Philosophical Geek

http://xkcd.com/442/
AND I love the Discovery Channel  commercial.
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This kind of thing has happened to be a few times now, so I thought I’d share the fun.
In one of our pieces of software we have a process that looks like this:

void MyThread()
{
while (true)
{
DoFunctionA();
[...]

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Via Geekologie comes the hilarious tale of a man (boy, really) caught stealing NetFlix DVDs from a mailbox. The comments are funny, too. Some seem like they’re obviously written by the neighbor.
One issue I didn’t really see addressed in the comments on the post is the overall issue of mail safety. People need to consider [...]

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I just discovered this gem of a podcast. The Bugle is a podcast published by the Times Online. Better writing than the Onion, and funnier than the Daily Show. It’s basically two Brits being witty about the week’s news. I’ve only listened to episode one so far, but found myself laughing too hard to concentrate [...]

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Well, after a week of investigation, I’ve settled on a social network for books: Shelfari. It’s attractive, easy-to-use, easy to manipulate many books at once, they have a mobile version, and I have one friend on it (who invited me).
 Goodreads.com also looked nice, and it almost won. bookwormr.com, the one I originally found was just [...]

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Thank you for your increasing interest in my blog, which is apparently slowly gaining in popularity with legitimate readers too!
Unfortunately, my dear spammers, you are idiots. 100% of comments on this blog are moderated–99.9% are filtered before I ever see them. The rest are fairly obvious scams. None of your stupid spammy comments will ever [...]

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1. Write out all floating point values between 0 and 1.
2. Write tic-tac-toe in Brainf*&$
3. What is 2128 in decimal?
4. Solve traveling salesman in constant  time (O(1))
5. How many grains of sand are there in the Sahara (at a given instant, assuming constant, well-defined boundaries)?
6. Implement quicksort on a spherically linked list.
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I got a 4 MB blue iPod Nano 2nd Genfor my birthday last June, and while I do have a few music playlists, I almost exclusively listen to podcasts. I can’t believe I went so long without one of these. Putting together the list below led me to some others that I might give a [...]

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Found The Nerd Handbook via Phil Windley. I sent it to my wife and told her she needs to read it. A highly-accurate depiction of nerds, I would say. At least in the generalities…
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With the talks in Annapolis this week between Middle East governments, peace is on a lot of people’s minds. A meeting like this, while it won’t solve anything immediately, does illustrate the point that you can’t reasonably talk and fight at the same time. With that in mind, I have a permanent solution.
How do you [...]

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