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by T-hawk 14y ago
I remember that incident as well; it was the next game after the random rook move and Kasparov was already unsettled about the computer's capabilities. By my memory, it went like this: In a complicated midgame, Kasparov moved a pawn to a s
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by T-hawk 14y ago
Nope. $1.1 trillion divided by the 300 million population of the US comes to only $3666 per person. That's enough for routine care and common prescriptions and such, but not going to cover any kind of serious surgery or therapy. (It's kin
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by T-hawk 14y ago
There is an implicit start from the unit vector 1. i (really 1 * i) is a 90° rotation of that. i^4 is four 90° rotations. Rotate anything four times and you've rotated it 360°, ending up where you started at 1.
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by T-hawk 14y ago
Here is an even better discussion on the same topic, and the HN thread from last year: http://betterexplained.com/articles/a-visual-intuitive-guide... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2712575 One great conclusion from this approach
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by T-hawk 14y ago
It's not the long name that's being mocked, it's the underlying problem of which the name is a symptom: that Java tends towards too many layers of abstraction, and the strict object-oriented nature means that every one of those layers is ex
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by T-hawk 14y ago
The humans aren't being random. They're using numbers from sources in real life. A large fraction of the data points are years from the twentieth century as 19xx and a smaller fraction as 200x. MMDD or DDMM format dates also follow the L
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by T-hawk 14y ago
That last bit has well-accepted precedent: Game consoles. They do exactly that. Ever since the NES, game consoles have been designed not to play open content but to verify some sort of signature (not necessarily cryptographic, could be in
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by T-hawk 14y ago
1. Speed limits are slow and people are impatient. 55 MPH on a highway feels quite pokey in clear conditions when 75 MPH is easily possible with no appreciable loss in safety. And 30 MPH on surface streets is positively crawling. They
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by T-hawk 14y ago
That is wrong. Cassini's apogee (aposelene) is inside the orbit of Iapetus, which is 3.5m km from Saturn. Cassini does not fly by Iapetus in its tours; the orbit was adjusted to do so once but will not happen again. The graphic is represe
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by T-hawk 14y ago
Here's a similar case: Ranking of poker hands. That can involve many of the same steps, like sorting a small list of inputs (5 or 7 cards) into a normalized configuration (three-of-a-kind is represented as AAABC where B > C) and taking
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by T-hawk 14y ago
This is not literally true. The period between solar noons oscillates and varies up to tens of seconds away from precisely 12 hours, thanks to the differing orbital speed of the Earth between perihelion and aphelion. What you're referring
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by T-hawk 14y ago
Not so much JIRA itself, but the ecosystem and culture that surround it. It tends to be corporate enterprise ware and a symptom of a top-down management driven structure. I'm not aware of any teams that chose JIRA on their own. It's also
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by T-hawk 14y ago
Yes, automatic updates can be technically risky. The worst-case scenario is a buggy automatic update that breaks the updating mechanism itself so you can't recover. This has happened to companies the size of McAfee and Skype. But of cour
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by T-hawk 14y ago
Less than ownership. It's a lot easier to change to a new job than to change to ownership of a new company.
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by T-hawk 14y ago
http://www.amazon.com/Logitech-T-CL13-TrackMan-Marble-Wheel/... Trackballs. Back around 1996, optical trackballs came onto the market, a few years ahead of optical mice. Using an optical trackball was a smooth dream compared to the clun
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by T-hawk 14y ago
Exactly. There will be sampling bias. Opera in particular makes it very easy to turn off sending referrer information (one click on the quick preferences menu), so Opera will be underrepresented in any data corpus derived from the referre
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by T-hawk 14y ago
This article makes the mathematical point, but deliberately ignores social reality. Yes, 100 generations is sufficient time for the premise to be possible, to fully propagate genes from every ancestor to every descendant. But reality doesn
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by T-hawk 14y ago
> S&P 500 Price has returned -1.5%/annum on price alone since 1999 This is a selective endpoint, creating bias in the result. 1999 was an outlier peak, so of course measuring from 1999 will show minimal returns. Measure from 198
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by T-hawk 14y ago
Yah. The Internet is a horrible place when space.com has to resort to "One weird trick" ads. Found this via news.google.com, which is also not great but slightly less tragic: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9230151/NASA_upgrades...
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Input speed is totally a major part of being a productive programmer. Not necessarily raw words-per-minute typing (it helps, but how much of programming is words, compared to symbols?) But navigation speed around your machine and environm
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by T-hawk 14y ago
My bank has a particularly horrible one: "What sports team do you most like to see lose?" Especially considering it's a regional bank in the northeast US, you can probably hit well over 90% of accounts using less than a dozen answers.
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by T-hawk 14y ago
Most of the Solar System tends to be dull in color; most publicity photos from NASA are significantly enhanced in the color department. The red of Mars or blue of Neptune are real, but a lot more like #AA8888 than #FF0000. Water ice and s
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by T-hawk 14y ago
More the other way around, that I'd read about how to do such things and then saw an opportunity to put them to use. I had been self-teaching assembly for a couple years from library books and doing other toy programs. One book, possibly o
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by T-hawk 14y ago
My high school rascalry: This was from 1993 to 1996, on MS-DOS 486 machines in the computer lab. I had found a program on some local BBS that could resize a hard disk partition. So on a few of the machines, I shrank C: by a few dozen mega
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by T-hawk 14y ago
> First off, remember that it's not legal for a US employer to ask your age. Just to clarify on the legal distinction: They can ask, and you can answer or not. What's illegal is making an employment decision based on age. Of course,
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The geometry of viewing Earth in the Martian sky is the same as viewing Venus in our own Terran sky. The interior planet periodically approaches a certain maximum angular separation from the Sun. Just as we see Venus but not the Sun somet
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by T-hawk 14y ago
Well, that just shifts the problem of name resolution into the TLD space. Trying to arbitrate .apple between Apple Computer and Apple Records is no different than trying to arbitrate apple.com between them. More generally, the problem is t
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by T-hawk 14y ago
> I argue that there was going to be an internet in the year 2000 whether or not the US government pushed a piddly amount of funding into Arpanet or not. Indeed. How about Fidonet? Fidonet developed as a network of interconnected BB
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> Of course, they won't have any of your data if you don't have an account Facebook can indeed. Your name even without an account can be tagged into photos and status updates by other users. Those photos contain location data. And
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by T-hawk 14y ago
Story points vs time estimates is not an either-or question. You can use both. My team at my job does. We do time estimating for each two-week sprint (Scrum) so we know what will fit, and have fuzzier point estimates in the backlog for l

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