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by elemeno 15y ago
I think you missed the part of the article where the said that the batteries on some of the cars deteriorated at a faster rate than they should have done, leading the cars to use their (gasoline) engines more - thus reducing the fuel econom
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by elemeno 15y ago
Miller-Rabin isn't that hard to implement - it just needs some reasonable maths skills related to modular arithmetic, and a copy of Knuth for fast versions of some algorithms helps a lot as well. I've stuck a very simple version (in C#) her
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by elemeno 15y ago
That would be python style surely.
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by elemeno 15y ago
And yet none of the photos of their devices show a screen that's flush with the front of the tablet - in all of them the surface of the screen is slightly indented from the face of the tablet, like laptop screens and TV screens often are. B
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by elemeno 15y ago
You can't really judge a book solely by the imprint it belongs to or, in the case of "The Pragmatic Programmer", stated. They're all written by different authors so their style and quality will naturally differ. For what it's worth, it's th
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by elemeno 15y ago
Which will do nothing. Unless you're someone who's using PayPal to collect money, there's remarkably little reason for them to care if you're logging into an account to pay by credit card, or paying 'anonymously' by credit card without logg
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by elemeno 15y ago
These days e-mail retention (as well as IM logs, recordings of calls etc.) in the financial world is based on rules set by bodies like the SEC and the FSA and runs to about seven years (at least that's the number I hear thrown about working
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by elemeno 15y ago
It's nowhere near as simple as that. What national currencies will Euros be exchanged for? What rates will they be exchanged at? Will other markets recognise those new currencies (and they will be =new= currencies, since all the Eurozone cu
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by elemeno 15y ago
If it could do things like that, then maybe selling it as a product that a company can plug their own sources into and let your algos do the crunching and analysis and present the data could be a good move.
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by elemeno 15y ago
I'd have some doubts about it's utility to a professional trader - they've already got a Bloomberg in front of them, which is telling them everything you can, except faster and from a wider variety of primary sources. In my experience (whic
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by elemeno 15y ago
Very nice looking program - can certainly see myself using it to keep track of what's going on on my Mac. One thing I've noticed though, is that it doesn't seem to be catching network activity that's taking place from the command line. I'm
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by elemeno 15y ago
That's bots I think - there are companies who'll happily try and arbitrage Amazon vs You.
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by elemeno 15y ago
It's less harmless than it than it looks. No is the only sensible answer to both of those questions, purely for liability reasons. If the camera gets damaged while you're out doing a personal project, is it still covered by the station's in
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by elemeno 15y ago
You'd also have to have a liquid options market, and counterparties you can trust to complete the trade when you exercise an option.
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by elemeno 15y ago
He does address that right at the end. The critique points out that when you're connecting solar panels as in the original 'tree' article, you actually get the performance of the worst panel in the set, since they're all connected in series
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by elemeno 15y ago
Personally, I'd go for Alfred ( http://www.alfredapp.com/ ) over Quicksilver. While Quicksilver is supposed to be more powerful, it just never really clicked for me and didn't feel very smooth. Alfred felt like it fit it better and let me
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by elemeno 15y ago
I'd love one as well, if you're still offering!
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by elemeno 15y ago
There's a considerably better article on it here: http://thisismynext.com/2011/06/14/nokia-and-apple-settle-pa... The short version: there are costs and risks involved in patent litigation and it's likely that it simply became more cost e
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by elemeno 15y ago
Hebrew isn't such a great example. The language was still in use as a liturgical language and for reading religious texts, it just wasn't being used (or at least, was barely being used) as a modern spoken language.
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by elemeno 16y ago
While I don't disagree with you that ESR has a strong ideological tilt, it's also useful to remember that he wrote that quite a long time ago now, when that effectively =was= true. Going back to the subject at hand, I think that the post mi