Leszek

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   by Leszek 14y ago

   Slow news day over at the bbc?
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   by Leszek 14y ago

   It's always interesting to have a peek at how how non-programmers think. What I dislike about these sorts of posts though, is the comments, where everyone feels like it'd be useful for them to submit yet another trivial Javascript, C or Pyt
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   by Leszek 14y ago

   Oops, you're right, parsing fail.
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   by Leszek 14y ago

   Pepsi is pretty popular you know.
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   by Leszek 14y ago

   > Eventually we turned to the last items in the Oculist trove: nine copies of a four-page document written in a mixture of old German, Latin, and the Copiale’s coded script. The message was more or less identical in every set. I feel ki
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   by Leszek 14y ago

   The condition will be true in any of the below cases: cachedReturnValues[key] === false cachedReturnValues[key] === 0 cachedReturnValues[key] === "" cachedReturnValues[key] === null cachedReturnValues[key] === undefined (this is
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   by Leszek 14y ago

   I like the idea of rhyme suggestions. It'd be even cooler to add n-gram support for smarter suggestions.... maybe I'll try adding that.
8. 308.▲
   by Leszek 14y ago

   Maybe you want to support python's with statement instead of a close() method?
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   by Leszek 14y ago

   That's actually pretty exciting, I love having an alternative to OpenCV (which, while extensive, has many faults)
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    by Leszek 14y ago

    This reads more like "Why MIT is better than Harvard and Harvard can suck it and how MIT's dad could beat up Harvard's dad" than MIT becoming the most important university in the world...
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    by Leszek 14y ago

    Poe's law almost caught me out here.
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    by Leszek 14y ago

    Fine, replace child pornography with a text file containing your name, birthday, social security number, credit card details, email password and mother's maiden name, the argument is the same.
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    by Leszek 14y ago

    Let's rephrase this problem as not something that people will defend, e.g. anti-DRM, but something people will not defend; let's go straight for the big guns and use child pornography. Clearly, child pornography is illegal, and yet the imag
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    by Leszek 14y ago

    The thing is, you're paying a premium to Amazon because Amazon is so popular and the Kindle makes it so convenient to buy ebooks, that you can hope for greater profit by simply selling more copies on Amazon, even if the per-sale profit is l
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    by Leszek 14y ago

    http://google.pluses.arelikefacebook.com/
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    by Leszek 14y ago

    It's a very good answer, and it worked very well in this case, but it's nothing revolutionary. Background modelling with a single Gaussian is a pretty standard computer vision technique, and he's essentially finding anomalies by backproject
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    by Leszek 14y ago

    Because developing a new standard always fixes problems.[1] [1] http://xkcd.com/927/
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    by Leszek 14y ago

    Awesome, this is exactly the sort of thing I'm working on in my PhD. Glad to see it's becoming mainstream.
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    by Leszek 14y ago

    I find it odd that "get" is faster on a GapList than an ArrayList. Surely "get" on an ArrayList should be unbeatable.