BearOfNH

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by BearOfNH 17y ago
Cable is cheaper now because of sunk costs, but cable companies are much too fat to innovate at this point. I disagree in one respect: cable companies are still highly innovative when it comes to lowering their internal costs. It's not so
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
"The thing that's amazing is we don't have to worry about attracting people into the Boston community, [...] The challenge is to retain people." I would say that challenge might exist because unemployed people are desperate enough to take
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
I'd be interested in a breakdown of the 10 or so most popular source sites on a (say) month-by-month basis. You'd expect to see a lot of articles referencing Google, techcrunch, HN and the like but I'm also surprised by the number of articl
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
[...] so it's not clear exactly what Amazon is doing. Shouldn't Amazon be providing customers with reports to this effect? It can't be that difficult to say that within each 10-minute interval i you got X_i % of a CPU, received N_i p
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
Doesn't seem to work on Python 2.5.x under WinXP. I get the DLL load failure message "This application has failed to start because python26.dll was not found." The installer was happy finding Python 2.5. Oh well, I should probably upgrade t
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
Hashtable routines are far easier to write and debug than balanced binary tree routines. Of course there are open source implementations available for both. But I would guess it is easier to write your own hash function than learn to use so
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
Thanks, I read the html-linked content. He talks about the "mental effort" required to make a micropayment and how that's a hindrance to the technology. I agree in that I wouldn't want to take the time to "OK" every payment. But that doesn'
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
I think it's unfair to claim "built-in decay" is unique to leveraged ETFs. This happens with all financial instruments: stocks, funds, ETFs, futures, options, etc. Any price that goes up X% and then down X%, or vice versa, ends up lower tha
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
Yes, it comes from the Latin. So maybe this is not a coincidence, since Julius Caesar invented the ROT13 cipher.
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
As I understand it, PGP uses RSA just at the outset to generate a 128-bit (or 256-bit or whatever) key for the rest of the message. So the PGP key length is a one-time cost (per message). Many years ago (early 1990s) I generated a 1024-bit
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
The 2 million people in Nebraska get as many senators as the 37 million in California. This of course is by design. The state of Nebraska gets as many Senators as the state of California. Senators represent states, not people. Prior to th
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
Several years ago I updated a particular Wikipedia puzzle writeup and included software to generate the (nontrivial) puzzle artwork. At which point I got my hands slapped (there should be a verb for that), and was told Wikipedia was not a c
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
I don't get the point behind having a "home page". Maybe if I owned an active website or blog, I'd have reason to start there. Maybe. The last thing I want is additional startup latency, so I set my home page to about:blank. Am I missing so
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
[Citation Needed]
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
Before we (OK, "they") go making changes, I'd like the school to ask the underperforming students what the school can do to help them improve. While I suspect a long list of wisecrack responses, it's still remotely possible the troubled stu
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
There's always a market (here, an audience) for personal attacks on the wealthy and successful. It comes with the territory. For his part, pg is leading by example -- laughing all the way to the bank.
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
[Citation Needed]
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
Only if you've never done stupid shit like that. Seriously though, it seems wrong to put an .m4v file behind the "What is Skribit?" on the home page. None of my systems can play that. Is that an iTunes file? I don't 'do' iTunes, though I ma
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
It took a while, but I finally detected the sarcasm above. I am not making this up: Just yesterday I went to reorder checks on-line, and got told "FAIL" and to contact my bank. So I called the main branch in this state and a human being ans
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
Good article but he digs too deep. I would be happier if students just learned to use "should have", not "should of", and related constructs. This seems prevalent even among the college-educated these days. Does a programmer's spelling and
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
Agreed, it's just a scratch on the surface. But if the authors were to open-source it and develop a plugin scheme they might find a lot of contributors, a la Firefox or iPhone app store. Maybe not as many, but with similar enthusiasm. Not s
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
I for one hope you'll be kind enough to blog your Estonian experiences, be they good or bad. Or is there already a website that specifically aggregates reports of the form "I moved from <X> to <Y> and found <Z1><
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
[Citation Needed]
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
The earth continues to orbit the sun, puppies still lick your hand and scientists barely notice crap like this getting scattered about. The Internet is chock full of it. Yet we are to believe the AGW crowd zealously hoards their taxpayer-fu
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
En passant only needs 3 bits to encode the file ("column") containing the eligible pawn. The rank ("row") is inferred from the context -- whose move it is. (W=5, B=4) 3 bits always suffice to indicate either (a) a pawn en prise (as it w
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
Missing: motion detection Also missing: any interest in what's missing. Maybe that's a bit harsh, but if it's been thru Reddit already you'd think they would have a way to submit additional requests.
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Flawed climate data(financialpost.com)
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
How does this work with a lampshade or a wall sconce? Putting the light through some kind of filter must (?) narrow the difference between the kinds of light. In which case I've got a lot of lights that can be upgraded to LED. I'm willing t
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
This is just going to be used for porn. Thereby guaranteeing iPhone (?iPorn?) supremacy, at least until it's ported to Droid.
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
We should hold scientists to a higher standard than any organization with more than 3 employees. Especially if they are spending Other People's Money.

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