celticjames

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by celticjames 10y ago
I agree that style of Picasso is cubism and this process isn't able to replicate that. But I assume it's an early experiment to show what's possible now.
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by celticjames 10y ago
Roads are subject to wear and tear. Higher traffic means more wear and thus more repairs. Repairs for most roads come out of municipal budgets. Municipal budgets are paid for by property taxes. The homeowners bought that road. So who's
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by celticjames 11y ago
I couldn't get it to work because my region is Canada but my speech language was set to English (US). I had to install the speech recognition pack for English (Canada). In a way I sort of flattered that Cortana recognizes my distinct c
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by celticjames 12y ago
Good point. According to wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_diaspora ) there are 6.3 million Americans living abroad or ~2% of Americans. So perhaps ~0.04% of Americans abroad renounced citizenship annuall
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by celticjames 12y ago
Nice emulator, but I'd love to have the real thing, a genuine old-school monochrome monitor, the kind that you used with a Hercules graphics card. Those monitors were so easy on the eyes. You could stare at Pascal all day. Figuring out
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by celticjames 13y ago
In google's case, you can print out a set of auth codes for times when you don't have your phone.
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by celticjames 13y ago
"It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write a DestroyCity procedure, to which Baghdad could be giv
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by celticjames 13y ago
Gmail has a feature that lets you see what IP addresses you have logged on from. (Look for the little link at the bottom right.) Would LinkedIn's IP show up there if they are using your google password? Has anyone ever seen this behavi
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by celticjames 13y ago
I used to teach English to non-native speakers. All of them wanted to learn English with an American accent. I think they are actually doing themselves a disservice because they fail to understand the subtle differences of class status an a
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by celticjames 13y ago
Shocked to learn that Brian Dunning has done this. I've been listening to his Skeptoid podcast for years. I always pictured someone of modest or middle class means because he solicits donations to help keep the podcast going. I didn't think
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by celticjames 13y ago
After reading your comment, I did some googling to find something that could convert an existing spreadsheet into code. I found a few commercial solutions that turn Excel into C++ or Java. I think the idea is that Excel becomes the prototyp
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by celticjames 14y ago
The stories in the post all have repeatable bug conditions. If you read bugs submitted for something like Chrome or Firefox (or any big complex program) you see a lot of trying to figure out what state triggers a bug. There's a lot of, "I c
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by celticjames 14y ago
It does seem like an odd oversight that Chrome allows you to block plugins per site but not extensions. If you click the green lock in your address bar now, you can see the option to block all plugins. It stops java and flash, but allows ex
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by celticjames 14y ago
How do other people keep databases in sync between multiple developers and the production server? Source code is easy. Source control and code merging are mostly straightforward. But in something like wordpress, a lot of what gets displayed
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by celticjames 14y ago
There's a great sci-fi novel, The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi, set in a post-oil world where tightly wound springs are used to store energy, as we do now with clocks. One of the subplots deals with a character trying to develop a materi
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by celticjames 14y ago
So this is hardware manufactured and sold under the Microsoft brand? Wow. That's a big re-alignment. I think you are right about this being the endgame for third-party builders. Anyone know anything about this side of Microsoft? I assume th
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by celticjames 14y ago
Between slide 4 and 5 there's one tiny bubble that blows up into a big giant bubble and a small one on the left that sinks a little. They are Yahoo, up 3,590%, and Apple, down 25%. They should do a follow up to see how they are doing today.
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by celticjames 14y ago
Retailers and consumers love Linux! It has has 61% market share. (Source: http://tinyurl.com/ce6t8dk ). Maybe people just don't like Gnome. (viz. http://tinyurl.com/834bn2j )
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by celticjames 14y ago
It's weird. When I was a kid, it took hours to make a trans-atlantic call to my grandmother. Now I feel like a man lost in the desert if I'm momentarily disconnected from globally available near-lightspeed communication. For those looking f
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by celticjames 14y ago
I think older programmers will side with Crockford and for good reason. The bootstrap code makes assumptions about the future of the js spec and browser implementations that aren't safe. Young people don't remember the dark days of people w
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by celticjames 15y ago
I don't know that I would want an implant, but I'd like to try a haptic compass. You strap it on and it gives you a physical sensation of where north is, as if you were a bird with magnetoception. Wire article on haptic compasses: http://w
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by celticjames 15y ago
U.S. soldiers have been tried in foreign courts for breaking local laws. From a Stars and Stripes article regarding a soldier tried for rape in Korea: "The U.S.-South Korea status of forces agreement allows servicemembers to be turned over
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by celticjames 15y ago
It's almost 100 years since Scott died on his expedition to the South Pole (29 March 1912). We live in a science fiction future.
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by celticjames 15y ago
FTA: "If one’s hacked or the list of tokens leaked, everyone who ever used that service risks exposing his complete Gmail archive." Is that even true? The advantage of Oauth over the "password anti-pattern" is that you can grant limited rig
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by celticjames 15y ago
Food for thought: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negligible_senescence Not all animals are pre-programmed for an early death. I wonder if curve for these animals looks like the lightening bolt curve?
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by celticjames 15y ago
Firefox uses VS2005 for builds in order to support XP pre-SP3.
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by celticjames 15y ago
"Obviously the immediate benefit is owning your own content from the top of the page to the bottom." - I guess. I keep a copy of my G+ posts locally (even though Blogger posts from ten years haven't gone away). Posting it on a blog or G+ do
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by celticjames 15y ago
I accidentally fireproofed myself against this attack. I have the Web Developer extension installed and I forgot I had the Disable Cache option on.(The script works as advertised with it off.) Not really practical solution if you want pages
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by celticjames 15y ago
I'm not sure I understand the strategy of targeting the everyday mobile pad user. Linux is already killing with Android. For Ubuntu to succeed, they would either need a hardware vendor to choose Ubuntu over Android (unlikely) or expect user
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by celticjames 15y ago
Readers may also enjoy this discussion of how many moves a chess player has to make before he is playing a game unique in human history: http://www.radiolab.org/2011/aug/23/rules-set-you-free/

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