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by bkirwi 14y ago
Unfortunately, not all systems are OSX.
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by bkirwi 14y ago
This doesn't work. If an object hashes to places abc, and each of a, b, and c were already incremented independantly by previous insertions, you would get a false positive.
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by bkirwi 14y ago
My first reaction was that businesses would use this to do systems integration (send an email every commit, add a note in group chat before a meeting, etc.) These are already pretty easy to wire, but there's value in going from easy to triv
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Space Engine: simulate the entire universe(en.spaceengine.org)
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by bkirwi 14y ago
I'll see your anecdote and raise you another one: A friend's downstairs neighbour regularly complained of 'electromagnetic hypersensitivity'; it got to the point where the building manager asked that my friend stop using wifi entirely. My f
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by bkirwi 14y ago
> this form of payment for a person working just two hours a day every day could equate to about $21 a month—12 percent of the average monthly wage in the region. Unless the average person in the region works 2 / .12 = 16.67 hours per d
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by bkirwi 14y ago
He says numbers , not primes , so it's trivially correct. Though that doesn't directly imply the conjecture being true for sufficiently large numbers, since primes become increasingly sparse as one moves up the number line... it seems mor
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by bkirwi 15y ago
Thank you! Exactly what I had in mind. The attention to detail and tight constraints reminds me a lot of font design / hinting / etc.
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by bkirwi 15y ago
Nothing in his post indicates 'he', either, from what I can see?
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by bkirwi 15y ago
Do you have any resources for beginners you recommend? (I'm not a designer -- just have a certain fondness for dying media, I guess.)
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by bkirwi 15y ago
That's exactly correct. If you're working with a pure key-value store, the only query you have is get(), plus maybe a scan over all keys. Stores like Cassandra give a little more structure to the data (column families, supercolumns, etc.) a
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by bkirwi 15y ago
I'm aware of several people that have been driven away from gaming by this kind of culture. It's not as harmless as it seems from the inside, I think.
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by bkirwi 15y ago
He's probably being downvoted (not by me) because he's misunderstood the tool: his signature is unique among all browsers that have visited that page, not every browser in existence.
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by bkirwi 15y ago
The title quote hits home for me today -- reading through my sent mails, I kept wincing when I made some confident assertion that ended up being totally off-base. It sucks to be the one appending IMOs to every sentence (especially in the st
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by bkirwi 15y ago
It seems clear to me that's he's talking about the performance / complexity of the algorithm that the article was about? There was significant discussion of the performance in the article, but the original commenter didn't have anything to
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by bkirwi 15y ago
Saying Torvalds 'made everything possible' is technically true, but a bit misleading. If there was no Linux kernel, the free software project would have taken much longer, but without the GNU userspace the kernel would have been not much mo
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by bkirwi 15y ago
That's one purpose of a thesis. The more significant purpose -- at least at a graduate level -- is to contribute to the sum of human knowledge. When academics are rewarded based on how many papers they've published in which journals, that's
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by bkirwi 15y ago
Some numbers on this: A standard-quality .avi is about 800MB. Base64 provides 6 bits of information per character, so that movie translates into ~8M tweets. Twitter seems to limit users to 1k messages per day,[0] so that movie would take ab
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by bkirwi 15y ago
If you're still interested: the funding is / was distributed by number of votes, not number of seats won. Any party that gets over 2% of the vote gets a cut, which means the threshold for entry is fairly low. Of course, a party with 50% of