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by adwf 12y ago
I guess it's just something I'd never seen before, impressive at first sight! I did all my physics quite a few years ago and don't remember video analysis like this, although I guess it wasn't really my focus anyway.
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by adwf 12y ago
I'm less impressed by the skateboarding tricks and more impressed by the physics software that can derive all this from a video.
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by adwf 12y ago
If I had to guess, I'd put it down to whereabouts in France you live. If you're in the south, it is probably more advantageous to learn Spanish or Italian as your first foreign language. Likewise German in the east/southeas
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by adwf 12y ago
There are strong rumours going around of Yahoo either being acquired by Alibaba or Softbank. By picking up a share of a very trendy and popular mobile service like Snapchat, this is just more confirmation that they're aiming to be acqu
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by adwf 12y ago
It was much the same for me with quantum physics. The theory was fine, but the maths was just so much memorisation that I completely lost all enthusiasm. I still get the chills thinking about 4 hour exams with only a single question on th
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by adwf 12y ago
Yep, dropped Dropbox for SpiderOak ages ago due to a number of really poor security failings on Dropbox's part. (Remember the day they accidentally allowed blank passwords to login to anyones account?)
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by adwf 12y ago
Personally I think that dropping the bomb was much less about winning the war and far more about winning the post-war. They already knew that they could take Japan, it would be nasty, but they could do it. So from that point of view, the b
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by adwf 12y ago
Cue a hunt for the oldest water on the planet, market it as "Interstellar Miracle Cure!"
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by adwf 12y ago
At first I was worried this was going to be another patent troll story, but was pleasantly surprised. An actual company doing freelance product development, using the patent system as it was intended. No mention of whether they abuse the
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by adwf 12y ago
For me a good 90% of it was actually realising my knives were pretty blunt. Or rather, realising just how sharp a knife could be. Once I had that sorted, everything just started going so much smoother as the blade wasn't getting stuc
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by adwf 12y ago
I thought the article was more a complaint about how AAA gaming is turning to cinematics more and more to wow gamers, rather than gameplay. From one point of view, gameplay is almost the entire point of gaming. But from another, it'
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by adwf 12y ago
I think only the load balancer would be vulnerable to discovery. Everything behind the load balancer could be a secure connection to a completely different datacenter if needed.
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by adwf 12y ago
It's a little different on HN due to how the comments are hidden quite quickly when downvoted. I frequently upvote people who reply to me but I disagree with, simply because it would ruin the comment chain and hey, they might just be
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by adwf 12y ago
From what I remember, they need absolutely crazy tight tolerances in every single join and gap. Something like <0.1mm for every component involved in the reaction chamber. And it's huge too. Otherwise the whole thing will start
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by adwf 12y ago
Dunno which version of FF you last used but, it does and you can.
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by adwf 12y ago
Yeah, I've already decided to make my next minor project in cl21 and see how it goes. Got to be minor though as there's a fair bit of syntax still to be nailed down. But as a modernisation project it's looking promising. I
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by adwf 12y ago
That's pretty much my thoughts exactly. Isn't gamer just a term for someone who plays videogames a lot? Sounds like the article is conflating gamers with "internet assholes", who can come from almost any group that exis
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by adwf 12y ago
Part of the problem there is in the nature of each sides campaign. The most common way to build an argument is to weigh up the pro's and con's, the upsides and downsides. The "Yes" campaign can promise the world on the
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by adwf 12y ago
I think part of the problem lies in the question "Where does it end?" Not just UK/England, even within Scotland there are multiple different factions. Once you've set the principle that it's ok to divide a country
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by adwf 12y ago
> It seems right that the Conservative Party should have representation in Scotland's politics, but it seems wrong that Scotland is ruled by them. That's a bit like saying that you only believe in democracy when it's your
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by adwf 12y ago
Whilst in some ways I really hate the planning/listing laws in the UK, it does at least leave some very interesting buildings around. You can be walking down a London city-centre street, past one big blocky modern building after anoth
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by adwf 12y ago
I'm guessing a poor joke about S-expressions.
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by adwf 12y ago
Aren't multi-table indexes otherwise known as indexable views? Plus, I can't see any mention of how exactly the data is stored on disk. A lot of stuff about the language used to access it, but nothing about the storage which is 9
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by adwf 12y ago
I think it's more a fear that programming will eventually leave everyone else without a job. Hence if you can't program in the future, you'll be in as much difficulty as someone who say, can't read/write in an offi
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by adwf 12y ago
I really like the idea and agree since I've met a couple of people who could meet that description. The problem always seems to be identifying the Wolves from the Cowboys. ie. Telling the difference between a "10x" coder wh
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by adwf 12y ago
Very true. In this case I imagine it's just a VAT issue, it's usually included in the price by default in the EU. But whenever someone points out weird pricing and gets excited about a "great deal!", I usually have to c
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by adwf 12y ago
Or it could just be a standard pricing trick where you let the customer think they're getting a great deal by "working the system" when it's actually what you intended them to do all along. Dan Ariely has some good examp
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by adwf 12y ago
http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/extra-top-gear-in-alabama/ http://transmission.blogs.topgear.com/2009/10/05/richard-the... They seem to be pretty serious when claiming that it wasn&#x
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by adwf 12y ago
Perhaps, but it's undeniable that they were actually pelted with stones and chased when driving through the town. Editing can only do so much.
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by adwf 12y ago
I'm reminded of an example of this - read the Lethal Car Decorating: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_Gear:_US_Special If you can't get hold of the episode, they essentially paint pro-homosexuality slogans o

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