bmm6o

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by bmm6o 17y ago
There's a great comment in this[0] Reddit thread that explains that while the quake in Chile registered higher on the Richter scale, that scale is not appropriate for judging the affect a quake has on buildings on the surface. Using the co
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by bmm6o 17y ago
I imagine the browser/server conversation goes something like this: B: Hey man, can I get /foobar.html, please? S: Sorry bro, I can't seem to find that resource. B: ... S: Hey, speaking of things I can't find, here are some missing kids! I
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by bmm6o 17y ago
> It combines with oxygen from the air [...] > the fuel isn't burned. It's converted chemically My last chemistry class was a long time ago, so this might be a dumb question. What's the difference between combining with oxygen and
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by bmm6o 17y ago
It's not that the book itself made him appear suspicious, it's that there are shared elements between the book and the letters. Further, it wasn't just that he owned a copy of the book, he threw it away in a manner that indicates a conscio
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by bmm6o 17y ago
Is wishing I could stop hearing about it the same as rooting for its downfall? The only feelings of negativity I have towards it is related to the resurgence in url shorteners, which is a view outside the mainstream.
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by bmm6o 17y ago
The etymology suggests that you should pronounce it "tree". The argument for pronouncing it "try" is to avoid creating a homophone with the other (more popular) data structure. I would pronounce it "try", but honestly it doesn't come up i
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by bmm6o 17y ago
> He kept saying, "But so then you add that new number to the list!" I think if you get down to it, this reveals an interesting point. I think it suggests that the logic behind the proof wasn't made clear enough, that it's not a constr
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by bmm6o 17y ago
> Cantor's second proof generalises [...] That may be true, but at the time a student first sees this proof, you're trying to convince him that there are different cardinalities of infinity in the first place. In fact, you've probably
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by bmm6o 17y ago
If that's true, you should be able to find a flaw in Cantor's proof. However, your statement falls into the category of "not even wrong".
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by bmm6o 17y ago
Yeah, the title of the article is confusing. It's not clear in what sense they are "on top". I get the joke, but I'd prefer accurate to witty. Also, some of the comments attached to it are... odd.
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by bmm6o 17y ago
> An ad hominem attack is a way of saving resources That they are both ways of saving resources does not mean they are the same in any other way (e.g. both "wrong"). Choosing not to read your proof is not the same as declaring that the
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by bmm6o 17y ago
"He hasn't produced good work before, so there's a good chance it won't be worth my time to read his proof" is an imperfect way of allocating limited resources, not an ad hominem attack.
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by bmm6o 17y ago
As others have pointed out, you can look at the window and see where the city is. Also, while your argument may be otherwise logically sound, that's a long string of suppositions that I'm not convinced hold. Do you honestly think that wha
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by bmm6o 17y ago
So you're saying you don't think it's very effective as a deterrent, and you haven't seen it provided as an official rationale?
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by bmm6o 17y ago
Is that speculation, or have you seen that provided as an official rationale? It just doesn't make sense to me that someone would not blow up a plane just because it wouldn't be maximally effective.
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by bmm6o 17y ago
Yes, this is the part of the rules I find most confusing. Someone with the ability and desire to blow up a plane wouldn't do it unless they could be sure they were on approach to the destination? There would be more devastation if the pla
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by bmm6o 17y ago
I was expecting problems, but I was surprised when I flew today. Jetblue, JFK to LGB (via IAD) had the exact same security checks and regulations as every other time I've flown them. I guess it just shows how inconsistently the rules are
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by bmm6o 17y ago
I think you missed the point. Even with immutable strings, some representations will allow you to take a substring without copying data and some will not. Length-prefixed strings do not.
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by bmm6o 17y ago
I read the title, and optimistically hoped that they were talking about server-side javascript. What are the problems for which symmetric crypto in the browser is the correct solution?
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by bmm6o 17y ago
Absolutely. PayPal is fine right up until the point when they cut you off, and then you have virtually no recourse. A similar thing happened to me (though I was dealing in physical goods), and I was never able to get it straightened out.
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by bmm6o 17y ago
Using a formatter to easily manage breaking language changes is really clever. I was just reading Pike's interview in Coders at Work where he talked about how all the language changes in the early days of C++ drove him off. This should he
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by bmm6o 17y ago
He wrote a blog post (maybe more than one) about how he was hosting his images from Amazon S3. Did he not follow through, or did he switch away from that?
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by bmm6o 17y ago
That there are a lot of corporate users still using IE 6 is only part of the claim that that group makes up most of the IE 6 user base.
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by bmm6o 17y ago
I get that part. But then in order to justify the level of intensity, doesn't that require someone to concede that they wouldn't have gotten the answer to this one? There seems to be more to it; like "I knew the answer to that one, but he
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by bmm6o 17y ago
Why do posts about interview questions always attract such vehement reactions? The politer replies on the blog itself suggest that the author should work for McDonald's instead of programming. Reddit's discussion isn't much better (predic
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by bmm6o 17y ago
Totally with you, though I might not find intentional misspellings as endearing as you. I'll add to your list that I can cut a lot of slack to non-native speakers. But his situation is even worse than you say: He's aware that he has a pro
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by bmm6o 17y ago
Me too. I'm not even sure what that means. Are you supposed to apply the gamma function?
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by bmm6o 17y ago
The whole kerfuffle about the name being taken and everyone firing off their suggestions for a new one is the greatest example of bikeshedding I have ever seen.
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by bmm6o 17y ago
That's a problem with Twitter. Why do they force you to markup metadata within your data?
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by bmm6o 17y ago
It's working tonight. I don't know what the problem was. (from my home computer, So Cal, USA both times).

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