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by finnw 14y ago
I don't think a bloom filter would be very useful for a spell checker. Bloom filters reduce disk reads when the majority of keys searched for are not in the dictionary. But in the context of a word processor, the majority of words tend
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Microsoft says Motorola Android phones infringe its mapping patent(computerworld.com)
2 points by finnw 14y ago|0 comments
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by finnw 14y ago
It does not fit any definition of "hustle" that I am aware of, including these: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hustle
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by finnw 14y ago
Probably not, but if a regular link has an onClick event, they might show a big red warning message in the status bar in place of the URL.
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by finnw 14y ago
I won't be surprised if both Google and MS restrict this in their browsers in the near future, but make exceptions for their own search engines.
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by finnw 14y ago
Missing entry: 6-8 weeks ==> Never If you're lucky, the programmer is Jeff Atwood (but it will still take a year.) More likely, the task will never be finished, unless management intervenes by splitting it into smaller tasks. A
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by finnw 14y ago
You would think the mark (if they know the difference) would say "You just told me I have a virus, so you should know that."
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by finnw 14y ago
Strictly speaking it is not Kolmogorov complexity (That has an upper bound, namely the constant size of a program that can output arbitrarily many digits of Pi.)
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by finnw 14y ago
3.1415927 is really just a shorthand for 31415927/10000000, so shouldn't it count as 17 characters rather than 9?
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by finnw 14y ago
But it was smart of Apple to get their product to market first. Waiting for it to be "finished", then being stuck behind Google in ML technology indefinitely, would have been dumb.
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by finnw 14y ago
If you lived in Great Britain and typed in "Taj Mahal", it would find 100 restaurants within one mile.
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by finnw 14y ago
More likely they expect to get a large market share for free, from name recognition alone. Try convincing a 50-year-old who has owned nothing but Windows PCs for 25 years that a new Windows 8 (or 9) PC is not what they need.
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by finnw 14y ago
I'm sure there'll be a special edition of Windows for those customers that will allow them to keep their homegrown apps. For only an extra $10000 per core.
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by finnw 14y ago
I think he meant VM as in emulator (e.g. vmware), not as in the Java runtime.
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by finnw 14y ago
Works on HTC Bravo with CM7.1.0
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by finnw 14y ago
> You'd make a great henchman in a totalitarian regime. I'm not sure whether this counts as a Godwin
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by finnw 14y ago
So where do all the old ones end up?
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by finnw 14y ago
It could be a coincidence. About half of all 4-digit numbers contain at least one repeated digit. (Of 10000 possible numbers, 10 * 9 * 8 * 7 == 5040 contain four distinct digits.)
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by finnw 14y ago
Maybe they want to imply that anyone who objects to being scanned for privacy reasons, must be mentally ill.
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by finnw 14y ago
Why all the worry about collisions? They will be rare enough that they could be worked around with a hard-coded blacklist in the browser.
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by finnw 14y ago
> I'd like to know what is meant by that sentence that isn't equally true for homo sapiens Borderea chouardii is critically endangered. Homo sapiens is not.
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$20,000 for a fast algorithm for a simple math game(elance.com)
4 points by finnw 14y ago|1 comments
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by finnw 14y ago
There's also this bleem[1], but that wouldn't make sense either. [1]: [ http://www.strangehorizons.com/2000/20001120/secret_number.s... ]
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by finnw 14y ago
How about allowing automated signup for read-only accounts? I don't want to post comments on lobste.rs, but it would be nice to have access to other features (e.g. tag-based filtering.)
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by finnw 14y ago
It's easy to criticise a minor detail of a friend's work, but harder to say "you don't have the talent for this, give up."
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by finnw 14y ago
> How many people, with all of our intelligence, could program homogeneous robots that are able to burrow into the ground and meet two tunnels underground from either end by only exchanging rudimentary signals with each other? Well, t
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by finnw 14y ago
At first glance I thought you meant you cycled from Bristol to London, which would be quite impressive if you did every working day of the year.
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by finnw 14y ago
I'm still riding the $300 bike to work that I bought 10 years ago and it still helps me control my weight (as I discovered when I stopped for 6 weeks.) The reason? My $300 bike is a lot heavier than your $3000 bike.
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by finnw 14y ago
Today we still need human actors to portray humanoid robots in movies. Robots will be able to portray themselves long before they can portray humans.
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by finnw 14y ago
For me it's most noticeable in the lips - they just don't move as much as they should.

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