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811.
by fhars 16y ago
This theory elegantly explains the structue of one of the known planetary systems, but as far as I can tell forbids the structure of most other known planetary systems which contain at least one "hot jupiter". From a theory that relies on t
812.
by fhars 16y ago
Not to forget that IQ tests (for whatever they may actually measure) had to be constantly rescaled over the last half century to stay centered at 100. So an average IQ these days is comparable to a borderline genius IQ from the middle of th
813.
by fhars 16y ago
English hyphenation rules are very simple and relaxed by continental standards. It is about the only language where such a simple and straightforward algorithm as the one in TeX (it doesn't even contain a full list of word stems and a rule
814.
by fhars 16y ago
Since it is an upgraded Samsung Galaxy S, I'd expect it in the same price range, mavbe sligthly higher.
815.
by fhars 16y ago
There seems to be a partial fix in the 4.0 codebase: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=147777#c259
816.
by fhars 16y ago
So more than a fifth of the lisp entries are in the bottom twentyfifth of the competition. So you could also use the contest results to argue that lisp is five times worse for AI than the average language. (Or, rather, that language alone d
817.
by fhars 16y ago
Nokia has always produced top notch phones. Their only problem is that it looks like they couldn't write decent software for phones if their life depended on it (randomly shuffling browser bookmarks every time I open the IMAP-client? Come /
818.
by fhars 16y ago
The SGLR parser in Strtego/XT is not state of the art, at least not for production use. It only supports pure seven bit ASCII, it is a throwback to the 1970ies.
819.
by fhars 16y ago
It is also completely irrelevant to the study at hand, as one of the conclusoins was that the right diet helps without counting calories.
820.
by fhars 16y ago
Judging from the wikipedia disambiguation page, he is probably referring to the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, although I always thought they were more into AK-47s than into cell phones. (Cue dramatic orchestral music while an PLO commando rips i
821.
by fhars 16y ago
Reasonable people thought that the ocean (without america, there would be no separate atlantic and pacific ocean) was considerably smaller than it really is, not least due to the impossibility to reliably measure longitude, so they vastly o
822.
by fhars 16y ago
Concurrent updates to the same object. You could get around some of the limitations by creating a branch for every session (though probably not on a high volume site), but then you will have lots of interesting problems once a session ends
823.
by fhars 16y ago
Among non-geek german kids "lol" works almost like a normal adverb in everyday conversation...
824.
by fhars 16y ago
Because it's sunday and the regulars are not procrastinating at work.
825.
by fhars 16y ago
Yes. Two seconds is usually regarded as the rection time threshold where an ineractive system starts to turn into a batch system. It is long enough for the user to start to forget what he expects from the system or to think about swiching t
826.
by fhars 16y ago
Ubuntu has always been shooting for the mainstream, it is the central goal of the project. Just look at bug 1.
827.
by fhars 16y ago
And a rant wrapped in untested broken markup that lets the text end after three sentences with a big black banner saying "Make your own card at some spammy site" that you can't scoll past on mobile browsers... Classy, indeed.
828.
by fhars 16y ago
You've got your chronology wrong, the cell phone was introduced 1973 (that's why the OpenMoko device was called Neo 1973), predating the Apple ][ by four years.
829.
by fhars 16y ago
Seems to be similar to Quikwriting. http://www.mrl.nyu.edu/projects/quikwriting/ (which is patent-infested, too, http://www.freepatentsonline.com/6031525.html )
830.
by fhars 16y ago
If you continue along that line, you end up using the median comment score... which might incidentally be an interresting experiment.
831.
by fhars 16y ago
No, they are not. Or, rather, they are only if they follow a(n inverted) chain line (i.e. exp(x)+exp(-x)), but the lower parts of the half spheres favored in architecture are steeper than that, so there is massive tensile stress there. This
832.
by fhars 16y ago
A surprisingly large part of computing is about while not (user clicked 'close') do something done
833.
by fhars 16y ago
I do actually have a perl script that generates all the obnoxious boilerplate a rails application that does something slightly differen from what DHH likes requires, so I have no doubt that such a mix of languages may come to pass in other
834.
by fhars 16y ago
Yes, it is. You should design your login system assuming that the username is public, of course (otherwise you would facilitate attacks targetet at a specific user), but for an attack on the site itself that needs just any one account, sepa
835.
by fhars 16y ago
Or zope for something moderatly insightful: http://www.google.com/trends?q=%22asp.net+mvc%22%2C+%22ruby+...
836.
by fhars 16y ago
The probability that a person with type I diabetes would have had type I diabetes (and so died a painful death before 35) if born a hundred years ago is close to one, as type I is inherited. And most food was considerably less healthy and s
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by fhars 16y ago
I just wanted to say that I take you at your word followed by a modest version of the interdiction below, but then I noticed your fine piece of corporate doublespeak of only allowing opt-out against mail from free users of your service, whi
838.
by fhars 16y ago
That is too late. Collecting data like this is only legitimate (or, if the reciever is european, legal) if the collection only ever starts after the collecting party has recieved a qualified declaration of consent from the reciever of the b
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by fhars 16y ago
And they buy massive amounts of coal produced electric energy from germany during peak load times in winter.
840.
by fhars 16y ago
As I said in my reply to your deleted comment, this is plain wrong. Momentum is conserved. Unlike kinetic energy (which gets transformed into heat), it is even conserved in inelastic collisions.

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