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Re:Pandora: From near-death to profitability in a year on Friday September 25, 2009 @10:00PM (#844866)
just putting out there that pandora totally crushes deezer and last.fm when it comes to music selection for artists or songs you enter in.
Re:New owners of eBaum's World fire ebaum and his staff on Sunday February 01, 2009 @01:26AM (#460620)
are people still seriously thinking that this economic crises was because of greedy CEOs and capitalism?

Jesus Christ. :|

Re:Here comes Britannica 2.0 on Thursday January 22, 2009 @07:17AM (#444663)
"Would-be editors on the Britannica site will have to register using their real names and addresses before they are allowed to modify or write their own articles."

And thats why its going to fail.

Re:Ask HN: What to do with a spare linux box? on Wednesday January 21, 2009 @10:23PM (#444289)
I was also thinking of maybe doing that Folding@Home stuff.

Ask HN: What to do with a spare linux box?

So I have a spare Gentoo box.I want to turn it into some sort of practical utility machine, but I am having trouble with some ideas.So far I have set it up to stream my MP3 collection, which is quite nice.Any other ideas? What have you guys done with spare linux boxes?

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Re:Ask HN: Which school do you attend? on Saturday January 17, 2009 @02:43PM (#438467)
State University of New York at Stony Brook
Re:'Atlas Shrugged': From Fiction to Fact in 52 Years on Saturday January 10, 2009 @02:05PM (#428189)
I wish I could upmod you twice.
Re:Data Analysts Captivated by Power of R on Wednesday January 07, 2009 @12:35AM (#423057)
I can't believe nobody here has mentioned PDL, the Perl Data Language: http://pdl.perl.org

Admittedly, i think R and PDL do different things... (I have never played with R).

Re:The End of the Financial World as We Know It on Sunday January 04, 2009 @07:06PM (#419750)
>> Really, really, really real free markets never seem to exist, though.

What, pray tell, do you think the black market is?

Mathematics and chemistry need to be bigger.

Hell, maybe they are and its really the map that is inaccurate...

Re:If programming languages were religions on Tuesday December 16, 2008 @01:18PM (#399779)
well. someone doesn't like Perl.

Sheesh!

No, the books he likes seem to require way more intellect than the average book on Oprah's book club.
Re:The Mouse And The Rectangle on Sunday December 07, 2008 @03:43AM (#388777)
wow. That was amazing.
Re:Seemywhere.com on Sunday November 30, 2008 @12:53AM (#380682)
its a bit confusing at first, i'll admit.

I think the premise is that alot of people sign up (with usernames they choose) and then give that username out to friends and family so people can see where they are...

A sort of twitter-meets-GPS(?) except not as cool as twitter or GPS. :|

Re:How Old Is Your Work Computer? on Friday November 14, 2008 @07:44PM (#365026)
My work "PC" is a Dell Insprion 1501 laptop with a blazingly fast (/sarcasm) AMD sempron 1800 with 256M RAM.

Does everything I need it to. Then again, I run dwm and only terminal apps save for firefox...

Re:Original Grim Fandango design document released [pdf] on Friday November 07, 2008 @03:05AM (#356539)
THE greatest game ever.
Looking at the Table of Contents it seems fairly decent.

The most helpful Linear Algebra book I have used is Linear Algebra by Friendberg, Insel, and Spence.

Re:Mafiaboy Grows Up; a Hacker Seeks Redemption on Saturday October 11, 2008 @08:57PM (#330038)
Agreed. My first reaction was to post here that this guy is nothing but a script kiddie.

Glad to know someone beat me to the punch.

Re:Rules of Logo Design on Sunday October 05, 2008 @01:14PM (#324187)
Was I the only one who read this as "Rules of Lego Design" only to have my excitement crushed into a fine powder?
Re:Edward O. Wilson: Marx was right, he had the wrong species on Sunday October 05, 2008 @01:12PM (#324184)
For all those who are hating on the free-market and greed and selfishness, I advise you to check out Ayn Rand's collection of essays compiled into a book called The Virtue of Selfishness.

http://www.atlassociety.org/cth--406-FAQ_Virtue_Selfishness....

Re:The deep Perl gotcha on Thursday October 02, 2008 @08:26PM (#322313)
The comments are worth reading. Heh.
Re:Search less, understand more: Evri goes live on Friday September 26, 2008 @01:35PM (#316309)
Wow. I really like this.
Re:Economics in One Lesson on Friday September 19, 2008 @07:32AM (#309151)
This was required reading in my Econ 101 Class.

A must read. However, a caveat: this book, along with Carl Menger's Principles of Economics, will turn you into what some might call a "[Ron] Paulite".

Then again, some see that a term of endearment. ;p

Re:Using GNU's GDB Debugger on Saturday September 06, 2008 @03:13PM (#296954)
Add me to the list of people who had previously used a deluge of printf()s.

I've always wanted to be a gdb guru but it just seemed a little mystical and unnecessary. But this tutorial seems like it gets to the point so I'll start reading it tonight. Thanks for the link.

isn't hacking a subset of the intellectually stimulating?
Re:In Pictures: America's Fastest-Dying Cities on Thursday August 14, 2008 @09:07PM (#276643)
"Where Some See Crisis, Others See Opportunity..."
Re:Hackers' Screenshots on Friday August 08, 2008 @03:40PM (#270950)
Re:Build Your Own Nasa Apollo Landing Computer (no kidding) on Wednesday August 06, 2008 @04:55PM (#268964)
There's something moderately worthwhile about being the first person to write a replica of the "Hello, World." program.

But I see nothing remotely worthwhile about being the second, using plans put together by the first.

Another book to read that I recommend to all my friends: An Introduction to Mathematical Reasoning: Numbers, Sets and Functions by Peter J. Eccles.

You can find it on Amazon.

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