alex_h

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by alex_h 14y ago
Grammar-naziism is a part of reddit culture, and one of the reasons they still have relatively erudite discourse given the size of their userbase. I think it's a net positive, and only natural that it would come out in this AMA.
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by alex_h 14y ago
Users need a huge amount of trust to use a service like this. The notification about running on free quota and submitting bug reports does not engender this trust.
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by alex_h 14y ago
The law granting these powers is the London Olympic Games and Paralympic Games Act 2006. http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/12/pdfs/ukpga_20060...
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by alex_h 14y ago
What is your algorithm for shading here? It seems like brightness is partially provided by the density of the characters (eg, '8' vs '.', as in normal ascii art), but also partially by the color of the characters.
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by alex_h 15y ago
touché
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by alex_h 15y ago
minor nitpick: a cubic liter is not a thing. Liters are already measures of volume.
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by alex_h 15y ago
Can someone enlighten me as to why "pure CSS" is seen as the pinnacle of web design? It seems that for problems involving a computational element like this, Javascript would be much more concise and readable. Having said that, it is beautif
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by alex_h 15y ago
Wooing ladies is not mutually exclusive with the stated purpose of the island.
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by alex_h 15y ago
Somehow I don't think this is the main sticking point preventing the US from ratifying the nuclear test ban treaty, as the article seems to suggest.
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by alex_h 15y ago
This kind of invective has no place on HN. While valid points can be made about the lack of testing of flash on lion, the ill-supported headline, and repeated use of "FAIL" in the post only show laziness on the part of the author, not Adobe
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by alex_h 15y ago
But it would be odd if the FBI was clueless enough to take an entire rack of servers when they were after just 1, yet smart enough to pick exactly the right drives out of a disk array. (assuming thats even possible)
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by alex_h 15y ago
Well, to be fair, you actually need a whole array of (micro)lenses, so 2 lenses sounds pretty reasonable.
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by alex_h 15y ago
This would be an interesting problem to solve algorithmically. If you could get a map of ATM locations and population density.
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by alex_h 15y ago
Sad that there are about twice as many authoritarian regimes as there are full democracies.
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by alex_h 15y ago
Yes, I think 2 negatives make a positive here, and the situation where you do want to draw attention to a misplaced [sic] is so rare that it warrants further discussion in your text.
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by alex_h 15y ago
I don't think that word means what you think it means.
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by alex_h 15y ago
What happens if the instruction pointer for, say, process A, steps into the code space for another process, B? Does the simulator treat it as an illegal instruction causing A to lose? Or does process A continue, but executing B's code?
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by alex_h 15y ago
The article's description of the Schrödinger's cat thought-experiment is one of the worst I have ever heard. It makes it sound like someone is actually killing cats in boxes to prove some part of quantum physics.
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by alex_h 15y ago
Assuming these inept candidates are not Frank Abagnale types just doing it for the thrill, I wonder how they are expecting the job to actually turn out. I mean what was the guy expecting to do all day if he couldn't write a single line of c
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by alex_h 16y ago
Does anyone know what the copyright status would be on these designs? Some of them would make excellent T-shirts
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by alex_h 16y ago
Some excellent recommendations, I love it. One small bug, a confirmation window shows up to select a restaurant, even when there is only 1 match to the text entered.
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by alex_h 16y ago
Ionizing radiation is radiation that has enough energy to knock electrons off atoms to create ions. This can cause all sorts of damage to DNA etc. Radiation with less energy is unable to affect the structure of matter in this way, and is th
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by alex_h 16y ago
It seems Sony has been on the wrong side of this twice now. They released MiniDisc just before digital music players and music downloads took off, and now a new and improved video disc just as the tide is turning toward video streaming. It
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by alex_h 16y ago
If someone is getting $1500 /month rent for their $100,000 house, then reason #1 to own a house is "Rent it out, and get 18% p.a. returns on it"
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by alex_h 16y ago
It's staggering to me that these companies are clipping the ticket for 2-3% for ALL credit card based commerce in the world. That's a lot of money.
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by alex_h 16y ago
"Currently, marketers don't have the ability to know or plan word-of-mouth endorsements as part of their campaigns," I thought that was the point of word-of-mouth endorsements.
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by alex_h 16y ago
It's interesting to think of this whole situation as an arms race, and I wonder if any of the pirates are active in developing countermeasures to such systems, or even innovating on their own attack methods and equipment. The only photos I'
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by alex_h 16y ago
It appears to be a bunch of mixed gaming metaphors. "He stepped up to the plate and scored a touchdown.. checkmate" kind of thing.
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by alex_h 16y ago
Are there any photo services offering an import from Flickr? I imagine it would be good business to offer one, playing to the fear of a complete Yahoo implosion. Although I admit it's highly unlikely Flickr will go the way of Delicious
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by alex_h 16y ago
It seems that, depending on the amount of profile info on your profile. (Lives in X, went to school at Y, etc.) The small photos may not be exactly aligned with the main pic. I'm not sure if there is any way to control for that.

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