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reconbot··on Remember the flash genetic algorithm car game?
refresh - it did that for me too
reconbot··on Remember the flash genetic algorithm car game?
I ditched cars for a one wheeled sled and managed to get 93% in 20 seconds
reconbot··on A Unix Utility You Should Know About: Netcat
It's tiny, you don't need keys, it can run any any port privileged or not with or without an install. It can take a port and pipe it to a shell, or a program, or the file system. I guess I didn't say anything the article didn't, I've mostly seen it as part of rootkits honestly. Good tools can be used for anything good or bad.
reconbot··on Party like it's 1234567890
I had just made my own when I saw that. It's better then the others for such a silly thing =p
reconbot··on The Little Coder's Predicament
Since you're the only one who's mentioned it, I second Alice. ( http://www.alice.org/ ) I learned about it from Randy Pausch and his "Last Lecture" (it's also mentioned in his following lecture). It's a way to simply drag and drop java until you want to drop it and type on your own. You control animations. From their site.

Alice is an innovative 3D programming environment that makes it easy to create an animation for telling a story, playing an interactive game, or a video to share on the web. Alice is a teaching tool for introductory computing. It uses 3D graphics and a drag-and-drop interface to facilitate a more engaging, less frustrating first programming experience.

They've even gotten EA on board to allow use of their Sims 2 characters. Good stuff.

reconbot··on Unix Time = 1234567890 On Valentine’s Day
Do it more than twice and it should be a script.
reconbot··on Want Git Preinstalled On The Next OS X?
What problems? Package dependency problems? The worse that I've had happen is having to deal with broken packages. The amount of times I haven't had to deal with figuring out dependencies makes it more then worthwhile, IMHO.
reconbot··on Hacking the .SVN directory
If the server is ever exploited then they have all your revision history (including anything accidentally checked in that you didn't rebase(?) out) but you do have the added advantage of being able to quickly check for any modifications to any of your code. My repo's follow a /public /logs/ /app so with git (over svn) none of the repo is exposed.
reconbot··on New Twitter Code For Retweet: ♺
in windows xp with google chrome I just see box box box box box etc. In fact nothing on the blog displayed either.
reconbot··on Massive scrape of the Twitter friend graph

    Authorization Required

    This server could not verify that you are authorized to access the document requested. Either you supplied the 
    wrong credentials (e.g., bad password), or your browser doesn't understand how to supply the credentials required.

    Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Something doesn't understand how to supply the credentials... its probably me.
reconbot··on Obscene Losses: How YouPorn is Killing the Adult Entertainment Business
I actually have, but I agree its rare. It's marketed as "porn for women" because it has a story and isn't filled with cum shots. The producer is a lady named Erika Lust (http://erikalust.blogspot.com/) and the only film of hers I've seen is called "the good girl" and it's actually won awards. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Good_Girl_(pornography)

I hope the porn industry either learns or gets out of the way. =)

reconbot··on Stop Sharing Your Twitter Credentials
That's why I use SuperGenPass, it works on every browser, it's open source (it's Javascript) it's handy and it even works on my phone. I've got a different password for almost every site now and I don't even have to know them.
reconbot··on Linux - Stop holding our kids back
I'm willing to bet it's a stawman argument. I've read a few letters in the past with a similar tone and I do believe some of them are real. There is a level of ignorance where even in my IT shop at work they think I'm pirating MySQL and want me to port anything that runs on a lamp stack to Microsoft Windows.
reconbot··on How nine of the world’s largest tech companies got started
We're so young as a society. Wake me when google's 1500 years old.
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