Jared Updike

Los Angeles, CA

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Age: 30

C++ developer by day, Haskell, Python, C#, Cocoa, and web developer by night.

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When did the term “scientist” overtake usage of the term “natural philosopher”?

philology neologisms asked Mar 8 '11 at 19:07

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17 votes

Octal number literals: when? why? ever?

c numbers asked Sep 4 '08 at 19:29

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16 votes

Photographing Lightning Strikes: White Balance

white-balance landscape asked Jul 16 '10 at 18:00

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12 votes

Simplest way to typeset entire document in sans serif (Helvetica)

fonts sans-serif asked Aug 20 '10 at 16:17

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10 votes

Greatest linear dimension 2d set of points

algorithm graphics geometry asked Nov 26 '08 at 20:14

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10 votes

Displaying thumbnail icons 128x128 pixels or larger in a grid in ListView

c# winforms listview .net-2.0 thumbnail asked Jul 8 '09 at 23:47

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9 votes

Are fast lenses only fast when shot wide open?

lens aperture wide-aperture asked Aug 18 '10 at 14:30

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8 votes

Using Google's Go Language to Write a Library for an iPhone App

iphone c gcc arm go asked Feb 13 '10 at 22:05

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7 votes

“So long as” vs. “As long as”

word-choice asked Aug 26 '10 at 18:30

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7 votes

What does the word “rich” mean in the reactionary sarcastic phrase “That's rich!”?

meaning colloquialisms irony asked Nov 9 '10 at 20:18

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Significant new inventions in computing since 1980

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When did the term “scientist” overtake usage of the term “natural philosopher”?

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Equation (expression) parser with precedence?

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Factorial Algorithms in different languages

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Writing a book and targeting PDF and HTML

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How to Prevent the “Please tell Microsoft about this problem” Dialog Boxes

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Graphs (Nodes and Edges)

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pitfalls/disadvantages of functional programming

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What settings should I be using to photograph fireworks?

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Is Scala the next big thing?

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What is a monad?

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Delete pointer to a structure

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What is the correct name for posts made on twitter?

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Are there any famous one-man-army programmers?

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Language Books/Tutorials for popular languages

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Beginners Guide to Haskell?

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Good reasons NOT to use a relational database?

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Resources for learning category theory

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Detecting coincident subset of two coincident line segments

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What are your easiest beginner tips?

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Photographing Lightning Strikes: White Balance

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does anyone have a working non-recursive floodfill algorithm written in C?

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What is a “PR”? What does PR stand for in the context of FreeBSD Ports

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What GIS application can open and use .osm files?

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