February 2012
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“Today’s sysadmin todo list:
0. Get corporate membership with EFF.
1. Identify...”
– foxylad on hacker news
Today’s sysadmin todo list:0. Get corporate membership with EFF.1. Identify all … | Hacker News
(via fred-wilson)
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Misconceptions About iOS Multitasking →
There is one iOS “tip” that I keep hearing and it is wrong. Worse, I keep hearing it from supposedly authoritative sources. I have even heard it from the lips of Apple “Geniuses” in stores.
All those apps in the multitasking bar on your iOS device are currently active and slowing it down, filling the device’s memory or using up your battery. To maximise...
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endofunctor:
random fact:
at the start of 21, the movie about the MIT blackjack team (which replaced most of the asian students with white people), someone says something about having a 4.0 at MIT
which uses a 5-point GPA scale
Going to rewatch this Friday.
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I open-sourced a game and it was awesome
Not trying to be a jerk, but you break a lot of Ruby language conventions. I would add improving that to the top of your list.
The first response to my Reddit thread about my CYOA engine. This was probably the best response I could have hoped for.
I’ve been pushed to open-source my code many, many times. Usually I don’t listen — mostly because I like keeping certain...
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boxhopkins asked: I'm a cs major at UNF. This past year has been my first programming in any capacity. I was always interested in learning but I was hesitant about self learning. Now that I'm in in the program, I have found that I LOVE it.. At least for now lol. Currently I'm taking cs ii, which is learning object oriented programming with java. Sorry for the long intro, but my question is this:...
January 2012
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The programs we use to conjure processes are like...
l3reezer:
+5 points for trying though
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice was actually an allegory about the dangers of memory leaks.
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Macbook or PC?
shatteredkingdoms:
So, I’m looking to get a new computer. The motherboard went out on my old computer. Well, it was just the video card I’m pretty sure. But dell is stupid and in the laptop I have, the video card is built into the motherboard. I only had the computer for a little over a year, so needless to say, I’m pretty pissed. It’s making me reconsider my opinion on PCs. I’ve been...
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wired:
Blaming Search for Piracy
A private and confidential document, which is no longer very private or confidential, outlines a claim by entertainment groups that Google and Microsoft search engines not only enable users to find illegal copies of copyrighted material, but direct users preferentially to such copies.
Photo: Flickr/Will Burns
Next they’ll just decide to go after...
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Looking up Computer Science jobs.
ohsochill:
It ain’t that easy homie. I’ma be FRESH outta school. My field makes NO difference in my chances of getting a job. Economy’s still bad, and companies still want you to be a seasoned genius before they consider hiring you.
For what it’s worth, HackerNews does a monthly “Who’s Hiring?” thread that’s definitely worth keeping tabs on. Here’s the...
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“Absolutely, 100% true: Learning to code is learning to use logic and reason, and...”
– The Kernel
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leehoney asked: how is it semantics? do pray tell
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“Make good stuff, then make it easy for people to buy it. There’s your...”
– Jonathan Coulton
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Rails Ready - A Ruby and Rails setup script for... →
Repo of the day
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“Give someone a program, and you’ll frustate them for one day. Teach...”
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Euler #18 and #67
Today I woke up at 3am and decided to solve a problem from Project Euler (a site that challenges your computer science and math abilities with fun problems(. Although the source to my solutions for every problem I’ve solved is freely available on my Github account, I thought it would be fun to write about the how and why of my solution. After all, anyone can write code that...
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December 2011
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Turns Out I'm Not Nuts. →
terryatjn:
I’ve become known for being that kid in both my math and CS classes — simply because I gesture a ton while taking exams and solving problems. Turns out… well, I’m not nuts for gesturing and being that kid. Thank you, UChicago, for this paper.
I do this when I’m explaining concepts that are new to me, but I don’t think anyone besides me has caught on. I hope.
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Taking my Computer Science Final
the-new-revolution:
Expectations:
Reality:
What I thought majoring in Computer Science would be like:
Turns out classwork/finals are pretty underwhelming. Well, except when I get to make stuff like this.
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“In one of my CS classes we had to do a team project where we described and...”
– aetheralloy
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iOS5 Untethered Jailbreak released →
devteam:
@pod2g has created a terrific gift for iOS fans — an untethered 5.0.1 jailbreak for non-A5 devices!
It’s a Christmas miracle!
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sofuckinglost asked: Hello! Here's a little recursive idea to do your method in pseudocode. it won't let me add newlines in here, so sorry for the mess, but it's short and simple: int check( str ){ int min = len(str); for (i=0; i<len(str)-1; ++i) { new_str = replacement on str using chars i and i + 1; if (there was a replacement) { int n = check( new_str ); if (n < min) min = n; } } return...
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Trying to solve this string reduction problem. I hope typing this all out will help me clear my head, because I’ve been up too late tonight and now my thoughts are running together, and I don’t want to sleep until I find a solution.
Basically…
You give me any string made up of the letters “abc”.
If I see two distinct, adjacent letters (ex: “ab”,...
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How to quickly search the Ruby 1.9.3 documentation...
Go to Preferences
Click the “Basics” tab
Click “Manage Search Engines”
Scroll down to the row with “Add a new search engine” (hint: it’s at the bottom)
In the first box, type “Ruby-doc 1.9.3”
In the second box, type “rb” (this is your keyword)
In the third box in that row, paste this in:...
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Path: Introducing Path 2, the Smart Journal →
thepersonalnetwork:
Over the last year, you have told us about the ways you’ve been recording and sharing your lives on Path — things like summer road trips and high school graduations, a baby’s first words, and hundreds of sunsets. You also used Path in ways we could have never imagined. You shared screenshots of…
I love it. I’m going to start using Path now.
November 2011
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Yield Thought: I swapped my MacBook for an... →
yieldthought:
On September 19th, I said goodbye to my trusty MacBook Pro and started developing exclusively on an iPad + Linode 512. This is the surprising story of a month spent working in the cloud.
I wish I could get away with this setup.
July 2011
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“Just because Mark Foley, Ted Haggard, Robert Allen, Ed Schrock, Larry Craig, Roy...”
– Nix-7c0
June 2011
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