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I've been led to understand that the OpenBSD source code is of amazing quality.

The Bridge of Birds by Barry Hughart The Princess Bride by William Goldman The first is insanely superior. The second just really really good.

Dude, you're gonna hurt yourself. I say this as a lord high master of the reading arts crafts and sciences. Don't do it.

I know the feeling - I try to torrent a book and there's ten 300 mb mp3s of someone READING it but not 3 meg book itself....

Better one. Guy I knew - awesomely good - hex edited a DOS boot sector on a in house machine to use FUCK.SYS instead of whatever.sys it normally is (I forget). He renamed that file…

so it's your fault...

back in the day I ran the numbers on this - there's about a dime of gold in a ton of seawater - the salt is way more valuable....

Awesome. We need a video game with the MASTER COMPUTER's voice done with that.

Since it was all about the economy crashing, I figure when it died the other day, it was art imitating life.

not true - those guys got shot due to their gansta lifestyle, guns were orthogonal to that

Also it is very intolerant of error - one mistake an hour negates your advantage.

Lovely - it'll be nice to see this dick get clobbered.

Correct. But we dumb North Americans need to make the distinction with the weird violent USA game, which almost everyone in Canada cares about, myself included. Somehow, they convi…

Exactly - also the nba nhl etc with multi game playoffs LESSEN the prob of a lesser team betting a better one - but it never goes away.

All sports are like this - they try and eliminate it with multi game playoffs, but you can't do that with intense games like this.

O,k I read it. It DID have some mention of the state support system, but said it was for more ideological reasons. Ayn Rand wrote an essay on WTRAGAC and she pointed out chess was …

I think this is politics, not racism. Botvinnik was a stone communist and the party's fair haired boy. That's why the fix was in. I actually met him in Toronto in 1977.

I haven't read the article yet, so I'll guess at it's contents then check it to see how well I did. TRAGAC because they teach every kid the country chess in school - identify the g…

I agree - it also syncs certain files I don't want synced - like log files.

I'm a customer. it's indispensable.

I'm getting a geek boner just thinking about this one...

Wow - there's no excuse for bad css anymore...

NBA too.

Total respect to both these guys, but it's hard to get excited about this match when Crafty could beat either of them....

Listen friend, this isn't what Ruby is good at. Acquire a C program, a C-Assembler program if possible and drive it from Ruby with an API. Don't do mad cranking with Ruby.