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601.
by _kst_ 12y ago
How would you write trademark laws to make cases like this easier?
602.
by _kst_ 12y ago
And that one is easily disprovable by noting that 1782 is even, 1841 is odd, so any sum of their powers must be odd -- but 1922 is even.
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by _kst_ 12y ago
After re-reading this a couple of times, it's not 100% clear to me whether you're male or female. That seems to be causing some confusion in some of the followup comments. (Congratulations on your marriage either way.)
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by _kst_ 12y ago
According to the press conference just now, the range safety officer apparently did send a destruct signal. The signal probably would have been sent very close to the time the rocket hit the ground. In my relatively ignorant opinion, it was
605.
by _kst_ 12y ago
There wouldn't have been much point in a self destruct. The rocket launched, then it looked like there was an explosion in or near the boosters (which apparently caused a loss of thrust), then it fell back onto the pad and exploded. Bl
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by _kst_ 12y ago
A birth certificate doesn't prove citizenship. Someone born in the US could emigrate and become a citizen of another country, then re-enter the US on a visit. Conversely, someone born elsewhere could be a naturalized citizen. A passpor
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by _kst_ 12y ago
His character isn't a deity. I believe the background is that they're on an alien planet some time in the future and are just beginning to terraform it. They happen to be using "sufficiently advanced technology" (in the
608.
by _kst_ 12y ago
"If you eat a live frog in the morning, nothing worse will happen to either of you for the rest of the day."
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by _kst_ 12y ago
Here's the most precise clock in the world: 2014-10-03 00:00:00.0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 It's just not very accurate.
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by _kst_ 12y ago
The Saturn V was actually from the 60s.
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by _kst_ 12y ago
Usenet isn't just piracy. There are still a number of active plain-text discussion groups (though most of them aren't as active as they used to be).
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by _kst_ 12y ago
http://vimhelp.appspot.com/vim_faq.txt.html currently shows: "This application is temporarily over its serving quota. Please try again later." A Google search for "vim faq" shows: http://vimdo
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by _kst_ 12y ago
It doesn't show up (other than the labels) if you have satellite view enabled. Here's a screen capture in case they clean it up: http://imgur.com/PaFPj1r
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by _kst_ 12y ago
Exceptions don't prove rules; they refute them. The actual origin of the saying is quite different: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exception_that_proves_the_rule
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by _kst_ 12y ago
I know that C++ is mostly, but not entirely, backwards compatible with C. That doesn't answer the question of what "C/C++" means. They're two different languages. The problem is that different people mean different
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by _kst_ 12y ago
I know C and C++ pretty well; I wonder what this "C/C++" language is like.
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by _kst_ 12y ago
It's called Usenet, and it still exists, though it's not as active as it used to be. Google Groups is decent for searching old Usenet posts (though they've removed the "Advanced Search" feature), but horrible for po
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by _kst_ 12y ago
I can see this backfiring if someone requests data in some ancient and obscure format just to be annoying. Data needs to be provided in a reasonable and usable format; that imposes some responsibility on both the provider and the requester.
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by _kst_ 12y ago
500wpm? Wikipedia is not entirely clear about the world record, but it seems to be well under 300. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typing
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by _kst_ 12y ago
@reboot cd ~/bin/some_daemon is not a very good example. It will launch a shell which will change to the specified directory and then terminate. (It might produce an error message if the directory doesn't exist.)
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by _kst_ 12y ago
The one thing that jumped out at me is that I find the parentheses too strongly curved, so much so it may be difficult to distinguish between '(' and 'C'. It's hard to tell because there are no 'C's in the
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by _kst_ 12y ago
Ah, that makes sense. So the "wind" would peak when the Earth is moving against the galactic background.
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by _kst_ 12y ago
> We pointed out that because the Earth moves around the sun, any dark matter signal you see should go up and down with the time of year, peaking in June, with a minimum in December. Why June and December? (Perihelion is around January 3
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by _kst_ 12y ago
"Modules is, in my opinion, one of the most sorely needed features in C++. They have the potential of increasing compile times by an order of magnitude or more, thus bringing compile-time performance more in line with more modern langu
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by _kst_ 12y ago
If you can remember to use $@ rather than $*, you should be able to remember to use "$@". The only reason $@ exists is that it behaves differently when enclosed in double quotes.
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by _kst_ 12y ago
Hmm? How does it explain anything? The sites hosting the full text are (presumably) violating the author's and/or publisher's copyright. The links to those sites (from here and from Wikipedia) may or may not be doing so (IANA
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by _kst_ 12y ago
I try to point that out every time I see this. I'm usually ignored or flamed for it.
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by _kst_ 12y ago
They can't have the same PID at the same time . I think the scenario here is that process X forks, creating process Y, then process X terminates, then process Y repeatedly forks until it creates a process Z with the same PID as X.
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by _kst_ 12y ago
Valid points; I never claimed that CVS is better than Git in general. I still use it for some things mostly out of habit and the fact that it's not really worth the effort of migrating (again, this is mostly for collections of files th
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by _kst_ 12y ago
CVS still has its uses. http://stackoverflow.com/a/7871646/827263

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