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by araneae 16y ago
Failed it? Did it only have one question on it?
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by araneae 16y ago
You're wrong for the right reasons. This would only be a counter-example to the Coanada effect if the xkcd diagram was a correct example of lift. The diagram in this comic would actually produce zero lift, see: http://www.amasci.com/misc
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by araneae 16y ago
"It's complicated" actually kind of describes it. From the NASA website: "The real details of how an object generates lift are very complex and do not lend themselves to simplification...To truly understand the details of the generation of
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by araneae 16y ago
No, the purpose of the silly silo is to rotate you so quickly that the floor can drop from under you and you stay stuck to the wall. It is AWESOME. :P
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by araneae 16y ago
And here I thought I was just lazy.
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by araneae 16y ago
I think you underestimate how much I hate exercise.
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by araneae 16y ago
On the other hand, if you hate working out and working, and you have a limited amount of willpower, you might end up spending all of your willpower working out.
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by araneae 16y ago
Reminds of that "animal crossing" story about the guy with the dead mom.
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by araneae 16y ago
Yup, that's the case. The question is whether or your hard drive is protected from a criminal charges subpoena. The data is kept encrypted on the hard drive, but of course the authorities don't know what's on the hard drive until it's dec
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Voting System Pwned by Michigan Wolverines(wired.com)
3 points by araneae 16y ago|1 comments
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by araneae 16y ago
Technical recruiters may be clueless, but this is hardly evidence. This is spam. I got a similar e-mail today saying they had viewed my "portfolio." Well I'm not sure how they did that since I don't have any work under the e-mail address
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by araneae 16y ago
There are other legitimate reasons to not want to reveal the contents of your hard-drive besides principle or self incrimination. For instance, if you had the private information of any other people. My SO works with HIV, and recently got
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by araneae 16y ago
This article is attacking a straw man in which programming is equivalent to writing compilers. The reality is that almost all of the sciences (and even some of the social sciences) have come to the point where you need to be able to program
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'Fabric' would tighten the weave of online security(physorg.com)
1 points by araneae 16y ago|0 comments
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by araneae 16y ago
Alternate explanation: he was asked to help because she thought he'd be the most willing to assist her, the tantalizing but remote possibility of sex hanging over his head...
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by araneae 16y ago
I use vim for simple things like bash or tex, but I prefer to use geany most of the time for WP because it's fast, versatile and easy.
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by araneae 16y ago
Blah blah blah I'm so much better than my classmates blah blah blah.
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by araneae 16y ago
Agreed. I enjoy Maxim but I can't say it's helped me to develop app ideas. At all. Also... why are you assuming that everyone here needs helping writing apps for a male audience? Wouldn't you be helping them tap into a goldmine by sugg
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by araneae 16y ago
Indeed. In Darwin's youth, he was obsessive about collecting and cataloging insects. I wouldn't exactly attribute his theory of evolution by natural selection to naming things, but certainly he would never have arrived at it if he was onl
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by araneae 16y ago
Even-handed? She reminded me of a puppy on crack. " I’ve only ever been praised and appreciated for being so geeky “and a girl, too!” In some ways, this all continues to make me feel superior"
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by araneae 16y ago
You sure didn't read thoroughly; the next sentence after that one explains it. They were comparing monozygotic and dizygotic twins, which allowed them to measure to the extent that they were similar because of being raised in the same famil
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by araneae 16y ago
Funnily enough, I feel more this way about food than books. I absolutely despise spending money on food because you eat it, and then it's gone! At least books are free via library and I enjoy them more.
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by araneae 16y ago
Alternate hypothesis: personality is highly heritable. http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=1&v...
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by araneae 16y ago
Very true! Most things can be solved that way. But sometimes your issues are not googleable. I remember back when I was just learning javascript, it would never in my wildest dreams occur to me that there were host objects and that you c
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by araneae 16y ago
Meh. I just sent this to a friend of mine that knows nothing about coding, but is taking a class (biology) that uses python. She really has no need of functional programming, she just needs to know how to survive her problem sets. I th
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by araneae 16y ago
If you don't consider yourself responsible for the introduction of the exploit, I'd say do what academics do: publicly publish the exploit. If you are responsible in any way, though, I'd recommend informing of them of the problem. You don'
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FBI Drive for Encryption Backdoors is Déjà vu for Security Experts(wired.com)
33 points by araneae 16y ago|11 comments
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by araneae 16y ago
I recently deleted my reddit account due to an addiction problem, but while I was on I would open lots of tabs to come back to later, and I don't do that on HN. I'm not sure how similar my experience is.
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by araneae 16y ago
In "SYNC: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order" the author (Strogatz) talks about how in a cave environment, people still take naps a little after noon. People are just as likely to be asleep at 2pm as they are at 4am. Car accidents
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by araneae 16y ago
Wow, is that all I have to do? And here I thought I should spend most of my time programming...

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