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by splicer 1y ago
Thanks for HexFiend man! I use several times a week.
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by splicer 5y ago
They should have chosen April 1st so most people would think it was a joke.
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by splicer 5y ago
Another: LaTeX
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by splicer 6y ago
It's ironic that the toxicologist's name is McIntyre!
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by splicer 7y ago
Same with Vancouver Island: https://goo.gl/maps/aXADesFXHUbyjPMw8
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by splicer 7y ago
Actually, I did one of these jumping from one megacorp to another. It took up my entire weekend, but I landed the interview. I then had to take 2 days off to fly out for the interview. Luckily, I got the job.
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by splicer 8y ago
Move fast and break stuff, like a bull in a china shop.
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by splicer 8y ago
I've seen seagulls break mollusks that way too.
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by splicer 9y ago
Thanks to a vulnerability I reported a decade ago: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-0724
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by splicer 9y ago
which isn’t necessarily a bad thing for society as a whole: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_PC_compatible
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by splicer 9y ago
Ugh, lame. Thanks though!
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by splicer 9y ago
123567890134567890123456790 I can see the pattern: count successive powers of 2, dropping the digit that would occurred. So the next part of the sequence is 123456789012345678901234567891... etc. But I have no idea how much of the sequence
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by splicer 9y ago
Not exactly from the past, but how do you feel about this scene from Minority Report? https://youtu.be/7bXJ_obaiYQ
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by splicer 9y ago
I wish I could cook at work!
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by splicer 9y ago
Good question! Yes. Here’s an example: http://cyan4973.github.io/xxHash/
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by splicer 9y ago
If you’re looking for an example of subtle and thoughtful electronic music, I recommend listening to recent works of Tipper.
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by splicer 9y ago
Shpongle is from the 90’s (though mostly not techno). Granted, most of their hits came out in the 2000’s.
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by splicer 9y ago
It's time another instrument got a chance at the spotlight. I'm going to call it: the next big thing is Tuba heroes!
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by splicer 9y ago
I do this, mainly because “I’ll get a Lyft” can confuse people.
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by splicer 9y ago
I think I might used this to practice touch typing. It looks addicting :) I tried to bookmark it by hitting command-D (in Safari on a Mac), but since you capture all keystrokes, I couldn't bookmark it. Perhaps you'd see a bump in
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by splicer 9y ago
Imagine being able to explore distant planets with robots and VR googles in real time !
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by splicer 9y ago
and most Linux distros
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by splicer 9y ago
I totally agree. I'm interviewing someone tomorrow morning, and I plan to give them a simple finite state machine problem in C. Full open book (i.e. access to the web), and they're free to compile and run as many times as they wan
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by splicer 9y ago
https://xkcd.com/163/
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by splicer 10y ago
My answers to those example bAbI questions don't match to "correct" answers. I guess I'm not human...
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by splicer 10y ago
While I certainly agree that all government software should be open source, it sounds like a big part of the problem here was a failure in gathering accurate requirements (which is a very expensive endeavor).
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by splicer 10y ago
Getting into programming helped me isolate my perfectionist tendencies. As long as I have something I can obsessively polish, I can relax in other areas of my life.
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by splicer 10y ago
Or just force a shutdown by holding the power button. A passcode is needed on boot.
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by splicer 10y ago
For iOS devs: mach time is just a more precise, monotonic equivalent to wallclock, and it never pauses :p See https://developer.apple.com/library/content/technotes/tn2169...
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by splicer 10y ago
For Python, check out Pyke or pyDatalog.

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