dedward

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by dedward 14y ago
Yup - they're the same thing... you trisect the angle from the corner, and end up with an edge neatly in thirds. Surprised me when I found it too - neat stuff, paper.
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by dedward 14y ago
IF you have a ruler, we can do it with some origami folds and measure the result. Or a slide rule, though that's possibly cheating (technically you'd be dividing....)
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by dedward 14y ago
One would imagine they were thinking long term and big - they didn't start laying the foundations for this 10 years ago for no reason.... and while they may have toyed with some "lab" projects that never took off... this one represents a he
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by dedward 14y ago
The point of a CDN, at least a significant one, is to reduce latency. To put your content closer to your customers. It also lets you handle larger load, is more resilient to DDOS, etc, but, at least in my view, those are often secondary...
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by dedward 14y ago
That could work - I'd be tempted to put a limit on it though - a 10% penalty (or whatever) immediately upon overdue, and a cutoff point where you simply send them to a collection agency. Of course, in the end, you put what the law allows a
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by dedward 14y ago
As a Canadian, I can say that Americans have more fun in life than just about anyone. Sure, we canucks and the rest of the world like to call them out on their shortcomings all the time, but they brought us disneyland and superman, etc.
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by dedward 14y ago
Doesn't need idolizing - he made himself an icon, and there's the right-place-right-time factor. His biography never says "Be like me" by any stretch of the imagination. Nobody is a perfect role model - everyone has faults. Is his attenti
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by dedward 14y ago
I'll defer to experts on the patent issue, but in principle, if you are quick to take measures to avoid doing business with people in states that cause you trouble as soon as they bring it up, it will very likely give you much better chance
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by dedward 14y ago
If the business is in Sweden, it would have to go to court in Sweden, would it not? Does Sweden actually allow judges to have a look at a foreign decision and then just declare their ruling, no trial, nothing? I suspect not (eager to learn
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by dedward 14y ago
No offense meant, but where does this idea come from? I hope it's not common - US Court decisions are valid in the US. Period. Anything else is an international thing, and unless covered by treaties signed into law between countries, court
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by dedward 14y ago
Anyone else recall a Greg Egan story along these lines? can't recall the name.
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by dedward 14y ago
I won't judge, everyone is different, but the real test will be your quality of life at the end. Based on your description, I'm not sure I'd call you an addict at this point, not in the classical sense, you seem to be choosing to use, not
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by dedward 14y ago
It's not a sneak test - it's an actual grammar test. If you are asked to document something, and you can't observe basic english grammar, I see a problem too. Zero tolerance may be taking it a bit too far, but one would imagine he can tell
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by dedward 14y ago
Simple answer there.... just have the system automatically lock the account if you statistically miss the password, just at it statistacally allows you in if you play properly. Or maybe it's only accessible from secure locations - you don't
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by dedward 14y ago
Got kids? Travelled or live outside of the well-developed world? Correlation doesn't imply causation, but causation DOES lead to correlation obviously.... and the reason those vaccines are done, idealistically, is because they've been prove
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by dedward 14y ago
One of those three (A or C, I forget) has no vaccine. The other two do, both are serious, common, and life threatening in a global scale, even if not so much in well-off places.... but it's out there en-masse. Hep B is among the most virul
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by dedward 14y ago
attach/dtach/dvtm perhaps then......
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by dedward 14y ago
It goes without saying..... check out vimgolf if you haven't - whether novice or expert, competing or just reading, you learn new stuff. Don't become too plugin dependent too early, but a quick browse through some other's dotfile repositori
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by dedward 14y ago
QuickCursor on OSX does basically that in just about everything... (like this post) It's not free (bummer) but it lets you take just about any text input area and by some clipboard trickery fire it up in your favorite editor (macvim being o
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by dedward 14y ago
The same could be said of many subatomic particles that were found as we built larger and larger colliders.... it's a very big deal in advancing our understanding of.... everything.
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by dedward 14y ago
Couldn't agree more - I wasn't thinking about how that might be interpreted when I wrote it..... Absolutely we ask "why" - and look for explanations. I meant nothing with regards to being defeatist and not looking at things - only that, as
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by dedward 14y ago
Great comment. I want to hijack it and add.... Couple of points along the same lines that I always like to explain to people. The familiar E=mc^2 we all know - people like to say that means that the energy in a system is equal to the mass t
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by dedward 14y ago
At some point "why" becomes impossible - everything just becomes a set of relationships between things that we can define and predict. The only real answer to "why", from a scientific point of view, is ultimately "because that's how it is
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by dedward 14y ago
It's just a model - finding higgs will add validity to that model as a useful tool. not finding it - invalidating that theory puts us back to the drawing board and/or focuses people on other theories. It's not the end or beginning of any
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by dedward 14y ago
Well, mathematics is somewhat unique in that ultimately, it's purely detached from reality - it's purely conceptual. When we can use it to model the things we percieve, that's great, but at it's most fundamental level, mathematics is not a
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by dedward 14y ago
Thanks - I'll read up. I've long interpreted E=mc^2 to mean not just that energy and mass are interchangeable, that energy and mass are one and the same. What I can't quite get my head around yet (just need to read up more) is how they fig
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by dedward 14y ago
Might be totally wrong here - photons have no volume yet can exhibit mass. (I don't fully understand that particular one yet.. need to read more. Whether or not photons have mass is a complex question it seems - or rather, multi-faceted)
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by dedward 14y ago
Homosexuality has existed as long as humans, it's all over our recorded, and spoken, history. The legal problem is mostly about the word "marriage" and nothing else. Sure, we could fix everything by changing tons of laws (LOTS and LOTS) -
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by dedward 14y ago
As does java - it's all the same jvm. The VM is optimized for long-running applications, not brief scripts............ bang those out in whatever.
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by dedward 14y ago
The prosecutors have to convince a grand jury to issue an indictment. That's what the initial investigation is about. They may not have the duty to disclose, however, the warrant/subpoena has to be specific, and what IS scary is the idea th

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