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by plnewman 13y ago
I'm not sure if I define CS that narrowly, but anyway I was working with the C compiler, not the asm code. It was a good learning tool for me because of the simple output and the slow processor, which meant that I didn't need to w
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by plnewman 13y ago
Back when I was teaching English in Japan, I stayed up late hacking on Game Boy code to keep that part of my brain active. It was during that time that I really realized that I wanted to work in software, or at least something with some cre
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by plnewman 13y ago
This reminds me that I don't miss dating.
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by plnewman 13y ago
There were complaints/questions about Richard Garriott's project, but none as high-profile as this current criticism of Zach Braff.
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by plnewman 14y ago
I dislike sleep and wish I did not have to do it.
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by plnewman 14y ago
I return the "how are you?" question with equivalent replies in shops all the time and if recipients were annoyed by it, I don't recall noticing. Being pleasant frequently helps me feel more pleasant. And anyway, I actually do hope they hav
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by plnewman 14y ago
"I ran away from home at the age of 11 after my father beat me for stealing a kitchen appliance," said Samir who works in a sweatshop. [snip] "I have saved 4,000 rupees (70 US$) in the last seven months. It's a good feeling to have some
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by plnewman 14y ago
Reminds me of this: JERRY: (To Kramer and Morty) What is this about? KRAMER: I'm completely changing the configuration of the apartment. You're not gonna believe it when you see it. A whole new lifestyle. JERRY: What are you doing? KRAMER:
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by plnewman 15y ago
* Heroku took on the traditional hosting space and has done quite well * justin.tv pioneered live broadcasting online
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by plnewman 15y ago
Foster City, CA Rearden Commerce perfects commerce by connecting buyers and sellers in the most meaningful and relevant manner possible. We have several positions open, but I personally am hiring a developer for internal applications. We wo
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by plnewman 15y ago
mod parent up!
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by plnewman 15y ago
Rearden Commerce in Foster City, CA Two mid-career to senior level software engineering positions open in internal applications. We work in Python and whatever other technologies we choose, and take on projects involving deployment automati
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by plnewman 15y ago
Foster City, California Rearden Commerce I have two software engineering positions open, flexible on level. Please take a look at this and shoot me an email if it sounds interesting: http://www.heyimhiring.com/
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by plnewman 15y ago
I once read that Howard Hughes did something similar while he was recuperating from an accident.
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by plnewman 15y ago
I'm actually pretty underwhelmed by the 3D on the 3DS. I was really looking forward to it but it doesn't seem to add anything to the games. Market saturation is another one. Nintendo is traditionally strong in it's home market, but I was wa
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by plnewman 15y ago
When I opened the page, my browser threw this warning. The website “ http://www.nytimes.com” is requesting 10 MB of disk space to store “Stored content for nytSkimmerSections” as a database on your disk. I'll pass on that. edits: formatt
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by plnewman 15y ago
Here's one: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2686825
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by plnewman 15y ago
The submission title is the same as the title of the original Salon article. Or maybe I'm not picking up on undertone of sarcasm.
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by plnewman 15y ago
Cool. I would love to be able to scroll through this using the j and k keys, like Google Reader or http://ffffound.com/ .
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by plnewman 15y ago
me too. What a phenomenal game.
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by plnewman 15y ago
Yep, but just remove the 's' from the protocol.
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by plnewman 15y ago
Fun fact: Liechenstein actually voted itself into an absolute monarchy in 2003. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liechtenstein_constitutional_re...
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by plnewman 15y ago
Some of these translations seem surprisingly good for autotranslate. This one in particular caught my eye: http://www.messagesforjapan.com/messages/1194/ So I went to translate.google.com and tried the original English: "After rain the su
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by plnewman 15y ago
Seems like all it does is iterate through my Twitter followers and ask me if I want to unfollow each one. I was a little disappointed, I was hoping it would tell me which ones never post anything or something slightly more useful.
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by plnewman 15y ago
Foster City, CA Rearden Commerce: You: Hacker generalist with some development and some ops experience who enjoys a fun environment. Us: Internal applications team at Rearden Commerce. We build & deploy tools & applications that mak
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by plnewman 16y ago
Now they will be AT,T&T-Mobile.
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by plnewman 16y ago
My family and I have made contributions to Second Harvest Japan. http://www.2hj.org/ Second Harvest is widely regarded as a top-notch organization and I have contributed to them locally in the past.
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by plnewman 16y ago
It doesn't actually simulate ie6, it just moves things around randomly (see comments below).
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by plnewman 16y ago
"Wonga" I never would have learned that word without Damon Hill.
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by plnewman 16y ago
To add a tidbit to that, a journalism professor in college taught that Hollywood become the dominant film production locale because World War I decimated film industries in Europe.

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