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by T-hawk 13y ago
The article says that. The need for a uninterceptable interrupt to reach the OS login screen is obvious. The mistake was making it a three-key chord rather than something simpler. Compare to the single home button on iOS devices, which al
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by T-hawk 13y ago
Google has stopped innovating, at least as far as features I appreciate is concerned. I agree. But, as always, we're not the customer, we're the product. Google continues to innovate on things that make money . Why would you
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by T-hawk 13y ago
I have one of these that I've used forever, a Logitech Precision USB. If you just need a digital d-pad and don't care about analog sticks or triggers, it's great. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:L
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by T-hawk 13y ago
They certainly get more ad inventory to deliver when folks are zipping around ten small emails and clicking to read them. I'm surprised people haven't figured this out. As we always say, if you're not paying, you're the
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by T-hawk 13y ago
Right. The average of a number of samples can exhibit characteristics not present in each sample, and so it does here. One characteristic often considered attractive in a woman's face is a rounded soft jawline. The average of a large
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by T-hawk 13y ago
The Atari can't control the color of the beam with much precision. The CPU doesn't directly control the beam. It writes to the TIA chip's graphics registers, which are things like the 8 monochrome bits of a sprite or 8 bits
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by T-hawk 13y ago
The article doesn't give any information on the technical detail. As a 2600 programmer, I can make some assumptions. Looks like the major constraint is sprite inventory. There's only ever one other object on screen besides Sonic
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by T-hawk 13y ago
Astley participated in a rickrolling himself, at the Macy's Thanksgiving parade a few years ago. He popped out of a float in the middle of another musical performance and started singing Never Gonna Give You Up. It was a staged stunt
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by T-hawk 13y ago
The counterargument is that code should be self-documenting. If code is complicated enough to need comments, refactor it. Behavior should be obvious from function and variable names. If you can't say what a method does in its name,
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by T-hawk 13y ago
Programmers don't get things right with that precision either. They get it right only after many cycles of feedback and iteration. From many layers: the IDE, the compiler, code analysis tools, and finally runtime behavior. Postal mai
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by T-hawk 13y ago
A huge number of those are in operations, building the data centers and making them scalable and reliable. They're not supporting or allocated to a single product, they're making possible the platform that all those products run
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by T-hawk 13y ago
The 23:59:38.7 value is the true solar day for September 16th, as compared to the mean solar day which is defined to be 24 hours exactly when averaged over the course of a year. The article for Equation of Time describes it in more detail,
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by T-hawk 13y ago
"Pass" being a pretty generous term, coming within 1.7 light-years, or over 500 times farther than its lifetime distance from Earth/Sol to today. It's like driving from New York to San Francisco and calling some spot in
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by T-hawk 13y ago
Those are exactly the same, it's not an approximation. (212 - 32) / 9 * 5 = 100 exactly. Water boils at exactly 212 Fahrenheit under 1 atm pressure.
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by T-hawk 13y ago
Catholic -> Catholicism is my favorite. Even as a thoroughly American monolingual English speaker, I didn't get that until high school. The stress moves from the first to the second syllable thanks to the addition of a suffix two s
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by T-hawk 13y ago
By that method, there's eight. Also included would be the constructions of regular triangles meeting six at a vertex, and regular squares meeting four at a vertex.
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by T-hawk 13y ago
One answer: Things don't inevitably match up on the bottom. The tetrahedron is the counterexample. Constructing it based around one vertex as you describe (call it the north pole) does not result in a matching cap around the south po
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by T-hawk 13y ago
Quicksort is amazingly easy to screw up. There's a lot of opportunity for off-by-one errors in all the index manipulation. I coded quicksort as an interview practice exercise in plain C a few years ago and it took quite a number of
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by T-hawk 13y ago
+1. That's the only way to use PayPal as a consumer. If you're just a buyer and not a seller, there's no advantage to you to tell them about your bank account. They make some noise about a sending limit until you verify wi
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by T-hawk 13y ago
There is a Wizards product called Duels of the Planeswalkers that includes an updated Magic AI. $10 on the consoles or Steam. It is targeted as an entry-level way to learn Magic. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic:_Th
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by T-hawk 13y ago
Yes. Check the orbital velocities involved. Mercury is 48 km/sec, Earth is 30, and an object at infinity would be zero. Kinetic energy is proportional to velocity squared. Square the orbital velocities and you see the Mercury-Earth
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by T-hawk 13y ago
Absolutely. That's my natural position and I've been typing hours per day for 20 years with no signs of stress injuries at all. A good way to describe it is that the home keys are not asdf jkl; but rather more like qwdc mkp[ . I
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by T-hawk 13y ago
They were trying to catch him for anything they could imagine. Maybe he was the next marathon bomber, coming from a laboratory session. They'd be national heroes, or at the very least they'd make damn damn sure that nobody'
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by T-hawk 13y ago
That's a perspicacious line of thinking, but beware of perverse incentives. You've now created a market where people can try to get themselves unjustly detained and distressed in order to collect that payout. Money always attrac
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by T-hawk 13y ago
It's simply unimaginable that this loss of talent hasn't had a huge impact on the company. It has. Absolutely. Microsoft used to achieve domination in every area they entered. Console DOS, graphical Windows, word processing,
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How do you back up the private data on that laptop?
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XSLT is purely declarative, not just kind of. Those ifs and switches are not imperative constructs, they're evaluated functionally. xsl:if conditionally applies a template, which kind of looks imperative and control-flowy, but is rea
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by T-hawk 13y ago
The brainfuck is that it's purely declarative. It represents the transformation of one tree structure to another with no notion of sequential imperatives or associated concepts like variables and mutable state. This has some very dis
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6 on the left is more symmetrical. There's 7 keys on the left side of the top row: ~0123456. There's also 7 keys on the right: 7890-= and backspace. Also, the standard staggered layout is not quite symmetrical. 6 is slightly to
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by T-hawk 13y ago
Glad to see NJ as a living option. It's great and highly underrated compared to the trendier boroughs. I've lived on the NJ Gold Coast and worked in Manhattan for my entire professional life, and quite happy with it. There'

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