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I'm not sure if I define CS that narrowly, but anyway I was working with the C compiler, not the asm code. It was a good learning tool for me because of the simple output and the s…

Back when I was teaching English in Japan, I stayed up late hacking on Game Boy code to keep that part of my brain active. It was during that time that I really realized that I wan…

This reminds me that I don't miss dating.

There were complaints/questions about Richard Garriott's project, but none as high-profile as this current criticism of Zach Braff.

I dislike sleep and wish I did not have to do it.

I return the "how are you?" question with equivalent replies in shops all the time and if recipients were annoyed by it, I don't recall noticing. Being pleasant frequently helps me…

"I ran away from home at the age of 11 after my father beat me for stealing a kitchen appliance," said Samir who works in a sweatshop. [snip] "I have saved 4,000 rupees (70 US$) in…

Reminds me of this: JERRY: (To Kramer and Morty) What is this about? KRAMER: I'm completely changing the configuration of the apartment. You're not gonna believe it when you see it…

* Heroku took on the traditional hosting space and has done quite well * justin.tv pioneered live broadcasting online

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mod parent up!

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I once read that Howard Hughes did something similar while he was recuperating from an accident.

I'm actually pretty underwhelmed by the 3D on the 3DS. I was really looking forward to it but it doesn't seem to add anything to the games. Market saturation is another one. Ninten…

When I opened the page, my browser threw this warning. The website “ http://www.nytimes.com” is requesting 10 MB of disk space to store “Stored content for nytSkimmerSections” as a…

Here's one: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2686825

The submission title is the same as the title of the original Salon article. Or maybe I'm not picking up on undertone of sarcasm.

Cool. I would love to be able to scroll through this using the j and k keys, like Google Reader or http://ffffound.com/ .

me too. What a phenomenal game.

Yep, but just remove the 's' from the protocol.

Fun fact: Liechenstein actually voted itself into an absolute monarchy in 2003. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liechtenstein_constitutional_re...

Some of these translations seem surprisingly good for autotranslate. This one in particular caught my eye: http://www.messagesforjapan.com/messages/1194/ So I went to translate.goo…

Seems like all it does is iterate through my Twitter followers and ask me if I want to unfollow each one. I was a little disappointed, I was hoping it would tell me which ones neve…

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