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doubleplus

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About doubleplus

40-something dude from Portland.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #312175

    Yeah, people totally take them "personally"and start "useless wars."

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    Comment #304089

    And here's DFW's turn on Charlie Rose 11 years ago: http://www.charlierose.com/guests/david-wallace And a great commencement speech from Kenyon U. three years ago: http://www.margi…

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    Comment #303933

    I just found this after trying to post the same link. I know it's not a hacking topic, but I figure more than a few people here are fans of his.

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    Comment #302233

    I heard there was a back door.

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    Comment #251516

    It's about time someone created a blog like this. I've been saying for a long time that mastering some aspect of technology has the secondary value of making valuable insights of o…

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    Comment #240805

    I just like books with post-colonic explanatory subtitles, but it looks like I'll be taken care of as well. Yes, I made that word up.

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    Comment #206498

    Would you happen to have any links or book references to this "recent evidence"? While most of success comes from effort and discipline, I've always been under the impression that …

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    Comment #200766

    "podcasts that chronicles the news of the web" s/b "chronicle" "Devorak" s/b "Dvorak" This blog is pure filler, yet every entry makes the front page here. The bad poems written by …

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    Comment #199143

    Neat. I've had those clips bookmarked for a long time now... I rewatch every month or two. I also watch this interview with Nick Cave on the creative process every once in a while:…

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    Comment #183077

    I agree, but I'm not at all surprised.

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    Comment #175273

    What an original, innovative idea. Oh, wait, it was already done four years ago http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0436754/

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    Comment #175088

    I'm glad someone finally wrote a post on this topic.

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    Comment #172268

    How do you maintain a hit centered blog? We've all run into this problem at some point: We sincerely want to put something out on the web that people will link to, helping us gener…

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    Comment #167953

    I meant just blogging my experience working through it.

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    Comment #167762

    Ha! I was going to do the exact same thing. Maybe I'll do it for TAOCP instead if I ever get around to it.

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    Comment #157664

    http://wiki.w4py.org/python-vs-php.html

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    Comment #155569

    Nietzsche David Foster Wallace Ted Kaczynski

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    Comment #149991

    My 2 cents: I think you're overreacting and being a bit melodramatic by "leaving" and going out of your way to make a post about it instead of, say, just not voting up or reading p…

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    Comment #146647

    Every new xkcd gets posted and voted up here... even the bad ones. Maybe s/he doesn't like the hero worship and voted down the comments because there's no way to vote down the post…

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    Comment #146068

    I was on BBS's whenever I wasn't in high school in the early 90's. Met my first 2 girlfriends on there. 619 a/c - San Diego.

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    Comment #143888

    hm... okay i typed a few more into the same link and it picked up a couple... i just figured it was only proper nouns b/c those worked every time. thanks...

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    Comment #143883

    Halfway across the visible universe, not the entire universe, which is 90+ billion light years across. Sorry to nitpick. :)

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    Comment #143775

    I know you're not asking for advice, and I figure you're still working on it, but I'd be more likely to use something like this if it didn't only search for capitalized proper noun…

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    Comment #143195

    Thanks a bunch for that dhamma.org link. I was just bitching the other day about how charging $200 for weekend retreats keeps Buddhism on the fringes here.

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    Comment #140427

    The Night's Dawn Trilogy by Peter F. Hamilton