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by cgs1019 15y ago
I've always been amazed that with all the effort to keep "dangerous" objects off the plane, they still hand out aluminum soda cans which can easily be crushed/bent/torn into quite dangerously sharp forms. Why bother carrying a weapon on boa
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by cgs1019 15y ago
A billion dollar budget and 15 minute query times? What happened to the government having mindblowingly awesome tech?
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Seth MacFarlane Gets Behind "Cosmos" Update(nytimes.com)
3 points by cgs1019 15y ago|0 comments
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by cgs1019 15y ago
Two things come to my mind: 1. That's gotta be one helluva manual 2. Reversing the procedure to automate documentation by examining variable and method names along various code paths would be brilliant.
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Hash functions and block ciphers(burtleburtle.net)
39 points by cgs1019 15y ago|5 comments
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by cgs1019 15y ago
Reminds me of something I once read that said "You can't make code run faster, you can only make it do fewer things"
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Simon Schubert creates complex scenes in paper using creases(simonschubert.de)
66 points by cgs1019 15y ago|8 comments
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The Master Theorem: "members-only society of solvers"(boingboing.net)
4 points by cgs1019 15y ago|0 comments
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by cgs1019 16y ago
I love the characterization of the current solutions in this space as "just too O(n)". A poignant, elegant, delightfully nerdy description.
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by cgs1019 16y ago
What if it were charging your laptop/phone a la power mat?
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by cgs1019 16y ago
RIAA = Record Industry Association of America MPAA = Motion Picture Association of America
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by cgs1019 16y ago
This reasoning fails to take into account the oppressors' possession of technology. Slower forms of communication may have sufficed in the situations you've cited (wherein the oppressor had faster-but-still-slow means of communicating), but
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by cgs1019 16y ago
Your aliases are generally sourced from your shell rc file (ie ~/.bashrc). Not sure how vim launches the shell to run ex shell commands but in the interest of portability it's probably just sh with no rc files loaded. This is probably confi
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by cgs1019 16y ago
http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by cgs1019 16y ago
I spent some time in Puerto Rico and found that the third person reflexive is commonly used this way as a sort of passive voice. For example, a "for sale" sign will read "se vende" (loosely, "it is sold" moreso than "it sells itself"). Havi
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by cgs1019 16y ago
The tree style tabs extension for Firefox is what kept me from (eventually) switching to Chrome. Chrome is superior in a lot of ways but I do wish they'd make the layout a bit more customizable/extensible.
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by cgs1019 16y ago
Thanks, but I'm looking for a downloadable database that we can load up in our ip-location infrastructure and use for high-volume realtime querying. We already use IP2Location but I'm trying to find any viable alternatives so we're not lock
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Ask HN: Any alternatives to IP2Location?
2 points by cgs1019 16y ago|3 comments
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by cgs1019 16y ago
The author clearly put a lot of work into both the implementation and the presentation as well as the accompanying blog post (I love the quotes interspersed; reminds me of my college Abstract Algebra text by Gallian). However, I must say I
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by cgs1019 16y ago
My mneumonic is that in "ln" the "n" comes second, and n is for "name" so the name of the symlink comes second. But I still have to think about it every time...
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by cgs1019 16y ago
This thread seems possessed of an almost Gödelian self-referentiality.
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by cgs1019 16y ago
I use the cheap Microsoft keyboard that came with my work system. My favorite feature is that in exchange for somewhat tedious hour I can dismantle and thoroughly clean the damned thing. I am surprised that there was no mention of cleanabil
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Bill Would Give USJD Power to Shutter Piracy Sites Worldwide(wired.com)
1 points by cgs1019 16y ago|0 comments
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by cgs1019 16y ago
That's clearly the intended meaning, but what it really says is that there exists a set whose elements are of the form C(x) where "x is a context" and C is left undefined. This, of course, is meaningless. Understanding is left as an exercis
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by cgs1019 16y ago
I believe the title should read "Clean Undergrads at Northwestern University Feel Morally Superior." FTA: "Some 58 undergrads were invited to a lab filled with spotless new equipment." I don't think this sample has any remote chance of bein
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by cgs1019 16y ago
Seems like there is a great business opportunity in here somewhere. Something like SSL certs but for identifying brands being sold online. I understand the basics of encryption and digital signatures but not enough to see immediately how th
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by cgs1019 16y ago
The vim users mailing list is extremely lively and full of little tidbits like this. I highly recommend following it.
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by cgs1019 16y ago
Sagan does something like this in Contact (the book).
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by cgs1019 16y ago
Twitter circa 1935: http://gizmodo.com/5254222/olde-timey-notificator-machine-tw...
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Multiple submissions after some period of time
3 points by cgs1019 16y ago|0 comments

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