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by finnw 14y ago
And how do you defraud a retailer using a prepaid gift card anyway?
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by finnw 14y ago
Interesting. From this description I would expect that mercator would always agree with lat/long in terms of "Is X North or South of Y" questions. However, Albany (Australia) appears to be South of Melbourne when in its starting position on
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by finnw 14y ago
I would like to know how the database of names was built. That is, how would one qualify a name as "black-sounding" or "white-sounding"? I hope it was not based only on intuition as that may give misleading results. Is there a public data
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by finnw 14y ago
> The original idea always centered around SO being a blog for programmers that don't really blog; at least that was what was constantly talked about. I used to listen to the early podcasts and I never got this impression. As far as I
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by finnw 14y ago
It's worth mentioning that it was not the UK governmnent that ordered the block; It was a judge (not as bad IMO.)
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by finnw 14y ago
Describing this as "for bitcoiners" is misleading. The suspicious activity that this user's account was suspended for was a payment (in USD) from one individual to another, that Dwolla suspected was an "unlicensed BTC exchange" (not necessa
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by finnw 14y ago
It's not new. I first saw it on usenet in the mid 90s.
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by finnw 14y ago
> Who needs capslock anyway? C and Java programmers.
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by finnw 14y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_fallacy
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by finnw 14y ago
It is not appropriate because Ortiz is not accused of war crimes.
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by finnw 14y ago
Are you sure it was the original developer that inserted the crapware?
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by finnw 14y ago
> "the CFAA is wrong and should be abolished" > "There should be no criminal penalty at all for unauthorized access to a computer system" These are not equivalent.
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by finnw 14y ago
If you have (or suspect you have) depression, you are lucky to live in the UK, because at least you do not need to worry about being denied health insurance because of a previous diagnosis.
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by finnw 14y ago
Office hours are not consistent in local time either - there are cultural variations. If you want to know what (UTC) times the Chinese guy will be in his office, you need to ask him, not try to predict using offsets from UTC.
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by finnw 14y ago
Are you hiring now? :-)
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by finnw 14y ago
No, then it will see the evil overlord list, and we'll be doomed ( http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EvilOverlordList )
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by finnw 14y ago
Banks like java applets because of the built-in cryptography functions.
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by finnw 14y ago
The detectors are still operated by the BBC, not the contractors. (I know 2 former BBC detection engineers, one of whom also operated the machine.) They declined to tell me how the machine worked, sadly.
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by finnw 14y ago
It's not really like bitcoin. For one thing it does not broadcast to the whole world whenever it changes hands.
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by finnw 14y ago
That will remove limescale from the heating element. Unfortunately some of it also finds its way into the auto-cutoff mechanism, causing it to switch off prematurely (or occasionally fail to switch off.)
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by finnw 14y ago
We solve that problem by carrying a pressure cooker.
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by finnw 14y ago
I am English, and was partly mimicking the parent who used "regular kettle" to mean "stove top kettle." I did grow up with one though. My parents had previously lived in a house with a very small kitchen with no convenient place for an ele
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by finnw 14y ago
Does gas not have exactly the same issue? i.e. mains pressure drops when many people in the area are using it at the same time?
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by finnw 14y ago
Electric kettles. Regular kettles are not popular here (I had difficulty finding one a few years ago)
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by finnw 14y ago
Yes, but you will need a time machine
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by finnw 14y ago
This is pointed out every time a link to a closed SO/SE question appears on HN (for about three years now.) So why is there still no programming opinions website? Maybe because it's a bad idea.
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by finnw 14y ago
This kind of product often runs in a VM anyway
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by finnw 14y ago
This is from 2008 (should probably be mentioned in the title.)
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by finnw 14y ago
Another pro for Lua is it has weak references and JS does not.
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by finnw 14y ago
It means that if you generate a series of keys by simply incrementing a counter, your 192- and 256-bit keys will be cracked before my 128-bit key. But if you are generating keys that way, you should probably be more concerned about attack

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