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by bazzargh 13y ago
... that double as waiting rooms, and you board before the plane is even on the ground. http://s3images.coroflot.com/user_files/individual_files/794...
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by bazzargh 13y ago
Cert spoofing also gets you past issues in dev with self-signed certs etc. Hooking into OpenSSL will leave you with the problems in your browser. This is particularly handy when the browser hits one of the many, many issues where it won't e
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by bazzargh 13y ago
Never mind the paper sizes, the really crazy US measurement is the paper density: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_density tl;dr - most of the world uses grammage (g/m^2, ISO 536). The US uses pounds in a ream of paper in its uncut bas
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by bazzargh 13y ago
What about mathics? http://www.mathics.org/ (just to be clear - I know mathics is a hosted solution, and uses Sage. I'm asking, does this meet your 'user friendly enough' criteria)
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by bazzargh 13y ago
In the UK, cyclestreets is useful for this: http://www.cyclestreets.net/ ...it does route planning, but the speeds aren't just based on distance travelled but also the elevation. So, it's not so much that it avoids the hills, but it'll on
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by bazzargh 13y ago
See also the DigiComp II, which could do multiplication: http://digi-compii.com/ They have an enormous one that uses pool balls: http://www.evilmadscientist.com/2011/a-video-introduction-to...
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Teaching the Essentials of Garbage Collection(blog.brownplt.org)
89 points by bazzargh 14y ago|10 comments
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Duetto: A faster and smarter alternative to Emscripten.(allievi.sssup.it)
10 points by bazzargh 14y ago|1 comments
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by bazzargh 14y ago
Funnily enough what the article describes is almost the perfect case for testing: "We wrote the first scoring algorithm...based on the red-green light." This sounds like it describes some heuristic weighting, which couldn't have been solved
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by bazzargh 14y ago
I'm not going to knock the story (oddly I was checking my home's year on year power reduction just before I read it) but I have to wonder if there is a connection to the previous story about SuperDaE ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5
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by bazzargh 14y ago
Perhaps a different form of commenting is needed. Instead of showing all comments to everyone, the article author sees all, while the commenter only sees their own. Potentially, the article author could 'promote' worthwhile comments, and al
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by bazzargh 14y ago
I see that too, and the open again behaviour is flaky in Chrome as well - the label switches to say "See More on Github" but the instructions still tell you that's the toggle button, and the link to "Open it again" (which actually toggles)
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by bazzargh 14y ago
Whether you treat it seriously (as in, call the police) depends on the level of implied threat. But are you really just saying ignore it? Think about the spam you get. It's a little annoying. Now think if all of that was threats directed at
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by bazzargh 14y ago
She did speak up. See the comments (you can't at the moment because the traffic's taken the site down). And the comments have a guy who is behaving exactly like that. To paraphrase - she tried to make the witty comeback but was talked over,
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by bazzargh 14y ago
The exercises were not all that difficult (especially given that there were unit tests for almost all of them), but they did have issues. Some of the tests required you to use functions that didn't appear until one or two lectures later. Mo
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by bazzargh 14y ago
I assume it's a reference to this comic about code reviews: http://www.osnews.com/story/19266/WTFs_m (so really, the counter should also show the rate of WTFs per minute)
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by bazzargh 14y ago
I'd add this to Wikipedia's List of premature obituaries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_premature_obituaries#W ... except that you can't cite the subject's own blog as a reliable source-particularly when they apparently wrote it p
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by bazzargh 14y ago
There've been quite a few articles on containers on LWN over the last few months; worth digging around there if you're interested. A couple of the more recent ones: https://lwn.net/Articles/524952/ - Glauber Costa's talk on the state of c
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by bazzargh 14y ago
The java equivalent was '4j'. It's mildly useful on a mixed community like HN, you've got some idea before you click through what the target developer audience is.
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by bazzargh 14y ago
This appears to have no syntax for X minutes past the hour, and the like. Even more than cron, this would encourage writing a thundering horde of jobs that all trigger at midnight? Cron's syntax lets you easily calculate the next time a job
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by bazzargh 14y ago
I'm pretty sure we had parallel readers and writers in Parsytec's PARIX environments back in the early 90s (I would have been using it from around 92-94). This ran on transputer hardware and had a 'parallel shell' which supported odd piping
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by bazzargh 14y ago
There's a twitter account, glitchr which posts lots of these things: https://twitter.com/glitchr_ glitchr's tweets may cause other twitter clients to crash too, eg this one (you have been warned!) https://twitter.com/joshlogan42/status/3
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by bazzargh 14y ago
Sometimes I want to upvote not the article, but the discussion. The button doesn't let you show that nuance.
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by bazzargh 14y ago
See this previous discussion on a fair algorithm for bill splitting, Expectorant: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4259633
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by bazzargh 14y ago
The article is a bit misleading as it's clearly not an app but a website, but it's an interesting application nonetheless, and has apparently been used with success. Noticed it today in a report of a mountain rescue on Ben Lomond.
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SARLOC: Mountain Rescue app to help locate hill walkers in trouble (2012)(go4awalk.com)
1 points by bazzargh 14y ago|1 comments
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by bazzargh 14y ago
Atomfilms tried to build a business on short films a long time ago - I remember watching Aardman shorts on there, must have been 2001? But with an advertising revenue model, they ended up focussing on comedy clips to get the traffic, then t
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by bazzargh 14y ago
Yup, that looks right, but it can be made even simpler in this case because one of the segments is always vertical. var prevOffset = prev.x-lowerRight.x; loc.x < lowerRight.x && (loc.y-prev.y)*-prevOffset-(loc.x-prev.x)*
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How to test if a point is in a triangle(blackpawn.com)
1 points by bazzargh 14y ago|0 comments
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by bazzargh 14y ago
I'm guessing that the cross product magic was a hit test for a triangle. Here's an explanation: http://www.blackpawn.com/texts/pointinpoly/default.html

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