vanekl

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by vanekl 16y ago
Your subconscious is telling you that it thinks there is a problem and you shouldn't spend time working on a project that it feels is going to fail if you continue down your current path. Spend a few days listening to what your subconscious
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by vanekl 17y ago
Wow, the term Politically Correct means nothing to you. Lawrence Summers got pilloried for less. I'm not sure you can use the term "illegal" workers any more in polite company. I think the New York Times prefers the word "undocumented." And
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by vanekl 17y ago
One, the US is in the midst of a major restructuring of the economy. It's going to take time. A lot of us are going to be playing musical chairs until a more efficient allocation of our labors occurs. It's as much about /how/ our talents sh
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by vanekl 17y ago
And it's falling if you're skilled.
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by vanekl 17y ago
Damn, I was wondering why my viagra order was never placed.
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by vanekl 17y ago
Worst: c/c++ pointer memory errors, duh. Especially when there are thousands of pointers and don't know which one is overwriting memory that it shouldn't be overwriting. Second worst: linking c programs when some of the symbols are duplicat
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by vanekl 17y ago
http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/book/LISP%... Appendix B.
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by vanekl 18y ago
http://flamenco.berkeley.edu/
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by vanekl 18y ago
http://turtle.dojotoolkit.org/~david/recss.html
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by vanekl 18y ago
Who are my heroes? 1. morally, I wonder what Buffy would do. 2. for showing that it's possible to succeed without selling out, Whedon. 3. for challenging me to stick to my beliefs, J.D. Salinger. 4. for a glimpse of honor, compassion, and b
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Europe's largest venture capital investor, 3i Group, has pulled out of venture capital investing(marketwatch.com)
1 points by vanekl 18y ago|0 comments
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by vanekl 19y ago
POKER IS NOT JUST A GAME First, thanks for posting the question. I've read a lot of good info in this thread and I'd like to reciprocate. The most important lesson I've learned in my life is that the people who have any influence over you a
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by vanekl 19y ago
What also works is recorded rain sounds, and James Horner (A Beautiful Mind soundtrack). Loud enough to drown out the talking, but doesn't interfere with the thought process.
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by vanekl 19y ago
As long as it is on-topic, it's fair game, because if the blog entry would not look out of place if posted in the forum, it's ok to put a short and tastful note of its existence. If done correctly, you are strengthening the community by mak
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by vanekl 19y ago
there's an open argument currently going on about what trolling is at c.l.l. where the S/N ratio is (just a little) greater: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/browse_frm/thr...
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by vanekl 19y ago
http://www.anarchaia.org/ tumblelog
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by vanekl 19y ago
some of the coolest problems are the problems that don't have a polynomial solution, so clever heuristics have to be discovered that work in most scenarios and compliment your data and requirements. for example, trying to solve a problem wh
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by vanekl 19y ago
I meant to ask this question myself but I just couldn't find the motivation. Seriously, procrastination is the way your subconscious tells you something is wrong and needs to be fixed, or all of your work is for naught. So either stop, talk
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by vanekl 19y ago
The raw performance between Sql Svr and Mysql are pretty much a wash. If you primarily base your decision on this, you are overlooking quite a few more important issues. Hardware (Raid level, Ram, CPU), DB driver, programming language, and