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I envy you right now, getting to play it for the first time. Wind Waker is on my list of games I play once a year, up there with Grim Fandango and Mega Man 2.

Clever girls.

They said nothing about refreshing the page. Keep watching it.

Considering I'm only using it for getting a general layout of rooms for my wife and I to place furniture, this is awesome.

Come on, Reapers. Or even Reavers.

#{your_town} mom discovers one wierd trick to safely land quadcopter. The FAA hates her!

Definitely a steep learning curve, but like vim/emacs, it quickly becomes second nature.

I shouldn't have left all my Blender books on the bottom shelf of the bookcase where my old cat could pee on them. I need to pick it back up again. Good thing there are so many more resources these days.

Yes, but only for testing FB integration at work and getting Metro 2033 for free for liking a page last year.

I'll have to checkout Deluge. Got real sick of µTorrent's shit after Chrome and IE were hijacked in multiple places to use Yahoo Search as the default search/homepage, with a Spigot affiliate code. Nowhere was I asked if this was OK, or allowed to opt out, and I spent 2 hours having to make sure there wasn't anything else going on with my system.

I heard from a friend at the time that Tixati was another decent BT client.

And for Python development, a Vagrant installation works wonders, as does PyCharm, which I was telling to shut up and take my money after 3 minutes.

Beautiful, and makes me feel like a complete fraud.

For a long time, my biggest fear was that I was secretly retarded. Every time anyone said I was smart, I thought they were just being nice, like how you'd put even your child's ugliest drawing on the fridge.

Of course, if I were, I probably couldn't comprehend the thought in the first place, so rationally, I know I'm not. A lot of it probably comes from reading things from/about people infinitely smarter/more motivated than I am, and feeling like I have no idea what I'm doing.

If it makes you feel better, I didn't get one, either.

The random number generator must have been racist against me specifically. Yeah, that's the ticket.

According to the eligibility page, I'm seeing:

"You are now one out of 421,843 eligible beta candidates."

It's been at that number since the registration ended, and I'm almost certain it's worldwide, since they didn't say U.S.-only until today.

I like my odds.

That's why I asked my wife for an Arduino starter kit and foghorn for Christmas.

I do have an interest in defending the business, because I work for DM, specifically engineering an analytics platform for Pluck.

DM has a reputation on here as some sort of shitty content farm, but that's just a fraction of what we do. Maybe that's just the only part of the business the markets care about.

At least for my group, sales rings the dinner bell announcing a new contract frequently enough that it's driving engineering insane. They need to move that damn thing over by marketing.

I bet you're just in the pocket of Big Sleep.

Regardless of whether polyphasic is best, it looks like it also supports biphasic and a variety of other sleep modes.

> Around where I live, people pronounce a popular street name incorrectly. It confuses people who speak the language of which the street name originates. The folk who use the incorrect pronunciation argue "well, we all know what we mean."

I'm guessing Austin, and either Guadalupe, Koenig, or Manchaca (or all three) for the street.

Well, I did represent that record prime number, which would take 7,235,646 bytes to write to disk, in 14 bytes, so it's either joking or sorcery.

I think what made me think of it in the first place was the representation of the largest known primes (http://primes.utm.edu/largest.html#biggest)

The current largest prime is (2^57885161)-1, which is 17,425,170 digits, yet can be represented with much less, obviously.

Maybe adding exponents would help. aX^n + b, perhaps?

Like I said, probably full of shit, but I think of odd stuff in the shower.

With really, really huge (like the aforementioned 7GB) numbers, you might see something better, sort of how there's a point with most compression methods that the header is bigger than the data being compressed.

Kinda doubting it now, though.

I had an idea awhile back about treating large files as insanely large hex integers, then dividing that by a huge known prime, and basically storing 3 smaller integers that plug into the equation "ax + b", where x is the known prime, a is what you found when doing the division, and b is the remainder. Plugging those numbers into the equation would give you the huge integer representing the original file.

I'm assuming the known primes would be in a database somewhere, and you could just use the indices, instead of some 512-digit number.

The process could be repeatable if 'a' was too big, theoretically enabling some extreme compression.

You'd need a way to handle extremely large ints, and in the few minutes I thought about it, you'd need at least twice the original file size available for compression/decompression.

I'm also pretty sure my idea is full of shit, but there are more details than in the article.

(fn [f] (f 5))

I do love the format, but what I like a bit better about Clojure Koans is that you can see the previous ones for a bit of a reminder.

Maybe for each section, they could leave up the ones you'd successfully completed so you could refer to them.

Other than that minor nitpick, I love this.

I've kept a post-it under my keyboard for years with "How do you keep a security auditor busy?" written in a pigpen cipher.

I'll give you $47 for 85% of your company.

Mark Cuban is out.

Multiple selections has been the killer feature for me, which is the only thing I haven't found a good replacement for in Vim or Emacs.

Somewhere in San Francisco, Jake Rodkin is huddled, weeping under a bed.

My wife picked the previous drawing's numbers once. Once.

I was so damn excited for about 3 minutes until I compared the dates on the lottery site.

To be fair, they own Cracked, too.

On the plus side, I think they're going to use my team's Hackathon project on eHow to replace all the irrelevant remnant ads with relevant, related ones, and clean it up a bit.

I didn't either. Disclaimer: I work for Demand Media on another property (Pluck), and have only been here about 10 months. I do know a few people on the various teams that do work with eHow and the titling algorithms, though.

Looks like that was in early 2011, before Panda came and nearly wiped eHow out, and over a year before I started. After that, they made a concerted effort to fix their algorithms and focus on providing good, non-automated content. Are they still considered a content farm to be avoided these days?

Or aren't the bombers, but just suspects for the time being.