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by fhars 14y ago
Because a short has a hard limit on the possible gain (the amount you got when selling minus the borrowing cost, if you can buy it back at zero when you have to return the stock), but no limit on possible losses (if there is a rally or a sh
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by fhars 15y ago
A bit long, isn't it? 1_,`0:'{:[~x!15;"FizzBuzz";~x!3;"Fizz";~x!5;"Buzz";$x],"\n"}'1+!100 (Thats https://github.com/kevinlawler/kona ) [Edit: Found a way to shave off three chars]
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by fhars 15y ago
Since the year has $\pi \times 10^7$ seconds, the real pi day is actually new years eve.
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by fhars 15y ago
Quantum is physical. Just because some popular writers don't understand the math behind it doesn't turn it into a mystical "get out of causality and reason" card.
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by fhars 15y ago
If you set up your questions in the right way, you can make people remember to have seen Bugs Bunny on a Disneyland visit: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2001/06/010612065657.ht...
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by fhars 15y ago
I see some combination involving running, a double-n-back program, a GPS receiver and goggles with a head up display yielding some iteractive think-while-you-run training regime. Achievement unlocked: used the program for 100 hours without
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by fhars 15y ago
And I remember reading book from 1906 (not when the books were first published, obviously) from scientists who were convinced that the unavoidable warming due to enhanced industrial carbon dioxide emissions would actually be beneficial, ht
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by fhars 15y ago
Some people do that http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/juno/news/lego20110803.htm...
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by fhars 15y ago
Read the classics http://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=171471433276813964...
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by fhars 15y ago
The set {1, 1, 1, 1} has only one element, 1.
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by fhars 15y ago
Like that small software vendor from seattle http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/z3/m... http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/slam/default.as...
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by fhars 15y ago
IP adresses are only easy to spoof if you do not intend to receive any ACK packages (or any other reply from the target, like web pages with phone numbers on them). For everything else you need the cooperation of a rogue ISP on the shortest
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by fhars 15y ago
It could also be that the utility of money is perceived to be logarithic, and then it depends on the base the individual uses in the personal utitlity function (which probably depends on the persons net worth) which choice is rational. For
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by fhars 15y ago
And in case anyone wonders which disassembler to use, the CPU is a Cortex M3: http://blog.gg8.se/wordpress/2011/08/14/monotribe-midi-and-m...
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by fhars 15y ago
On the other hand, google maps has been showing a road right through our neighbours' living room for the last ten years, while OSM correctly shows all roads and footpaths. Different maps have different errors, look what works for you.
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by fhars 15y ago
Since PHP arrays are within a factor of two for the theoretical optimum for a dynamically typed language that unifies arrays and hashes, all these languages (add javascript to the list) should have roughly comparable behaviour unless they d
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by fhars 15y ago
And once you relalize that they are really hashes you also realize that a fast and memory efficient representation will use at least nine machine words or 72 bytes per value: 1 + x for the pointer in the bucket array (you don't want 100% oc
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by fhars 15y ago
For what it's worth, more recent studies can only reproduce Dunning-Kruger for simple tasks, for difficult tasks the unskilled have a far more realistic view of their abilities than the highly skilled: http:/www.chicagocdr.org/cdrpubs/pdf_
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by fhars 15y ago
It's been a long time since, but as far as I remember it basically boils down to pasting the pfa into your file (pfb2pfa is your friend here). And it totally is a murky legal situation, many fonts don't allow embedding into a pdf, and you m
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by fhars 15y ago
They cannot be used as offensive weapons if you care about not killing your own populations. That is a non-issues for terroristic or milleniarist uses.
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by fhars 15y ago
Of course they don't obey differntet laws and a virus that does both spread fast and kills most of the infected will die out. Because it extinguishes enough of its host population so it can no longer spread. That is sort of the point in thi
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by fhars 15y ago
That is not a simple type. And people who still remember the original Pascal will know that you do not want to encourage people to make the size part of the collection type. And it doesn't buy you much if you cannot prove at compile time th
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by fhars 15y ago
But would the customer who wants to pay wth BitC using NFC technology accept that he must wait for some confirmations before he can take his merchandize home? And would merchants, especially large stores that go to substantive effort to str
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by fhars 15y ago
No, if they don't abide by the laws, their purposes are not completely legal. Just like you cannot completely voluntarily sell yourself into slavery under US law, there are certain inalienable rights that cannot be given up under european
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by fhars 15y ago
The nice thing about the old commodore drives is that they (almost) use a standard bus that allows easy implementation using microcontrollers: http://www.c64-wiki.com/index.php/SD2IEC
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by fhars 15y ago
Also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ja%27far_ibn_Yahya
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by fhars 15y ago
You might with more justification claim that varargs methods are a code smell, as they conflate the algebraic structure of the elements and the operations on them (for example that they form a semigroup with respect to the operation at hand
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by fhars 15y ago
Your price for buildable land in Europe is way off. The average price for land that is ready to build on in germany is around 129€ ( http://www.destatis.de/jetspeed/portal/cms/Sites/destatis/In... ), resulting in about $700,000/acre. To
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by fhars 15y ago
Indeed, that one comment changed the whole piece from a "look how stupide some candidates are" to an involuntary "we are even more stupid than our worst candidate." The code is full of security nightmares, and he bases the decision on namin
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by fhars 15y ago
Ah, the "I don't need glasses, it is only that my arm is too short" effect. That's a well known ageing process. The lens of the eye is an elastic body that bounces back to a more spherical form if you focus on something in the near, but ove

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