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by fhars 17y ago
Because it does something entirely different. "echo " is the same as "ls", while "grep '. '" is the same as "cat".
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by fhars 17y ago
The iPad has no cell connectivity, so the main selling point of opera mini, reduced cell bandwidth usage, is useless on the iPad.
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by fhars 17y ago
OK, eight years, then. The timeline I found gave 1993 for 4.4BSD.
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by fhars 17y ago
According to the FreeBSD chflags(1) manpage: The chflags command first appeared in 4.4BSD. Which puts it about seven years after this story.
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by fhars 17y ago
You can use grep '.*' > /etc/password instead of cat > /etc/password
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by fhars 17y ago
You do know that the IPv6 address space contains one or two million IPv4 address spaces for every star in the visible universe?
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by fhars 17y ago
That, and the fact that they have a big, otherwise unused upper surface. Where would you put a big honking logo on a skaters shoe?
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by fhars 17y ago
Thas was a stupid comment :-). Of course the filter probably assumes that its input is text targeted at humans, not code targeted at a markup processor. Code is speech that is deliberately dumbed down so that is is in LALR or LL(n) or so, n
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by fhars 17y ago
But then your expertise is not that different from your expertise. Your perl will probably still be faster overall than a beginner's haskell, not for the same algorithm, but for solutions to the same problem. Knowing which algorithms perfor
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by fhars 17y ago
That page gives an overview over the (dead tree) literature on the topic: http://forums.construx.com/blogs/stevemcc/archive/2008/03/27... An interesting data point he cites is the comparision between Lotus 123 version 3 and Excel 3.0: "Ex
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by fhars 17y ago
Here is the video http://vimeo.com/8729673
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by fhars 17y ago
And that will probably mean that you cannot run software you wrote on a piece of hardware you own without paying somebody $200 a year for the privilege of a developer certificate. Oh how I hate Java ME. (Well, technically you can run anythi
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by fhars 17y ago
And they auto-translate the website to the language of the browser. So if yo happen to access the page with e.g. de_DE as preferred language, they sound like complete morons.
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by fhars 17y ago
Your conclusion is a non sequitur. While people cannot discern individual events a 60Hz, most will perceive a CRT monitor as slightly but disconcertingly flickering, an effect that only vanishes at 70Hz or more (I once had a co-worker who d
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by fhars 17y ago
Yeah, as we are discussing the enterprise he should probably have included a disclaimer that that was a forward looking statement.
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by fhars 17y ago
That is not percieving, that is aliasing and conclusively demonstrates that you cannot percieve 60fps. If you could, you would see only one image, not a superposition of several illumination states.
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by fhars 17y ago
You might be able to speed it up considerably by adding 2a. Continue with next iteration unless the turning number of the sequence of curves is a whole number. You add 1/8 to the turning number for each clockwise curve and subtract 1/8 for
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by fhars 17y ago
If there are enough children entering your building, it might just work. On a more serious note, people do actually use this to improve the supply with drinking water in developing countries by attaching a water pump to a roundabout, search
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by fhars 17y ago
What the article fails to mention is that the surviving 0.01% of a specific microbe (or the ones on the 60th test plate) may just be the strains that are resistant to the common antimicrobial agents in household cleaners, which will then fi
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by fhars 17y ago
Or use the ISO format, 2010-01-02 is a pallindrome, too.
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by fhars 17y ago
The "external sorting" chapter of TAoCP might also be interresting in this context (5.4 in Vol. 3), even though Knuth thought that "the once-crucial topic of patterns for tape merging has become of limited relevance to currnt needs" (p. 251
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by fhars 17y ago
Using global variables is far easier in this case and may entail changing a whopping three lines of code: one for the declaration of the variable and one each in the two functions using the new variable. The argument passing variant on the
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by fhars 17y ago
I did pixel-perfect cross browser layouts with CSS five years ago Using just semantic markup, or with lots of divs within divs that have no justification to be there except to allow styles to be attached to them? "Great pyramids of DIV" b
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by fhars 17y ago
That is why at the time all browsers had an easily accessible configuration option "don't dowload images unless requested".
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by fhars 17y ago
Actually, your comment clearly illustrates why the choice Firefox et al. made is completely wrong. The only reason the video doesn't show in your browser is that he had been forced to use javascript hackery instead of a plain video elements
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by fhars 17y ago
As pierrfar has shown, they disable any caching, so even if you use the same icon on several pages of your site the browser will have to re-download it every single time. Now all they need is to to log the client IP and client agent string
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by fhars 17y ago
The problem with java's type system is not that you are not enough of a type theorist, but that the people who designed it weren't. It is exteremly weak, inconsistent and confuses some fundamental concepts (like the difference between inher
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by fhars 17y ago
Same thing in germany. Shops can put an expiration date on their cards, but that just means they have to pay a full refund in cash from that day on (they have alredy benefited enough from the interest free credit extended to them by the giv
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by fhars 17y ago
Because it is boring to play. I once was on a study week on historical mathematical games with several historians of mathematics, and even we got bored of the game after an evening. It is designed to teach a certain medieval conception of c
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by fhars 17y ago
More raw material to invent hearsay: that is the address shared by the founder and the sharehoder: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=de&#38...

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