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by cgs1019 16y ago
One of my math professors pointed out that to be consistent, "π, φ, χ, ψ, ξ, and ι" should actually be pronounced "pee, fee, khee, psee, ksee and ee-ota," which I found kind of funny and fascinating. Of course, common convention beats out p
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by cgs1019 16y ago
I have to wonder if the parabolic shape really matters, or if a large conducting panel of any shape would suffice. I have no idea, really, but would love to hear from anyone who has.
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by cgs1019 16y ago
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by cgs1019 17y ago
Ah, thanks. Can anyone point me to a reference on entering special characters in HN URLs and comments? If I had entered the URL properly, this would have been presented to me before I posted the link.
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Google Grants MapReduce License to Apache/Hadoop(mail-archives.apache.org)
54 points by cgs1019 17y ago|20 comments
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by cgs1019 17y ago
My background is a vertical gradient. I have a script that runs via cron every 5 or 10 seconds that sets the top and bottom colors of the gradient to values that reflect the memory usage (top) and cpu usage (bottom) at any given time. So if
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A Visual Git Reference(marklodato.github.com)
7 points by cgs1019 17y ago|0 comments
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by cgs1019 17y ago
I believe the rc feature exemplified in the link is actually equivalent to that used in the this bash idiom: $ cmp <(old) <(new) (only the braces differ). The author of the article describes a case in which the command in question (
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by cgs1019 17y ago
I thought it was entirely inconclusive and I thought the author's implication that it should be obvious ought to have been slightly offensive to whichever gender was being stereotyped.
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by cgs1019 17y ago
Is IE entirely to blame, really? What about an operating system that allows a web browser sufficient prominence within the system even to allow a susceptibility that enables hackers to “perform reconnaissance and gain complete control over
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by cgs1019 17y ago
Brings this to mind (albeit indirectly) http://xkcd.com/603/ Variation is probably the most resilient feature of humanity, which I think is commonly overlooked in these sorts of dystopisms. Well written, though, and a fun short read.
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by cgs1019 17y ago
Thank you so much for posting this. I had heard bits and pieces of it quoted, but didn't know from whence. What an utterly astoundingly deeply brilliant mind. So nice that there is audio to go with it.