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721.
by fhars 15y ago
It is approximately human body temperature. By design it should be slightly less, Farady intended 100 degrees to be the human body temperature but obviously suffered a light fever the day he took the measurment, so these days the human body
722.
by fhars 15y ago
No, but just like you have to pay property taxes, you have to keep the sidewalk adjacent to your lot free of ice and snow.
723.
by fhars 15y ago
Pears, just like apples, usually don't speak at all, let alone in foreign languages. Sorry for the pun but since this is a thread about vocabulary and it's sunday when most of the regulars are away instead of procrastinating at work anyway
724.
by fhars 15y ago
Ah, cool I know 80 english words. There must be something utterly wrong with how this test works in opera mini, clicking on continue on page two brought me to page one, going back and clicking continue again gave me just a subset of the cho
725.
by fhars 15y ago
I expect busses to be mostly on time, and most of the time they are. It's not that the evening rush hour comes as a surprise every day, so it can be accomodated in the schedule. Of course, on really dense lines, time tables may just look li
726.
by fhars 15y ago
That's your problem, should have planned better.
727.
by fhars 15y ago
But the buckets in the poll are even more ubequal on a logarithmic scale than on a linear scale.
728.
by fhars 15y ago
Code redability is more importand that saving a keystroke, and code that looks less ugly is easier to read. You should view the ascii replacements like => like you view the trigraph replacements C allows you to write if you editor or
729.
by fhars 15y ago
My first association was this: http://73primenumbers.com/ (earlier discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1181713 )
730.
by fhars 15y ago
You will have to scroll a long way to get near the origin on a logarithmic graph. (Or, the two parts of you advice on how to enhance the graph are mutually exclusive, the origin on a logarithmic graph is at minus infinity.)
731.
by fhars 15y ago
Exept that billion is ambiguous, it might either be 10^9 (Giga) or 10^{12} (Tera).
732.
by fhars 15y ago
It was a horrible failure. It was projected for 75 launches a year at about 25M$ (thats million dollars, not a software company in Seattle) per lauch from 1977 until the late eighties when it was scheduled to be replaced by something better
733.
by fhars 15y ago
There is no such thing as "postgre".
734.
by fhars 15y ago
If you go to google.com and search for jquery, jquery.com takes the top stop with several sublinks and jquery.it is nowhere on the first page. It is only for the query "jquery 1.6.2" that blogs.jquery.it outranks jquery.com (because blogs.j
735.
by fhars 15y ago
One factor may be unique fresh content. If jquery.com only returns 500 to googlebot, jquery.it is one of the most content rich sites with fresh content on jquery 1.6.2. When I tried it some hours ago, jquery.com had first place for the quer
736.
by fhars 15y ago
The point is that the GC cannot see that and so assumes that the object is no longer referenced and can be freed. A conservative collector works by scanning the live memory of the process for things that look like pointers into the same l
737.
by fhars 15y ago
It is the dominating cost for students with unmetered electricity, so it's probably not negligible. (Well, maybe it's only the second most important cost for them, after sleep loss due to fan noise in the dorm room, but that is difficult to
738.
by fhars 15y ago
Cash is actually numbered so you can for example trace bills payed as ransom
739.
by fhars 15y ago
LibreOffice is the official version distributed by the Document Foundation, OpenOffice is the official version Oracles tries to dump on the Apache Foundation. Most of the development seems to happen in LO these days. [Edit: and you should
740.
by fhars 15y ago
No, of course, the point of the blog is to pester a certain Martin to put it into the compiler :-).
741.
by fhars 15y ago
The size method from the post compiles to exactly the same bytecode as the unsafe def sizeAny(t: Any) = t match { case i : Int => i case s : String => s.length } The only difference is that the method has an additio
742.
by fhars 15y ago
And even in CS you are mostly out of luck if it has been published by any of the usual anti-progress rackets like the ACM or IEEE or the other usual suspects (Springer , Elsevier and their ilk). Sometimes authors are allowed to publish a co
743.
by fhars 15y ago
You are taking the wireless controller for the console, the console looks like that http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?p=21727778#p21727... and connects to the tv with a cable.
744.
by fhars 15y ago
Judging from the Symbian phone I'm typing this on, Nokia is actually incapable of writing a decent phone os. The hardware is great (after four years the corners of the case have a few scratches from falling out of a shirt pocket on the conc
745.
by fhars 15y ago
There is somethig to that idea: you are only invited to participate in a project until you accept the invitation by actually commiting to the project. Eveyone is happy: Nobody needs to change the code (except for resorting the display of
746.
by fhars 15y ago
The games are the unique value proposition for their consoles (which they sell for a profit, unlike other companies). Publishing them elsewhere would quite probably be a net negative for Nintendo.
747.
by fhars 15y ago
I came to scala because it is in fact an acceptable ocaml that runs on the JVM.
748.
by fhars 15y ago
Yes, indeed. That is a nice graph, and in absence of a mechanism that would explain why no link can last longer than 28 years it should quite convincingly show that linear decay has not been established.
749.
by fhars 15y ago
Given that the data for the first few years result from a small number of pages, the graph doesn't allow to reliably distinguish between both interpretations, and his (and your) interpretation is not really justified. If you look just at th
750.
by fhars 15y ago
That does not necessarily imply modesty, there is another MacArthur grant winner who GNUed all his creations... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman#Recognition

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