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by cynwoody 14y ago
That covers me. I never land in the Times except via a link from somewhere. I never go there directly. Once or twice in the last year, I've hit the ten-article limit. One of those times, I actually cleaned out the cookies.
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I wonder if it would be quicker for getHash() to check for object (including functions) first, then for string, then let the rest come as they are, more or less: var objectId = 1000000; function getHash2(value) { if (type
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17 \|/0|_||_|) 83|-|00\/3 _|00 70 \/1$17 |-|77P://\|/\|/\|/._|4`/$$173.(0|\/|/$7|_||=|=/|_337/|_337_7.-4|\|$|_470.-.|-|7|\/||_.[1] [1] http://www.jayssite.com/stuff/l33t/l33t_translator.html
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by cynwoody 14y ago
Sort by agony, LOL! I like the time charts, too. Thanks. I didn't know about Hipmunk. I have been using mostly Kayak and, more recently, Google.
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by cynwoody 14y ago
E.g., depart Chicago from O'Hare to Denver, then return to Chicago from Denver, arriving at Midway? Choose Multi-city, and specify specific airport codes at the originating / terminating metro area. E.g., American 1017 ORD to DEN on 7 Jan a
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by cynwoody 14y ago
It's looking like they changed the link after you posted, changing "sorry" to "were-sorry". http://techcrunch.com/2012/12/21/were-sorry-mike-were-also-a...
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by cynwoody 14y ago
It's funny as hell. And the last remark in the dialog makes it clear the intended audience is sloppy developers, not non-techies. Although brighter non-techies would probably get it after a little thought.
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>It's quite interesting to hear how the genius idea of a bar code was conceived by dragging four fingers in the sand. In 1920, fourteen-year-old Philo Farnsworth was tilling his family's Idaho potato field. He'd been thinking of how to
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by cynwoody 14y ago
A standard example I used to cite to illustrate the difference brought about by safe-search was an image search for 'facial'. With safe search off, that filled the screen with NSFW results. I just tried again, and the results were squeaky c
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by cynwoody 14y ago
Having indentation inform syntax is a good thing, as demonstrated by the likes of Python and YAML. But meaningful trailing white space (see the multiline string example)? I don't think so ...
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Neat! An arms race is shaping up between Kayak and Google.
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>Calling send() with no arguments is functionally the same as calling .next(), but last I heard it would throw an error. I just tried one in Firefox 17, and you can prime it by calling send() with no argument. It objects if there is an
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I like your critique of tipping.
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The article claims the 60 kwh model goes one mile on 0.35 kwh. So, at USD$0.16662/kwh (didn't know the currencies were that close), it costs $0.058317 to go a mile. If gas is $3.35/gal, then you need to be getting 57.4 mpg to be even. Howev
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>He speculated that some of the weight was in the form of actual weights. If true, that would appear to suggest an obvious after-market performance mod.
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by cynwoody 14y ago
For the 60 kwh model, 60 kwh would go 171 miles, so that's 1.75¢ per mile. (Although Tesla claims a range of 300 miles at 55 mph.) I didn't know off-peak rates were so cheap.
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by cynwoody 14y ago
The article claims 38 kwh to go 100 miles for the 85 kwh model. So, if a kwh is a dime, that's 3.8¢ per mile. The 85 kwh model does 0 to 60 in 4.4 seconds. How many miles per gallon would a comparable gasoline powered street rocket get? May
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by cynwoody 14y ago
Ditch my laptop for a tablet with a portable keyboard? Well, maybe, but not before I have a suitable replacement for my desktop (Bluetooth keyboard, wireless Logitech mouse, 30" external monitor), which is currently also my laptop. I do tra
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by cynwoody 14y ago
That video claims to have been uploaded in 2009, but it was made on 18 July 2001. Four years later, a funny thing happened to the PPC. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megahertz_myth http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apples_transition_to_Intel_pr
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by cynwoody 14y ago
It is fixed. CSS may color visited links red, but they hacked getComputedStyle to return the normal color instead. So, you can't tell if that link to Amazon you just created is visited or not. And you can no longer set, for example, font-we
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Nice writeup on your implementation.
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Using Google's AppEngine, how many sites could you monitor how often before you would hit the billing threshold? I see they now offer Go in addition to Python and Java. I'd probably go with Python because it's so easy. Although, it might be
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by cynwoody 14y ago
This is an example of what's commonly known as a no-brainer.
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Impressive as the numbers are, it's worth remembering that this is an "offline crack", going against a stolen list of encrypted passwords. If they can steal your database of encrypted passwords, you've got a problem no matter how strong the
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Aiming to build a circuit that switches on-off in a femtosecond. A femtosecond is a micronanosecond.
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Lessee ... Issued in: 2010. Principle: $2,999,949. Due in 26.1 years: $33,820,000 That works out to an interest rate of 10.495%. How does that compare to your mortgage interest rate? http://spreadsheets.latimes.com/capital-appreciation-bon
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by cynwoody 14y ago
No need to access the Wayback Machine. You can read it here: http://www.harvard.edu/president/speeches/summers_2005/nber.... IIRC, that was the speech that got him headed out the door at Harvard.
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by cynwoody 14y ago
>The issue with web scraping is that it relies on the scraper to keep up with changes made to the site. The OP addresses that point. His contention is, there's a lot more pressure on the typical enterprise to keep their public-facing we
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Great read! In the past, I have successfully used HtmlUnit to fulfill my admittedly limited scraping needs. It runs headless, but it has a virtual head designed to pretend it's a user visting a web application to be be tested for QA purpose
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It's a handy tool for downloading Chrome or Firefox, should you have the misfortune to find yourself using Windows. I've heard MS made great improvements in standards compliance and JavaScript performance in version 9 and beyond. But I've n

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