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by dexen 14y ago
Using a screenshot is no cheat. The screenshot is an useful visual cue for user, helping her grasp the GUI as soon as possible, and direct her finger towards the right widget to be clicked. App loading becomes asynchronous, with user able t
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by dexen 14y ago
> Fair use doesn't exist in EU. This matter is country-level, internal to Ireland. In Ireland, they have http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_dealing See, for example, notes here http://www.poetryireland.ie/resources/copyright.html u
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by dexen 14y ago
> What if you make a mistake and remove a branch that you didn't want to remove? Threre are three cascading safeguards: * you cannot remove the current branch, you gotta check out some other branch. Thus you get to know what you leave
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by dexen 14y ago
The most interesting part is described near the end: they are able to inject powder. The device vibrates the powder to the point it behaves as liquid and thus can be injected easily. Cool :D Somebody correct me please; I imagine they care a
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by dexen 14y ago
From the video, the `AreYouHuman' captcha strikes me as quite culture-specific. `Put the tools in toolbox', `make pancakes' -- some people will know what and how to, others will not. Meanwhile, a simple bot, as demonstrated, achieves high s
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by dexen 14y ago
>Nothing is more annoying than arriving at a place (...) to find out it doesn't work. :) Which has sort-of happened already in history of space exploration, when Mars Climate Orbiter mis-handled Mars orbitial insertion and was lost. T
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by dexen 14y ago
Lower orbits have higher anglular velocity -- and it is angular velocity that dictates which craft gets ahead on orbit, because we're comparing angular position , not linear one. For example, geostationary orbit (~36'000km radius) has pe
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by dexen 14y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Bell_Labs follows the Unix philosophy. A lot of legacy has been shed. I can count 13 options to ls , 11 options to sed and just 5 to sed . The standard Plan 9 shell, Rc, is described in mere ~5
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by dexen 14y ago
switch (v) { case FOO_A: case FOO_B: do some_foo(); break; // if you really want :P case BAR_X: case BAR_Y: do_some_bar(); } Here you have two implicit fallthroughs used for cleaner code. Anot
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by dexen 14y ago
> Most consumer protection laws are not enforced like this. It's not about actual enforcement, it's about perceived risks. Take for example recent legislation regarding HTTP cookies in EU -- it has stirred up quite a bit of FUD, slowi
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by dexen 14y ago
However you slice it, paywall is bothersome -- one more click to go through, with no added benefit. Let's hope the `netizens' will vote with their feet more often.
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by dexen 14y ago
> and it could be shown that its property would be of such near-infinite complexity to rule out us running in a simulation. I believe a fractal is not a viable experiment. You hinge the experiment on assumption any simulation would be
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by dexen 14y ago
We could know. If we ever broke out, that'd be a definitive proof that there is a layer above our reality. To continue your VM and hypervisor analogy, there is a class of hacks in which virtualized software breaks out of the VM and is able
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by dexen 15y ago
> The comments here seem brutally negative,(...) firm-wide aggressive embrace of open source tech. Some of us still remember how Microsoft used to Extend and Extinguish right after Embracing. Protocols, formats, standards; you name it
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by dexen 15y ago
When going hypersonic, lack of heat is of least concern ;-) Icing occurs around plane parts where air at ambient temperature is further cooled, for example by pressure drop. As it is the case in throttle body of piston engine. Here incommin
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by dexen 15y ago
I wonder if read and write times on-par, or better than, DRAM's are achievable with such modern core memory. Cool project, btw :-)
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by dexen 15y ago
Consider whether their abuse of your resume actively harms you some way, be it lowering your repuation or re-directing potential clients to them. If it does harm you, send them a cease&desist letter, based on your authorship of this tex
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by dexen 15y ago
For lack of a better idea, that's how I once tested a toy PRNG I programmed. Feed output to rzip, check compression level, tweak a few knobs till it compresses worst. However, that's not a good guaranty of true randomness. Encrypted data (f
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by dexen 15y ago
The wonderful thing about programming is that we use and develop both tools and meta-tools. And you -- the programmer -- are one of those meta-tools just as well. Every day you get to choose at which level of the tool/meta-tool stack you wo
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by dexen 15y ago
In the ideal capitalist's world the state does not intervene into the market; only the market forces and agreements between market players shape prices and availability. Note this case is not based on any agreement between publisher and the
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by dexen 15y ago
Imagine for a moment a city without municipial transportation, without running water, electricity, phone service, cars[0], etc. Without your favorite restaurant chain. Heck, without those soap dispensers OP mentions. Suddenly it's no longer
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by dexen 15y ago
> If you power the box down, anything stored in ram is lost. That's the theory of ideal RAM, but in practice RAM is not ideally volatile. Cf.: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_boot_attack
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by dexen 15y ago
There's a class of "X whore" insults floating around. For example, http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=attention%20w... . The `whore' part refers to doing something regretable in exchange for personal gain, no gender implied. He
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by dexen 15y ago
In related news: http://www.alcowebizer.com/news.ycombinator.com
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by dexen 15y ago
As far as anecdotal evidence is admitted, I am a very happy user of a Nokia N900 tablet. So are other folks focused around http://maemo.org . Its lineage goes back to 2005 (N770). This isn't question of entering a new market, it's a logica
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by dexen 15y ago
That `editor' part cannot be stressed enough. It's a shame the PUT and PATCH HTTP methods aren't widely used nor open for use.
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by dexen 15y ago
Not to be confused with the great open-source groupware Citadel project: http://www.citadel.org/
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by dexen 15y ago
For now, handrolled. The idea is to be able to do either `cat * .sql' or just `cat LAST-PART.sql'. I run mysqldump once per each large table with --where="_rowid >= $FROM AND < $TO" argument to mysqldump, and call mysqldump in lo
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by dexen 15y ago
Straight from the dump scripts: --complete-insert --hex-blob --skip-add-drop-table --single-transaction --order-by-primary --skip-dump-date --force # so mysqldump does not bail out on invalid view --no-create-info # do not emit CREA
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by dexen 15y ago
Cheap backups? Use de-duplication. I have cronjob with daily dumps of several MySQL databases, in the usual textual format. One day woth of dumps takes about 470MB now. Two years ago, we started at about 20MB/day and it was growing ever s

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