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by brey 13y ago
I don't think they only surveyed two - the article doesn't say how many or link to the paper, but this could easily be misread as 'they found two fast-food joints': The two found fast-food joints along the New Jersey
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by brey 13y ago
they're a windows-only shop, bear in mind - or at least they were when I last checked. not necessarily a problem, but may be an issue for some.
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by brey 13y ago
also used in KERS systems in F1 cars to store braking energy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_energy_recovery_system
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by brey 13y ago
charging, or not, for postage for the (hopefully) 99%+ of people who don't need a replacement is something that you factor in to your costs, and tell people upfront so it factors into their decision. your call. charging for subsequent
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by brey 13y ago
that argument maybe applies when you have a company such as Disney making a tangible economic benefit (to both the corporation and the economy at large) - although it's arguable whether breaking the monopoly gives more overall econom
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15 years ago, Congress kept Mickey Mouse copyrighted. Will they do it again?(washingtonpost.com)
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by brey 13y ago
handy, ain't it? :)
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by brey 13y ago
neat tool: chrome developer tools > network > rightclick a resource > copy as Curl > paste on command line allows you to replay a request, complete with all cookies and the exact same headers. yeah, aware this isn't what&#x
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by brey 13y ago
History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme. (misattributed to) Mark Twain
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by brey 13y ago
as a server-side regex parser, how do you handle catastrophic backtracking? http://www.regular-expressions.info/catastrophic.html this seems to handle /(x+x+)+y/ and 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx' gr
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by brey 13y ago
nostalgia ain't what it used to be ;)
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by brey 13y ago
Although two weeks notice is standard, give more notice if you're willing to. Give four or even six weeks I question why this should be asymmetrical. If it were the other way round, and it was to the company's advantage
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by brey 13y ago
it is a good thing. it's the same fundamental reason that we ban steroids from athletics. but human ingenuity being what it is, we shouldn't be surprised that people come up with new ways to bend the rules ... be that 'not-te
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by brey 13y ago
an entirely remote controlled (as opposed to autonomous) car race could be fun to watch - can go much faster, risks of huge crashes are acceptable (or desirable...)
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by brey 13y ago
oh, I'm not saying it's a bad thing, just that we shouldn't be surprised ;)
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by brey 13y ago
In an environment where innovation has been strictly regulated against (better engine management software? NOPE. better foil design? NOPE), the fine art of sticking to the letter of the law but totally bending the spirit of it is naturally
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by brey 13y ago
Technically correct - the best kind of correct.
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by brey 13y ago
> the impact of this type of attack on the end-user can be almost entirely mitigated by using unique passwords on each site which unfortunately isn't going to happen. the bigger point missed by the article is that this reliance on &
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by brey 13y ago
no doubt the SO question will soon be closed as "not a question" or "too interesting" or some other draconian response :(
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by brey 13y ago
I still want to see the thought process behind problem solving, and associated communication, especially when in unfamiliar territory - code output alone doesn't show that. But the existence of a github account is strongly correlated t
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by brey 13y ago
Interesting from a machine-learning perspective - but this strikes me as a solution looking for a problem. If any service needs to know gender (and I'm having a hard time thinking of times you NEED to know gender - dating sites?) - why
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by brey 13y ago
If you don't know who the sucker at the table is, it's you.
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by brey 13y ago
He already bought the ticket. he was in the boarding queue. Your analogy should be changed to: 'whether McDonalds should let you eat a burger AFTER you buy it from them'. This is simply Easyjet breaking a contract - as long as he&
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by brey 13y ago
> in the early 90's, hipsters of that time decided that graphs weren't cool enough, and called them charts I'd always thought that was to not confuse with graph theory.
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by brey 13y ago
anyone can buy a suit. not anyone can complete a 4 year degree from MIT; employers know this, and use it as a signal to show intelligence.
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by brey 13y ago
just as hard to break if you're doing it properly: one bit per tweet, encoded as 'message ends with period = 1, no period = 0', and that's your ciphertext stream. from then, AES or RSA or a OTP or whatever you want. Then
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by brey 13y ago
good suggestion. you probably want to encode some redundancy so you can pick plausibly interesting people to retweet, rather than your xor'd number being an obvious bot, or it's still suspicious.
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by brey 13y ago
even ignoring the middle dot, just picking a more suitable corpus for that person isn't necessarily going to make this technique look innocuous - it's still a collection of excerpts taken from what looks like random positions with
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by brey 13y ago
Steganography conceals the existence of the message, not just the contents. if David Miranda gets stopped at Heathrow and: On the following morning, the gener·al requested permission to return the emperor's visit, by waiting on h
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by brey 13y ago
The typical moon-conspiracy-theorist doesn't claim that nothing man-made has reached the moon, only that humans haven't been there. Unmanned probes or laser reflectors don't present a problem to their world view.

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