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by alayne 13y ago
I was under the impression that BCD was commonly used in calculators. I know that my HP 48 used BCD and was able to address 4 bit nibbles.
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by alayne 13y ago
A budget was leaked in the 1990s that showed the NSA receiving more dollars and the CIA having a 3 billion dollar budget. I don't understand you guys saying this reversal was in any way obvious. Not only that but the leak indicates tha
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by alayne 13y ago
King himself sued people over the copyright. We need to be careful not to revise history and turn people who did great things into saints.
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by alayne 13y ago
Why don't you try scraping book reviews from Amazon onto your own website and see what happens?
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by alayne 13y ago
J.C.R. Licklider is an interesting character in computer development history, particularly for his involvement in the development of timesharing, networks, and personal computing.
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by alayne 13y ago
I prefer DSV files for this reason http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delimiter-separated_values I have a simple scheme where comma is the delimiter and , in content is escaped as \,. There are no quotes around values.
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by alayne 13y ago
hg already has a rebase extension http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/RebaseExtension
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by alayne 13y ago
In my experience, the UX expectations on mobile are higher than for desktop apps. It's hard to get the UI to be tight/efficient/performant/attractive across such diverse devices and operating systems with Android. It&#x2
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by alayne 13y ago
Ray Comfort is a well-known crackpot who uses deceptive tactics to push his b.s.
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by alayne 13y ago
A book about evolution ... by a televangelist.
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by alayne 13y ago
A "documentary" about evolution by a televangelist. Give me a break.
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by alayne 13y ago
Was the Android content bundled? Could the app download it to work around the rule?
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by alayne 13y ago
He's bound by any U.S. law covered in the U.S./Turkey extradition treaty.
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by alayne 13y ago
This is the first I've heard about books being banned. I'm extremely skeptical of this claim.
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by alayne 13y ago
I got email from Apple about 15 minutes ago with this text. It probably takes some time to send to everyone.
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by alayne 13y ago
The XCode IDE is downloaded from the Mac App store which is still running. Apps are submitted via iTunes Connect which is still running.
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by alayne 13y ago
"Useless use of cat" is one of those boring pedantic comments that makes me cringe. Who cares? It's usually much more straightforward to build a pipeline from left to right, particularly for people who are just learning this
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by alayne 13y ago
This problem happens with Spring all the time in Java which uses reflection. It's certainly not "silly" or a "niche field".
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by alayne 13y ago
Most type systems in statically typed languages can't make that guarantee. For example I can use Java reflection to call a method, change the method's parameters, and my code will only fail at runtime.
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by alayne 13y ago
For Google, a .0001% reduction in user overhead may translate to millions of dollars of resource savings. Google is willing to do crazy things like run their own modified Linux kernel that most companies wouldn't bother with. What is t
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by alayne 13y ago
Motorola's Atom based RAZR was slower than their ARM based one. The x86 architecture isn't doing anything for you on mobile and so far the reason Intel has struggled is because they couldn't compete on power consumption, a mo
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by alayne 13y ago
I guess a lot of people here never had to work with the X protocols like X.400 and X.500. When you need specialized tools for every protocol and encoding format, development is a real drag. Just because I use Charles or Wireshark doesn&#x27
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by alayne 13y ago
Just because it isn't totally new, doesn't make it a non-issue. Blaming things on a stupid electorate just sounds like more justification of a totalitarian regime. Could it be possible that people need more information about what
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by alayne 13y ago
Snowden is important because it's a way to humanize the issues with the NSA. He's a sympathetic character.
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by alayne 13y ago
It's amazing that he was working on augmentation already in 1962. Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework http://www.dougengelbart.org/pubs/augment-3906.html
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by alayne 13y ago
Just tell me where I need to click to register my outrage this time.
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by alayne 13y ago
I don't understand these kinds of arguments. It's not the same people who are complaining in both instances.
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by alayne 13y ago
Jan Goldsmith needs a new job.
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by alayne 13y ago
Your own content != be a corporate shill / spammer.
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by alayne 13y ago
The complaints from other countries seem like a lot of posturing and hot air.

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