VBprogrammer

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   by VBprogrammer 15y ago

   For more context, I believe the average lifespan of the era was nearer 40.
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   by VBprogrammer 15y ago

   Actually that is not the assumption at all. The assumption in both the space shuttle and most other (fixed-wing) aircraft is that the pilot is right handed. However, what you don't expect is that actually most of the really fiddly work happ
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   by VBprogrammer 15y ago

   Apparently it can be done. http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dbrumley/pubs/openssltiming.pdf
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   by VBprogrammer 15y ago

   I see where you are coming from, however I would bet that the majority of the money you have, with the exception of the coins in your pocket, is already in the form of bits on a computer.
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   by VBprogrammer 15y ago

   I recently looked through the Google developer guidelines and they still recommend not changing the page contents significantly using Javascript. Also, the !# in modern AJAX apps is there to avoid having to run the Javascript in order to cr
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   by VBprogrammer 15y ago

   I think the biggest advantage of skip lists is that if a man held a gun to my head and forced me to implement a logarithmic time algorithm I could implement skip lists in an hour or so from memory. Any of the others...maybe given a week and
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   by VBprogrammer 15y ago

   The map and filter functions were almost depreciated in Python 3. http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=98196
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   by VBprogrammer 15y ago

   It is certainly the case in the UK that a stolen car remains the property of the original owner even when purchased by someone who has no knowledge of the theft. See: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/news/2753701/Motorists-u... My unde
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   The Powerbook Prank(zug.com)

   1 points by VBprogrammer 15y ago|0 comments
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    by VBprogrammer 15y ago

    I'm not sure where his GPS location would have come from. Do MacBooks have GPS built in these days? Also, from the photo's it is only clear that he has the guys email address, and even if he did have his password I'm not sure what he could
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    by VBprogrammer 15y ago

    Indeed. I would imagine a lot of drug dealing goes on outside normal working hours while most parking fraud happens during the working day.
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    by VBprogrammer 15y ago

    The original poster clearly respected this right. The page clearly says "this guy has my MacBook," not "this guy stole my MacBook." Which, presuming the original poster isn't outright lying, is clearly true. I think making all reasonable at
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    by VBprogrammer 15y ago

    In general the rule is Caveat Emptor - or buyer beware. It is up to the buyer of the goods to ensure that the seller is the legitimate owner of the property being sold. A thief cannot convey good title. Your hypothetical Craig's lister woul
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    by VBprogrammer 15y ago

    I also know very little about concrete but I would expect that this construction varies slightly from traditional concrete due to the water being sprayed on the outer surface, rather than being part of the mixture. I could be wrong though.
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    by VBprogrammer 15y ago

    Call me old fashioned but I think Google keeps having slightly embarrassing failures because it tries to copy ideas, without significantly improving on them, where the dominant player has already gained a critical mass of users.
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    by VBprogrammer 15y ago

    I'm not sure how to say this without attracting a wave of descent, so I'll simply say that your comment made me smile. I truely hope you are sucessful in instilling among your children the ideal that the advancement of the human race is mor
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    by VBprogrammer 15y ago

    I completely agree, platform as a service is not killing open source. I would add that the exact opposite is a more compelling argument; almost all of the open source heavy companies (Facebook, Google, Amazon etc) are huge contributors back
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    by VBprogrammer 16y ago

    Even if he bought a stolen laptop he has no rights to it. Caveat emptor, or buyer beware.
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    by VBprogrammer 16y ago

    I know that was simply an emotional response and I don't want to take anything away from the child who died, but to point to a specific child and say that they died because of Chernobyl is no more logical than to look at the snow on the gro
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    by VBprogrammer 16y ago

    Cars are the probabilistically one of the most risky form of transport. I doubt that you are concerned about that fact when you get in to one.
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    by VBprogrammer 16y ago

    I don't completely disagree in that perhaps Bing should respect Robots.txt when using information gathered in this way. However, the aim of Robots.txt is to restrict the actions of a automated web-crawler (bandwidth limiting and preventing
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    by VBprogrammer 16y ago

    In my view this is only a problem if IE8 / Bing Toolbar has a line which is effectively: if current_page == "www.google.com": """ Steal results from competition """ Otherwise, generically applying this on other sites is clever an
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    by VBprogrammer 16y ago

    I think the central argument of the author was that despite the huge dangers involved in climbing a mountain people do it regardless. The author could have stayed at home or gone on a package holiday to some sunny Caribbean island but that
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    by VBprogrammer 16y ago

    Nor, worryingly, does the claim that it can be used in existing engines.
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    by VBprogrammer 16y ago

    There is probably an app for that.
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    by VBprogrammer 16y ago

    I doubt pull requests with failing tests for bugs are ever going to be that common (unless you have a really good testing department between you and the end user capable of writing the tests) but if they did then the correct way of dealing
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    by VBprogrammer 16y ago

    http://news.ycombinator.com/robots.txt User-Agent: * Disallow: /x? Disallow: /vote? Disallow: /reply? Disallow: /submitted? Disallow: /submitlink? Disallow: /threads? Crawl-delay: 30
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    by VBprogrammer 16y ago

    Nothing against what you've said but search terms are hardly my bank account details, I'm well aware that they are being 'leaked' (although, I'm not sure that's even the correct term given that it's quite delibarate) and I doubt my whole se
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    by VBprogrammer 16y ago

    Maybe I'm missing something, but he still needs a physical computer to connect to his development machine in the cloud right? I personally think this is expensive for the benefits it brings but clearly for the author it is worth it.
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    by VBprogrammer 16y ago

    On their mobile phone.