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by dracodoc 8y ago
Different color could be a little bit distracting for minimal design, maybe there could be gaps between bands. The bands are independent with each other, a 999M 999K 999B band look like a continuous band but it should be 3 separate bars. Th
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by dracodoc 8y ago
Maybe you can use slightly different color/background color for the bands? That way it's more obvious that the 3 bands are separated instead of one continuous band.
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by dracodoc 9y ago
I used to use a free software "ComicEnhancerPro" (The author is Chinese, there is English version but may not easy to find reliable download site) specially designed to enhance scanned comics. You can remove the background very ef
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by dracodoc 9y ago
For an internal GUI application, Java/Swing is actually a mature solution. With Groovy and Swingbuilder, writing a swing GUI is quite easy.
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by dracodoc 9y ago
Interestingly this pattern doesn't work with pure research: the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in Princeton hosted Einstein, Hermann Weyl, John von Neumann and Kurt Gödel, but there is little important work done in there.
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by dracodoc 9y ago
My use case is to cut segments from one video file and append the segments together. This way I can trim ads or parts I don't want. The aged virtualdub does this as long as the container is avi (the codec could be avc/h.264 etc).
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by dracodoc 9y ago
First with 4 years as assistant Prof. From the CV: Harvard University School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science July 1, 2010 July 1, 2011 Harvard University School of Engineering and Applied Sci
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by dracodoc 9y ago
This news raise so many questions that not answered, provided little information for the issue. This link is much better. https://www.newscientist.com/article/2151032-googles-quantum...
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by dracodoc 9y ago
To rephrase my comment: Some disadvantage of OP's method: - hash code is difficult to read for human. Urls under some hierarchy share some common patterns, it also bear some meanings. All hash code will look same and have nothing to hi
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by dracodoc 9y ago
Or you can go one step further, use third party server to provide the link, because it's a burden to maintain your own server for many people. "Your server" is most likely somebody else's server anyway. That will be goog
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by dracodoc 9y ago
It's totally possible the reality is different from the theoretical limit. See collision attacks against MD5, SHA-0 by Wang Xiaoyun. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_Xiaoyun
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by dracodoc 9y ago
Wifi didn't replace Ethernet after many years. Even wifi has become much more reliable, faster and cheaper, Ethernet is always several steps better. Pushing progress is not an excuse to force transition with cost and effort burden on c
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by dracodoc 9y ago
It's familiar because that's the only way to do it with shape. You either select a character by shape or by pinyin. The key challenge here is to design a system that 1. can cover most characters with relative small shape collectio
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by dracodoc 9y ago
There are several iterations of most popular input methods in mainland China (Cangjie is only used in HongKong area): 1. Numerous attempts were made by many people, try to encode thousands of Chinese characters in keyboard. The most popular
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by dracodoc 9y ago
The title make it look like something relate to alternative keyboard layout, but it's actually just typewriter before computer age. I also don't like this kind of claim: > Ultimately, their work led to today's sophisticate
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by dracodoc 9y ago
One of my side project was an auto formatter for R. There are some limits in existing formatters: - I think most of them doesn't recognize multi line string literals, which is difficult if you consider the case that you can have "
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by dracodoc 9y ago
The summary on TIT FOR TAT is not complete: when you’re playing for the long run it is better to be nice — you’ll make up any short-term losses with long-term gains. It also depend on the population distribution. If everybody else is mean,
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by dracodoc 9y ago
R and RStudio are actually quite good in this aspect. - You can evaluate any part of editor in console with keyboard shortcut. The only difference between using console and editor is that your input is easily saved in editor. - The environm
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by dracodoc 9y ago
Correction on the password part: 3.2 Tumblr used same salt for everybody, but author don't know the salt. He searched the hashed password and found 20 other users have same password hash, using same password. 3.3 Linkedin leak have no
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by dracodoc 9y ago
That point (arbitrary domains) become less impressive for me when I knew everybody can have some less known knowledge to others. I found I often can learn from slickdeals discussion in various topics, which is actually a good way to hear se
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by dracodoc 9y ago
It's lacking the biology part and physics part, and chemistry, and .... Some of the sections are just out of context and become showing offs(like the keyboard part. For a hardware position that is not enough, for a software position th
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by dracodoc 9y ago
The proper title should be "pinterest for science". Basically it just collect publicly available abstracts, like a better RSS for daily skimming. For the actual access to content, it does nothing.
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by dracodoc 9y ago
The policy is not symmetric: 1. everybody need to give 1, but may receive 0 (99/100 probability) or 1 (1/100 probability) 2. when somebody run out of money, the total give out is no longer 100 (before this, 100 changed hand in eve
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by dracodoc 9y ago
The report didn't tell the background about the private firms managing the lab, this is a much cleaner report: https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/201006/losalamos.cf... Another related story https
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by dracodoc 9y ago
To scale, I think you need to go either organic or mechanic: - mechanic is scalable with more resources. Throw in more computers, programs and get more output immediately with a much higher rate compare to human - organic is good but it tak
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by dracodoc 9y ago
Yes, almost byte by byte translation, and a bad one. The original is much better. I guess this title is better aimed at audience though, since many people may not have interest on translation. Strongly suggest people not read yet to read th
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by dracodoc 9y ago
You can check RStudio's data viewer for reference https://support.rstudio.com/hc/en-us/articles/205175388-Usin... It's a modified dataTable(so search is builtin. I didn't see search in Tad yet)