IanCal

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by IanCal 14y ago
True, but there are also good stories with Dell. My housemate a few years ago had a Dell laptop which would no longer charge. Out of warranty they offered to fix it if he sent it in, but he was heading out of the country over Christmas. The
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by IanCal 14y ago
Yes, but you'd be getting more of the pie. The pie remains the same size, granted, but you can still make quite a lot from owning a significant portion of the processing power.
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by IanCal 14y ago
I don't know. It might be worth a gamble, I'd certainly put it as 'risky'! It's very difficult to say. Bitcoin looks like it'll stay high for a while at least (talk of atms, even), and interest in bitcoin seems to bleed over. Crypto-currenc
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by IanCal 14y ago
There are already quite a few. NameCoin, PPCoin, DevCoin, IxCoin, the list goes on. The biggest (second only to bitcoin) is LiteCoin. Very similar to bitcoin but with faster transactions, and it uses a different algorithm. Using Scrypt inst
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by IanCal 14y ago
I can't point to them because they're internal, but there are some good ones I've used. Pagination was one useful part, where we saw the API change but didn't have to change the client. A second was being able to explore parent relationship
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by IanCal 14y ago
Out of curiosity, why is this such a big deal?
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by IanCal 14y ago
"Everyone can recognize a pattern or get a lateral thinking puzzle eventually." I disagree, there are tests such as this: http://www.eskimo.com/~miyaguch/power.html which have no time limit, yet are very difficult. I don't think "everyone
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by IanCal 14y ago
It does, however, help pay for the content you're consuming.
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by IanCal 14y ago
> How often do be people accidentally divide by a constant 0? Depends how far the compiler goes to simplify constant expressions. It could be quite useful if it detects something like: f(x,y) : x / (x - (2*y)) f(6,3)
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by IanCal 14y ago
Amazon have offered a chrome plugin to do this since last year, this is just another way of doing it (one that doesn't need the user to sign up for or install anything).
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by IanCal 14y ago
> computer tech isn't special. It's no different, in the grand scheme of things, than petrochemical refining or agriculture. True, however I wonder if people think computer tech is simpler because they own some. Ask someone if they un
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by IanCal 14y ago
> The forking joke set the stage for the dongle joke. What actually was the 'forking joke'? Because he seems to claim there wasn't one, but you think there was. He's made a claim about what he said, do you remember what it was?
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by IanCal 14y ago
"There's no way of even knowing if someone else is recording you through their glasses from somewhere in the cloud." I wonder if the author makes sure to turn their monitor to face the wall when they've finished working so hackers can't fil
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by IanCal 14y ago
I like the quotes, however: > With his new thrust on whats called "deep belief networks" he is challenging his own early seminal contribution in the field I don't know if I agree with that, he still uses backprop. Backprop has always
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by IanCal 14y ago
It doesn't have a massive screen though, which is a huge power draw in current phones.
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by IanCal 14y ago
> If I have a big enough cluster of computers, I can then generate enough proof of work in a cheap manner. Is that true? Yes and no. Yes, you can get money doing this, but many people are. Because of this, the difficulty has increased t
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by IanCal 14y ago
> Also, what is the difference between the statements "no program can compress every string" and "not every string can be compressed by some program". The first is true, and you can show this with the pidgeon hole principle. The second