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by by 16y ago
Your description of Minimum Viable Product appears to classify the MVP as the end-point of the process. My thinking is that the MVP is the starting point of an iterative development process. Its value is that it allows users to participate
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by by 16y ago
Participating in a distributed denial of service attack is not necessarily illegal. There has to be some intent on the part of the visitor to cause damage. You could get involved in one just by innocently visiting a malicious web page which
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by by 16y ago
tripluckydip, tripyer, tripfingertip, tripunzip, trippirt. Hipmunk is good.
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by by 16y ago
My computer programmer approach to design is that you sort the elements of your page (logo, title text, main text, navigation etc) into order of importance. The order you want your visitor to read them. Delete unimportant elements or move t
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by by 16y ago
They seem to have two different algorithms. One is given a position and it gives you the optimal solution, the fewest moves to solve that position. This is the God Algorithm. And a different, much faster, algorithm that given a position fin
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by by 16y ago
I suppose they should be allocated based on frequency of use within the intended domain of the language, with the most frequent getting first choice. I guess pointer dereferencing would be more important than xor for most domains. Not that
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by by 16y ago
That would invert the use in Pascal where P := @X; means assign the address of X to P. And Y := P^; means dereference P and assign the result to Y. I think anyone who has written any Pascal/Delphi would prefer ^ for dereference.
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by by 16y ago
We only need a ball-park estimate of the distance between keys not an exact measurement. Anything better than random should be an improvement.
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by by 16y ago
I agree. It does not depend on key distribution. Nor on the type of the key. But we do need to be able to estimate this (key - min) / (max - min) where the variables are all keys and we want the expression to give a number between
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I propose a larger unit of measure: the Chernobyl Sheep Equivalent Dose. This is based on a 50kg sheep at the upper allowable limit of 1000 Becquerels per kg. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster_effects#Food... Converting our
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by by 16y ago
I restate a previous comment I made on the subject which agrees with this position. This article http://www.computorney.com/anonarticle.htm concludes that "anonymity in cyberspace is a fundamental underpinning of democracy". In 1995 the S
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by by 16y ago
Or looked at a slightly different way. We should only build things that customers want, and they find it very difficult to explain what they want unless we give them an application to try. When we do give them an application we will receive
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by by 16y ago
I think it is unlikely it is the "largest ecological disaster in US history". We could compare it to the Dust Bowl http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust_Bowl , or the logging of old growth forest http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_growth_fores
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by by 16y ago
In a gas the molecules are moving around with lots of space between them without much interaction. Some quickly, some slowly, all in different directions. Occasionally they collide and bounce off each other, or more rarely they may temporar
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by by 16y ago
When you sold the site to Condé Nast they became your customer. Looking after your customers is the number one priority of any business. So it is totally correct that you made sure they received a good product and got the best from it.
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by by 16y ago
Yes, I was thinking about it in broader terms of the total bandwidth consumed on the web by these things. Say, for sake of argument, it's 10% of the total traffic. Now what does that traffic cost, and how much more money could the companies
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by by 16y ago
Yes, you are right, they are selling something based on providing a partial solution to a very small piece of the problem, and something like that ought to be able to produce stats.
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by by 16y ago
The bradley_outline.png background image on this page is 617KB in size. About ten times bigger than it needs to be. I wonder how much web bandwidth is wasted by poorly optimised images. Maybe there is a business opportunity in an automated
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by by 16y ago
But from reading the article http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870442350457521... the acoustic control just activates the blowout preventer, and the dead-man switch should do the same thing. But I don't know anything beyond rea
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by by 16y ago
I agree that in the short term FaceBook could turn its current information content into money by disclosing it in ways that will displease the people who create the content. And it is possible that foolish management of the company could ma
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by by 16y ago
"What I do believe is that they are interested in getting more users, sharing more information, and making more money." I don't see why sharing more information will make more money in the long term. Keeping the users happy and engaged woul
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by by 17y ago
It makes me think of the Salt March http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_Satyagraha where many small acts of non-violent protest brought about great change.
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by by 17y ago
That is assuming you are comparing the speed against C. I rewrote one into short, sweet style and found it was much faster than python and ruby. The only frustration was being unable to get the code shorter than the ruby version. Note that
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by by 17y ago
Although the subject is interesting the page, published on 16th March 2010, is poorly researched blog-spam. It is essentially just copied from one of the numerous pages that say the same thing, such as this one published on 27th January 200
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by by 17y ago
and a minor typo 'Notfio' on the FAQ page.
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by by 17y ago
Yes, that seems correct. The Wikipedia entry explained consistency best for me http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACID#Consistency which is as you say with the keys for normal databases. It made clear for me the distinction between application
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by by 17y ago
"Additionally the C in ACID is not equivalent to the C in CAP." It would help if the people writing papers about CAP knew what the C in ACID meant before they wrote their papers. Here is the relevant paragraph from the paper "Brewer's Conje
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by by 17y ago
I see, thank you.
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by by 17y ago
I learned the terms from somebody who is involved in book publishing. I do not know much about publishing software. It struck me that it might be an interesting unsolved problem to automatically reduce the incidence of lakes and rivers.
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by by 17y ago
I tried to read the paper, but it's behind a paywall so I am unable to confirm whether it gives any possible mechanism for solving rivers. But it seems highly unlikely because the alignment of word gaps from one line to the next, the cause

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