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fhars
14y ago
They are both displaying google maps, so it is not that surprising that both look similar. But is is a severe blow against the assumption of honesty of the person who created the images.
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14y ago
Resistance times capacity is just time, 127kV/A * 470uAs/V = 59.7s, i.e. one minute.
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fhars
14y ago
That caps lock thing does actually sound intriguing ... except that I already use it as Super.
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14y ago
Yes, I do. I do also remember Halley's comet. Or, rather, I do remember standing on a winter beach around the time of the predicted maximum with a clear view of the southern sky without light pollution and seeing exactly nothing but stars.
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fhars
14y ago
So, which language should American programmers use in their code?
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14y ago
Yes, any device you can't resynthesize from VHDL is completely unfit to introduce middle school children to programming. I mean, who ever managed to understand even the tiniest bit of python without mentally reducing it to the electrical pa
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fhars
14y ago
> Why are MongoDB advocates in such a bad mood? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome
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14y ago
> To watch the world out of the window, It's the same tunnel it was yesterday. And the day before. And last week. And last year. Come to think of it, the tunnel hasn't changed much since it's inauguration in 1984. And the soundwalls lin
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fhars
14y ago
That is about Gliese 581g, this article is about Gliese 163c. That is a different planet circling around a differnt star.
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14y ago
Except that his backgound image shows no name for the largest city on the map (Berlin) ;-).
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fhars
14y ago
Of course that may (or may not) change if the RPi foundation will be able to get the programming documentation for the DSP/GPU part of the processor a recent blog post hinted at.
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fhars
14y ago
You want this book: http://mishka.lockandhenner.com/blog/?cat=45
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fhars
14y ago
The status page is actually unreachable, as the domain name does not resolve :-).
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fhars
14y ago
I for one just don't understand what rights a CC-NC license grants me and am consequently forced to treat all those works as licenced under an non-free but still gratis licence anyway. No loss there if they were released under a license tha
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fhars
14y ago
You are completely missing the the one case the whole argument circles around: 2.1a) Email address entered correctly -> validation fails, no mail sent This prevents activation mails that would be sent without validation (or validation a
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14y ago
There is an MX record for ai, so the dot after the @ is strictly not required: ;; ANSWER SECTION: ai. 14400 IN MX 10 mail.offshore.ai. ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: mail.offshore.ai. 14400 IN A 209.59.119.34
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14y ago
It may be an abuse, but at least it has no influence on the correctness of the result as pipes are a monad http://okmij.org/ftp/Computation/monadic-shell.html
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14y ago
He does no longer own the exclusive rights to the code (they are Oracle's now) and so can only publish under the GPL.
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14y ago
Traditionally, a university had four faculties, the lower or artists faculty, and the three higher faculties of theology, law and medicine. Students would start in the artists faculty learning the seven liberal arts (grammar, rhetoric, logi
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fhars
14y ago
No need to test on earth as it would certainly fail. The crane probably couldn't even lift its own weight on earth with its almost three times higher gravity.
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14y ago
Pennsylvania has one, too: http://pdc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsilfaani
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14y ago
And it still identified my as a bot in one out of three tries. And now I shall put the food in the refrigerator when the only items left are a microphone, a stapler and a bottle of household cleaner.
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14y ago
Not only has it been mentioned before, it is clearly described in the article as an interim solution that will be relaced by something accessible to coulorblind people in the final design.
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14y ago
There is a (2005) missing in the title.
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14y ago
And whoever programmed the "sort by start date" function of the new course overview page that went live yesterday or today should probably take the introduction to algorithms course :-). It looks like it sorts with a comparision function th
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14y ago
Using the type system to prevent the generation of malformed HTML (and most types of invalid HTML) at compile time is actually a standard example for a situation where unit tests become mostly superfluous in the presence of a static type sy
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14y ago
http://codahale.com/how-to-safely-store-a-password/
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14y ago
Birds, being dinosaurs and having the size they have, already are lifesize dinosaurs, no DNA editig required. As to the question you probably meant to ask, no editing the DNA of a living organism to match the unknown DNA of an extinct org
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14y ago
Yes, and "digital" means "done with fingers". Linguistic essentialism is not a very helpful communicative strategy.
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14y ago
Your impression sounds plausible. I have always seen .NET as a me-too marketing reaction to Sun's cheesy "we are the dot in .com" (as for example on the first slide of this 1999 ppt presentation on the future of java: http://www.java-forum
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