rawr | 16 years ago | on: Nobody cares - a fundamental principle for startup socialites
I was going to read your article, but the picture of a blowup doll makes it hard to do so during work.
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rawr | 16 years ago | on: Sniffing the Unsniffable on Windows
I am very pleased to see a legitimate post about hacking on Hacker News. Well played, sir.
I have similar feelings about Detours. Microsoft Research is in their own little world sometimes.
rawr | 16 years ago | on: Malicious ATM Catches Hackers
I see they are using the alternate definition of the word "catch" meaning "did not catch". Interesting.
rawr | 16 years ago | on: Really Understanding Linux CPU Load
I think that all articles should have a mandatory cars-on-a-bridge analogy.
rawr | 16 years ago | on: First Criminal Prosecution for Domain Name Theft
You forgot "apparently enough things happen to justify a news site dedicated solely to domain names"
rawr | 16 years ago | on: The Agony of Grad School
I concur. With the title of your blog.
rawr | 16 years ago | on: Microsoft Word, RIP: 1983 - 2009
I think this is spot-on.
From a student's perspective, taking notes in class in Word is the de facto standard at this point. The outlining mode is intuitive and efficient.
Now let's say we were to replace this with MediaWiki. When I tab and shift-tab it won't indent and un-indent properly. While I'm sure there is Wiki markup to do outlining, there is no way you'd be able to do it fast enough in class while you're trying to get down everything the professor says.
The author, as parent points out, makes the common mistake of assuming what is true for one in a group is true for the entire group.
rawr | 16 years ago | on: Next Wheel of Time Book: The first review
Take this message back to Sammael. Every death he has caused since waking, I lay at his feet and call due. Every murder he has ever done or caused, I lay at his feet and call due. He escaped justice in the Rorn M’doi, and at Nol Caimaine, and Sohadra. More of Lews Therin’s memories, but the pain of what had been done there, the agony of what Lews Therin’s eyes had seen, burned across the Void as if Rand’s. But I will see justice done now. Tell him, no truce with the Forsaken. No truce with the Shadow.
Oh fuck off. How can people read this stuff? They're like romance novels for nerds.
rawr | 16 years ago | on: Why do students find Mathematics difficult?
Because it's hard.
rawr | 16 years ago | on: Light slowed down to 38 mph
This is sure to revolutionize all communications done at 460 degrees below zero Fahrenheit!
rawr | 16 years ago | on: Steve Ballmer calls Apple's Mac growth a "rounding error"
This is not a "small" clarification. The headline is completely misleading - thank you for calling this out.
rawr | 16 years ago | on: Why is the Jython website so ugly?
Because the "Twitter Updates" sidebar has pictures of the developers.
rawr | 16 years ago | on: Tip: show "invisible characters" only when you highlight text
I personally prefer the "automatically strip unnecessary whitespace from the file when you save" approach, but this is an interesting feature nonetheless.
rawr | 16 years ago | on: Ask HN: review my startup Wiki-OS, the first webOS developed the wiki way
You can tell it's still early in development, but even now it works better than Linux!
(ducks)
rawr | 16 years ago | on: Ask HN: review my startup Wiki-OS, the first webOS developed the wiki way
Since the Vista-esque frames around the windows are proprietary content you'll need to redo them before deployment unless you're fond of Microsoft lawsuits.
rawr | 16 years ago | on: C# is now a better language than Java
At least the OO parts. Of course the syntax was originally C.
rawr | 16 years ago | on: Scientific Speed Reading - Read 300% Faster in 20 Minutes?
This would be a lot more persuasive if it wasn't written like an infomercial.
rawr | 16 years ago | on: Cheat iPhone App Launched
No, you misunderstand. This is for programmers On The Go! This isn't for your lame-duck programmers who sit at a desktop computer all day programming. No. This is for programmers on mountain bikes and skateboard ramps, programmers who need their manuals on a 480 x 320 pixel screen IMMEDIATELY.
If you don't get it then you're just not "cool" as the kids say.
rawr | 16 years ago | on: Invented languages and their long history of failure.
I'm pretty sure Klingon is still a failure, but for different reasons.
rawr | 16 years ago | on: Confessions of a Math Idiot
I enjoyed this post a lot because I traveled the opposite path. I started out in computer science with little interest whatsoever in math all through high school.
Then when I got to college they introduced the notion of "program correctness" where you tried to prove, mathematically, that your computer programs were correct. This convinced me that computer science was simply a knock-off approximation of mathematics and I drifted away from it.
From your derivative example above I’d say it is this inexact nature of computer science that you especially like. Different strokes for different folks, I suppose.