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doomslice
14y ago
Who promised you that? To me it's not a binary yes/no on whether this project is successful. Even a marginal reduction in the number of accidents will save lots of money and lives -- even if you still end up behind the wheel helping it alon
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Would you be ok with a computer that augments your own driving (similar to those cars that automatically brake when they sense an accident)? If so, then it's just a matter of continuously improving on this augmentation. Even if it never rea
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14y ago
Just curious why you think they should use text-transform: uppercase instead of just typing in all caps. If you localize your site, text-transform: uppercase can render some things meaningless in other languages, or just cause issues in gen
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14y ago
I wonder how important the actual wording is vs what appears to be the intent on what the patent covers. To me (and I know I'm simplifying just like the random commenters you speak of), the patent is _intended_ to cover 1. performing heuris
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14y ago
> How and when the government got hold of those tapes is still unclear; the prosecution is not commenting on the case Didn't Wikileaks say they had some BofA documents/conversations that were maliciously "deleted" before they went publi
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14y ago
I think the author messed up. Logically I was thinking "wait... it should go down", and then when I started to do the math I _started_ doing the same mistake that the author made in the calculations until I realized I wasn't adding 2 entran
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14y ago
I don't quite understand the conclusion formed in the first half... that your odds increase as more friends join. I would think it would actually decrease for every friend that joined with an asymptote at 50%. Assuming you are the only one
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14y ago
This is just a guess on how you would do it... but it would involve making many many many requests until you could establish a mean against a given confidence level. Then you could compare that mean for each starting character (once again,
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14y ago
I think that's exactly what people are basing their bets on... that Facebook just hasn't figured out a way to monetize properly, but that it will.
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14y ago
Express doesn't even have controllers though -- just a routing mechanism. If you set up your controllers so that they are independent from the routes, then they are just as easy to test. It could be as simple as: app.get('/users/:id', userC
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14y ago
There's also mocha: http://visionmedia.github.com/mocha/ Which has very similar syntax to RSpec.
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14y ago
http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2012/04/27/yahoos-doug-cr... "One interesting story about leaving things out: as we got closer to releasing JSON I decided to take out the ability to do comments. When translating JSON into other languag