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by drostie 14y ago
I'd be hesitant to predict this sort of result. Vista was very weird for those of us used to XP, and was widely panned in a similar way as a train wreck -- but people started buying, certainly. Ubuntu's Unity desktop environment was new and
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by drostie 14y ago
The actual review also is about half the minimum length of a novel[1], and as this review describes, takes two hours to read. In some ways I'll agree that it's appropriate because it "gratifies one's intellectual curiosity" or so, but it st
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It's true, my code is longer because it computes an explicit continued fraction representation (and also because it's not written as two generator scripts).
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The numbers that you're producing can be better produced by the following Python code: from fractions import Fraction as frac def continued_fraction(x, n=10): """Represent x as a continued fraction out to n places."""
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1. No, that statement is still true even if you don't know the higher-order strategy of your opponent: no matter what it is, it has the same payoffs as some lower-order strategy. 2. You would have to define "exploit that," especially with
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by drostie 14y ago
I think in the second half of what you said you began to understand what you started out saying that you "don't understand." Think of "the consequence" here in a purely security-theory way. In some sense that's what we're doing, securing ou
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As the article suggests, the fact that light carries energy and momentum (and even that those are related by E = p c) were explained by classical electromagnetic theory before Einstein -- and further the chief effect of general relativity o
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The metaphor might have been a little over-the-top but I support this sort of creativity in blog posts, if only because it can ripen into something much more aesthetically pleasing. There are places where it goes way too far -- Gödel, Esch
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While I appreciate that they moved the site out to a dedicated URL, this is a duplicate of yesterday's HN submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4276625 People may appreciate the comments there.
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It is NSFW due to the fact that it contains an image of the password reset screen at a porn site. The reason it contains this is to illustrate that, if your services says "We have sent an email" vs. "User not found!" then it can leak the in
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by drostie 14y ago
It's important to get a perspective on "theory" and "model" in science, if only because it's pivotal to understanding Kuhn's work and how he reconciled it with the more-famous account due to Popper that science works by falsification rath
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by drostie 14y ago
You could do it, but it's generated client-side, so I believe the server doesn't have direct access to that. (I guess I am asking: is there a communication layer I haven't noticed which transmits the "good enough" images back to the server?
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by drostie 14y ago
Just... no. You're presenting "anecdotal" as if to contrast it with something like "established pattern." But "anecdotal" just means that something is a remembered story, nothing else. So, there is something which we do called "observation.
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I don't know; it seems like it might be a fringe enough usage case that it doesn't trigger peoples' outrage. Granted, people don't necessarily think of SkyDrive as a social platform, but with the frequency that embarrassing photos are uploa
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Can either of you explain why the French police does not get involved? It seems like vigilante justice would be something they'd want to stamp out.
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I had read this story a couple years back and the way Steven Pete remembers Child Protective Services is a bit different from how his mum remembers it: > Once, CPS told the Petes they wanted to remove Steven, then a toddler, &
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One great story about Paul Rand: "He is one of the most professional people I've ever worked with, in the sense that he thought through all of the formal relationship between a client and a professional such as himself -- obv
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Since it's only 30 lines of code, here's the relevant section from SBCL (as found in src/code/early-setf.lisp): (defmacro-mundanely setf (&rest args &environment env) #!+sb-doc "Takes pairs of arguments like SETQ.
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by drostie 14y ago
Look, I understand that you have a stake in this. I get that. I am also male. I understand that you might want to look out for male interests in a sort of economic sense. Nonetheless, what you are saying is deeply misguided and shows that y
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One of my favorite stories in this vein: You may know that we often read Plato but never read Socrates, and you might have wondered why the hell we don't go back to the 'originals'. Reading Plato's dialogue "Phaedrus" gives an answer near t
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by drostie 14y ago
I'm not sure you do understand. The point is rather, "yes, it is rude and aggressively forward. Added onto that, the fact that someone felt free to do it, is sexism. And, the global environment that it creates is also sexism." It is a sexis
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Look, this isn't 4chan: the set of posts in order is not totally changing itself every five seconds. In that context, what you have described would be different and perhaps even useful , but that's just not our contribution model here.
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I can't hammer this home enough: it's institutional , the sexism that's going on here. That is, the pillow-fight invitation is not by itself sexism; the sexism is that we live in a world where a man might consider it acceptable to burst in
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> "The foremost cause of sexism is the fact that many males (consciously or subconsciously) perceive women as mentally and physically weaker" If this is true, it is not a proximal cause and amounts to armchair psychology. Like I said, s
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This is the Correct Response. I would only add one thing: Even if you don't agree that this sort of prejudice and stereotyping amounts to discrimination, the discussion still makes sense . Why? Because most discrimination -- whether racist
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At the risk of essentially slashdotting myself or making my web host very angry at me, I have stripped out the passwords so that the only component remaining is the email addresses, in case you want to check whether you were part of the bre
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One key way in which the article is right on-the-money, so to speak, is to highlight the ridiculous frenzy that we go into to save disproportionately small amounts of money. Our audience here is mostly programmers. Programmers should all kn
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by drostie 14y ago
Of course, "annointed" is unjustifiable by either standard and is Simply Wrong. :P Firefox shows "cancelation" as a typo in both their UK and US dictionaries, although it appears in /usr/share/dict for both american-english and british-engl
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by drostie 14y ago
For those curious, here are the stay times: 1 week in Guyana 3 weeks in the U.S. ~11 weeks in Germany 1 week in Morocco 3 weeks in the U.K. 3 weeks in Turkey 11 days in Iran 3 days in Kuala Lumpur 5 da

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