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by epenn 15y ago
How are you sorting these? I did a search for "border" just to try it out. It returned 18 entries with pretty much every variation of border-*, but border itself was the 16th entry almost at the end of the results page.
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Single molecule nanocar takes its first spin(newscientist.com)
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by epenn 15y ago
clearly false charges I was not there to witness what did or did not happen with Assange and the girls in question. As a result I cannot comment on his guilt or innocence. Through what evidence have you concluded that they are clearly fal
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by epenn 15y ago
For his PhD thesis, he proved that a working hot fusion reactor would either consume more energy than it generates or spew as much radiation as existing nuclear power plants—a finding that did not endear him to many physicists and cut off
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Beautiful Probability(lesswrong.com)
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How Can PyPy Beat CPython?(stackoverflow.com)
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Carnegie Mellon's Open Learning Initiative(oli.web.cmu.edu)
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by epenn 15y ago
I miss DJGPP. When I was first learning C back in the days when DOS ruled my world, DJGPP is almost invariably what I used. I clicked the "by DJ Delorie" link on his page and saw that he now works for Redhat working on GCC. Strange or not,
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by epenn 15y ago
one thing I didn't see mentioned is switching from "if s.find(c) == -1: ..." to "if c in s: ...". I see people do that a lot. I think this is covered implicitly by the two "Use in where possible" sections. Although as Tim Peter's The Zen
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by epenn 15y ago
I see what you mean. That will no doubt work for the time being, but it does make me wonder how "future proof" that method is. Calculating hashes for any number of character combinations is trivially parallelizable. Even today, price aside,
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by epenn 15y ago
Can someone explain to me how salts help a hashing algorithm secure itself against a rainbow table? For example, let's say my password is "justinbieber", which then has a salt prefixed to it which turns it into "iheartjustinbieber". If an a
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Optimizing HTTP: Keep-alive and Pipelining(igvita.com)
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by epenn 15y ago
There is one: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/prince-of-persia-retro/id3739... The graphics have been updated though, resembling POP2. I wish there was a version or a mode of POP for iOS where I could put it in a kind of "classic" graphics
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by epenn 15y ago
These are all valid points, but they are widely applicable to many types of development, not just iOS. Even on much larger projects where various features can be considered projects in and of themselves (for ex, $interdepartmental_project a
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Floating Point Caveats(warp.povusers.org)
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by epenn 15y ago
When a major company, especially a financial services company, is subject to public security vulnerability disclosures like this, it should really make other companies stand up and take notice. There is absolutely no excuse for these kinds
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Monkeys 'feel' texture of virtual objects(newscientist.com)
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by epenn 15y ago
The video threat against the NYSE included a call for Anonymous supporters to utilize the so-called Low Orbit Ion Cannon (LOIC) voluntary botnet tool to launch a Distributed Denial-of-Service attack against the NYSE's website on the target
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by epenn 15y ago
tl;dr of my post: Thinking through a problem and not going to the web first makes you a better programmer, instead of relying on the better programming of others. The negative connotation depends on what you're using google and stackoverflo
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by epenn 15y ago
Does this mean MG has quit Techcrunch as well? or will he be able to do both?
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by epenn 15y ago
The Cascalog abstraction layer fixes this issue by separating logic from data, allowing you to play creatively at massive scale. I just checked out Casacalog and I like what I see, although I have yet to try it out myself. Does anyone kno
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by epenn 15y ago
I'm getting a 330 ERR_CONTENT_DECODING_FAILED when I try to load up the site. If no one else is getting this then chances are it's my company's firewall interfering. If its rule set detects either "fun" and/or "potentially useful" the site
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A Brief History of the Brain(newscientist.com)
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Schmidt: “Senator, I Can Assure You We Have Not Cooked Anything”(techcrunch.com)
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The difference between hard and soft links(linuxgazette.net)
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Free AAAI Membership for the Top 10% of Stanford's Online AI Class(aaai.org)
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by epenn 15y ago
Erick Schonfeld has been named the editor of TechCrunch. TechCrunch will be expanding its editorial leadership in the coming months. This makes me somewhat skeptical about how much autonomy Erick will be given in the long run. Unless they
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by epenn 15y ago
Good analogy. Reminds me of the perennial Steve Jobs quote, "real artists ship." You can think up the greatest masterpiece the world would ever see. However if you never actually paint it and display it, the world will never actually see it
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by epenn 15y ago
I don't necessarily think there should be an outright ban, but I do think we should try to maintain a good standard for what we submit. Here's my personal stab at it. DON'T SUBMIT: 1) If it adds nothing new to the discussion. Just a regurgi
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by epenn 15y ago
I was originally going to post that sometimes I wish gifts like this would be given to smaller, less fortunate schools. A top tier school like CMU is always going to be able to find new sources of endowment. I still believe this in general.

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