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by dexen 13y ago
Perhaps the Funarg problem [1]: >The difficulty only arises if the body of a nested function refers directly (i.e., not via argument passing) to identifiers defined in the environment in which the function is defined, but not in the env
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by dexen 13y ago
Use stash for easier rebasing and/or pull --merge. git stash git pull --rebase origin master git stash pop
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by dexen 13y ago
Sony Ericsson P910i released in 2004 [1]. It had pretty much all the functionality of iPhone, including touch based browser, unified app for SMS/email/MMS, and vibrant software scene. Sprorted handy text inputs -- handwritten reco
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Generate Unique images from any text (robohash.org)
1 points by dexen 13y ago|0 comments
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by dexen 13y ago
It's time to bring back the good old polymorphic code. If there is one thing that ASICs can't do faster than generic CPUs, it's executing code that constantly undergoes changes.
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by dexen 13y ago
Re: Poland, it seems to me Windows Phone's relative success is thanks to the Nokia brand, and also to iPhone being considered overpriced upmarket gadget and/or hipster symbol. Nokia has long enjoyed very good opinion and popularit
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Congressional Leaders Suggest Earlier Snowden Link to Russia(nytimes.com)
2 points by dexen 13y ago|2 comments
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by dexen 13y ago
The very old (think Pentium M) HP nc8000 had all those features, available in 1600x1200 and 1400x1050 resolutions -- those were good back then for a 15''. Quite feature-complete for its time -- ab WiFi (5GHz and 2.4GHz), gigabit E
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by dexen 13y ago
> Facebook is not going to gain much penetration there. There is little to no customer loyalty on `social networking' sites. We used to have a deeply-entrenched website in Poland (`nasza-klasa.pl'), apparently everyone was on
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by dexen 13y ago
`Common sense' in this case is quite misleading; indeed `[a] collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen' fits this case perfectly. For one, a quick look at Wikipedia gives list of references indicating the opposite -- homes
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French-UAE Intel Satellite Deal in Doubt – US Parts Raise Security Concerns(defensenews.com)
181 points by dexen 13y ago|83 comments
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A Battle That Snowden Is Not Winning(nytimes.com)
1 points by dexen 13y ago|0 comments
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Behind Airbnb's legal fights, grassroots activism(tech.fortune.cnn.com)
1 points by dexen 13y ago|0 comments
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by dexen 13y ago
The Bell Labs Song [1] neatly lists all the innovations -- and the list goes on and on, ranging from physics and cosmology, through low-level electronics and programming, to systems and organization design and applied math concepts. Oh, and
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by dexen 13y ago
The changes look good! Can't help but notice OP's blog platform replaces "--" (dash-dash) with "–" (U+2013, en dash), even in <span>s meant for code highlight. This prevents straightforward copy-paste of
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by dexen 13y ago
> It's just that I get the feeling your "job" should be done automatically by a sidebar or something ;) I disagree strongly: I would gladly pay a human for curating & summarizing HN just like ColinWright did -- on
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by dexen 13y ago
Watch out for seemingly unrelated sensors. A few years ago a friend was showing off his Macbook Pro, with harddrive accelerometer picking (IIRC) faint traces of normal speech. Ah, and good luck with removing sound capabilities from smartpho
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by dexen 13y ago
One of my faves: Acme Klein Bottles: http://kleinbottle.com/ , a novelty glassware shop ran by astronomer, author and glass blower Cliff Stoll. They sell hats and Moebius scarves just as well :-) Despite the looks, the web
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Microsoft to Take Over Nokia’s Landmark Headquarters(bloomberg.com)
1 points by dexen 13y ago|0 comments
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by dexen 13y ago
Auto-assignment of nicknames seems a particularly nifty feature -- a warm welcome for first-time users. Overall seems a well-balanced crossover of IRC and message board. (Almost) Everything Google Wave wanted to be, but never had a chance t
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by dexen 13y ago
How about solution without any explicit mathematical operations, just pattern matching on decimal notation? #!/usr/bin/env rc for (i in `{seq 100}) { toPrint = $i toPost = '' if (~ $i *5 || ~ $i *0
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by dexen 13y ago
> I can't wait to see the "Write code first" article later this afternoon. </sarcasm> == Don't go looking for customers before you have working code. == Years of experience show sales and investment round
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by dexen 13y ago
Looks like a failed publicity stunt to me, borderline link farm. There's hardly any posts on this forum -- a mere hundred threads spread over dozen sub-forums, plus a bot-populated "News" section. No telling how much of the t
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by dexen 13y ago
Bitcoin seems to be missing from the list of supported currencies. That by design or an accidental mis-feature?
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by dexen 13y ago
Guess this is how it's done in the SaaS world? Watch out for repeat of RSS's story -- market got dominated, then the dominating service got plug pulled. Microsoft really should have patented the `Embrace, Extend, Extinguish'
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by dexen 13y ago
Worth mentioning is "--first-parent" argument to git-log, which is usefull when using git-merge --no-ff to keep clean history with summary commits. With "--first-parent" , git-log only follows the left-hand (first) pa
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KDE Bug 299245 - Get rid of "Display borders on maximized windows" setting(bugs.kde.org)
2 points by dexen 13y ago|0 comments
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by dexen 13y ago
...and for those who like concise quotes: `If the code and the comments disagree, then both are probably wrong.' -- Norm Schryer `Don't get suckered in by the comments -- they can be terribly misleading. Debug only code.' --
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How a Radical New Teaching Method Could Unleash a Generation of Geniuses(wired.com)
4 points by dexen 13y ago|0 comments
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by dexen 13y ago
Almost; the core insight is the non-linearity of this truism.

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