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Why is the mouse cursor slightly tilted and not straight?(ux.stackexchange.com)
1 points by azov 13y ago|0 comments
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Spritz – read 500 words per minute without any training(spritzinc.com)
593 points by azov 13y ago|213 comments
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Drivable 500,000 piece Lego car runs on compressed air(engadget.com)
1 points by azov 13y ago|1 comments
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by azov 13y ago
Popular C software is so reliable because of enormous amount of effort spent developing, testing, and polishing it over many years - not because error handling in C is superior to that in higher-level languages. If your python script stic
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by azov 13y ago
> Unix timestamps are thoroughly and unnecessarily broken. They should be a continuum. If you assume that system time is a continuum I have some bad news for you: system time is actually a user preference. Users can change it any momen
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by azov 13y ago
The answer on SE is still very theoretical. Yes, technically we can model any computation [1] as an FSM, but when does it actually make sense to do so? FSMs are often used when modelling physical devices - think microwaves, elevators, CD-pl
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by azov 13y ago
It's not philosophically wrong to model the problem upfront, it's just very hard to get it right in practice. You don't literally have to start with one function. If you've solved a similar problem before you may have a
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by azov 13y ago
Let's try this advice. Say, we're solving Hanoi Towers [1]. So, we're going to have rods, and disks, and rods are going to have the number of disks on them, and disks are going to have size, and probably a reference to the di
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Shooting 30000W Flash on Location to Light up a Fighter Jet(arcurs.com)
2 points by azov 13y ago|0 comments
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by azov 13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ActiveX - 1996 is knocking… yes, I know - it's very, very different this time, but still can't help remembering the horrors of ActiveX :) PS. From Wikipedia article: In principle
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Plantly is shutting down(plantly.com)
1 points by azov 13y ago|0 comments
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by azov 13y ago
For the sake of balance, here is Yossi Kreinin's list of things that are wrong with C++: http://yosefk.com/c++fqa/defective.html PS. One of my biggest gripes with C++ is the lack of uniformity. Not only the langua
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by azov 13y ago
I like how they spin it in Robert Morris profile on the YC page: " In 1988 his discovery of buffer overflow first brought the Internet to the attention of the general public. " ( http://ycombinator.com/people.html )
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by azov 13y ago
There's an infinite variety of axiomatic systems, most of them not much different from, say, a set of beliefs in Santa Claus and magical elves living at the North Pole. However the axiomatic systems we happen to use most have one impor
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by azov 13y ago
>one possibility is to make contact with a SV consulting company for subcontracting to larger enterprises Any particular companies you can recommend?
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The top 25 companies that pay software engineers the most money(geekwire.com)
4 points by azov 13y ago|1 comments
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by azov 13y ago
I have one of those 128G MacBook Airs, and the SSD failed on me literally a few days after the warranty expired. I took it to the Apple store to see if they would repair it under warranty (Apple used to be lax about warranty dates), but the
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by azov 13y ago
> When some coder changes the function, it is very easy to forget to update the comments It isn't. All public APIs should have documentation, even if you believe it's obvious what they do. This documentation never goes out of
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by azov 13y ago
>Of course as a founder & CEO you know that your 18% of the company at an $80 million is worth more than 26% of a $30 million valuation but I promise you that this is a nuance that even really smart & educated employees struggle
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by azov 13y ago
They can, for example, have a policy that every code change is reviewed by a non-US employee.
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by azov 13y ago
Would be nice if the page explained how Buildbox compares with other popular hosted CI tools, e.g. Jenkins ( http://jenkins-ci.org )?
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by azov 13y ago
It's a really bad UI for a disruptive message that gets pushed to millions of people. How many people know what amber alert is? Of those people, how many know what to do about it? Of those people, how many know what Nissan Versa looks
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Best guess so far for what Elton Musk is going to do with Hyperloop (businessinsider.com)
2 points by azov 13y ago|0 comments
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Mother of Russian Jailed in US Requests Swapping Snowden(en.rian.ru)
2 points by azov 13y ago|0 comments
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by azov 13y ago
Backup is about having several copies. If you delete files after you uploaded them to the cloud, you don't have a backup - with all the problems that come with it (say, if you delete a file by accident there will probably be no way t
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Awful Question Surrounds Plane Victim's Death(npr.org)
1 points by azov 13y ago|0 comments
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Venezuela confirms receipt of Snowden asylum request(rt.com)
2 points by azov 13y ago|0 comments
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Why Asiana Airlines Flight 214 crash was survivable(cnn.com)
2 points by azov 13y ago|0 comments
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by azov 13y ago
Dealing with the lack of regex engine^ is such a tiny part of the monumental task of implementing C++ compiler from scratch - it's like quitting Mt. Everest summit expedition because a three-story hotel on the way there doesn't ha
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by azov 13y ago
Russia has it's own internet surveillance system, likely even more invasive then PRISM. Would be really odd if he spoke against it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SORM

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