demallien

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by demallien 12y ago
Yes, welcome to the wonderful world of iPhone autocorrect when trying to type French names on the qwerty keyboard :/
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by demallien 12y ago
You can actually still see one-off the Vauban forts at sissy les moulineux, on the outskirts of Paris. It's about 1km from where I live :)
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by demallien 12y ago
Bastards! I foolishly just assumed that it was going to launch at the same time as the earlier attempt last week (although 1 seconds thought would have made me realize that this was highly improbable...)
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by demallien 12y ago
I don't mean this to be a personal attack, so please don't take it that way, but comments like this read to me as being written by a young, inexperienced programmer. I happen to know that this is not your case, but without checkin
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by demallien 12y ago
Grant won that campaign. A campaign that had been attempted and lost by three of his predecessors. Tactically the guy was no genius, but strategically he was brilliant.
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by demallien 12y ago
Yeah, that list rather sucks. At a minimum you need to add in Robert Lee and Ulysses Grant. Also Genghis Khan was no slouch on the battlefield, and most people feel like Sun Tzu knew a thing or two about fighting battles...
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by demallien 12y ago
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Cole_bombing Divers attaching charges to the hull would be another low-tech way to take a vessel like this down. Low tech mines would probably do a pretty good job too.
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by demallien 12y ago
What tacos is trying to say is that in an FFT, you will have the same number of samples in the time domain and the frequency domain (weeeeellll, I'm simplifying a bit, half of those 'frequency domain' samples are actually pha
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by demallien 12y ago
Most music analysis tools use a sliding window combined with a windowing function to correct for most of this. You'll still have your frequencies smeared a little in time if you're plotting f against t, but the windowing helps lim
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by demallien 12y ago
The percentage of programmers working in VC-funded jobs is tiny. I won't say that it wouldn't have any effect, but the effect would be minor. You might have to go and do some drudge programming work in an anonymous department insi
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by demallien 12y ago
Well, for what it's worth, I'm actually Australian, and our cities are very similar to those in the US. What I said holds as much for Perth or Sydney as it does for Paris and London. The key is that traffic congestion reduces aver
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by demallien 12y ago
Actually, for anyone living in an actual city, bikes and cars are generally roughly equivalent in terms of trip time. For example, I have an 8km commute on the outskirts of Paris - it takes about 45mins, regardless of whether I run, ride a
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by demallien 12y ago
Yup, I got a good look at it on my way to work in Paris. It was one of those days where there is enough cloud that you can look at the sun without it hurting, but the sun is still visible through the clouds. I've been looking for sun
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by demallien 12y ago
Yes, it is being pedantic ;). You may also have noted that nobody "tricks out" ICBMs (the aftermarket parts available for ICBMs is rather limited...), and may have concluded that the original post was simply taking a few liberti
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by demallien 12y ago
You're talking about a company that makes tricked out ICBMs. I suspect that SpaceX could handle a tit-for-tat exchange with any space power. The only real limit would be budgetary, but I'm pretty sure the U.S. government could fin
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by demallien 12y ago
Yup, Enigma was a side-show, the main deal was Colossus and the work to crack Tunny. The fact that Tunny had been cracked was a highly classified secret for decades after the war - I've always felt that the Enigma story was used as a
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by demallien 12y ago
I would imagine that it is because brick and mortar merchants are a lower fraud risk than an online property. Don't forget that visa and MasterCard suck up fraud on both sides of the transaction. Which is not to say that there aren&#x2
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by demallien 12y ago
Yes, let's arm the teachers. And when we're reading, a few years later about the tragic shooting in Hunt County a High School, where the Chemistry teacher went nuts and shot 51 students, we will once again lay fault at the feet of
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by demallien 12y ago
Those scary warnings exist for a reason. iOS has s similar installed base to Windows, and it runs on devices permanently connected to the Internet. Guess how many viruses have hit the platform. There's a reason for that. Getting softwa
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by demallien 12y ago
On the one hand, I wan to agree with you - just looking at my own situation I just ordered an iPhone 6 plus, and I have a MacBook Air. But I'm not ready to writ off he iPad just yet. It still has a major advantage over the mac - iOS is
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by demallien 12y ago
I would think that Kvothe is every bit as flawed as Miles Vorkosigan. They both end up in sticky situations because they're more than just a little arrogant, which results in them biting off more than they can chew. Kvothe is not t
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by demallien 12y ago
"You're idealizing Access for reasons unknown." Well, you might accept that I'm "idealizing" Access because, you know, I had a decent experience with it 20 years ago, as described in my first comment. No need
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by demallien 12y ago
Yup, and if you are trying to do the full stack, you had better toss in some node.js or Ruby on Rails, plus SQL. Web development is really hard for non-developers to grok. I keep thinking back to an Access application that I threw together
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by demallien 12y ago
The Name of the Wind really is good. The second book of the series (The Wise Man's Fear) is also excellent. Actually, just reading through the list, I was a little disappointed. Yes, there are some great classics, but Timeline"
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by demallien 12y ago
On the other hand, when you're the engineer maintaining the flight sims for the pilots, boy oh boy can you have fun in those machines :) I've logged over 100 hours on the F-18, and 20 for the F-111. Never got to experience those
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by demallien 12y ago
Freak. Everyone knows that Vegemite is the one true spread. Fun thing you can do with vegemite - get a bunch of French people in a room that have tried vegemite and get them to discuss whether the word is masculine or feminine. Some want f
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by demallien 12y ago
Woah, a little trip down memory lane... This post made me think of this: http://www.mobygames.com/game/american-challenge-a-sailing-s... This was actually quite a reasonable sailing simulator if I remember correctly.
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by demallien 12y ago
Not to mention that Apple ended up eating up almost all of the profits of the PC market. It really is starting to feel like history is repeating itself
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by demallien 12y ago
Yeah, I stopped buying pork products a fee years back for exactly this reason. It's tough though, they were my favourite meats...
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by demallien 12y ago
Ha. I had a Compucolor II. It got me into programming because there were no games so I had to write my own. My parents didn't replace it until about 1990! It didn't gave the drawing mode you mention, but u did actually write a pro

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