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by drfuchs 9y ago
You might want to explain to Americans that a "black cab driver" isn't what first comes to mind for them (especially as juxtaposed with "and I come in peace"). It might also be worth a mention what "Green Badg
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by drfuchs 9y ago
These results look pretty encouraging as to the general quality of the various browsers, until you read the fine print: "Only security bugs were counted in the results (doing anything else is tricky as some browser vendors fix non-secu
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by drfuchs 9y ago
Again, "and" should be "+" two more times in the title.
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by drfuchs 9y ago
Why should I trust trustedidpremier dot com? Their whois info is a PO box, which isn't encouraging. And asking for the last 6 digits of my SS# is super-suspicious [Added:] because the remaining (first 3) digits, called the "area n
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by drfuchs 9y ago
You think you can, but you can't! Linux always sync's the whole file; see https://lwn.net/Articles/502612/ for a discussion of why fixing this horrible bug is too dangerous.
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Phone industry turns to James Bond for answer to robocall villainy(latimes.com)
2 points by drfuchs 9y ago|0 comments
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Texas Becoming a Magnet for Conservatives Fleeing Liberal States Like California(npr.org)
15 points by drfuchs 9y ago|12 comments
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by drfuchs 9y ago
But no true Scotsman would invent modernity.
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by drfuchs 9y ago
Adobe in San Jose. (At least it used to.)
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by drfuchs 9y ago
In the title, read "and" as "plus". (For a while I thought they meant "logical AND", given the HN context.)
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by drfuchs 9y ago
No, they started pulling up just before hearing from the tower; click on the link at the bottom of the referenced page: "The full investigative update and other information about the incident are available online at: https:/&#x2F
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by drfuchs 9y ago
"To test further, I asked her how she will approach the problem if the array was too big to fit in memory ... She then worked on adapting her original code to work with left and right batches, swapping ... back to disk ." (Emph
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by drfuchs 9y ago
The interviewer for candidate 1 isn't very technically proficient. In the "if the array was too big to fit in memory" case (where "disk" is explicitly mentioned), the proposed solution starts by moving the disk head
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by drfuchs 9y ago
"Git 'em!" FTFY.
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by drfuchs 9y ago
Many folks mention standing on a mat. Anybody care to give specific advice on what to buy (brand, material, thickness, link, whatever)?
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A new deal could end Bitcoin’s long-running civil war(arstechnica.com)
2 points by drfuchs 9y ago|0 comments
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by drfuchs 9y ago
As you indicate, the language described in Jensen and Wirth's 1975 "Pascal User Manual" didn't have a way to open files with a name computed at runtime, nor was there a way to close a file. TeX needed to be able to do th
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Young American Men Are Choosing Video Games Over Work in Staggering Numbers(fortune.com)
2 points by drfuchs 9y ago|2 comments
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by drfuchs 9y ago
The OED says "deplane" goes back to 1923.
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by drfuchs 9y ago
"Go 2 considered harmful" - Edsger Dijkstra, 1968
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by drfuchs 9y ago
Me neither. And, yes, I was the first employee after the 4 founders of Frame. I did the PostScript output, all the Book functionality, conditional text, and the whole API; but even after 10 years and the Adobe acquisition, not the equation
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by drfuchs 9y ago
Having tagged along with Knuth when Jobs invited him over for a personal demonstration of a pre-production Macintosh, I can attest that Jobs was knowledgable about, and cared strongly about, typography. And having been in the room when Jobs
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by drfuchs 9y ago
For the record: Re-confirmed that Google Scholar's "support" page is useless. It simply replies with an email indicating that while you can go ahead and complain, they're not going to bother to do anything to fix their a
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by drfuchs 9y ago
Ok, I'll bite: why on earth would German cash registers print 3 receipts by default? One for the customer, one for the store, and one for good luck?
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by drfuchs 9y ago
(Frank?! Congratulations!) Yeah, that's a black hole, at least as of some time ago. But, in your honor, I'll try it again.
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by drfuchs 9y ago
They were both published in 2006, so not sure what you're getting at. Google Scholar and Sean Henderson are promulgating a false historical record, and there seems to be no way to inform them so that they may correct themselves, other
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by drfuchs 9y ago
They completely missed, with 1800+ citations, the winner of the “Theory of Cryptography Conference (TCC) 2016 Test of Time award ”: “Calibrating Noise to Sensitivity in Private Data Analysis” by Cynthia Dwork, Frank McSherry, Kobbi Nissim,
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by drfuchs 9y ago
SWA hasn't offered lower fares from SFO, SJC, or OAK in many years now, as far as I've noticed. And good luck finding a direct flight that's both from and to your preferred airports. YairMMV...
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by drfuchs 9y ago
On the contrary; the first-piece person is taking all the risk of the possibility that the cake was poisoned at the factory or store. Kings had "tasters", after all.
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by drfuchs 9y ago
Hint to the uninformed: don't look up "bitmap" and wonder why anyone would index them. Look up "bitmap index" instead. This will save you many clicks in the github project as well as in your favorite search engine.

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