January 2008
74 posts
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“For example, suppose you use a semicolon to combine two commands in which the...”
– UNIX tips: Learn 10 good UNIX usage habits MONADS ARE THE NEW PIPES (for programming). I’m seriously correct. The article is excellent, as well. Read it.
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SilverJacket: Just Say Maybe -- A childrens book... →
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Deep Brain Stimulation boosts memory - Boing Boing →
McDonald's can award A-levels in UK - Boing Boing →
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“Fodor is undoubtedly asking the right question: “Why did God—or rather...”
– Mind Hacks
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We don't need no web browers... we don't need no... →
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Zen is Boring -- This is the best thing I've ever... →
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Neutral Networks Tutorial →
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Coding Horror: Why Doesn't Anyone Give a Crap... →
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» Facebook unleashes wave of new development with... →
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Production Languages and Toy Languages -- Is the... →
Interesting. But perhaps some lanaguages are not very readable because you’re not adroit at that particular langauge?
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Internets Dairy: Oh for God's sake who would have... →
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A Scheme Story →
An excellent account of how scheme can help you think.
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How to use the "live http headers" firefox-plugin... →
Actually that plugin makes me never want to login into a non https server ever again. I knew it was all plaintext before, but I never saaaaaaaaaawwwwwwww it.
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For those too young to remember, this is what a... →
yay for pessimism!
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MPAA admits to lying about college downloading -... →
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From The Magazine : Radar Online : Cory Doctorow... →
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Lab setup creates out of body experiences - Boing... →
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Five whys - Joel on Software - Preventing... →
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“Rails is 100% magic with 0% design. It sports all the great quality and...”
– OT: Rails is shitty [was top down programming in a bottom up language] - comp.lang.lisp | Google Groups
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“The reality is that your degree is only a pacifier, a way to make you feel good...”
– No Disrespect
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How Facebook is like Ikea. - By Tim Harford -... →
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Cory Doctorow: why personal data is like nuclear... →
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Challenge: figure out Amazon's crazy-ass... →
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IP Addresses Are Personal Data, E.U. Regulator... →
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Mind Hacks: Mind, body and goal: the embodied... →
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Mind Hacks: Test your corpus callosum →
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The Perils of JavaSchools - Joel on Software →
The best part if actually his thing about how latin was previously taught in mainstream education to increase one’s memory and other cognitive functions.
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Proposal to extend Euro copyright, and to force... →
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First-ever electronica album released under... →
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Most People Are Depressed For a Very Good Reason -... →
…although I think drugs may help you lift yourself out of a loop of depression.
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Why Distributed Version Control Matters to You,... →
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Slashdot | Collapsed UK Bank Attempts to Censor... →
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Amazon's free shipping costing €1,000 per day in... →
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A million lines of code →
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Rubular: a Ruby regular expression editor →
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Mind Hacks: It's not a symptom, it's irony →
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Mind Hacks: I take your brain to another dimension →
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Mind Hacks: Effect of antidepressants exaggerated... →
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Mind Hacks: Jesuit hypochondria in early modern... →
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Dangers of remote Javascript →
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Two AI Pioneers. Two Bizarre Suicides. What Really... →
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Know what's good fun?
Deleting friends from facebook. Where friends equal briefly known or annoying friends. I’ve deleted five. One that I knew for five days. Another I knew for a single day. Two I went to university with but annoyed me. And one relative. I’ve also refused four friendship invitations. Hahah… Why is this amusing. Will we ever know?
Abolishing ageing | How to live forever |... →
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Amazon.co.uk: Introduction to Algorithms:... →
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How to Write Stories (and lose weight, clean up... →
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“The simplest architectural problems to solve are the ones which for lack of a...”
– Bram Cohen’s Journal - Great Programmers
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f uckety f uck
1) I cannot remember the amount of times ubuntu has stopped responding and forced me to hard-restart because of the utter shite that its automatic update gui programme. (It’s a lot). 2) I hate it when my programs work and I don’t know why :( :( :(
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armstrong on software: Why I don't like shared... →
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armstrong on software: Pure and simple transaction... →