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No single algorithm can compress all possible files(worthamention.wordpress.com)
12 points by abdulhaq 17y ago|14 comments
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by abdulhaq 17y ago
I also note that although, as pointed out, Steve is a much better presenter than Bill, MS won the war. Having a good presenter as CEO is great, but other attributes are more important when it comes to a successful business.
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by abdulhaq 17y ago
C Chess program in less that 1200 chars: http://home.hccnet.nl/h.g.muller/max-src2.html
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by abdulhaq 17y ago
I can see two sides of this here: Negative: you're considering changing career, seems like you don't really love hacking. It's really hard to be a great hacker if you don't love it. Positive: You want to learn. A key ingredient to becoming
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by abdulhaq 17y ago
That is a good list. Also check out http://doc.trolltech.com/qq/qq13-apis.html
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by abdulhaq 17y ago
Yes this small study does not disprove that, given enough monkeys and enough typewriters, a shakespearean play will be produced. However, we need only look to the internet to see that the proposition is indeed false.
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by abdulhaq 17y ago
...who also develop web sites...
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by abdulhaq 17y ago
You're doing it wrong.
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by abdulhaq 17y ago
BASIC was never a 'fad' - it was frequently all you had (other than machine code). Remember, no internet, no CDs, even no modems for the vast unwashed such as myself - just a tape deck, 16K ROM and a TV. The first language where I got to ch
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by abdulhaq 17y ago
So this operating system has 'flawless operation'. I take it the C compiler has also been verified, then, not to mention the cpu microcode.
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by abdulhaq 17y ago
This is the beginning of the beginning of the end of twitter stories. This is the end of my reading beginning of the end of twitter stories.
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by abdulhaq 17y ago
Actually, Opera missed a trick here. They should have asked the supplier to fix the offending software during the evaluation period, thereby chipping away at the small mountain of similar admin interfaces/websites that fail when presented w
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by abdulhaq 17y ago
We, for instance, structure all our code very carefully with clearly defined and documented interfaces and modularised functional areas. I doubt that any function is really interdependent with more that 20 other functions, never mind thousa
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by abdulhaq 17y ago
Python is better than the lisps for team based development, IMO, primarily because you can't write your own language in python. In a team you're normally working on long-lived code of medium - large projects (e.g. over 100k lines, over a pe
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by abdulhaq 17y ago
His opinions about the merits of python vs lisp vs clojure seem based more on rumour and the current lisp/clojure kool-aid than on hard-earned hands-on experience. I love Lisp when coding by myself and Clojure sounds really interesting, but
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by abdulhaq 17y ago
For his next trick he's building a 160GB SD card...
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by abdulhaq 17y ago
a fa laa yatafakkaruun - so won't they contemplate deeply? - the quran a fa laa tacqiluun - so won't you use your intellect? - the quran
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by abdulhaq 17y ago
What's the benefit in 'not forgetting'? Even when the first one was fresh in the memory, it didn't stop the US from slaughtering another 100,000 civilians with the second, did it?
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by abdulhaq 17y ago
When I was using Turbo C++ and then later using and admiring Delphi 1,2 & 3 I never dreamed that the great Borland would be taken over by the company producing the humble PC COBOL compiler I was using at work.
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by abdulhaq 18y ago
A Sinclair QL in 1984, for which I bought a Lisp interpreter. The OS was multi-tasking, and the hardware was based on the superb Motorola 68000 processor range. For the biggest impact, a Video Genie, which was a clone of the Tandy TRS-80. I
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by abdulhaq 18y ago
Hawala is based on the islamic financial system which does not allow lending with interest, instead the lender must participate in the risk of the business, taking his share of profit or loss. Under a form of hawala it was possible to take
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by abdulhaq 18y ago
The difference is that you gave your money to the banks and expected them to keep it safe. Instead, they took your deposit and lent it to underpaid Americans to buy overpriced houses, in the hope of making lots of money for themselves. With
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by abdulhaq 18y ago
This issue (list comprehensions vs generator expressions) becomes clearer after reading PEP 289 ( http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0289/ ) which includes: List comprehensions also "leak" their loop variable into the surrounding scope. Thi
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by abdulhaq 18y ago
it's in beta because they are still working out how to charge for it. When they do, it will be 'released'. My guess is they will charge for POP3 access and other little luxuries.
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by abdulhaq 18y ago
I have a brilliant proof of this, but I'm so busy it'll have to wait until tomorrow.
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by abdulhaq 18y ago
When Bill Gates told his son that he would have to start from scratch, I don't think he had _this_ in mind...
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by abdulhaq 18y ago
Their MTBF, on the other hand, can be gauged by calculating a smoothed poisson distribution over their smoking, drinking and swearing habits.
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Ask HN: What's best for learning new hacker techniques - video or text?
5 points by abdulhaq 18y ago|4 comments
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by abdulhaq 18y ago
I'm pretty sure I've spoken to a number of these computerised voices at some customer service call centres.
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Learn a new language with Project Euler problems
3 points by abdulhaq 18y ago|1 comments

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