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by desdiv 12y ago
What's the percentage of edX courses that are actually CC licensed? As a quick and unscientific experiment, I checked out the 12 courses listed on the edX.org homepage and none of them were CC licensed. With Google I found a few CC lic
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by desdiv 12y ago
>Followed by 3 memorization questions. Did you mean memoization, the optimization technique where you cache intermediate results? Or were they literally asking you to memorize and recite minutiae over the phone? I always get these two
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by desdiv 12y ago
Let's say I have a bunch of Bullet objects, and each Bullet belongs to multiple lists. In that case, std::list<Bullet> doesn't work and I have to use std::list<Bullet*> instead, thus the extra pointer dereference.
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by desdiv 12y ago
If CNN has an article about my drunk driving record 10 years ago, I can force Google to "forget" said CNN article, even though I don't control CNN.com's robot.txt.
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by desdiv 12y ago
For Google open source projects, all C++11 features are approved except the following ones[0]: Functions (other than lambda functions) with trailing return types, e.g. writing auto foo() -> int; instead of int foo();, because of a
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by desdiv 12y ago
Jet engine are actually less efficient than piston engines.
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by desdiv 12y ago
The jurisdictional problem isn't as big as it seems, because not 100% of the land will be returning to Maryland, only 99.99% of it. To wit, the White House, the Capitol, and the Supreme Court building will still retain their status quo
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by desdiv 12y ago
All the OPEC oil companies are state-owned. That's how the OPEC countries are able to control their production numbers.
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by desdiv 12y ago
Does anyone know why fuel taxes are calculated by volume instead of value ? That's the opposite of pretty much every other tax on goods in the country.
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by desdiv 12y ago
Previous HN discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8676373 The slides are slightly different though ("Now shorter and funnier!" as the author puts it).
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by desdiv 12y ago
There are some good data points in previous HN discussions[0]. Runabove[1] offers Power8-based cloud instances, so anyone with the free time can do their own benchmarks. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8481851 [1]
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by desdiv 12y ago
Here's a site with pictures of more than 50 (!!) early electric cars: http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/overview-of-early-electric-ca...
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by desdiv 12y ago
I feel that if I had produced an open source library, I'd be less interested in having my name anywhere near a project that I didn't actually produce. BSD's non-endorsement clause comes close to what you want: Neither
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by desdiv 12y ago
Maybe you are thinking that, yes, of course, there was an elite in communist China, there is one everywhere—but surely they would be different names and people from those that formed the pre-communist elite. I'm not sure if it's
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GeoTrellis – A Geographic Data Processing Engine(geotrellis.io)
6 points by desdiv 12y ago|0 comments
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Modified Camera Firmware for Encrypted Photography(sites.google.com)
6 points by desdiv 12y ago|0 comments
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by desdiv 12y ago
North Korea threatens to nuke US, as well as half a dozen other countries, on a regular basis. There's no need for false flag operations against North Korea; they're already doing everything they can to paint themselves in a bad l
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by desdiv 12y ago
Anyone can sue anyone over anything. I can sue Cinemark over the sky not being green, but it doesn't mean I'll win. The lawsuit you're referring to was dismissed[0]. So bring it up proves nothing. [0] http://en.wik
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by desdiv 12y ago
Even better, use different optimization levels per file and benchmark them. If you have N files, then that's only 3^N builds to test out each possible combination of O, O2, and O3. That shouldn't take too long. /s
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by desdiv 12y ago
D'oh. How did I miss that. Thank you.
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by desdiv 12y ago
Sorry, I don't get it. Could you please explain it?
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by desdiv 12y ago
I really don't understand why Oracle, a company that rakes in almost $40 billion a year, is begging for pocket change from Ask Jeeves. Someone please explain this to me.
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by desdiv 12y ago
Did this "revolutionary startup hires top SF writer" thing ever happen before? If so, how it turn out last time(s)? I hope it doesn't end up like the whole "revolutionary CPU maker hires Linus" thing.
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by desdiv 12y ago
That's probably not wise. If he's not concise enough he could end up owing himself valuable time.
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by desdiv 12y ago
I love the general idea of comic-style graphs, but this particular implementation of it does indeed look "fucking awful" in my opinion. The graph itself is fine, but the axis is made of these faux wavy line that eerily repeats its
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by desdiv 12y ago
0. It has nothing to do with TDD OP is referring to this line: It also turns out, in both softwares, a majority of the couplings are attributable to Test Driven Design, where a source code is coupled to its test. So these are apparently
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Home Computers Behind the Iron Curtain(hackaday.com)
94 points by desdiv 12y ago|20 comments
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by desdiv 12y ago
The acrylic cases are backlit with blue LEDs... This is just adorable. Now I feel less guilty about putting up LED lit fans in my computer.
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by desdiv 12y ago
He was probably referring to solid state hard drives.
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by desdiv 12y ago
Is that the Fremont Tesla plant featured on your frontpage? http://photos4.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/b/b/6/e/highres...

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