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by 0x12 15y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iota_and_Jot <- that one?
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by 0x12 15y ago
Great to see you were busy with this. Minimal architectures are interesting in their own right even if they don't have an immediate practical application, though I can think of some fields where they may be useful rather than merely a curio
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That nails it exactly. It shows ambition, guts and drive. All the elements required to succeed. It's better to build a crappy hovering device with the tools that you've got and the materials that you've got than to sit and comment about how
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by 0x12 15y ago
Turing completeness deals with computability, not with the practicalities of IO and so on. To say that something is Turing complete simply means that you could implement a universal Turing machine, which can then run any other Turing machin
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One instruction set computer(en.wikipedia.org)
69 points by 0x12 15y ago|18 comments
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by 0x12 15y ago
Your understanding is limited and confuses rather than enlightens. A test, loop and write are not the definition of Turing complete. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_complete And for a very interesting take on this: http://en.wik
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by 0x12 15y ago
Suggestionss: check all option (for those with fat wallets) and weird tools like lock pick kits. That's a really neat collection and I'm going to have to put your site on the blacklist to make sure we have food here.
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by 0x12 15y ago
The hard part is not to make higher efficiency solar cells (within limits), the hard part seems to be to make them cheap enough so they're commercially viable. For instance, these 35+ % efficient cells have been available for two years now:
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by 0x12 15y ago
Rotax also makes a four stroke (the 912). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotax_912 I've flown an ultralight once and hung around an airfield for a while it's an amazing world. The aircraft that class as 'ultralights' these days can be prett
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by 0x12 15y ago
You should visit an ultra light club, two strokes are pretty common.
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by 0x12 15y ago
Real men apparently put their mid section in the plane of rotation of not one but eight propellers without so much as a piece of sheet metal inbetween. He must trust the manufacturers of those props and his welding pretty good. Awesome. B
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by 0x12 15y ago
So, anonymous is now in the business of giving - accurate - investment advice. That's an interesting development. So, did they clean up on this or did they not trust their own judgment? If they keep making predictions like that they're goin
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by 0x12 15y ago
Should dropbox worry? Sure, not worrying would simply be stupid. Should they be mortally afraid? No, probably not. Dropbox has a lot going for them, and one of the biggest things they've got going for them is that they are not google . T
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by 0x12 15y ago
Wrong forum.
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by 0x12 15y ago
There are some links between boric acid and fertility as well as harm to fetuses, beware.
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by 0x12 15y ago
http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100721/full/466432a.html Makes a good case for why eradicating mosquitoes will not be problematic. But every time there is a large scale intervention like this the side effects only become apparent decades
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by 0x12 15y ago
To be fair though, not doing something is a lot easier to implement than to add new functionality. As a minimal implementation they could err on the safe side and stop tracking everybody for a bit until they've corrected their error.
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by 0x12 15y ago
The real winner here is Google. Facebook makes Google look good. And that's pretty sad. When your users are logged out you have zero business tracking them or trying to do so.
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by 0x12 15y ago
This whole mysql saga was an excellent reminder to turn Java off again. I'd enabled it a few weeks ago for a site that I simply had to use and then promptly forgot to disable it afterwards.
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Mysql.com has nowhere near 12m daily uniques.
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by 0x12 15y ago
> "Rules" are human mental constructs that the universe cares nothing for. Yes, but we humans do. > If you want to live your life chained up because somehow that proves or validates your ego, it will only impress similar minded indi
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by 0x12 15y ago
The repeat accuracy of such a simple mechanism is absolutely amazing. Never in my life would I have guessed that you could make some many reversals without some accumulating error somewhere.
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by 0x12 15y ago
Search makes no money at all. But adsense does.
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Typically movie making permits are given under the assumption that there will be no abuse of such permits (after all, only a limited number of movies will be made) and because cities like the exposure. Selling apparel is so common that if e
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by 0x12 15y ago
I'd give him his 20% time and hope he'd come up with the next big thing in search. Some people you fit to the company, others, you fit the company to them. Brin is in the latter category. Rare, but they do exist.
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by 0x12 15y ago
It's shallow bravado and sociopathy if you think the rules don't apply to you. The fine line is right at the point where if everybody did what you just did, would it work or would we all fail? The rules are there for a reason, your ability
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by 0x12 15y ago
Epic, really. That's one for the 'best of HN'. I'd hate to work for you though ;)
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Aussie researcher cracks OS X Lion passwords(delimiter.com.au)
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by 0x12 15y ago
For stuff like this your main worry is probably not the people that play by the rules, but the people that don't play by the rules.
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by 0x12 15y ago
Because computer literacy is much like the ability to read and write these days. A computer is a very powerful tool that is available to pretty much everybody in the developed world. Computer literacy translates into a workforce that is abl

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