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by bendykstra 11y ago
I'm having trouble imagining any sufficiently specific and unambiguous format for writing requirements that does not look like programming. Even something like SQL, which only needs to describe database queries, is still the domain of
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Also, East and West Berlin, still distinguishable by the streetlamps which have not been replaced since reunification. http://www.theguardian.com/world/shortcuts/2013/apr/21/astro...
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> I also find it interesting how relatively little attention is given to the advantage of tactile buttons If I remember correctly, while in programming mode, almost all TI-BASIC keywords could be input by pressing a menu button followed
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The V2 had a guidance computer. Early rockets were purely inertial while some later rockets also rode radio beams to their targets.
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Fans, which force air through the filters into the cabin.
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I'm not arguing one way or the other as to the morality of these situations, but I don't think that they are analogous. Each of the following should be considered separately: 1. The transfer of money from the advertiser to the ad
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After Riley v California (2014), a warrant is required before the search of a mobile device. Therefore, in a scenario where you are asked to unlock your device, the only question is whether you are required to cooperate by giving your passw
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My favorite is > Show HN: nnmm – A feed of your print or paper books Isn't this just a pile of books?
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New Horizons team member John Spencer answered that question on the Unmanned Spaceflight forum: Yes, this was a single channel image (we wouldn't have held out on you if we'd had color!). Several of our closest MVIC images were b
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If you like this, check out the BBC's excellent series, Victorian Farm. In the show, a historian and two archaeologists live and work on a farm for a year, using only tools and techniques of the Victorian era. Experts in period crafts
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> Note: these slides have not (yet) been optimized for low-end GPUs or mobile. Wow, yeah. I'm using an old laptop with Ubuntu. Firefox ground to a halt, crashed and then my computer spontaneously rebooted.
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If a slightly different sound resulted in an entirely different signature, the system would be useless for comparing recordings of ambient noise, which will never be identical. You've taken the analogy with hashing too far.
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I bet if you exposed another mammal like a monkey or a cat to that recharging tentacle, it would be frightened by it too. We are wired to be afraid of snakes and snaky things. It's one of the most common phobias. Sci-fi horror merely t
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I think that disabling the entertainment center's access to the internet would be the responsible thing to do. Given Toyota's recent $1.2B settlement over the unintended acceleration defect, leaving this door open to hackers could
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Those events seem outside the scope of an article that is about multi-year trends.
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It could still be a case of one person's bloat being another's feature. Though for a website website, the other people could be advertisers, people who develop the site and people who publish content to it. There was a Mozilla rep
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You could probably get an idea of how inflated that requirement is by looking at what percentage of the 1,500 hours is spent on issues relating to safety and hair cutting. Browsing the syllabi of barber schools, I see subjects like career n
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One address is used for memory-mapped I/O. (Writes go to the printer. Reading from this address produces a random value.)
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Hi, one of the authors here. First, though I worked on the paper, I am not employed by CGD, so these comments are my own. The main reason for using the non-headless Firefox WebDriver was that we wanted the script to access the site just lik