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by edmccard 12y ago
It's not that OneDrive is modifying files "as it syncs"; it's that it involves Sharepoint, which adds certain metadata to documents that it handles, and has probably always done so; here's a stackoverflow question a
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by edmccard 12y ago
>Is there something other than the substring 'Drive' that gives the expectation of a fully generic file synchronization tool? I don't think anyone is expecting OneDrive to be "fully generic" (I believe that &#x27
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by edmccard 12y ago
>I'm inclined to think that the causes behind an area being slow to remove leaded gasoline could also affect crime rates. The statistics show a 20-year lag between the banning of leaded gasoline and reduction in crime rates. So even
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The Untold Story of the First Woman to Fly Around the World(buzzfeed.com)
2 points by edmccard 13y ago|1 comments
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by edmccard 13y ago
>I for one do not see how to implement it. (referring to an allocation-free strstr if strings had an associated length) If a string was a (pointer,length) pair, then strstr would return a pair (pointer+offset,length-offset) where, just l
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WxWidgets: Announcing the Great Rewrite(wxwidgets.blogspot.com)
1 points by edmccard 13y ago|0 comments
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Why Facebook’s $2 Billion Oculus Buy Is a Bet Too Far (wired.com)
1 points by edmccard 13y ago|0 comments
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by edmccard 13y ago
You already know this, but...on the Ramen Project Page itself (buried below all the "Back this Project" links) is a "How It Works" sections that seems to contain exactly the information the Peeker was looking for (I watc
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by edmccard 13y ago
>The first link I clicked was at the bottom left: Project Well, if I was looking for information on how Ramen worked, a generic link in the footer called "Project Page", under the equally generic heading "Product" is
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The Physics of Beer Tapping and Foaming Over(medium.com)
2 points by edmccard 13y ago|0 comments
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by edmccard 13y ago
>maybe 2% of the comments I see are unreadable-grey. Maybe that's the problem? That is, maybe bad comments are, to paraphrase Mark Twain, like the weather; everyone talks about them but nobody bothers to downvote them to unreadable
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by edmccard 13y ago
"Doubt" is another one; borrowed from old French doute in the 13th century, with the "b" added by scribes in the 14th century. There's a bit in Shakespeare's _Love's Labour's Lost_ where the pedant Ho
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by edmccard 13y ago
_why was known by more than just the HN community; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_the_lucky_stiff
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SAT dropping essay portion, returning to 1,600 maximum score(mercurynews.com)
1 points by edmccard 13y ago|0 comments
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New partition function record: p(10^20) computed(fredrikj.net)
105 points by edmccard 13y ago|23 comments
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by edmccard 13y ago
>See, but what if I'm writing a little script using Bash to run on my server? Does it go in Unix? Or programming? Or serverfault? That would depend on why help was needed--is it a problem with expressing a certain programming concep
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by edmccard 13y ago
Will this tend to discourage dogecoin market manipulation like that discussed here about a week ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7126153
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by edmccard 13y ago
>But when you compare it to Java and C#, C++11, the language (based on language specification word/page count), is smaller than Java I watched the presentation where Herb Sutter said that, and I think that claim is disingenuous, bec
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by edmccard 13y ago
_>Additionally, using someones server resources that they pay for without contributing anything to their revenue, if ads are in fact an important source of their revenue, is effectively stealing._ Since most website ad revenue is based o
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by edmccard 13y ago
>Is the D scope + unrecoverable error different from Go's "defer" and "panic"? D's scope guard is similar to "defer", but it has three forms: "scope(exit)", "scope(failure)", an
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by edmccard 13y ago
> From the 23andme TOS: > ... Make sure to discuss your Genetic Information ... before you act upon the Genetic Information The problems are not about what someone might do with their "Genetic Information", but with the accu
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by edmccard 13y ago
>but zombie ants whose brains are hijacked by an infectious fungus. This is the fungus that causes ant zombification: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophiocordyceps_unilateralis
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by edmccard 13y ago
> I believe it said Roosevelt was advised against the wiretapping but went ahead with it anyway. That case (wiretapping, advice against from Attorney General Robert Jackson) is different from the one tokenadult is referring to (intercept
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by edmccard 13y ago
>It sounded like you started off by agreeing and ended in disagreeing, but I can't tell where the switch was It makes sense if you read the last sentence as describing (and sarcastically mocking) the opinion of the author of the For
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by edmccard 13y ago
>And you do that, IMO, by attaching punishments to actual harm, not to an increased likelihood of harm (which must always be an estimate only). If you restrict the basis of decision-making to certainty rather than "estimated likelih
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by edmccard 13y ago
That was Odin32, right? I remember looking forward to that, and hoping that it would be better than the win32s extensions for 3.11 (plus the .dll whack-a-mole that entailed), but in the end I just switched from OS/2 to XP.
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by edmccard 13y ago
>Is second edition complete? Chapters 9-12 are still empty in the stable release, and only partially done in the draft version. http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/HtDP2e/Draft/index.html
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by edmccard 13y ago
>Go look up Harrisburg and how their trash->energy plant as worked out. Or look up Lancaster, PA (one county over from Harrisburg) and how their trash->energy plant "is considered a national model for waste disposal, featured
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by edmccard 13y ago
>Just who came to the residence beyond some scary looking guys in SUVs who said they were FBI. From the article, "the Suffolk and Nassau police, which The Guardian reported were the authorities that effected the raid". As to th
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by edmccard 13y ago
The percentages on that page are labeled "Youth Employment Rate" (not unemployment), which would explain why they are higher in the "No Disability" column than in the "Disability" column.

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