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I still have my 1980's one -- it is pretty beat up.

Seriously, though, buy a DaiYan Guhong or DiaYan Zhanchi speedcube. They are sooo much more enjoyable to use than the official Rubik's cube. (Then again, if you're like me, they will just add to the pile of cubes...)

Tea is best when the water is 140F - 185F. ( why? see, for instance http://www.thefragrantleaf.com/green-tea-brewing-tips )

Oh, you meant that _other_ kind of tea.

I use and like the next model down at 1/3 of the cost, the Audio Technica ATH-M30[1]. They block loads of background noise because of the closed back, and sound great as well... and fit my cheapskate tendencies. The 11' cable is nifty too for when I'm using them at home to monitor while playing guitar into my DAW...

[1] http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00007E7C8/

I vote for 30 days for all months, followed by a 5 or 6 day festival (depending) at the end of the year. ;)

This is really nice, thanks for sharing it with us.

ChucK's pretty fun, I've played around with it a little to write a couple of electronic demos... I like the fact that i can do full-on generative synthesis with it - samples can be used, but it is more fun for me to craft sounds algorithmically.

This one's a laid-back idea for a 'chillout' song I haven't finished:

https://soundcloud.com/sigint-trax/national-degeneration-uni...

This one is an experiment that involved the main melody being manipulated randomly by a mutation algorithm I wrote:

https://soundcloud.com/sigint-trax/mutation-0x1337

That book is fantastic, rates very highly on my list of excellent histories of computing.

I actually had Fortran-77 between Pascal and C. C, compared to Pascal, was like taking off the handcuffs.

Highly likely this is another case of the legal dept acting without even talking to the dev organization internal to Oracle.

According to the MLB.tv site, OS X 10.9 isn't a supported device - and this is still true today, opening day of the season. Seems amazing they haven't figured this out as the OS has been out quite awhile now. (The NextDef plugin required has issues)

And here I was all set to give them my money, but as my macs are both at 10.9, I can't watch hi-def. Seems like quite a boondoggle!

(I know, first world problems, etc) (also, I'm not the poster of the linked-to article above)

XText and DSLs.

$10/month, per user. Steeper than it sounds, unless the "user" is the indie dev and not all of the indie dev's app users... or is it each developer who works with the engine at the Indie dev shop? Not entirely clear in the article.

Hate to be a dissenter, but none of the pics in the linked article look good to me. ???

So, what does Oracle Enterprise Linux do on an Exadata box running Linux?

I think I'll stick with the Chrome ssh plugin.

It is Google's fault that their pagerank algorithm isn't sophisticated enough to handle understanding that internet domain ownership isn't static, and for not understanding that spam sites pointing to 404s on another site are a prime indication that a change has happened.

With no context, I have nothing to comment on.

[Edit: I should have written, "with NO context"...]

requires OS X 10.8... I'm not on mavericks yet. Can't be a good reason.

I prefer, "There are 10 types of people in the world: those who understand hexadecimal and F the rest."

100 bucks isn't that much. My 13 yr old son has quadruple that saved up from odd jobs, chores, and gifts, and can't decide what to do with it. If he wanted to get a license for Apple Dev, it'd be no big whoop. Seriously, 100 ain't what it used to be.

(he's already bought an iPod touch using the same sources, and easily could use one of my Macs as the dev env)

Plus I have a RaspPi i bought for him to learn to code. He's picked up some Python so far...

Thanks you for posting this link. After having a family member go thru a concussion this year, I see how difficult they are to deal with. I hadn't even thought about this in terms of bicycle helmets. I'm going to replace ours now that I know more about it.

Thanks again!

What can I say, we had some nice chats back on rec.arts.int-fiction as well waaaaaaay back when....

Dave Baggett wrote a couple of nice text adventures for the TADS system before he worked on Crash back in the early 1990s, I remember enjoying both "Unnkulian Unventure II: The Secret of Acme" and "The Legend Lives!" (Unnkulian episode 5)...

And the response: http://w2.eff.org/Net_culture/Folklore/Humor/encryption_foil...

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

When I first entered college in 1988 there was a small DOS compiler floating around called C-- back then, which I got from some BBS (yes, a BBS, how antiquated!), probably in 1989. It was a mix of a subset of C and proto-assembly. I have looked for it a few times over the years, and this one isn't it, although it has some similar ideas. It makes me wonder how many other little-known C-- projects there are.

What these women don't realize is that a lot of the men who _want_ to commit find someone to commit to in their early to mid twenties. The men who are left, and have perhaps never found a women willing to commit to them (like some of the 'power women' mentioned in this article), have been trained that women can't be trusted to commit to them, and so there you are. Sure there are plenty of exceptions, but it seems to be a general trend.

Amazing... Turbo Pascal was the standard when I was in high school in 1986 as well....

Perfect reply, reframing the situation nicely.

Pretty mercenary. What you propose is not ethically neutral... it is akin to blackmail.

It saddens me to see so many who feel this way.