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by pookleblinky 17y ago
Indeed. It kind of read like Hunting of the Snark. "The wikifiddler drew his wikivorpal sword and slayed the terrible wikibeast"
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by pookleblinky 17y ago
I can't speak for all emacs users, but I wouldn't be caught dead using an "IDE" IDE ostensibly stands for "integrated development environment." AFAIK, not a single IDE is as integrated, programmable, hackable, flexible, or stable as emacs (
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by pookleblinky 17y ago
http://www.opera.com/browser/tutorials/nomouse/ Opera has an entire tutorial on ratless browsing.
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by pookleblinky 17y ago
The Bush one is in fact a bug, described pretty well here: http://blogs.msdn.com/michkap/archive/2006/07/11/662342.aspx The second? No clue.
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by pookleblinky 17y ago
I haven't used Windows in years. Does anyone know if these http://ishmeet.wordpress.com/2007/09/28/3-wicked-microsoft-b... still exist? The =rand(200, 99) one looks interesting.
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by pookleblinky 17y ago
"NOTE: Depending on your query, it may take several minutes to return the results of your query to the worksheet." First thought: this has got to be a parody. Second thought: Oh Cthulhu, it is for real. Third thought: Just by mentioning thi
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by pookleblinky 17y ago
"If you can't make the effort to make your post understandable to someone not in your domain, why should I assume you're saying something worth reading?" He assumed the domain of people familiar with ginsu knives is roughly identical to the
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by pookleblinky 17y ago
I don't get why this is on HN. We have methods to kill Paula Beans in their tracks. Liberal arts does not. Is this anything new?
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by pookleblinky 17y ago
The first programmer was a woman. Perhaps a better checklist would be "actual reasons why the average human, without regard to gender, does not enter technical fields"
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by pookleblinky 17y ago
That, or you got a wife. Wives seem remarkably efficient at curbing our deepest insanities.
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Ask HN: The most fun and beautiful code you know of?
26 points by pookleblinky 17y ago|21 comments
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Yet another Amazon review bomb(amazon.com)
5 points by pookleblinky 17y ago|1 comments
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by pookleblinky 17y ago
This is not quite what you want, but there are quite a few 4D puzzles. iirc, Scott Kim, who did many of the illustrations for Douglas Hofstadter, wrote a paper presenting an optical illusion only perceivable in 4 spatial dimensions ("The Im
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by pookleblinky 17y ago
Not a novel, or a single book, but I love Richard Feynman's descriptions of Los Alamos. I can read his accounts of mental arithmetic battles with Bohr, safecracking, the programming of dozens of old-school human computers, all day long.
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by pookleblinky 17y ago
Consider Shockley ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shockley ). Brilliant, amazingly productive, and possibly the biggest and most abrasive all-around asshole since Newton. In the end, any system which would disqualify a Shockley is a
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by pookleblinky 17y ago
I just got a horrible mental image of someone using M-x doctor to practice smalltalk.
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by pookleblinky 17y ago
I'm a hermit, similarly incapable of smalltalk. I long ago discovered that no one really likes small talk. It's the prelude to a real conversation; that's the only reason people engage in it (or to signal to each other's monkey brains that
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Walkthrough: writing a Lisp interpreter in Haskell (2006)(defmacro.org)
6 points by pookleblinky 17y ago|0 comments
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by pookleblinky 17y ago
This, combined with the report about a robot that can forage for biomass ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=614006 ), means we're that much closer to building a race of cybernetic Summer Glau's. The future will either be awesome, or scar
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by pookleblinky 17y ago
One of my VLSI friends lamented about his Gen Ed requirements: "They want me to be a "well-rounded" engineer. Well, I know vector calculus, finite algebra, compiler theory, and enough quantum mechanics to know a little about what's going on
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by pookleblinky 17y ago
http://www.catonmat.net/blog/mit-introduction-to-algorithms-... is a very good site, with videos of MIT lectures. http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~algorith/video-lectures/ is another great source for video lectures. http://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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by pookleblinky 17y ago
It's all fun and games till someone accidentally the whole ~
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by pookleblinky 17y ago
This gave me a visceral pang of disgust.
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by pookleblinky 17y ago
Hilarious sarcasm. Full stop.
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Fit-PC2: smallest 6W Intel Atom PC(fit-pc2.com)
5 points by pookleblinky 17y ago|1 comments
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by pookleblinky 17y ago
http://artemis.cs.yale.edu/classes/cs460/Spring98/contents.h... is a very good resource on the parent science of algorithmic information theory. AIT and computational complexity theory arguably underlay all other sciences. They allow us t
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by pookleblinky 17y ago
Depending on the distro used in your EC2 instance, it could be as easy as ssh'ing into it and then running: sudo apt-get install nano or whatever other package manager is used.
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by pookleblinky 17y ago
I'm an emacs junkie, but I still have to stand up for the vimfidels and say, "man, you just don't get it" That being said, emacs -nw It is the answer to all your problems and will give you oral pleasure.
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Ask HN: the best way to protect IP for a startup?
6 points by pookleblinky 17y ago|2 comments
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by pookleblinky 17y ago
Screenshots of Xmonad aren't that interesting. They don't show you how easy it is to do stuff without ever using the mouse.

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