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by cube13 13y ago
>My personal favourite is mixing up Dynamic Programming (from an Algorithms textbook) with recurrence solving in a discrete math book (which is what DP is actually about) and mixing all that with a more advanced chapter of discrete math
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by cube13 13y ago
>Hunting is also a good reason. The US is big enough that a Federal ban doesn't make sense. While it might be reasonable to ban handguns (for example) in San Francisco, it doesn't make sense to ban them in Alaska or Montana where someon
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by cube13 13y ago
Oh joy, a report from Michael Patcher. I don't know why tech reporting follows the guy, because his predictions seem to be rarely right. Console gamers should know him as the guy that's been predicting that < 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2
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by cube13 13y ago
The legal framework was established in the 60's: http://www.aarclibrary.org/publib/church/reports/book3/html/...
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by cube13 13y ago
Yup, I'd like to see Stanford as well. I'd also like to see what the breakdown for asians that are US citizens versus foreign nationals or immigrants. The other problem is that this article automatically assumes that private schools are "e
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by cube13 13y ago
I agree that it's a big deal. But I think a lot of people are reacting to the images of the graphs, not to the actual numbers that the graphs represent.
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by cube13 13y ago
> Spread $15 - $20M in shorts across the basket, cover them on a 15% net gain in proceeds and then shoot the canary. Eh, the percentage loss for DJI( https://www.google.com/finance?q=INDEXDJX:.DJI ) and the NASDAQ composite( https://ww
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by cube13 13y ago
The "Plunge" was a 1% drop in the DJI average. Concerning, sure, but not nearly as huge as the graphs make it out to be.
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by cube13 13y ago
>Am I kidding myself thinking I can somehow get past this without medication? Is there any other REAL path forward? Maybe. But this is something that you really need to talk to a therapist or doctor about.
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by cube13 13y ago
>This implies he'll be going through a potentially long interrogation with the FBI that may be admittable as evidence, without having been given a Miranda warning. Any statements before the Miranda warning are inadmissable in court: ht
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by cube13 13y ago
>Sharp had[has?] their own panels but the quality wasn't uniformly high and they were overly dependent on their home TV market anyway. Sharp's supplying Samsung with LCD panels: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-03-19/sharp-affirms-op
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by cube13 13y ago
Also, as a few other people have noted here, it's actually less expressive than standard notation. There's no way to show phrasing(especially important for figuring out how to phrase 5/4 or 7/4 time), triplets, and I'm not sure how slur/tie
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by cube13 13y ago
>In short, the relative positioning of notes on the staff is good from a tonal perspective but crap from a finger perspective on most every instrument except piano. That's not really a problem once you build the muscle memory, though. I
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by cube13 14y ago
And how does that help with maintaining the current functionality that Google engineers are supporting? Presumably, the code that the Webkit team wants to remove is the interface with Chrome/Chromium. That's the easy part, in the grand sc
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by cube13 14y ago
>- the savings from fuel/maintenance/etc are very real, not wishful thinking. The math is true for total cost of ownership No, it's really not. If I'm paying $1200/month for a BMW, and the cost of gas+maintenance is $400/month(ballpark)
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by cube13 14y ago
>This now takes them into entirely new territory. This goes to the one feature that's critical to the success: credibility and trust. Carandriver says it best when they basically say "Why are they pulling these shenanigans? They don't n
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by cube13 14y ago
>When Tesla gets around to a Prius-like EV, the numbers are going to be even more ridiculous. The "fuel cost" of commuter EVs will simply be noise in the typical family budget. Or some of the European diesels, some of which are pushing
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by cube13 14y ago
The restaurant in question is owned by the university. It's not a third party or anything else. So the university is perfectly in their rights to tell other people how they want to submit orders.
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by cube13 14y ago
>Morozov is an extremely well-read intellectual (often requiring Wikipedia to grok his allusions) -- he's an important counterbalance to Silicon Valley stupidity (or perhaps, lack of broader education). Or he is just in love with the al
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by cube13 14y ago
> This is great information for anyone making the 32-bit to 64-bit transition, and at this point you really should be viewing 64-bit as your primary platform if you're writing code for x86(amd64) platforms. Just falling back to 32-bit m
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by cube13 14y ago
Signed integer representations. Unsigned ints do not, and you're given the full range of the integer as valid data.
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by cube13 14y ago
I'm confused where the lock that TFA is talking about is in zlib. We've used zlib in a multithreaded environment for years, and haven't had any issues with it, and as far as I can see, there isn't any mutex or semaphore usage in the source
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by cube13 14y ago
> So, presumably its fine for secret murderers to hunt down fighter pilots, tank commanders, Navy commanders, drone operators, etc? Uh, during wartime... yes? They're all combatants, and it's simply a good strategy to hit your enemy whe
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by cube13 14y ago
I think that his point is that glue is only as valuable as the product in which it's used. In the case of finance, it's the fact that they operate as the middleman, getting money from one place to another. The product isn't just getting pe
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by cube13 14y ago
>yahoo buys the company, making the kid a millionaire, it's a PR grand slam, bringing more publicity and 'users' to the app (for now) There aren't any new users getting added. The app's been pulled from the iOS app store. http://summl
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by cube13 14y ago
Uh, the end result is that Yahoo paid for all of it to hire 3 people. The app has been pulled from the app store( http://summly.tumblr.com/post/46247554262/yahoo-agrees-to-ac... ), and it does not sound like it's going to be back. Which
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by cube13 14y ago
So we've gone full circle to mainframe computing.
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by cube13 14y ago
Going to be a nitpicky bastard, but: >Or Keith Urban, the NZ/Australian country music star? Australia and NZ are considered anglophone.
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by cube13 14y ago
I find it distasteful because it's not really that funny in this context. Dongle's a funny word, sure, but here, it just feels meanspirited. It's taking sides in an issue where nobody looks good. I don't have a problem with the joke being
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by cube13 14y ago
> It goes backward. It goes wherever you just were, unless it takes you up a level, and if you just press it again, it takes you back to the app you were in. It's really not hard. And there's no way to tell if you're at the first "point

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