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splicer

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About splicer

The bits on the bus go on and off, on and off, on and off.

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    Comment #45218631

    Thanks for HexFiend man! I use several times a week.

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    Comment #30536626

    They should have chosen April 1st so most people would think it was a joke.

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    Comment #27587177

    Another: LaTeX

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    Comment #25449387

    It's ironic that the toxicologist's name is McIntyre!

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    Comment #20548657

    Same with Vancouver Island: https://goo.gl/maps/aXADesFXHUbyjPMw8

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    Comment #19929242

    Actually, I did one of these jumping from one megacorp to another. It took up my entire weekend, but I landed the interview. I then had to take 2 days off to fly out for the interv…

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    Comment #18086210

    Move fast and break stuff, like a bull in a china shop.

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    Comment #17741002

    I've seen seagulls break mollusks that way too.

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    Comment #15491462

    Thanks to a vulnerability I reported a decade ago: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-0724

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    Comment #15378893

    which isn’t necessarily a bad thing for society as a whole: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_PC_compatible

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    Comment #15376673

    Ugh, lame. Thanks though!

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    Comment #15376638

    123567890134567890123456790 I can see the pattern: count successive powers of 2, dropping the digit that would occurred. So the next part of the sequence is 12345678901234567890123…

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    Comment #15331551

    Not exactly from the past, but how do you feel about this scene from Minority Report? https://youtu.be/7bXJ_obaiYQ

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    Comment #14653948

    I wish I could cook at work!

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    Comment #14633451

    Good question! Yes. Here’s an example: http://cyan4973.github.io/xxHash/

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    Comment #14631212

    If you’re looking for an example of subtle and thoughtful electronic music, I recommend listening to recent works of Tipper.

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    Comment #14631171

    Shpongle is from the 90’s (though mostly not techno). Granted, most of their hits came out in the 2000’s.

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    Comment #14629035

    It's time another instrument got a chance at the spotlight. I'm going to call it: the next big thing is Tuba heroes!

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    Comment #14584658

    I do this, mainly because “I’ll get a Lyft” can confuse people.

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    Comment #14577514

    I think I might used this to practice touch typing. It looks addicting :) I tried to bookmark it by hitting command-D (in Safari on a Mac), but since you capture all keystrokes, I …

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    Comment #14567124

    Imagine being able to explore distant planets with robots and VR googles in real time !

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    Comment #14385838

    and most Linux distros

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    Comment #14235527

    I totally agree. I'm interviewing someone tomorrow morning, and I plan to give them a simple finite state machine problem in C. Full open book (i.e. access to the web), and they're…

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    Comment #14042422

    https://xkcd.com/163/