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by bcoates 13y ago
This is absolutely brilliant. Pushing the clock from software seems like it'd help the issue with syncing the encoded framerate on streaming video to the display, as well. I wonder if the non-uniform refresh of a 60fps and 24fps video
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by bcoates 13y ago
It's not symmetric! None of Henry Waxman's friends are friending him back, but they're mostly in a clique with each other. Lonely little CA-33, nobody understands you...
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by bcoates 13y ago
Right, but "any kind of icebreaker" is a superset of "superfluous apology". It's a hypothetical extension of the result, not a flaw in the study. Saying there was no proper control condition is flat wrong. There is
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by bcoates 13y ago
I think it's going to far to call the study seriously flawed: The core claim presented "we find that superfluous apologies increase trust in the apologizer" is being properly controlled (superfluous apology, acknowledgment, o
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by bcoates 13y ago
Don't do that, that's crazy. If you don't want your users running random binaries turn on applocker: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd723683(v=ws.10)... If the "1002.exe" sampl
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by bcoates 13y ago
Anyone know what format the floppies are expecting? It won't accept a DOS 6.22 install disk from MSDN, maybe it doesn't like DMF? Also, swapping disks during the install might be an issue, I don't see a button...
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by bcoates 13y ago
That link has some solid advice. I had to learn a lot of that the hard way.
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by bcoates 13y ago
Normally you'd either just use UTF-8 in a std::string or use std::wstring
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by bcoates 13y ago
"Corporations are people" has nothing to do with campaign spending limits being unconstitutional. Congress can and does legally limit donations from anyone (people, corporations, whatever) to politicians. It can't ban any com
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by bcoates 13y ago
Nitpicking because this tripped me up: You can do this in-place and in O(n) time by repeatedly partitioning the array in half (by value) and discarding the smaller half. I'd have needed a hint that you can do it in one pass to have not
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by bcoates 13y ago
Stdin isn't important, but the ability to treat the whole environment as a process that takes source code as an input is. Mutating the environment isn't necessary to be a useful program. The techniques of "move the code to th
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by bcoates 13y ago
> And what does having a REPL vs. not or an interpreter vs. a compiler have to do with any of this? A lot. As a class, languages that can be executed by sending program text to stdin without polluting the execution environment are suitab
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by bcoates 13y ago
It'll work on files (much) larger than RAM, too.
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by bcoates 13y ago
That assumes that the purpose of HN is to be a debate site, or a 20th century "fairness doctrine" media outlet, or a town-hall style public forum. I do not think any HN is any of those things or well-suited to become one. Most of
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by bcoates 13y ago
This has not been my experience. Any problem that can be solved by buying another server is generally considered to be a solved problem.
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by bcoates 13y ago
Those stories are barely more than gossip and belong on mainstream news sites. It doesn't look like they were generating much of interest in the comments either, just the usual go-my-team rhetoric and unfocused outrage in a random dire
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by bcoates 13y ago
The marriage in the article would be legal in California.
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by bcoates 13y ago
The prevalence of frameworks means attackers probably have your source, or at least enough of it to be interesting. This specific denial of service attack hit a lot of systems in 2012, and all you needed to know was which framework they wer
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by bcoates 13y ago
Whoa, it's conventional to use the MSB? I usually just do bucket = hash(x) & mask Should I expect non-cryptographic hashes and RNGs to produce better noise in the MSBs? That would explain "Sun Redefines Randomness"
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by bcoates 13y ago
You can wiki-edit any SO answer (with low karma it's queued for approval before being shown), unfortunately it looks like something in the culture or UI prevents this from being common.
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by bcoates 13y ago
I was thinking specifically of this: When i look at the FNV-1a "number" map, i think i see subtle vertical patterns. With Murmur i see no patterns at all. What do you think? Wouldn't that vertical repetition, and
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by bcoates 13y ago
I often see these "plot the output of the RNG on a 2d grid" things. I understand they're useful for demonstrating non-randomness, but if you're searching for patterns, do they reveal anything an FFT wouldn't?
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by bcoates 13y ago
A decade later, Coase worked out the economic argument in much more detail in "The Nature of the Firm". (The logic works the same for business enterprises in a market economy as it does for nation- or world-sized Communist economi
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by bcoates 13y ago
> If the workers decided these things they would never vote to outsource their own jobs This implies they would be making the wrong decisions then, no? There needs to be some mechanism to decide who does what, or otherwise some goods a
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by bcoates 13y ago
click on the unmarked background to the right of the slide.
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by bcoates 13y ago
At launch, an unsubsidized 32GB iPhone 4 cost $599, let's be pessimistic and say you get two years of use out of it and are unable to sell it for anything, that's $25/month. Not exactly an extravagant business expense.
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by bcoates 13y ago
The nature of variance means that you would expect to find the highest and lowest means in groups with the smallest populations.
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by bcoates 13y ago
I have heard this myth repeated this week, in a business setting, in complete seriousness.
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by bcoates 13y ago
But the myth gets the moral exactly backwards -- the pens solved a real problem, and because both NASA and Fisher knew most of the value of the deal was getting the "the same pen they use in SPACE!" endorsement, the government got
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by bcoates 13y ago
That's because having + perform a non-commutative operation like string concatenation is an abomination.

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