Gompers

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by Gompers 17y ago
It may give you the wrong answer, but it makes it hard to be led astray: Evaluated area = pi * radius^2 giving AREA = 3.1415926535897931 * 2x^2 That description makes it obvious that a pair of parentheses are the only thing lacking.
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by Gompers 17y ago
"When Wolfram Alpha starts solving word problems..." http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/novak/cgi/physdemo.cgi It's no Wolfram|Alpha, but it solves word problems fairly well.
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by Gompers 17y ago
Consider the word ‘smashing’. Using the above regular expression, the regex engine will first try to match the pattern ‘hi’ in ‘smashing’. It will not find a match. ... what?
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by Gompers 17y ago
W3Schools ( http://www.w3schools.com/ ) is undoubtedly a better and more thorough resource. I was rather underwhelmed by this article. Shoddy editing (is it "short hand" or "shorthand"?), oversight in code (missing the "margin:" declaration
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by Gompers 17y ago
Jeff Atwood (from Coding Horror) ran a comparison of bzip2 on 8 cores against 7-Zip on 2 cores in February. bzip2 ran faster but generated larger files. "The only reason to go bzip2 is if you need the file compressed as rapidly as possible
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by Gompers 17y ago
Inexplicably, this creates JPEGs instead of PNGs.
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by Gompers 17y ago
"Sanborn [the artist] named his proposal after the Greek word for hidden ."
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by Gompers 17y ago
At 4,220 words, he proves Google isn't making his writing more terse or staccato. And, with 22 links scattered throughout, are we expected to make it all the way through in one go without being distracted? I'm tired of articles like this on
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by Gompers 18y ago
I can't say anything about this site in particular, but be wary of these prank websites in general. A friend of mine sent me a prank call through one and I've received a bunch of sales calls since then. I didn't get any ( zero ) before he p
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by Gompers 18y ago
From the presentation: "Did design do this? No. Not alone." Mr. Utko recognizes that design cannot create a 20 to 100 percent increase in circulation. He isn't claiming that it can. He claims that if you "put your work to the highest possib
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by Gompers 18y ago
Pertinent bit of `wget --verbose --server-response --no-dns-cache apple.com`: HTTP/1.1 302 Object Moved Location: http://www.apple.com/