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by Elrac 10y ago
Most nails are made of steel. Aluminum, copper, brass, bronze, stainless steel, nickel silver, monel, zinc, and iron are also used. Galvanized nails are coated with zinc to give them added corrosion resistance. Blued steel nails are subject
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by Elrac 10y ago
I was going to suggest this as well. For an experiment that otherwise goes to great lengths to look scientific, this is a rather simple-minded blunder.
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by Elrac 10y ago
Hi Paul, Sorry 'bout the late answer; I don't get emails on responses. My browser is Firefox 45.3.0 running on Windows 7. I use Privacy Badger - that blocks sites that do too much cookie tracing but it didn't object to your p
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by Elrac 10y ago
You're missing a sarcasm indicator, right?
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by Elrac 10y ago
Site doesn't work for me. There's a blank rectangle below the "Sites" title and to the right of the site URLs. Mousing over that area raises some white tool tips/pop-ups displaying color names/codes. I found th
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by Elrac 10y ago
I believe you're wrong about that. A headphone socket can report whether there's a jack plugged in or not - that one bit of information is the total extent of traffic in the reverse direction. There is no electronic standard for b
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by Elrac 10y ago
I've only read the linked article, not the more in-depth source mentioned there. But based on just that information, I'm deeply unimpressed by Hoffman's work. From where I stand, his idea is both poorly informed (as in, it se
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by Elrac 10y ago
I can understand and respect that you're reluctant to write an endorsement of Epsilon and/or a comparison with Emacs. But I'd like to let you know that while starting to read your comment I was looking forward to just that, a
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by Elrac 10y ago
I missed that! Thanks.
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by Elrac 10y ago
Similar sentiment here. If I understood the not-very-explicit description correctly, it's an IDE for Javascript, and Javascript only, right? It's hard to believe, but somewhere in the world are developers using languages other tha
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by Elrac 10y ago
See: Go.
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by Elrac 10y ago
Can confirm. I've heard that my company has been told to tighten the belt, that there are a lot of positions in the company that don't produce value to paying customers. At pretty much the same time, I'm seeing a wave of self
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by Elrac 10y ago
Disclaimer: Amateur's blundering travelog. I've been dabbling in Clojure for about 4 years now, off and on, and it works very well for small-ish projects. The integration, as others have mentioned, with the JVM is superbly seamles
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by Elrac 10y ago
A couple of years ago I was looking for a remote control app to remote-multibox a couple of PCs for some online game. I found it a bit odd that every search (including for competing products) brought me to TeamViewer, that all the formerly
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by Elrac 10y ago
I love that the author takes us on a tour of all his blunders, so we can learn from them the way he did. Far too many "making of" articles present you with a finely polished end product and pretend that its evolution was child&#x2
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by Elrac 10y ago
Also mildly ironic for Taleb to ignore black swans after writing a book about black swans ;)
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by Elrac 10y ago
Thank you for saying this! I'm just a struggling armchair intellectual, but it seems to me like every half year Taleb comes up with something to loudly hand-wring about, something that nobody else gives a damn about because they'r
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by Elrac 10y ago
I was once asked to leave my comfort zone and write a Windows GUI app. Delphi saved me from the horrors of Petzold, the MFC and VB. Can confirm: it was a pleasure to layout and code in.
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by Elrac 10y ago
Just to add another opinion: (1) I didn't notice anything particularly horrible about the Web site. If I manage to find stuff I need and don't have to wade through too much garbage, and no attempt is made to trick or trap or scam
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by Elrac 10y ago
If I'm reading it correctly, it's an electric rather than a magnetic field, but yeah. I don't see why they emphasize Tesla coils so much. What matters is the strength and direction of the electric field, not the device used t
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by Elrac 11y ago
Absolutely! I hadn't looked at Perl 6 before the OP's presentation. But isn't Perl 6 a full superset of Perl 5? That would mean the full clutter is still underneath, and some people will continue to code Perl 5 in Perl 6.
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by Elrac 11y ago
Fair enough! But I for one managed to guess from context (a solitary cover page just wouldn't make much sense) that I was looking at one of them there fancy "presentation HTMLs" and then I just had to guess how to work it. I
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by Elrac 11y ago
Yes, but I think they're the kind of knowledge you hold on to for the test and then, unless you become a mathematician, you avoid for the rest of your life. I understand "sigma notation" and related mathematical symbolism, an
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by Elrac 11y ago
I hope it's permissible to contribute to an explicitly "opinion" subthread. Given that premise, here's my 2c: I'm not a lover of Scala, in fact I tried it and gave up on it because I didn't like its ratio of cl
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by Elrac 11y ago
Also, poor spelling. I'd expect members of an intelligence community to be more [drum roll] intelligent. "precidence" instead of "precedent?" Really? And this, I think, is an even bigger giveaway: "... and no l
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by Elrac 11y ago
The article informs us that anthocyanins are good against cancer and a slew of other illnesses. However, what little research about the antioxidant properties of anthocyanins exists is based on in vitro studies, and it's well known tha
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by Elrac 11y ago
You say "I'm unable to find any historical evidence this statement was ever true." I can only guess that your failure is based on a reluctance to even try, or you would have found a whole raft of ancient cultures and their pu
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by Elrac 11y ago
Maybe someone will prove me wrong (and thus irrational), but I believe you're mistaken about what "rational" means: The definitions and synonyms for rationality (found, e.g., with Google Define) are heavily clustered around r
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by Elrac 11y ago
This article necessarily has a lot of business jargon content, and I'm having trouble parsing it. Could somebody with subject knowledge please summarize the article in terms a simple hacker can understand, and speculate a bit on the po
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by Elrac 11y ago
That's an absurd extrapolation. Please try to follow along here! I'll repeat it slowly for you: Because there's (in general) little to be gained from robbing people in this area, there are no or few violent street gangs and o

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