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by didroe 12y ago
My limited understanding is that heat is related to the square of the voltage. And that by reducing the size of a transistor, you can lower the voltage. I don't think you can lower the voltage by quite as much as the reduction in size,
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by didroe 12y ago
It's much simpler than that. It actually makes writing a compiler easier as you have higher level abstractions to work compared to generating machine code. There are many languages that compile to C which should prove to you that it ca
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by didroe 16y ago
I personally find larger version numbers a bit odd. Generally people tend to work better with smaller numbers. I think the Ubuntu system is pretty good, use the major version for the year and have the month as the minor version. The Chrome
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by didroe 16y ago
You have to hope you can become popular enough that when your initial deal runs out you can dictate terms to the record company and not the other way around. Or that you can use fame to generate revenue from other sources.
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by didroe 16y ago
I'm pretty sure you could save £6 billion just by never ever using EDS again. It's like some kind of abusive marriage, the government keeps getting screwed over and then goes back for more.
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by didroe 16y ago
One of the charts in that link is GDP per capita adjusted for CPI, and it's still shows growth at a pretty constant rate.
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by didroe 17y ago
Isn't this just Paypal? But instead of giving someone my email address to transfer funds, they have to get their dingle-whatsit out and I have to get my card out and mess around?
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by didroe 17y ago
Broadcast media and print are doing a fine enough job on their own with sensationalism and scaremongering.
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by didroe 17y ago
Javascript? :)
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by didroe 17y ago
Because for Mozilla it's not a case of side-stepping the law. It's a case of their moral intentions. They want the web to be usable for people who want to run free software, or at least for it to be possible to write a browser stack based o
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by didroe 17y ago
We use http://www.sagepay.co.uk You get the choice of using their servers to handle card details and processing, or you can do it yourself and hand the numbers off to them using an API. They were recommended by RBS.
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by didroe 17y ago
This was covered in the article: >Then in 2011, we plan to introduce Interlagos...we’re designing some shared components that help reduce power consumption and die size, but you won’t see us sharing integer pipelines, the meat of the c
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by didroe 17y ago
Saying something is never good doesn't equate to saying it never happens. And saying something can be good doesn't imply that it always is.
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by didroe 17y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Communications_Headq...
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by didroe 17y ago
Assuming their population has stayed the same and that they haven't built anything on lower lying land since then.
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by didroe 17y ago
Is it possible to start playback on the HTML5 video element without Javascript? I thought it was a requirement.
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by didroe 17y ago
Most countries have some socialist and some capitalist aspects. I don't know of a single country that is purely one or the other. Nothing works perfectly so we mix and match a little of everything. There are countries where either word is b
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by didroe 17y ago
A better method (IMHO) is to run it through Beautiful Soup once to strip the fills out and then just build a stylesheet every time you want a map.
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by didroe 17y ago
>Firefox accounted for 44% of all browser bugs reported in the first half of the year. And what about the ones that closed source IE and Opera didn't report?
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by didroe 17y ago
Couldn't a vectorizing compiler be used to generate the code rather than assembler?
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by didroe 17y ago
I'm so glad car manufacturers don't bother with airbags, or ABS, or traction control, or side impact bars, or...
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by didroe 17y ago
Why not? The TCO is done on the caller end and is completely transparent to the callee. You just don't bother pushing your return address when calling a function, so it'll return to the previous one instead.
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by didroe 17y ago
I liked the OPs reply to this message: >Thanks for your reply. It was quite interesting, though I get the feeling you used my question solely as a trigger to share with us a long-held dissatisfaction with the current state of affairs c
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by didroe 17y ago
We just switched to greek gods, ran out of muppets and magic roundabout characters.
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by didroe 17y ago
If you look at it the other way around, it's currently a supressor's paradise. If you say something I don't like, I can sue you and you have to prove that every tiny detail of what you said is factual. Most people aren't going to be checkin
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by didroe 17y ago
I just append something to my Gmail address with a plus character. Like: myaddress@gmail.com might become myaddress+hackernews@gmail.com. I can then set up filters to sort or delete specific sources of mail. According to Wikipedia, this is
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by didroe 17y ago
Given the Python example in the article: def f(n): num = 0 while num < n: yield num num += 1 what's wrong with: function f(n) { var num = 0; return function () {
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by didroe 17y ago
>Isn't this already done? That's the point of this topic, to discuss things that have been done but didn't seem obvious 5-10 years ago.
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by didroe 17y ago
>Same for break and continue, and mostly raise These are all escape continuations. >which unfortunately I don't have a snappy word on hand for Abstractions?
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by didroe 17y ago
I saw an article recently about projectors that shine light directly into your eye. Mix that tech with a camera to track the location of your eyes and align the projector and you wouldn't need any monitors. You just stick your phone on a de

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