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721.
by burke 16y ago
This brings up a little facet of bitcoin that I'm /really/ not crazy about: The smallest possible unit is 0.00000001 BTC. With a fixed cap of 21M BTC, requiring that each transaction be for at least 4.8*10^-16 of the total possible amount i
722.
by burke 16y ago
There are very few people that make me as angry as Ulrich Drepper does.
723.
by burke 16y ago
Yep, sure did.
724.
by burke 16y ago
You didn't count my 11 :(
725.
by burke 16y ago
My old boss built more or less this: https://github.com/pallan/gem_import_export
726.
by burke 16y ago
That's what they say. My money is on it encouraging people to leave more dynos running than necessary, thus yielding more income for Heroku.
727.
by burke 16y ago
364 including views, 157 without. EDIT: That would be http://fuckyeahnouns.com . It's minimum. Up for debate whether it's "Viable" or "Product".
728.
by burke 16y ago
Just as an added data point, one of the earliest measurements released (just before or after the first explosion) was 1015 µSv.
729.
by burke 16y ago
I had to stop and think about that one for a while. Are there any cases that you know of where a Japanese word is anglicized before becoming an English word? It seems like english speakers have an easy enough time guessing at Japanese pronu
730.
by burke 16y ago
Well, once an app manages to get on the top 25, the extra exposure pretty much guarantee it solid sales for a while. Still doesn't explain the bump to get it there though.
731.
by burke 16y ago
Which would make it 3.times(#(i) { /* code */ }). That's not bad at all.
732.
by burke 16y ago
Haha, can't say I expected this to make HN. It was a fun Sunday hack. I'm a little surprised at how much traffic I'm getting.
733.
by burke 16y ago
I'll probably start using this one. Nice short domain name.
734.
by burke 16y ago
I'm pretty far removed from the Java ecosystem, but that's more or less what Groovy shoots for too, right? Or is Groovy more complex?
735.
by burke 16y ago
There seems to be a JavaScript target available too: https://github.com/dominicmarks/ragel-js
736.
by burke 16y ago
First off, I think it's naive to assume it would be that easy to do as well as Watson. Talk is cheap. More importantly, though, Watson isn't /really/ about solving Jeopardy. It's a more general AI designed to provide concise answers to arbi
737.
by burke 16y ago
http://twitter.com/#!/tenderlove/status/37665907648110592 I think the responses here, and especially this blog post, are completely out of line. Yes, he's a community leader, but he still has the right to write lazy code to solve problems
738.
by burke 16y ago
There is a North American equivalent: http://rdio.com
739.
by burke 16y ago
I assume this is referring to the ability to build up a list of arbitrary data in memory, then execute it. In most languages, you'd parse some string to an AST, but in lisp, your fundamental data structure is essentially the same as the AST
740.
by burke 16y ago
That's kind of the point. It's a nice 404 page.
741.
by burke 16y ago
Ruby 1.8.7 does too. Not sure about Oniguruma in 1.9 https://github.com/ruby/ruby/blob/ruby_1_8_7/regex.c#L2751-2... EDIT: Looks like 1.9 does too: https://github.com/ruby/ruby/blob/ruby_1_9_2/regint.h#L281
742.
by burke 16y ago
As of now, it uses method_missing to catch the first call to find_by_name_and_address, then defines the method inline, so future calls are handled by an actual method.
743.
by burke 16y ago
Ahh, nostalgia.
744.
by burke 16y ago
Not that I saw. It's in the .tar.gz available on the package linked by zeemonkee.
745.
by burke 16y ago
"UBUNTU FONT LICENSE Version 1.0": http://gist.github.com/601425
746.
by burke 16y ago
Screenshot of the font used as body text on Wikipedia: http://imgur.com/912V0
747.
by burke 16y ago
Damn it, now I'm thirsty.
748.
by burke 16y ago
I don't quite buy this. You're still getting all the fiber in a smoothie, it's just pre-chewed. By the time I swallow a chunk of apple, it's pretty well juiced. The only difference is that actual juice has the solids removed.
749.
by burke 16y ago
I don't think I would have clicked this if I didn't recognize the name from the shirt Gary Vaynerchuk was wearing at RailsConf. See? T-Shirts are useful.
750.
by burke 16y ago
You might say it's the... "best in class"... Sorry, I'll go back to reddit.

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