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"Perhaps I am. This doesn't really change my outlook on it though. I don't have much time to read the papers I want to read and if I'm going to be spending my time doing it at all, I'd prefer they have already been published, not in pre-publish form." - Zac Brown

"In general, I wouldn't spend any time at a site that has unmoderated content purporting to solve serious problems. For example, a while back someone posted a link to a paper on ArXiV about proving P=NP. Didn't even bother looking at it since the content is unmoderated. Its a waste of my own time. I wasn't saying that it need be CS specific, if theoretical physics papers were published there, I wouldn't be any more/less inclined to read it if it was from ArXiV." - Zac Brown

"1) Its not moderated. 2) Its still not moderated." - Zac Brown

"I prefer the Emacs for OS X now that its easily available. I used to use Aquamacs though :)." - Zac Brown

"K. Write one if you can't find one." - Zac Brown

"Pick something you're interested in writing. Could be anything. Then just start trying to write it. It's likely you'll have to read about different topics to learn more in depth about it, then figure out how to do those things in your language of choice. Thats pretty much about it. Also, don't worry about not doing it "the right way", seeing as most of us don't do it the right way the first time anyway (unless you've been doing this for 35 years and have some idea about the problem). Just sit down and start writing. Iterative refinement will teach you lots anyway :)" - Zac Brown

"Create a good story. I'll play a game with a good story and mediocre graphics long before I'd play a game with great graphics and a shit story (*ahem* Assassin's Creed, I'm looking at you O_O)." - Zac Brown

"C is more portable than C++. Also, what riles said true. If you're having to rewrite from C++ to C then you don't know what you're doing. Also, they're both fast :)." - Zac Brown

"And thats fine. But people's private lives are not my concern. Their politics are. I don't want to hear about it." - Zac Brown

"The beatings shall continue until morale improves. In other words, beat him till he does something. Then hide the XBox. Or sell it. Then beat him some more. Beatings are the only way." - Zac Brown

"*sigh* Why does this matter? Who cares whether they're gay/straight/transgender whatever. It isn't fucking important." - Zac Brown

"Because you suck at it? No seriously, you probably do and they only way to get better is to do more of it." - Zac Brown

"Nooooooo BASIC Stamp is fail :(. Actually I just think they're overpriced more than anything. Arduino + a few extras will be cheaper and you'll keep your sanity, not writing BASIC." - Zac Brown

"Nooooooo BASIC Stamp is fail :(. Actually I just think they're overpriced more than anything. Arduino + a few extras will be cheaper and you'll keep your sanity, not writing BASIC." - Zac Brown

"Yup, she's gonna put it in ur butt." - Zac Brown

I whole-heartedly agree with Schneier on this. I've begun moving away most of my important infos from my Google-associated accounts. I don't trust them or anyone else for that matter with my information. Its becoming increasingly clear I need to maintain my own email servers and storage spaces. - Zac Brown

"Finally." - Zac Brown

Handheld Wikipedia reading device. - Zac Brown

"I had an Android and never thought much of it, the one Sprint sells. I switched to a Blackberry Tour and love it. That said, I wouldn't say I couldn't be convinced to go back to Android. I also like that my Blackberry goes two days with a single charge :)" - Zac Brown

"NOT PROGRAMMING. /r/technology damnit." - Zac Brown

Ritter: Look out! - Zac Brown

"Its yuppie ketchup. Chinese chili oil is superior in every way (the type you find on a good Chinese restaurant table)." - Zac Brown

"Fat Fuck" - Zac Brown

"Perhaps he could just stop riding a fucking motorcycle? Might save him some trouble." - Zac Brown

"He bought the $15000 son of a bitch?" - Zac Brown

"Mmmm not really just linux... its also for Mac." - Zac Brown

"It looks kinda like Python and COBOL had a retarded baby... beyond that I've seen it before but I'm leery of it." - Zac Brown

"Factor also has OpenGL bindings across Mac/Linux/Windows. Of course there's also Java... others have mentioned things as well, primarily Processing." - Zac Brown

Good Arduino-like FPGA. - Zac Brown

"Yes." - Zac Brown

"I'm betting it was similar to the way they made previous versions of Amarok." - Zac Brown