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by drfuchs 12y ago
If the use of the underscore character ("_") for assignment statements seems odd, keep in mind that the Sail computer's native character set included a left-arrow character, and it's what was really used for assignment.
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by drfuchs 12y ago
Bad title. None of the Bart stops / communities they discuss are "in" San Francisco.
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by drfuchs 12y ago
On my vanilla iPhone 6, all it does is turn the whole screen white.
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by drfuchs 12y ago
AirTrain does not go to the parking garage. It was supposed to, but they ran out of money.
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by drfuchs 12y ago
Just to be clear, "Pricing via Processing or Combatting Junk Mail" (Crypto 1992), by Dwork and Naor, invented the idea of Proof Of Work, suggested it for fighting Spam (before the term was even coined!), provided actual functions,
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by drfuchs 13y ago
Anybody with experience knows that the x.1 release is more stable than the x.0 version; and x.2 has even further bug fixes. And 2.0 has more features than 1.0, to boot! So why isn't everyone picking 2.2?
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by drfuchs 13y ago
It's just amusing that two companies that we're all aware of had (attempted to) take a big pivot into high-tech from the playing/trading card industry, of all places. No doubt you're correct, and the extent to which Mt
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by drfuchs 13y ago
Well, Nintendo started as a playing card company, and managed to overcome the technical debt and architectural issues of becoming a globally successful video game company. And I kind of like how "Mt Gox" is alliterative with &quo
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by drfuchs 13y ago
And Paris is pretty empty early in the morning, too. Check out the 1976 Claude Lelouch 8.5-minute vehicle(!), "C'était un Rendezvous" ("It was a date"). Classic! http://www.streetfire.net/video&#x2
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by drfuchs 14y ago
Back in 1979, where the soccer field is now, was a pizza place called "The Antique" (though its official address was undoubtedly on El Camino). I preferred it to any other pizza in the area, so I sure hope they weren't using well water...
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by drfuchs 14y ago
How big a problem are charge-backs?
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by drfuchs 14y ago
SIM = Evil. Takes up precious battery space! Door makes edge of phone non-smooth. Internal mechanism adds to cost of goods and manufacturing. Overall non-green. Simply anachronistic.
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by drfuchs 14y ago
I've been waiting decades for anyone to be interested in a divisible-by-7 test that works right-to-left. Only 7 states required: #include <stdio.h> int x[7][10] = { /* 0 */ {0, 2, 4, 6, 1, 3, 5, 0, 2, 4}, /* 1 */ {5,
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by drfuchs 15y ago
The very first words on the page say it's a FABLE, right there in the title.
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by drfuchs 15y ago
The original "Pricing Via Processing or Combatting Junk Mail" paper by Dwork & Naor from 1992 is http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.75.... And the follow-on "On Memory-Bound Functions for Fighting Spam" (which is