns were orthogonal to that
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by newsdog 17y ago
Also it is very intolerant of error - one mistake an hour negates your advantage.
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by newsdog 17y ago
Lovely - it'll be nice to see this dick get clobbered.
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by newsdog 17y ago
Correct. But we dumb North Americans need to make the distinction with the weird violent USA game, which almost everyone in Canada cares about, myself included. Somehow, they convinced us it's important. I really want to know how they did t
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by newsdog 17y ago
Exactly - also the nba nhl etc with multi game playoffs LESSEN the prob of a lesser team betting a better one - but it never goes away.
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by newsdog 17y ago
All sports are like this - they try and eliminate it with multi game playoffs, but you can't do that with intense games like this.
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by newsdog 17y ago
O,k I read it. It DID have some mention of the state support system, but said it was for more ideological reasons. Ayn Rand wrote an essay on WTRAGAC and she pointed out chess was a very CAPITALISTIC game. Why? In chess, you own all your ow
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by newsdog 17y ago
I think this is politics, not racism. Botvinnik was a stone communist and the party's fair haired boy. That's why the fix was in. I actually met him in Toronto in 1977.
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by newsdog 17y ago
I haven't read the article yet, so I'll guess at it's contents then check it to see how well I did. TRAGAC because they teach every kid the country chess in school - identify the gifted - send them to chess camp - identify the more gifted -
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by newsdog 17y ago
I agree - it also syncs certain files I don't want synced - like log files.
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by newsdog 17y ago
I'm a customer. it's indispensable.
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by newsdog 17y ago
I'm getting a geek boner just thinking about this one...
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by newsdog 17y ago
Wow - there's no excuse for bad css anymore...
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by newsdog 17y ago
NBA too.
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by newsdog 17y ago
Total respect to both these guys, but it's hard to get excited about this match when Crafty could beat either of them....
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by newsdog 17y ago
Listen friend, this isn't what Ruby is good at. Acquire a C program, a C-Assembler program if possible and drive it from Ruby with an API. Don't do mad cranking with Ruby.
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by newsdog 17y ago
Ah but Goggle is a big boy with lots of money. It's much easier to pick on a smaller opponent.
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by newsdog 17y ago
Blank page for me
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by newsdog 17y ago
Wow - so e e cummings and charlie the cockroach are now a professor. Seriously - nice work.
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by newsdog 17y ago
Another example of the kind of thinking that has made the third world great.
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by newsdog 17y ago
I remember that even when Jordan was making a $ million a week from advertising alone, he'd stay after practice and do that turn around jump shot for two hours, like he was some raggedy-ass kid who was going to wind up bagging groceries if

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