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by bd 18y ago
Aha, so that's the elegant way how this was supposed to be solved (in your head and on the spot).
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by bd 18y ago
Took me a few seconds to parse the question (that it was about "35 factorial" and not about some binary representation of "35" ended with interrobang "?!") One possible solution in Python: import operator fact = str(reduce(operator.mu
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by bd 18y ago
Net effect depends on the category. Modern PC games are more advanced than 10 year old Quake 3 (which was state-of-the-art in its time). If getting to play Quake Live would be as seamless (from regular web surfing) as it is now getting to p
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by bd 18y ago
In this particular case, the answer could be performance. Google's ExplorerCanvas (emulation by VML) is much slower than native canvas implementations (particularly compared to new JS engines like in FF3.1 Beta 2 or Webkit nightly). For sta
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by bd 18y ago
Yup, Quake Live comparison is not fair. If you use custom plugins, you should be compared to desktop games. Plugins run regular compiled C++ (or whatever) code, browser just gives them a place where they can draw. And from Quake Live FAQ it
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by bd 18y ago
Alternative explanation: people whose mental skills kept declining (for some unrelated reason) worked longer hours to compensate for a loss of productivity due to such decline.
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by bd 18y ago
Firefox 3.0.6 network.enableIDN;false (user set) Addons that can modify urls: NoScript, AdBlock Plus I guess it's probably NoScript that disabled IDN (internationalized domain names). I don't remember doing it manually.
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by bd 18y ago
It doesn't work at all for me in Firefox 3 on Windows. I get the same response after clicking on all links (feed reader, HN frontpage, this page): Page Load Error Address Not Found Firefox can't find the server at www.➡.ws. This
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by bd 18y ago
Is it likely that someone cares enough about a specific place to to altruistically transform it into Silicon Valley? There should be a quite large pool of people that have spare $30 million [1]. Creating new Silicon Valley sounds like a m
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Highlight2Translate, Greasemonkey script for instant Google Translation(userscripts.org)
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by bd 18y ago
Here is accompanying blog post: http://baoilleach.blogspot.com/2009/01/turn-turn-turn-twisty... And here is a newer version (called TwirlyMol): http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~noel/blog/molecproc/twirlymol.ht... http://baoilleach.blogspot.
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TwistyMol:A minimal molecular viewer in JavaScript & Canvas(redbrick.dcu.ie)
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by bd 18y ago
22 points by pg 864 days ago | 16 comments | flag Wait, I sense a disturbance in the Force: 2x365+1=731 < 864 What was HN doing 133 days before being born? And who are those mysterious elders with accounts " created:864 days ag
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by bd 18y ago
Maybe they chose Flash for performance? Google uses annotated timeline primarily for their Finance site, which has a lot of data. Long time ago, before new JS engines (FF 3.1B2, Webkit Nightly), canvas performance was not very good. I remem
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by bd 18y ago
Exactly. This reminds me of one thread some time ago here on HN about universities claiming numbers of Nobel Prizes awarded to people affiliated with them [1]. This "$2 Trillion" statistics has the same problem - one person can have affilia
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by bd 18y ago
Actually, I'm surprised it's so high (150,637 as of today). It means quite a lot of HN visitors (which are not necessarily just registered HN users) have installed Alexa toolbar. Which is what ultimately Alexa rank mean. It is a huge source
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by bd 18y ago
another reason for Hackers to join twitter Or to follow HN new submissions :) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=421255
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by bd 18y ago
"In June 2005, BitTorrent, Inc. released version 4.2.0 of the Mainline BitTorrent client. This release supported "trackerless" torrents, featuring a DHT implementation which allowed the client to use torrents that do not have a working Bit
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by bd 18y ago
I'm pretty sure Hans Reiser and the Ted Kazcynski would have aced any such tests. Incidentally, yesterday I managed to stumble upon another such example: "Nathan Freudenthal Leopold, Jr. and Richard A. Loeb were two wealthy University of
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by bd 18y ago
Nah, you don't need any trees. Just use good old bin-lattice [1]. If it's good enough for Craig Reynolds :) Interaction with Groups of Autonomous Characters http://www.red3d.com/cwr/papers/2000/pip.html Big Fast Crowds on PS3 http://
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by bd 18y ago
I was also very skeptical, but finally I found one good use for Twitter. If there is some real-time trouble (e.g. you couldn't access your Gmail account, or Hacker News), Twitter is the first place where you can confirm your suspicions (and
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by bd 18y ago
There is more info in the original Wired article. The author responded in comments: "As for how I was broke while making a great salary working at Sun, it was primarily due to medical bills after a my family had series of emergency room vi
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by bd 18y ago
There are many more mentioned in two related MetaFilter threads: Mindf k movies http://www.metafilter.com/79096/Mindfk-Movies Help us rally around a common weirdness http://ask.metafilter.com/109842/Help-us-rally-around-a-comm...
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by bd 18y ago
That's why I love SciTE. I just tried it with 126 MB text file and it didn't break a sweat. http://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html Bonus: you can use it in your own wxPython application. Some brave soul wrapped it and made available as wxSty
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by bd 18y ago
Very impressive. Though I suggest you try it with Firefox 3.1 Beta 2 or Webkit Nightly (Firefox 3 works, but it's slow for large files). I tried to create browser-based high-performance text manipulation application myself, but I never imag
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by bd 18y ago
Leslie Benzies, producer of GTA IV estimated costs to be $100 million. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/scotland/article382... Maybe your friend was doing just a port on one of the platforms? That could be in the ballpark.
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by bd 18y ago
And also, how the hell did we put men on the moon in the 1960s? And it was for mere $135 billion (in 2005 dollars). [1] That's less than $20 for every person currently alive on Earth (6.8 billion). [2] Or about $170 for every citizen of U
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by bd 18y ago
"Everybody kills Hitler on their first trip" http://www.abyssandapex.com/200710-wikihistory.html (sorry, couldn't resist)
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by bd 18y ago
I have some more datapoints from jobs aggregated on Joblighted (24 sites): http://joblighted.com/statistics There were indeed more jobs posted in January 2009. Though probably much of this increase is cyclical. In two previous years there
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by bd 18y ago
Exactly, lack of motivation is a big deal. Games these days have crazy production values (GTA IV took 3.5 years, 1000 people and $100 million budget). I know, there are also some very good indie games, but you have to be very creative to be

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