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by randomstring 7y ago
If you love Sun keyboards AND want a compact keyboard, try and find a Sun Voyager keyboard. It's a Sun keyboard, but without the (pointless) numeric keypad on the right. When I worked at Sun I managed to source a couple and still have
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by randomstring 7y ago
What? No mention of the Apple TV remote, the Apple TV Siri remote, the Apple TV remote app, or the iOS Apple TV remote app shortcut feature on iOS? The physical Apple remotes are so terrible, I've stopped using Apple TV (all of them).
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by randomstring 7y ago
This was a challenge for blekko when we built our search engine. A major component to ranking a URL is the cumulative rank of the domain it is hosted on. You don't wan't URL ranking to leak between independent sites sharing the sa
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by randomstring 7y ago
Maybe Autotrader has hundreds of thousands of template, CSS, and JS files with those paths hardcoded. Imagine the hell it would be to work on that website. Even so, you could fix everything with a one line Perl command.
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by randomstring 7y ago
No mention yet of the very well built iOS app beorg https://beorgapp.com/ Org-mode files are synced via Dropbox, iCloud, or WebDAV. Having a Siri shortcut to just tell Siri to add something to my TODO list would be a nice f
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by randomstring 7y ago
Where was this 10 years ago when I was reverse engineering the Google robots.txt parser by feeding example robots.txt files and URLs into the Google webmaster tool? I actually went so far as to build a convoluted honeypot website and robots
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by randomstring 8y ago
Having done my BS in Match and CS at a school with a parallel Actuarial program, I got a good look at what being an actuary is about. If you're good at math, and really good at standardized math exams you can advance through the variou
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by randomstring 8y ago
I can report that it does. I've seen this hiking in Snohomish County, WA. Hair ice looks a bit like cotton fluff, like something splitting out of a seed pod. It looks like it is growing out of the pieces of wood or bark. The ice crushe
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by randomstring 8y ago
While working on a HTTP server in 2007 I discovered removing the "Server" header significantly delayed the render time in Firefox. So beware of unexpected side-effects!
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by randomstring 9y ago
Another good book on effective altruism is The Most Good You Can Do by Peter Singer. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23168483-the-most-good-y... It's clear that Bill and Melinda Gates are practicing effec
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by randomstring 9y ago
Another book recommendation: How Schopenhauer Got Me Through My Mid-Life Crisis by Charles Alonso https://www.amazon.com/How-Schopenhauer-Through-Mid-Life-Cri... It's fiction, funny, philosophical, about middle age an
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by randomstring 9y ago
Agreed. Paying someone money for a bag of random bits is criminal.
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by randomstring 9y ago
Here's a link to Gene Spafford's writeup on the Internet Worm: http://spaf.cerias.purdue.edu/tech-reps/823.pdf
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by randomstring 9y ago
Negligible performance improvement at great added cost and increased weight. It's a sales gimmick. They might be better off installing a lighter roof and reduce overall weight to increase range.
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by randomstring 10y ago
Waiting for the headline: "Human Fails to Prevent Accident, Outraged Public Calls for Banning of all Human Drivers" The obsession with perfection in self-driving cars is misplaced, they just need to be demonstrably better than hum
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by randomstring 10y ago
I read the whole article thinking "this needs to be an emacs mode!" only to get to the punchline at the bottom. >> Benjamin Beckwith has contributed a "writegood" mode for emacs inspired by these scripts. This is g
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by randomstring 10y ago
I was about to observation that the python code as posted in the blog missed an important optimization, reordering some of the tests to: for b in range(1, 27) for n in range(1, 27) if b**3 + z**3 + n**3 + o**9 == 1997 for
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by randomstring 10y ago
I desperately wanted to love this book as it has all the right elements: Lovelace, graphic novel, Babbage, the difference engine, steam punk... However, I felt the number of footnotes were excessive. The footnote material was excellent, but
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by randomstring 10y ago
This list is used to determine what domains and sub-domains "belong" together, in the sense that they are controlled and/or owned by the same entity. For instance *.google.com is all google, so x.google.com and y.google.com
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by randomstring 10y ago
I like the change. I keep all my online coursework (Coursera and the like) in Github. This is code and work that cannot be public because it would violate the class code of conduct. It always made me a little sad to see big barren streaks i
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by randomstring 10y ago
This article is just Hacker News click bait. Despite panning expensive keyboards the page is full of amazon affiliate links.
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by randomstring 10y ago
OK, now I want to try boiling water with my Vitamix. As an added bonus, after 11.5 minutes of listening to a Vitamix on high, you won't need that cup of coffee to wake up.
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by randomstring 11y ago
MobileOrg on iOS is unusable. I got it working, however you cannot edit or add to your org files from your phone. You can only view them. That makes the app useless in my book.
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by randomstring 11y ago
Not endorsed by IBM. At the bottom of the page you see: Watson, the Watson logo, Power7, DeepQA, and the IBM logo are copyright IBM. The Watson 2016 Foundation has no affiliation with IBM. The views and opinions expressed here i
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by randomstring 11y ago
Here is someone who bicycled every road in San Francisco. All tracked with GPS. http://rideallofsf.tumblr.com/ And someone who walked all of Berkeley, CA back in 2007. https://walkingberkeley.wordpress.com/
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by randomstring 11y ago
Strava.com will generate a heat map of all the roads you've walked (or biked) on. There is even a club that seeks to "Ride Every Road" of their local town. http://www.strava.com/clubs/ride-every-road-2235
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by randomstring 11y ago
Dmoz nearly died in 2006... http://www.skrenta.com/2006/12/dmoz_had_9_lives_used_up_yet....
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by randomstring 12y ago
I wouldn't call it #winning. Did Edmund Hillary "win" because he climbed Everest first? I think the misunderstanding of Perl is based in the "There is more than one way to do it" philosophy. A corollary to that mott
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by randomstring 12y ago
Which would explain why Erdos might be confounded by the answer. He was an expert at numbers, not psychology. Proofs are built with an adversarial mind set. Always assuming the worst possible case and proving that a theorem holds in all con
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by randomstring 12y ago
I think you're seeing a couple different effects here. 1. The data is reported from a many varieties of GPS devices and phones. So the data is noisy. Some singles tracks will be very noisy, to the point of being fiction. 2. Not all of

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