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by drblast 13y ago
>or you need to use a “sufficiently strong wide-band noise >source.” Something like a swooping, large-orchestra >classical concerto would probably do it. Unless you're standing next to a live orchestra that'
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by drblast 13y ago
Depending on the CPU, the compiler, and a whole host of other variables, a switch statement can be one of the better performing ways to write a virtual machine. You certainly want to avoid the overhead of many function calls. And if you&#x
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by drblast 13y ago
Here's a hint; is there a strategy one player can play such that no matter what the other player does, the first will win money on average?
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by drblast 13y ago
The two envelopes paradox is a good one: http://consc.net/papers/envelope.html And another that I've figured out the "right" answer to but think there might be more to it is this: Suppose I set up a two-
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by drblast 13y ago
Fantastic. Interesting to see that it's flush-justified with a proportional width font. Imagine the effort it would take to create this, and then again how much effort a reprint would be. Sure you have a press, but after your print y
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by drblast 13y ago
Here's a contrary opinion. Understanding that some managers are really measuring the wrong things, the lesson here shouldn't be "keep your head down and hope your manager notices how great you are." The "hey, my j
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by drblast 13y ago
A whole generation of kids will now grow up forgetting to trim off trailing whitespace. Thanks, Congress.
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by drblast 13y ago
Wayyyy back in 2007 I half-jokingly made a prediction about the future of computing. The hot topics at the time were AJAX and new multi-core processors targeted at consumers. Everyone was trying to envision which language would win out by
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by drblast 13y ago
I'm finally at a point where some programs I write work the first time. It's very disconcerting.
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by drblast 13y ago
You don't have to sell to only large companies. I'm sure a lot of smaller companies would appreciate a security product that could grow with them. And are the odds of success at trying to sell products to businesses any less than
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by drblast 13y ago
If only this were more true. API's for most things are...lacking. A dearth of API's is particularly bad in computer security. Vendors: We have this great new device to monitor ___ and alert on it! Customers: We'd like to int
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by drblast 13y ago
I like the late hours of sun you get with DST, but I don't like switching. I'd be happy with a permanent change to DST. I don't understand the desire to have it get dark before 5:00PM in the winter.
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by drblast 13y ago
That's what I was thinking too; instead of a one-on-one, what if you could have 10-100 bots that operated with different strategies and worked together? I think it would so cool to have multiple teams of players all competing at once.
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by drblast 13y ago
I've been working on a similar concept off and on for a few years. To avoid all the security problems you're having, I've written a virtual machine that emulates a CPU and 64k of RAM. Instead of submitting code, you submit a
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by drblast 13y ago
I had to look up the photo bomb thing, and found this: http://teamcoco.com/video/chris-bosh-photobomb It's refreshing when pro athletes in the U.S. can engage in an interview and come off as classy and intelligent
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by drblast 13y ago
Right there with you. I'm baffled how anyone could not smell that.
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by drblast 13y ago
"In recent months, class-action lawsuits have been filed against more than a dozen law schools, charging that students were snookered into enrolling by postgraduate employment figures that were vastly, and fraudulently, inflated."
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by drblast 13y ago
And my kids have owned more bikes between them than I've bought cars in my life. They outgrow them quickly.
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by drblast 13y ago
You'll learn a lot of this via debugging or reverse engineering. Do you REALLY know how your compiler, linker, and loader work? If you do, you'll understand everything they wrote about static variables, stack frames, etc. The be
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by drblast 13y ago
HN and Slashdot are the exact same site at different stages of life. They begin as the news site with articles that only about 1000 people care about. So you'll go there because reading every single post on Lambda the Ultimate takes t
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by drblast 13y ago
I kind of like the idea of every government function has two independent providers that compete for funding, and citizens could choose which provider to use. I'm sure that system would blow up in some other way, however.
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by drblast 13y ago
You can almost hear the article author completely misunderstanding what he was told. I'm betting it was something like, "For Jeopardy, Watson was using 15 Terabytes of data stored on 90 servers. And those servers were large back
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by drblast 13y ago
Right on. In the future, all applications are just going to be collections of remotely callable objects, with just a bit of local glue code to tie everything together. This is going to be even bigger than Sun RPC, DCOM, or even CORBA!
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by drblast 13y ago
I think his point was that success and passion aren't necessarily correlated, so while passion might be a prerequisite for success (but maybe not), having passion isn't a very good indicator that any one person will be successful.
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by drblast 13y ago
Sailing is a good example of a sport with development classes like the Aussie 18 and International 14 where there are few rules and tech is really important, and also classes like the Laser that are cheap, strict one-design boats. There is
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by drblast 13y ago
Doing the math it looks like there were about 873 female applicants and 2271 male applicants. It's certainly possible that a higher percentage of the much smaller female group were qualified than the larger male group. In this case, wh
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by drblast 13y ago
Why Chuck Palahniuk? Doesn't seem to fit with the rest of the list. He's got an incredibly creative writing style and pulls things off, like writing a novel in second-person, that not many authors could. And I never got the impre
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by drblast 13y ago
Malcolm Gladwell has the same problem as any of the other 100's of authors of those shitty "How to win!" business books. It's not that what he's saying is not true, it's that you don't get the whole pictur
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by drblast 13y ago
That's nothing. I had to fix someone else's program once. It was written in PERL.
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by drblast 13y ago
I'm kind of perplexed that "adventure games" that consumed much of my childhood seem to have died as a genre. Myst seemed like another in a long line of fantastic games where the goal was exploration and puzzle solving, like

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