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I Have Never Seen Ubuntu Get Upgrades Right 
Ted Dziuba via Ted Dziuba on Sat, 01 Nov. 2008
Ubuntu upgrades always, always, always fuck up the same things: network connections and graphics drivers. Without fail, if you upgrade, your wireless connection won't work and any closed-source video card drivers you need will get ill. 8.10 Intrepid Ibex is no exception.I figured out how to get my wireless connection back, but the NVidia drivers are still a mystery. I don&
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Auto Mechanics: A Good Hobby for Programmers
Ted Dziuba via Ted Dziuba on Mon, 20 Oct. 2008
When I was a kid, I used to help my Dad work on the family cars. We changed the oil, brake pads, repaired a broken hydraulic line, and fixed faulty air conditioning.It wasn't too long before I wa
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Moving On Out
Ted Dziuba via Ted Dziuba on Sat, 18 Oct. 2008
I made the decision last week to leave Pressflip.I'm leaving for personal reasons: mostly because I'm going to be a father in March and need some stability, but also because I'm tired of the figh
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Paul Graham, Just Shut Your Face Already
Ted Dziuba via Ted Dziuba's blog on Fri, 17 Oct. 2008
Paul Graham thinks it's a good idea to start a startup during a recession. As is usually the case in anything he writes, Graham uses a lot of text to convey very few ideas. His most recent diatribe,
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A Blogger's Guide to Armchair Economics
Ted Dziuba via Ted Dziuba's blog on Mon, 13 Oct. 2008
Having read a lot of alarmist blog posts lately, I can say categorically that nobody is more qualified to comment on America's financial condition than a Ruby on Rails programmer who read Freakonomics.
Social media is st
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Uncov Returns
Ted Dziuba via Ted Dziuba on Thu, 09 Oct. 2008
I published the first real post, about a backroom deal between Mike Arrington and Paul Graham, and a
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Most Programming Interviews are a Waste of Time
(unknown author) via Ted Dziuba on Wed, 08 Oct. 2008
Shared by Justin Rudd
I like his commentary on "singly linked lists".
Interviewing a candidate is so much fun because you get to passively assert y
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We Read Digg And Reddit So You Don't Have To
Ted Dziuba via Ted Dziuba on Tue, 30 Sep. 2008
We put out some new features in Pressflip yesterday. We've expanded the service to be a general "persistent search" that takes advantage of metadata.Collins, can we skip the technicals, please? What we've come up is an applications platform, so you can, for example, add the Reddit application and get Reddit.com content matched to your saved searches in Pressflip. Yo
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OpenSocial, OpenID, and Gears
Ted Dziuba via Ted Dziuba on Mon, 22 Sep. 2008
At El Reg. This one has put more buttache than usual into my inbox.
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Java subList Gotcha
(unknown author) via Ted Dziuba on Sat, 13 Sep. 2008
Shared by Mustafa K. Isik
The magic of looking at source code for perf reasons.
Don't ever try to do anything sneaky when you're programming. It will always bite you in the ass. If you
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Java subList Gotcha
(unknown author) via Ted Dziuba on Sat, 13 Sep. 2008
Don't ever try to do anything sneaky when you're programming. It will always bite you in the ass. If you still want to be sneaky, read the documentation.Last week, we had a problem with one of our proc
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A Web OS? Are You Dense?
Ted Dziuba via Ted Dziuba on Sun, 07 Sep. 2008
People are calling Google Chrome a "Web Operating System" and a "Cloud Operating System". Some are even calling it a Windows killer.I think it's time to nip this horseshit in the bud, before it gets out of hand.How Does Arringtons Know What Operating Systems Is?He doesn't. It is TechCrunch's official position that Google Chrome will co
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Some Cockbite Is Impersonating Me On Twitter
(unknown author) via Ted Dziuba on Tue, 02 Sep. 2008
http://twitter.com/teddziubaThat's not me. Anybody know who it is? tjdziuba@gmail.com.
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Arrington, Are You A Fuckin' Idiot Or Something?
(unknown author) via Ted Dziuba on Tue, 02 Sep. 2008
"[Google] Chrome is nothing less than a full on desktop operating system that will compete head on with Windows."-Michael Arrington, TechCrunchhttp://www.techcrunch.com/2008/09/01/meet-chrome-googles-windows-killer/Why do people continue to take news from a per
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OpenID Is Why I Hate The Internet
(unknown author) via Ted Dziuba on Mon, 01 Sep. 2008
I've been farting around with Jeff Atwood's StackOverflow for a few weeks now as a beta tester.Everything was all well and good until I had to figure out how to use OpenID. I've been watching the
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Taking Swings At Cloud Computing
(unknown author) via Ted Dziuba on Wed, 27 Aug. 2008
At El Reg.Figure, I don't get paid for what I write here, so this shit's pro bono work.
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An Article About Startups That Wasn't Written By A Pretentious Asshole
Ted Dziuba via Ted Dziuba on Sat, 16 Aug. 2008
True, people do think I am a bit of an asshole, but those are the types who take everything they read on the internet seriously.Anyway, you ever notice how when some dick writes about startups or entrepren
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Remember When An API Actually Meant Something?
(unknown author) via Ted Dziuba on Thu, 07 Aug. 2008
Alright. I try not to be too much of a God damned nerd around here, but sometimes a soldier just gotta throw down and let the shit fall where it land, ya feel me?Fuck it. Here I go.
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Porter Stemming Makes Me Rage
Ted Dziuba via Ted Dziuba on Wed, 23 Jul. 2008
I have no formal training in natural language processing. As such, I figure out a lot of this shit on my own.One of the simplest concepts in NLP/text mining is stemming. I
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