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by adam-f 13y ago
76 million bananas, to be precise. http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/wilderness-resources/storie...
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by adam-f 13y ago
Psha, try pointer-to-member-functions in C++. I wrote a fluent reflection/serialization engine a while back which made heavy use of them. https://github.com/sparecycles/reflect/blob/master/include&#x
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by adam-f 13y ago
I had a similar experience working with products of numbers of the form (a+b)/(c+d), and then I showed it to John Conway (lucky me, I had access to the master), who instantly recognized that I had only stumbled across a known realizati
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11 SEO insights to increase conversions in 2013(vabulous.com)
1 points by adam-f 13y ago|0 comments
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by adam-f 14y ago
my sarcasm detector is clicking. I think the only architecture that can be copied is the replication in staging and test.
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by adam-f 14y ago
You're a brave person to use "tongue in cheek" on this thread.
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by adam-f 14y ago
curiously "slashdot.org." redirects to "slashdot.slashdot.org" curiouser and curiouser, "slashdot.slashdot.org." redirects to "slashdot.slashdot.slashdot.org" and so on... =)
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by adam-f 14y ago
Hackernews is bad for your server's health?
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by adam-f 14y ago
This is pretty the sole reason I don't use gimp anymore and have no plans to go back, ever. I used it on OSX under X11 and had no problems with the mental gymnastics using control instead of command because, well, it wasn't GIMPs fault. I w
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by adam-f 14y ago
This could be worse than the Silicon Valley and the housing market bubbles combined.
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by adam-f 14y ago
Yeah, 84.38.212.89 (or whatever coffee shop I'm posting from) is my correct IP address. I guarantee it. o_O
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by adam-f 14y ago
Well, that makes two of us.
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by adam-f 14y ago
Working great on a macbook-pro with Windows 8. :-P
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by adam-f 14y ago
Neither. But for the sake of argument, I'd rather see ['10','10','10','10'].map(Number);
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by adam-f 14y ago
I thought planes generally want you to "turn off all electronic devices" at take-off and landing. Pardon the pun, but how is this idea going to fly? Also, Q. Why is the dollar sign on the wrong side? A. "This page is in Italian! Would you
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by adam-f 14y ago
A Death Note fan would write an analysis this detailed.
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by adam-f 14y ago
U233 more readily fizzes than booms, since it fissions faster it tends to pre-explode before getting into a really good super critcal state (probably something to do with the .6 instead of 1.6 delayed neutrons per 100 fissions mentioned abo
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by adam-f 14y ago
I've heard this concern raised before, and the real question is whether the thermal expansion of the fuel salt acts as a strong enough negative coefficient of reactivity.
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80 years prison sentence for a legal grower(kickstarter.com)
3 points by adam-f 14y ago|0 comments
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by adam-f 14y ago
I've come across some mentions of MDR (Multidrug Resistance) pumps, and MDR pump inhibitors: I assume there's a reason we're not mixing in Oregon Grape root into our antibiotic cocktails? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon-grape http://
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by adam-f 14y ago
I completely agree. The word toxic is used almost interchangably with radioactive, but heavy metal poisoning isn't mentioned as a possible cause at all. Radiation is easy to detect and easier to vilify. But notice that no actual numbers w
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by adam-f 14y ago
It's less significant if you consider that the Capacity Factor of a wind farm is around 20-40% (wikipedia). That comes out to more than 3 dollars per watt.
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by adam-f 14y ago
I didn't know the definition of "hack" included "buy some of-the-shelf parts from Ikea and stick them on your desk".
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by adam-f 14y ago
My experience with it has been mostly fighting with enabling various language extensions to get some (real) sample programs working. The algol languages are much easier to debug compile issues, Haskell's purity makes certain issues non-obv
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by adam-f 14y ago
I actually tried to run one of the featured projects on github: OPAcman. This was my experience: 1. install OPA. Get surprised by the AGPL license because the main page mentions that it can be used to develop closed source apps. 2. git clon
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by adam-f 14y ago
300 comments and not one mention of megaupload. Fascinating.
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by adam-f 15y ago
Still, if you made a u233 device (and I'm thinking it would have to be a dirty bomb, an explosive seems unfeasible), it would difficult to get it to a target since it's so easy to spot the gamma rays. u235 is still the way to go, since you
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by adam-f 15y ago
No no no no.. you don't want to do subcritical particle accelerator reactors. Well, you don't want solid fuel reactors, solid fuel has the same cooling issues as standard uranium, since it's the fission product breakdown that caused the Fu