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predator times: August 2005

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Monday, August 29, 2005. My old sensei (Tony Avila) and I recently started thinking about languages as applied to martial arts when talking about progress in the arts as his San-dan test approached. We study American Jiu Jitsu by the way ( MIT. When you first jump into martial arts, it's all about absorbing all of the awesome techniques coming your way. All you can really think about is, "Man, this is so cool! What happens when a technique slips, or a stick gets knocked out of your hand? Anything that ha...

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predator times: October 2011

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Sunday, October 09, 2011. How To Obtain The Day of Week Given a Date in Google Spreadsheets. Google Spreadsheets has a nifty function named CHOOSE. Which exhibits behavior like the switch statement programmers all know and love. Basically, it allows one to select an action/value based on some input. This is GREAT! CHOOSE( weekday(H1), "Sun", "Mon", "Tue", "Wed", "Thu", "Fri", "Sat"). This formula is very simple:. The contents of cell. This value, in turn, is then used by CHOOSE. E to the Z. Da Word. ...

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predator times: Tips for the Updating Homebrew Woes

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Tuesday, September 03, 2013. Tips for the Updating Homebrew Woes. Sometimes you run into something that requires you to update your installed packages. And then. you groan. Why? Because you know that once you attempt to update something, a gigantic can of worms will BURST open. Aaaand you know you are about to sink 3-5 hours updating packages, fixing dependencies, the whole nine. To update brew and installed packages, you usually should only have to do the following commands (1). Your brew installation m...

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predator times: December 2012

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Thursday, December 27, 2012. Curious Case of a Stuck Price Quote. The number of gotchas you can come across while trading in the financial markets are innumerate. The latest I've come across on my merry journey: the almighty stuck price quote! I met this happy traveler back on Thursday, December 6th. There I was, minding my own business and watching the quotes meander as they oft do. Suddenly, I see the bid far. And what do you think my first thought was? My net liquidating value looked AWESOME. But ...

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predator times: September 2011

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Thursday, September 29, 2011. How to Sign Off of Netflix on PS3. The answer will shock you. it's basically the Konami code:. Start up the Netflix App on your PS3. Go to the instant queue (just scroll to it at the bottom). Input the following code sequence using your controller:. Up Up Up Up (this is the departure from the Konami code). After doing this, a popup will emerge describing the account currently activated on the PS3 with an option to deactivate it. And Voila. Crazy and no joke, this does work.

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predator times: June 2011

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Wednesday, June 22, 2011. Google Spreadsheets Tips: Not Equals, Newlines, And More! If you are like me, sometimes you just want to add a newline within a cell. And other times, you want to check whether item A is NOT EQUAL to item B within a formula. But dangit. how do you do it! This entry will cover such tips and tricks as I learn more of them (filtering is pretty sweet too). Without further adieu:. Google Spreadsheets Formula Documentation. Give me the value or give me ZERO. no errors PLEASE! Filterin...

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predator times: December 2009

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Friday, December 04, 2009. Rappers Hit Up Tech Conferences Too. If the above doesn't play (seems like there might not be a video feed), click through to the site. And click on "Download" to get the MP3 file. You can also find it on iTunes and subscribe to Stanford's podcast. Posted by Patrick Menard. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Da Word. Online! Rappers Hit Up Tech Conferences Too. View my complete profile. Google Spreadsheets Tips: Not Equals, Newlines, And More!

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predator times: November 2009

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Tuesday, November 24, 2009. New GChat Mobile Icon? I was logged into GMail and noticed on my GChat side bar the appearance of a new icon. a mobile phone! I've pointed it out in the image on the left. It hadn't appeared before today and I turned on the "robots" icon lab feature a few days ago. So this is probably new! And pretty kool. I wonder if it is drawing from GMail's contact management, or from Google Voice. If you hover over this contact, an option to SMS appears. Pretty neat. Links to this post.

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predator times: Updating Python Scientific Computing Environment on Mac OS 10.8

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Wednesday, September 04, 2013. Updating Python Scientific Computing Environment on Mac OS 10.8. Upgrading an OS is simultaneously awesome and terrifying. Awesome because you are about to get your hands on what, hopefully, will be some fantastic new features! Terrifying because the upgrade will likely break a lot of software on your system, especially development tools. Ooo, I'm intrigued! But is it safe? But then I needed to update Pandas. My development environment was built using Homebrew. 01 brew upda...