T-hawk

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by T-hawk 15y ago
Frisbees and boomerangs in flight can certainly turn around way more than 180°. Or with sufficient wind, any projectile can turn 180° and come back the way it came. I'd doubt a spinning cannonball would actually manage that, but it probabl
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by T-hawk 15y ago
> the Indian team. They had the tendency to be overly literal and "by the book" My anecdote: We had a spec for a financial business application. Two of the database fields were last-changed-username and last-changed-timestamp. The doc
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by T-hawk 15y ago
I have a Strida folding bike for commuting in NYC by ferry and subway too. Love it. Wheel diameter doesn't matter for climbing, though. Bigger wheels are more efficient on a flat surface by way of less rolling resistance; the bigger wheel
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by T-hawk 15y ago
> If enough large corporations do the math and find that moving to an off-shore platform is a positive value proposition when compared to continuing to pay taxes I think we can be reasonably confident that somebody in these large corpor
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by T-hawk 15y ago
> He eventually stops at level 29 because at that point the blocks fall to the bottom faster than the fastest human reaction times. As I remember, it's not a human limitation; the blocks fall to the bottom faster than the NES game check
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by T-hawk 15y ago
> The people who want to fuck us out of our freedom are people we keep electing A big part of the problem is that, no, they aren't elected. Not a single position in the TSA is elected. Nor the EPA, or OSHA, or IRS, or any of twelve
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by T-hawk 15y ago
Different genre and a few years old now, but Civilization 4 is supremely moddable with a very active community. Firaxis released the entire source code to the game rules engine!
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by T-hawk 15y ago
> It staggers me how competition in the anti-virus market gave us so many bad products. They all suffer from the problem of "This rock keeps tigers away." A large proportion of AV instances never incur any malware at all; it gets stopp
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by T-hawk 15y ago
That the avenues converge is your assumption. The avenues may not be geodesics. They may be parallel small circles. Manhattan is of course a region on the surface of a sphere, but the avenues could behave either way. Throwing together th
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by T-hawk 15y ago
Very cool of course. Why do the avenue lines meet at an antipode? In Manhattan, they are parallel, they don't converge. I understand the difference between latitude and longitude lines. A meridian of longitude is a great circle centered a
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by T-hawk 15y ago
No, most customers will win. Their experience is improved by the layer of curating to weed out broken and scammy stuff. Most customers don't have needs that can't be satisfied within the set of apps that Microsoft and Apple approve, plus
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by T-hawk 15y ago
The details of a temporary CC number vary a lot by the issuing bank. Some services offer numbers that are are truly single use for a single transaction. Some are time limited to 30 days or some such. Some are limited to one merchant (my
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by T-hawk 15y ago
The content classifications are arguable. The main headline is about a movie, which is a million-dollar investment and business; and it's Friday, peak day when moviegoing and news consumption overlap. I think it'd be quite reasonable to c
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by T-hawk 15y ago
Most punctuation isn't indexed. A few terms like C++ and C# are special-cased, and a hyphen usually works, but mostly you just can't search for anything punctuation-related for programming. I was recently trying to learn the difference be
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by T-hawk 15y ago
It's not out of goodwill that the banks will eat the cost of fraud or work hard to prevent it. Banks do this to protect their own pockets, because (US) law says that customer liability for credit card fraud is limited to $50 and anything b
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by T-hawk 15y ago
The Moon isn't faster. The velocities you care about for Solar System impacts are sun-relative. The Earth and Moon have essentially the same velocity relative to the sun, since they orbit it together. The Moon moves a bit slower at new p
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by T-hawk 15y ago
It has switches and circuitry to set the time. Presumably he sets it for daylight savings changes, at the very least. And the page says it was turned off at least twice. It's not meant to keep a perfectly accurate count of time over 40+
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by T-hawk 15y ago
I wonder how much of the anecdata being relayed here is a result of selective perception? We don't really remember the cases where a freeloading customer went away at the first "no", or where a well-paying customer received the red carpet
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by T-hawk 15y ago
Looking for opposing face pairs is the easy method, and works on most of the questions (I think 6 of the 9.) If all the opposing pairs are the same, there are two more ways to distinguish. One is the placement of the symbols relative to ea
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by T-hawk 15y ago
Are you referencing Joel Spolsky's article on software astronauts? http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000018.html
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by T-hawk 15y ago
> Software cannot be engineered like a bridge. It can be, as in the world of formal proofs and languages like Ada which facilitate them. It just typically isn't, as such formal procedures are far more costly and slower than than just d
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by T-hawk 15y ago
The grandparent has a point, but didn't state it very well. The NSA and CIA and other three-letter federal agencies do have a reputation for grabbing any telecommunications data they can get. One could think that they might be monitoring a
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by T-hawk 15y ago
> If you are sufficiently skilled to create a popular iPhone app How much of this skill set is programming, and how much is design and marketing and the ability to navigate Apple's approval process? (Legitimate question, not rhetorical
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by T-hawk 15y ago
Juggling is good. I do that, and my other mental-break hobby is Rubik's cube type puzzles. Sometimes spending five minutes deeply in thought but a completely different kind of thought is exactly the right refresher.
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by T-hawk 15y ago
Malthus has been debunked plenty of times. The school of thought has been predicting overpopulation disaster for 200 years which hasn't come close to materializing. The key point is that resource production also increases -- all those ext
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by T-hawk 15y ago
One limitation of non-team accounts is that you can't easily run multiple accounts on one machine. (It's possible with some hackery involving multiple OS user accounts.) I would hope that Dropbox for Teams makes it easy to run the team ac
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by T-hawk 15y ago
Of course all banks could work that way. Their management just thinks it's more profitable to charge the fees instead. (And they may actually be right; these decisions aren't made on a whim; lots of complex analysis goes into it.)
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by T-hawk 15y ago
The reasons aren't mysterious; it may be worth going over here: 1. Windows XP. XP installation media only ever came with IE6, never anything newer. Given the frequency that most corporate workstations get reassigned and wiped and reimaged
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by T-hawk 15y ago
1) They don't have enough smart programmers. Nobody does, since "enough" means every single one. It only takes one CRUD screen with an SQL injection or buffer overrun exploit to get owned. By definition, a large amount of code must tend
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by T-hawk 15y ago
Right, and finding another way is how the "can do" person wins over the "can't" naysayers. It's like saying Jules Verne's cannon to the moon is impossible... which is true, but not really the point, since rocket travel to the moon has been

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