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m_for_monkeyon You Are Your Own Worst Enemy - thoughts on ego protection and self-sabotage

Please read the article again, more carefully. I'm sure you just skimmed it while at work, that caused this misunderstanding.

m_for_monkeyon Bradley Manning leaked Granai Airstrike "~86-147, mostly women and children"

It's not confusing. It would mean what you originally read only if there were a comma after "said".

m_for_monkeyon The DDoS that almost broke the Internet

I recognized them, nontheless, it would be nice to see the credits/licenses of the images.

m_for_monkeyon Happy Pi Day!

Also, Happy Birthday Einstein!

m_for_monkeyon The Biggest Thing Since the Light Bulb

Elemental mercury is very toxic, inhaling its vapor is dangerous.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_(element)#Toxicity_and...

m_for_monkeyon Higher-order list operations

It also takes the same approach as the posted article: reimplementing basic standard library functions. It's really enlightening.

m_for_monkeyon Write Yourself a Haskell in Lisp

You can use this tutorial for the first step if you want to do it: Write Yourself a Scheme in 48 Hours by Jonathan Tang. http://jonathan.tang.name/files/scheme_in_48/tutorial/overvi...

m_for_monkeyon How You Can Be a Memory Champion

I used a book "Remembering the Kanji" by James Heisig, which employs a special mnemonic technique, to learn to write 2000 Japanese kanji in three months, which was a leisurely pace (twenty-something a day). Many people did the same in a much shorter time, like 100 a day. It works beautifully. If you have problems learning those words, you are most probably either using the wrong technique, or using it incorrectly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remembering_the_Kanji

m_for_monkeyon An Interview with Yukihiro “Matz” Matsumoto

http://www.chinesepython.org/english/english.html

A simple Python program:

  import sys
  filenames = sys.argv[1:]
  
  def fixline(filename):
       text = open(filename).read()
       text = text.replace('\n\r','\n')
       return text

  for file in filenames:
       print fixline(file)

and its translation:

  載入 系統
  文件名 = 系統.參數[1:]

  定義 修正行尾(文件):
       內文 = 打開(文件名).讀入()
       內文 = 內文.替換('\n\r','\n')
       傳回 內文

  取 文件 自 文件名:
       寫 修正行尾(文件)

m_for_monkeyon Linux brings over €10 million savings for Munich

The first item on the list of related articles: Freiburg to switch back to MS Office (3 days ago)

http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Freiburg-to-switch-ba...

m_for_monkeyon Police Raid 9-Year-Old Pirate Bay Girl

No, artists need to see an alternative way of distribution to realize, how can they make it big without the "help" of leeches.

m_for_monkeyon NASA will text you whenever the International Space Station passes overhead

This website can show you the schedule of the ISS and many other satellites ten days in advance: http://www.heavens-above.com

m_for_monkeyon Texter: Drawing with text using JavaScript and Canvas

The text is from "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll.

m_for_monkeyon Some advice from Jeff Bezos

Jason, I found a little bio of you that said, "Jason Fried is the fastest white man you'll ever meet. He has curly hair and a sunny disposition. He loves to travel, play hoops, and watch sunsets from his roof deck. He wishes he could break dance." Is that all true?

JF: That was an old bio that someone wrote for me. I guess it's probably all true, except for the break dancing part. I really don't have any desire to do that.

http://www.tompeters.com/printer_friendly.php?print=1&no...

m_for_monkeyon Linus Torvalds Answers Your Questions

No, scientists are coming from the opposite direction. Observing things, then draw conclusions and connect the dots. Pseudosciences, like homeopathy are backwards. They pull "universal truths" out of thin air, like "Law of similars", and after that they don't mind even if experiments and reality doesn't support these theories.

m_for_monkeyon Peak Chrome? Google's browser falls as Firefox, Internet Explorer stay flat

"Chrome has dropped 0.27 points"

Is this a joke? That graph looks like four straight (xkcd-style) horizontal lines.

m_for_monkeyon Dave The Incredible Mindreader – How Does He Do It?

The point of posting your interests online would be to attract other people with similar interests. That girl was anticipated a stalker, but what she got was most probably a perfectly normal guy who checked her out beforehand to ensure compatibility.

m_for_monkeyon We’ve Already Passed the Tipping Point for Orbital Debris

It was not my intention to defend China. But what's with the other 90% of debris? 40% USA, 40% Russia, 10% other is not far from the truth, I guess.

m_for_monkeyon We’ve Already Passed the Tipping Point for Orbital Debris

Still, you are unfairly singling out China. From the article you linked:

"It was the first known successful satellite intercept test since 1985, when the United States conducted a similar anti-satellite missile test"

"In February 2008 the US launched its own strike to destroy a malfunctioning US satellite, which demonstrated to the world that it also had the capability to strike in space"

m_for_monkeyon Re XKCD 936: test the safety of your passphrase entirely in your browser

A month later: "Was it 'un1corn' or 'unic0rn'?".

m_for_monkeyon Cray T94 Supercomputer on Ebay

I quote it: "Note to Laser Technicians : Don't let this fluid drip. It costs like Gold!".

http://www.parallax-tech.com/fluorine.htm#price

m_for_monkeyon German government urges public to stop using Internet Explorer

Yes, this is the truth.

m_for_monkeyon Popular misconceptions about the Golden Ratio (2004)

Another good writing on this topic is the Fibonacci Flim-Flam:

http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/pseudo/fibonacc.htm

m_for_monkeyon 2012 MacBook Pro Powers on By Itself on Rough Roads

Fire chiefs issue warning that overheating laptops can cause fires

http://www.harrogate-news.co.uk/2012/02/24/fire-chiefs-issue...

Laptop fire blamed for Vancouver death

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2009/08...

Laptop overheats, starts fire that destroys west St. Louis County home

http://www.kmov.com/news/local/Firefighters-battling-blaze-a...

Israel Police: Fatal fire in family home likely caused by overheated laptop

http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/israel-police-fatal-fir...

etc...

m_for_monkeyon 2012 MacBook Pro Powers on By Itself on Rough Roads

If the laptop gets too hot in a bag, it can cause fire, so it's a potentially life-threatening bug.

m_for_monkeyon Lessons for uncultured web developers

Traditionally, East Asian languages and Hungarian (I don't know about Lithuania and Iran), that use the YMD format have an overall "big endian logic". We say many things backwards compared to the rest of the world. Our names are also in reverse order, for example.

m_for_monkeyon Why it's so hard to find a photo of Neil Armstrong on the moon

Even a simple crop can make a large effect: http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread545972/pg1

m_for_monkeyon Watch Out Mars: 1080 HD Video of Curiosity Descent

This is nothing compared to medical software, for example. All you can lose here is some money, but no human life in danger. Some more perspective.