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by a-priori 17y ago
That link didn't work for me, but this one did: https://browserlab.adobe.com/ That's a great find, I'm definitely going to use that in the future. Thanks.
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by a-priori 17y ago
I want to share my views on this issue, because they're somewhat different from the typical arguments I hear against software patents. I'd like feedback from anyone willing to provide it. I agree with you and PG that there's nothing fundame
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by a-priori 17y ago
Here's an example of a parser I wrote using Parsec: http://github.com/michaelmelanson/cminus-compiler/blob/maste...
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by a-priori 17y ago
In cold places during winter, bike lanes double as extra room to pile snow. The trade-off is that in the spring the bike lanes are unusable until the city sweeps the streets because all sorts of debris accumulates in them. Tire-unfriendly s
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by a-priori 17y ago
I have to say: watching that video made me want to grab a broadsword and kill some Orcs or something.
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by a-priori 17y ago
See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forer_effect
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by a-priori 17y ago
Signal processing algorithms on the phones made by a certain company I worked at are mostly written in assembly. The cellular protocols, at least those that use time-division (e.g. GSM), have strict real-time constraints, but mostly they us
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by a-priori 17y ago
As a general rule, the human brain doesn't notice any delay of less that 100ms. Anything less than that is "instantaneous". Light takes 1.6ms to travel 300 miles, or 3.2ms for a round-trip, which is well below that threshold. To get up to a
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by a-priori 17y ago
Switzerland also has a bike rental program in several cities ( http://www.suisseroule.ch ), and students can borrow them for free (insured against their university account). During the summer, I saw people riding those bikes around all the
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by a-priori 17y ago
To be fair, they do intend to have someone show up and fill the table.
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by a-priori 17y ago
Okay, first of all, you should apologise to mechanical_fish. Ad hominem attacks are not cool. I agree it's a bit shady to sell reservations, and I would be uncomfortable to play any role in this (person in line, person buying, student selli
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by a-priori 17y ago
As someone pointed out when this just appeared on Slashdot, if you go to http://ubuntu.com you'll see in big letters "Coming Soon!" EDIT: Nevermind, the website just changed.
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by a-priori 17y ago
Mutation introduces new alleles, and mating recombines existing alleles. Both processes increase diversity.
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by a-priori 17y ago
I was under the impression that ours was one of the weakest of the mammals...
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by a-priori 17y ago
I think they should allow the next-of-kin to choose what they want memorialized, what they want kept private (or perhaps family-only) and what they want destroyed. I would imagine most families would want to keep the deceased's status messa
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by a-priori 17y ago
Well, if you're looking for a textbook, I suggest Biopsychology by Pinel. It was required reading for two courses I took, and I found it to explain things quite well. Something to watch out for though: he tends to over-simplify things in
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by a-priori 17y ago
I agree, his writings are eye-opening. I know a bit too much about neuroscience, I think, so sometimes when he ventures that way in The Blank Slate I'm unconvinced, but the core of his arguments always stand. My first encounter with his w
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by a-priori 17y ago
Sorry for not replying earlier. I just wanted to say that I hope things turn out that way, because that would be the ideal situation: fewer human casualties on both sides. Maybe I've seen one too many war movies, but I worry that the comman
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by a-priori 17y ago
I've been reading Steven Pinker's The Blank Slate lately. It has changed my view of the role of consciousness in everyday life. It's also clarified my understanding on various social issues, the relationship with the individual and societ
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by a-priori 17y ago
One difference between non-human primates and humans is that humans have a wide variation in the closeness of relationships, from celebrities you have never met but hear about occasionally on the news, to a soul-mate you know everything abo
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by a-priori 17y ago
The disconnect is a very serious concern. I worry about war crimes being committed using these weapons without any accountability or risk. But, I am actually comforted by them saying that the soldiers experience disorders like PTSD just lik
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by a-priori 17y ago
I was also in an anechoic chamber a few times years ago. I remember once, I had been working on a robot for the FIRST competition for about 10 hours straight. I was exhausted, so I thought, 'I'll take a nap in the anechoic chamber'. It was
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by a-priori 17y ago
This reminds me of some other research from a few years back where they hooked up a cell culture to a flight simulator, and found that it was capable of controlling a plane in flight. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/10/0410221046
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by a-priori 17y ago
I'm going to assume you're doing this for intellectual curiosity, because I'm sure the existing serial port drivers work fine. That's okay; I used to do operating system development (aka "osdev") a few years back as a hobby, so I understand
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by a-priori 17y ago
The first thing I thought when I read about The 'Song Lyrics' Developer was: "wait a second, I've done that before..." Actually, I've done it many times, and usually when I'm both deep in the zone and listening to a song with good lyrics.
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by a-priori 17y ago
This isn't a GMail feature. Most (but not all...) email servers allow this.
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by a-priori 17y ago
Properly staggered and with a lead time of 9 months, yes, 222,375 women could deliver a child every 0.000040472 months on average. I'm sorry, was that not the question? :)
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Henry Markram: Supercomputing the brain's secrets(ted.com)
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by a-priori 17y ago
Seriously, he needs to get rid of that "snapshots" tooltip. Why do people put those things on their sites?
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by a-priori 17y ago
You're right that software has a negligible marginal cost , but what you're forgetting is that it has high fixed costs . It takes significant time and skill to create quality software. And, since most custom software sells one unit, it's

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