benjoffe

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by benjoffe 9y ago
Which parts of the constitution do you think are bad?
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by benjoffe 10y ago
Depends on the application of this, i.e. whether the total is more important or the individual values are more important. Example: You're filling out a timesheet for a contracting job, and you worked 8 hours on several different tasks
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by benjoffe 10y ago
A lot of research in astronomy is conducted to figure out how bright certain objects are, one classic example is "Cepheid variable" stars, these pulsate at a rate correlating with their brightness. You're right in that there
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by benjoffe 10y ago
He uses the following example for when to throw your own errors: var Controller = { addClass: function(element, className) { if (!element) { throw new Error("addClass: 1st argument missing."); } e
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by benjoffe 10y ago
It's believed that the spiral arms are quasi-static and that the stars move in and out of these regions of higher density. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Density_wave_theory
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by benjoffe 10y ago
Not entirely sure, but could be using the data from the Orbiting Carbon Observatory satellite[0]. This satellite orbits the Earth on the order of ~16 times per day which would not be enough granularity for the smoothness of this video, so I
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by benjoffe 10y ago
You can also use 'type assertions' to minimise restructuring, eg, the following is the same number of lines as your first example (and compiles to identical code): const a = A() a.b = new SubtypeOfB() (<SubtypeOfB
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by benjoffe 10y ago
There are games of this sort, the earliest I'm aware of is this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Incredible_Machine_%28seri...
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by benjoffe 11y ago
> It's very expensive, and more worryingly there are lots and lots of them available on the second hand market, almost new, at greatly reduced prices. So why not get a second hand one?
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by benjoffe 11y ago
You don't need any of those to make websites and web apps already (or to be less pednantic, you don't need most of those) so I'm not sure what your question is.
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by benjoffe 11y ago
The article also mentions that so I'm guessing the questioner is looking for other examples.
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by benjoffe 11y ago
I believe the parent is referreing to the fact that the specific age range is not specified. Eg. is this 90-99 (my guess), 70+ or "exactly 95", etc.
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by benjoffe 11y ago
Where did you get the "0.5-1%" figure from? That may be true in some cases, but not in this extreme case, here it's closer to half the delta-v (which, due to the rocket equation is enormously less difficult to achieve). Solar
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by benjoffe 11y ago
That "trick" would indeed work and is a well known orbital manoeuvre: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bi-elliptic_transfer (without the final circularising burn). This manoeuvre would be preferable to the articl
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by benjoffe 12y ago
I would argue that in the case of Facebook's updating feed that the idea is fine, the implementation is buggy. What should happen is the new content is loaded above and instantaneously the document scroll position is updated to preserv
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by benjoffe 12y ago
None of the results on that page or image results show Coke in the classic font.
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by benjoffe 12y ago
From the article: > Nothing has inherent meaning. Everything is only what it is and that's it. I think you come to the same conclusion but perhaps express it a little deeper than the author does.
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by benjoffe 12y ago
> I see little point in trying to ascertain the "meaning" of life. From what I see, life itself gives birth to the concept of meaning not the other way around. Did you actually listen to the talk? He comes to the same conclusio
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NASA launches $35,000 bounty for improved asteroid detection algorithms(nasa.gov)
53 points by benjoffe 13y ago|12 comments
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The Scientific Case for P≠NP(scottaaronson.com)
6 points by benjoffe 13y ago|0 comments
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by benjoffe 13y ago
This is a very similar style to parts of this incredible visualisation of Earth weather http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COWE6sMzdqI
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by benjoffe 13y ago
This has been called too early, comets are very unpredictable and ISON appears to be brightening again as it loops around: http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5480/11106507235_ec20b425d7_o.... (apparently the same thing happ
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by benjoffe 13y ago
You can use Boolean(value) but it will return an 'object' of a 'boolean' type, rather than a primitive boolean (it's one of JS's flaws so is generally avoided). Note: their example of a similar piece of code is
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The Unitarihedron: The Jewel at the Heart of Quantum Computing(scottaaronson.com)
76 points by benjoffe 13y ago|45 comments
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by benjoffe 13y ago
Do you think it's wrong to report about orangutans in this fashion even if it's true? I don't understand your point. Edit: also, your mention that comments like this are "notably missing from this thread" makes litt
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by benjoffe 13y ago
Yeah after 220 platforms the terrain on all seeds ends, which is a shame.
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by benjoffe 13y ago
I've been iterating over sequential seeds looking for one that contains the most downhill terrain, so far the best is: 24427169 - it descends very rapidly in the later part of the track. I'll keep this running over night and post
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New $80 million accelerator for tech start-ups launches (Australia)(startupsmart.com.au)
1 points by benjoffe 13y ago|0 comments
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by benjoffe 13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_index_metamaterials
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by benjoffe 13y ago
> About $200 billion annual output between Iran & Qatar. That's about $360,000 per SECOND That's $360,000 per MINUTE (not second). 200*10^9/365/24/60/60 = 6342

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