LargeWu

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901.
by LargeWu 17y ago
I heard the patent office wants to modernize their system, but they can't because there's a patent already covering 'a system to electronically manage patent submissions...'
902.
by LargeWu 17y ago
I haven't seen it pointed out yet that it doesn't actually block searches for "Islam is". It only blocks recommendations. It's not like they're censoring actual results here. What they're doing is simply disabling a minor feature for a sm
903.
by LargeWu 17y ago
I would largely agree with the parent's suggestions. Having an option for just the character would be especially huge, because as a native English speaker it's easy to think of the character as just a visual aid, and as such it's easily ig
904.
by LargeWu 17y ago
The next Stack Overflow podcast should be quite interesting...
905.
by LargeWu 17y ago
This used to be the standard practice where I worked doing client web development. Random Fortune 500 Company is not going to buy into an iterative development process, because the person at the client company is usually some peon with litt
906.
by LargeWu 17y ago
You seem to be making the assumption that scientists are interpreting their own data correctly in the first place. Reproducibility isn't just a check on outright fraud, it's also a way to check for mistakes in the original findings. The da
907.
by LargeWu 17y ago
This sounds a bit like the old trick of setting your alarm clock 15 minutes fast to trick yourself into getting up earlier. It works at first, but eventually you get used to just making the adjustment in your head and hitting snooze a coup
908.
by LargeWu 17y ago
Looks cool. I've had this idea floating around in my head for a while, and have played around with it a bit but never really took it seriously. I'll have to check it out. Another example that proves ideas are nothing and implementation is
909.
by LargeWu 17y ago
This reminds me of a Mythbusters episode I saw where they tried numerous "antigravity" devices. A few of them did manage to levitate objects, but worked either on magnetic fields or thrust. There was no alteration of gravity. That said, I
910.
by LargeWu 17y ago
Just to clarify, the ban only applies 90 minutes before a game, through the game and ends after the official post-game media time. And this will last. Remember this is a league that mandates players stay in hotels and have a curfew the nig
911.
by LargeWu 17y ago
Or they don't need a framework as robust as Rails for a simple application
912.
by LargeWu 17y ago
Well, Wikipedia determines this by setting their notability guidelines. At the end of the day, it's up to each individual community to determine what is and is not appropriate. It wouldn't hurt you if somebody started posting celebrity gos
913.
by LargeWu 17y ago
I'm inclined to agree that they are not "generally notable" The entire HN entry is 4 sentences long. All of the footnotes are sourced from either blogs or YC itself. If HN must be included in Wikipedia, it's probably more appropriate as a
914.
by LargeWu 17y ago
This just in...NewsCorp reports massive decreases in web traffic. Film at 11.
915.
by LargeWu 17y ago
Yes you are correct. I'm not sure what I was thinking there.
916.
by LargeWu 17y ago
It is if somebody figures out what you're doing, or if you tell them, like you just did... The whole point of doing it randomly is that even if somebody figures out the salt for one user, they would still need to figure it out individually
917.
by LargeWu 17y ago
The real problem with ASP.NET is that the abstraction it provides is completely divorced from the way the web actually works. It tries to provide a stateful way to program, and it is completely driven by events. Sure it exposes the respons
918.
by LargeWu 17y ago
Here's an idea for an iPhone game: You shake the phone above your head, and the character in the game yells "Get off my lawn!". When you stop shaking your avatar randomly starts talking about the weather or takes a nap.
919.
by LargeWu 17y ago
If Edward Tufte were dead, he'd be rolling in his grave. The only thing I learned about the author here is his lack of taste.
920.
by LargeWu 17y ago
I think it's more a matter of the author didn't include any commentary at all.
921.
by LargeWu 17y ago
Of course they don't want you to deactivate your account. It's their business to try to retain their members/customers, just like every other company in the world. Now if they are pretending to deactivate your account but leaving it acces
922.
by LargeWu 17y ago
Maybe you should go back and re-read the article. The whole point of the article is that programmers see a few database queries and the major, obvious functional points and say "I could do that in ..." Whereas, to me, saying "something li
923.
by LargeWu 17y ago
You could have "something like" StackOverflow in a day the way a 10-speed bike is "something like" a Honda, in the sense that they've both got wheels and they get you around.
924.
by LargeWu 17y ago
SO is only, I think, 3 programmers including Atwood. So I should hope they're nimble. Why they should be any less nimble than a YC startup would never even occur to me. Spolsky is really more of a silent partner in this (maybe not so silen
925.
by LargeWu 17y ago
A lot of what makes Stack Overflow successful is the amount of effort they've put into making a great user experience. That's not the sort of thing you just come up with in a weekend. It's a continual process that requires a lot of attent
926.
by LargeWu 17y ago
Then you're either a)not testing correctly or b)writing code with too many dependencies, or c)both. If a thousand tests break from a single code change, this should be a code smell that says your architecture needs work. This is where test
927.
by LargeWu 17y ago
But since online poker winnings are technically illegal in the US, doesn't that invalidate any legal standing over them, similar to how gambling debts are unenforceable?
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by LargeWu 17y ago
Actually it's probably classic ASP. ASP.NET uses the .aspx extension.
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by LargeWu 17y ago
How many of these are from one-time spam accounts? I know I get people following me from time to time who follow a bunch of people hoping to get reciprocal follows, then send out a spam tweet and move on to another account. It probably do
930.
by LargeWu 17y ago
I mostly agree with you, except it's dangerous to compare weather models to climate models. I think this statement by the author is a bit disingenuous: "If correlation doesn't prove causation, what does? Taken to its logical conclusion, you

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