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by a3_nm 12y ago
> the buyer gets rewards back, typically 1% or so This might be a US-centric perspective. In France, to my knowledge, there are no such rewards, and no chargebacks. Still, there are transaction fees, so merchants would have everything to
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by a3_nm 12y ago
This reminds me of the novel _Small World_ where the main character is a young researcher who got a position thanks to a mistake like this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_World:_An_Academic_Roman... In that story,
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by a3_nm 12y ago
I simply did: sleep 5; while true; do xdotool click 4; sleep 0.01; done (The sleep 5 at the beginning is to have time to switch to a different window and put it fullscreen.)
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by a3_nm 12y ago
There was a contest to write the 512-char C program that generated the largest number (but still terminates), assuming that all integer types are unbounded: http://djm.cc/bignum-results.txt The method used by the winning en
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by a3_nm 12y ago
The definition given in the article is an informal shortcut, the complete definition is http://mathworld.wolfram.com/DeletablePrime.html and 1987 is indeed a deletable prime (see http://oeis.org/A080608&#x2F
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by a3_nm 12y ago
French guy here as well, and this was exactly my reaction. It seemed very exotic, this notion that an employer was allowed to fire you just because a bunch of people on the Internet have started disliking you in a vocal way because of somet
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by a3_nm 12y ago
What about research to determine to what extent usernames with words in a certain language will tend to use passwords with words for the same language? (More generally, is there any connection between the bi- or trigram distribution on user
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by a3_nm 12y ago
OK, I was wrong. Thanks for pointing this out. This is very interesting (and, in my opinion, quite depressing).
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by a3_nm 12y ago
For your vim use case, I have v aliased to "f -e vim" so I can just say "v back". fasd is incredibly useful. Along with l aliased to "ls", it is the first thing I miss on foreign servers.
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by a3_nm 12y ago
The problem with that approach is that if everyone does this, Wikipedia will be dominated by pedants who discourage everyone else from contributing. Wikipedia is a unique resource, it is everyone's resource, we can't afford to los
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by a3_nm 12y ago
A nice thing about Wikipedia is that all history remains public in the vast majority of cases. In this light, I think it would be better to provide links to your reverted edits, so that we can try to understand why they were reverted, and w
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by a3_nm 12y ago
> compromised by RMS' desire to keep it tightly coupled for licensing reasons It's certainly better to have an intermediate language and a modular design to compile to it and from it, but I thought this was introduced by LLVM a
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by a3_nm 12y ago
There is a related project to connect the web of trust of OpenPGP keys, SSH keys, and SSL certificates: http://web.monkeysphere.info/
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by a3_nm 12y ago
Not on OSM http://osm.org/go/4zKBPA so probably a Google Maps bug.
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by a3_nm 12y ago
To play the devil's advocate, castling was a pretty late addition to the rule of chess compared to most other rules, so there used to be a game called "chess" which did not feature castling (nor the option to move pawns initi
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by a3_nm 12y ago
Ubuntu even tried to make this concept real, but the effort did not reach its (ambitious) crowdfunding goal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_Edge
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by a3_nm 12y ago
Similar experience here, but I guess the main selling point is to save the effort of typing your password when you return.
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by a3_nm 12y ago
I think it is unsafe to parallelize grep with xargs as in done in the article, because, beyond delivery order shuffling, the output of the parallel greps could get mixed up (the beginning of a line is by one grep and the end of a line is fr
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by a3_nm 12y ago
Wouldn't it be more convenient for people to contribute if this were set up as a wiki?
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by a3_nm 12y ago
I also do this, but the right way to parse the output of ls would really be to remember the syntax of stat(1). That way you avoid any trouble with spaces and other such problems, and the command is not much longer: $ find -print0 | xargs -0
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by a3_nm 12y ago
You still need humans to explain to the machines how to think. The problem is the training that it requires.
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by a3_nm 12y ago
A similar trick can be used to solve the following problem: considering a rectangular grid, is it possible to find a cycle that goes from adjacent squares to adjacent squares and visits each square exactly once? Answer (ROT13): Vg qrcraqf
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by a3_nm 12y ago
> makes me wonder why sleep deprivation is such a large part of the college experience In my experience, all-nighters were due to a combination of several factors: you start having large projects to do, there is little supervision to ens
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by a3_nm 12y ago
> How many Game of Thrones sequels would there be already? I don't find this scary. Presumably people should favor the ones written by the original author, because they would expect it to be more true to the spirit that they liked i
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by a3_nm 12y ago
Another important and frightening thing about franchises is that they decouple the movie from the creators who produce it. You can buy the rights to a franchise and make something that people will want to watch, no matter who is being commi
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by a3_nm 12y ago
I still don't understand, what could be the point of deleting an email? Privacy reasons? If you are hosted by some company, telling them you want to delete something does not necessarily interact with their retention policy. If you sel
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by a3_nm 12y ago
The problem is not the license of the software. I think Wikia also uses MediaWiki which is free software. For the other points that I mentioned, I'm not sure I know many wiki hosts which are free as in free beer, run by a nonprofit, su
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by a3_nm 12y ago
Wikia is not a satisfactory alternative to Wikipedia, at least in terms of ethical status of the host (Wikia is a company and there are ads on Wikia wikis), in terms of internal consistency, and in terms of content licensing and of availabi
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by a3_nm 12y ago
It doesn't seem to imply that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmortem_documentation
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by a3_nm 12y ago
Interesting, thanks. Somehow it seems that Google didn't index up to that page.

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