wickedchicken

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by wickedchicken 14y ago
I fly SFO <-> JFK very often. VX34 there and VX27 or VX29 back are my rides of choice, since I hate layovers and prefer redeyes. The wifi is passable too (don't try to SSH over it, though).
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by wickedchicken 14y ago
It's pretty straightforward, and as long as you don't modify the hardware it's completely reversible: http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/developer-information-fo...
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by wickedchicken 14y ago
> terminal with antialiased Source Code Pro Ligth font Just have an ssh-able desktop/VM somewhere with emacs, install https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/secure-shell/pnhec... , and set the font to Source Code Pro (font instructi
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by wickedchicken 14y ago
Is your programming done via SSH to a linux desktop or VM? You can SSH from a chromebook no problem: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/secure-shell/pnhec...
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by wickedchicken 14y ago
Operators and Things , a (supposed) first-person account of a schizophrenic who recovered from the condition and wrote about her experience. The second half of the book is where it really shines, since the author attempts to analyze her ex
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by wickedchicken 14y ago
A lot of people here are commenting on GitHub being 'overpriced' or 'greedy.' TPW did an interview a while ago that has insight into why their pricing structure is the way it is. It's a pretty interesting read: http://mixergy.com/tom-prest
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by wickedchicken 14y ago
The BSD networking stack.
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by wickedchicken 14y ago
So I'm not sure if I understand correctly, but let me put it this way: with a little more git craziness, you can crack apart a commit and separate it into two. This is good if you did two unrelated changes to a file, committed that, and rea
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by wickedchicken 14y ago
> However, I could use rebase to start combining loosely related commits, trading the time resolution for clarity in the commit history. In general, your commits should be the smallest atomic operation that makes sense. When people talk
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by wickedchicken 14y ago
This is great for people who are that organized. I'm not, so I like the 'just merge everything into master' mentality. See http://scottchacon.com/2011/08/31/github-flow.html
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by wickedchicken 14y ago
> The event-driven concurrency model makes it easier to write servers without worrying about race conditions and thread locks Well, no, you're just writing the locks yourself in an ad-hoc way. Every time you have a callback calling ano
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by wickedchicken 14y ago
There's an interesting paper that came out of Stanford's WebBase project that might be helpful: http://ilpubs.stanford.edu:8090/422/1/1999-66.pdf
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by wickedchicken 14y ago
> simple boolean logic A SAT solver[1] can automatically figure out a range of acceptable solutions for your conditions. 'I want this goal, is there a way to make that happen?' Security people love this. SMT solvers are even crazier[2]
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by wickedchicken 14y ago
I meant a physical wall clock, not an app. I suppose I could mount and iPad on my wall and run the app, but I don't want to spend several hundred dollars on a clock that will sue me.
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by wickedchicken 14y ago
On an unrelated note, I wish there was a wall clock with the real Swiss stop-to-go[1] action... Edit: and [2] would make for a great 11.5" laptop sticker [1] http://www.3quarks.com/en/StationClock/index.html [2] http://upload.wikimedia.o
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by wickedchicken 14y ago
> on his resume. This is Apple. The resume will simply say 'worked at Apple Inc. developing software.'
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by wickedchicken 14y ago
Which one did you get? The Samsung 550 is the one to get IMO, the touchpad is pretty great.
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by wickedchicken 14y ago
+1 to the chromebook. It's now my main laptop (although I can't run windows/mac based linux software on it yet :/
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by wickedchicken 14y ago
"This program was originally written at Berkeley in the early 80s" This phrase gives me the same feeling I'd get from finding an old Thomas Bangalter track or something.
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by wickedchicken 14y ago
Mildly unrelated, but I wanted to point out the awesomeness of the K-map[1] for handling simple minimization problems like these. Unfortunately, once your dimensions get large it becomes difficult for humans to visualize the optimizations,
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by wickedchicken 14y ago
> How can you make your HTML5 code as fast as native? https://developers.google.com/native-client/
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Google Chrome-Controlled Quadcopter(youtube.com)
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by wickedchicken 14y ago
Much easier to use blekko's 3-engine monte, since it strips formatting that might give away the source engine. Just add /monte at the end of a query: http://blekko.com/ws/hunger+games+/monte
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Programmer mind, mathematician mind: expounded(stip-blog.appspot.com)
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by wickedchicken 14y ago
Does anybody have any non-scribd links?
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by wickedchicken 14y ago
> There should be a word for this. Roughly, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeuomorph
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by wickedchicken 14y ago
> Does anybody honestly do anything but stick their hand out The patrons outside my poorly sound-isolated SF apartment prefer to whistle all through the night, unaware that I have a better chance of hearing them than the cabs do.
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by wickedchicken 14y ago
> Well when you consider that a traditional bank has teams of security experts, spend millions of dollars on security infrastructure Those banks are often guarding a considerably larger amount of money, which is something to take into c
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by wickedchicken 14y ago
> When did Apple patent pinch-to-zoom? This video is from 1988. The video is from 1988, but it appears the work was around 1983. The pinch-to-zoom (on 'portable communication devices') patent[1] was filed in 2006, issued in 2010. [1] h
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by wickedchicken 14y ago
God , here we go again. Yet another example of companies stealing from Apple. This is clearly similar enough to the Macintosh (1984) that I'm surprised Apple didn't sue the hell out of AT&T. They certainly sued the hell out of Microsof

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