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by dkbrk 11y ago
I think this is not so much a "law" as a failure mode. It up to the programmers, objectives, time constraints and economic considerations whether a concerted effort is made to increase code quality or to go for the "quick fix
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by dkbrk 11y ago
I think it's important to point out that whether something like this matters depends entirely on your security model. For example, an attacker learning that I have a gmail account isn't very useful information, so I don't con
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by dkbrk 11y ago
Though I don't know any more details about the events that took place, there are several ways of speeding up the process. As 23kt gold is quite soft, it would be a quite straightforward process to finely divide it and thereby increase
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by dkbrk 11y ago
In particular, pyroprocessing ( http://www.cse.anl.gov/pdfs/pyroprocessing_brochure.pdf ), which can separate out all actinides forming the bulk of nuclear waste. The actinides can continue to be used as fuel in an appro
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by dkbrk 12y ago
I, for one, was extremely disappointed in Mass Effect 2 as compared to the original. As a result, I didn't buy the third. Mass Effect, was, in my opinion, truly inimitable. While the sequels may have kept the setting and had very high
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by dkbrk 12y ago
A stenography keyboard can be even faster: http://stenoboard.com/
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by dkbrk 12y ago
As far as I can tell, the best tool for localisation almost nobody is using is http://www.grammaticalframework.org/ . Licensing is a mix of GPL, BSD and MIT pieces. It's a high-level functional programming language with
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by dkbrk 12y ago
I question the validity of their methodology. At no point in the paper is exactly what is meant by a "formatting error" or a "typesetting error" defined. From what I gather, the participants in the study were required to
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by dkbrk 12y ago
> Add temporal antialiasing, jitter or noise/film grain to mask over things and allow for more detail extraction. As long as you’re actually changing your sampling pattern per pixel, and simulating real noise – not just applying whi
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by dkbrk 12y ago
I believe Amazon's revenue growth is slowing because they're beginning to saturate the consumer market. However, they're only just beginning to penetrate B2B supply ( http://www.forbes.com/sites/clareoconn
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by dkbrk 12y ago
It's amusing to point out the failures of government bureaucracy, and while it's admirable that they're trying, I think we can all agree that the people responsible for these measures aren't exactly blessed with an overa
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by dkbrk 12y ago
> Everytime I see for(int i=0;...;i++) In this case, it makes absolutely no difference at all. It could be argued that writing unsigned int would make the code slightly harder to read. That said, I like to use stdint.h and unint32_t woul
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by dkbrk 12y ago
False positives aren't inherently a problem. If you have accurate understanding of the sensitivity and specificity of a test, then you can take action to maximise the utility of the expected outcome. This means, for example, not necess
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by dkbrk 12y ago
I take it you don't appreciate the irony in light of the US trying to enforce its copyright laws internationally.
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by dkbrk 12y ago
I think the author is correct in that he tried to learn too many things at once; starting with a friendlier environment and focussing on a small number of new technologies has obvious advantages. But in some other ways, the author is too se
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by dkbrk 12y ago
Statements must be false to be defamatory ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defamation#Truth ). While Yishan's actions may be considered unprofessional, he is legally in the clear so long as he was not lying. I think y
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by dkbrk 12y ago
Mousing over the buttons to switch between brand identity/web design and UI/web development shows a text selection cursor.
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by dkbrk 12y ago
With firefox 33.0.1 on Linux, the scrolling was very jerky. That, and the hijacked scrolling made me give up about halfway through. Frankly, Wikipedia does a far better job.
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by dkbrk 12y ago
It is a fundamental principle of rationality that having better information should not put you in a worse position. The article quotes Dr. Kenneth Offit, the chief of clinical genetics at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center saying these