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by finnw 14y ago
It's not really a random sample, because you can choose which 5 posts to use your votes on.
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by finnw 14y ago
Because they scare off the experts who post the really useful (i.e. practical) answers. If too many of them leave, the site becomes useless. The people who answer (and upvote) questions like "What's your favourite programmer cartoon" do not
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by finnw 14y ago
Sounds easier than winning the Loebner Prize, and yet there is more cash on offer. I just hope the winning entry will prompt the developers to remove that stupid filter[1] that prevents you from referring to the Halting Problem in question
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by finnw 14y ago
I'll guess this is one of the reasons? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_One_(software)
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by finnw 14y ago
About 6 years ago I was interviewed for a position that was (mostly) C++ coding. I told them I had been coding in C++ for four years. They said "So what level are you, Expert or Guru?" I thought it was a trick question, and replied that any
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by finnw 14y ago
And lobsters. And mussels. And locusts, squid, termites, beetles, worms, spiders... no shortage of nutritious meat sources, many of which taste better than the average mammal, just that we "westerners" aren't accustomed to eating them. E
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by finnw 14y ago
I'm not sure whether this is a good or bad thing, but most sites (including HN) with partially-automated moderation systems make the same assumption: *You only need one "karma" variable, for both posting and moderation*. That is, use
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by finnw 14y ago
If someone posts a helpful answer to your question, it's fine to say "thanks" in a comment (and the mods will not remove that.)
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by finnw 14y ago
How about this: if database.contains(email) or md5sum(secretSalt + email).startsWith('4'): print "An email has been sent to this address with further instructions" else: print "Sorry, this address does not exist in
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by finnw 14y ago
I find backspace works just as well and can be remapped in Vim itself (unlike caps lock which must be remapped in the driver, affecting all apps.)
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by finnw 14y ago
No it is not perfectly justified to break the speed limit if you are going to visit a dying relative. That's ridiculous. Think about it. If I was going to visit a dying relative (who you have never met) would you be happy for me to d
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by finnw 14y ago
I just hope the cops don't respond by routinely confiscating smartphones of everyone they stop. "Sorry, but I suspect you are smuggling cocaine inside the case. Don't worry you'll get it back. Well I mean you'll get the pieces back. In
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by finnw 14y ago
Those questions were always offtopic (even though they were tolerated in the early days.) Migrating them to marginal sites is better than deleting them.
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by finnw 14y ago
Really? I can understand how the front of the aircraft (as it collapses) can cushion the impact if you are in that position, but after that you still have to avoid being killed by hypothermia or drowning (if you hit water) or fire (if you
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by finnw 14y ago
You don't even need to shop online for that - it can happen in brick-and-mortar stores: http://consumerist.com/2007/10/best-buy-sells-you-a-box-of-b...
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by finnw 14y ago
Really? Apple are trying very hard to stop you buying an HTC phone.
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by finnw 14y ago
Remember :CueCat? [1] The marketers may just be repeating the same mistake. Fortunately it does not require specialized hardware anymore (since most smartphone cameras can read QR codes.) [1]: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000
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by finnw 14y ago
N. The local time offset (from UTC) will not change during office hours. I got bitten by this once when developing a scheduling tool for project management. Since daylight-saving offset changes were always close to midnight, I assumed they
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by finnw 14y ago
#1 is not true. Algorithms like bcrypt rely on being so expensive to compute that brute-forcing is prohibitively expensive. bcrypt does use salt. If it did not then it would indeed be vulnerable to rainbow table attacks.
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by finnw 14y ago
ClickOnce[1] does this. Some other apps have their own mechanisms to do the same, e.g. Google Chrome. I don't think it's a good idea though, as it makes those apps more susceptible to being modified by malware. [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org
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by finnw 14y ago
I think you're right about the double standard, but there is another factor - distribution of culpability. Current situation: 16,000 drivers, each responsible for about 2 deaths. Situation with the computers in control: 1 CEO of a manufactu
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by finnw 14y ago
As long as: 1. They do not have a mechanism to resurrect your account and 2. You do not use the same password elsewhere then it should not matter.
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by finnw 14y ago
The SHA1 of my LinkedIn password naturally starts with "00000". I wonder if that would have thwarted the original cracking attempt. I'm almost disappointed that mine was not in the list.
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by finnw 14y ago
Could that not have been withdrawal symptoms?
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by finnw 14y ago
Depends whether the two 32-bit hashes are correlated with each other. If there is no correlation then a pair of 32-bit hashes is no more likely to collide than a single 64-bit hash. But this is difficult to achieve, and you should not ass
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by finnw 15y ago
> A "find prior art for this patent" website, with various gamification style badges and points could be insanely popular. It's been done. http://www.articleonepartners.com/
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by finnw 15y ago
Aha! I will do the same except I will poach the homeless workers from you by offering them $2.50 an hour.
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by finnw 15y ago
I use dvorak with vim with (mostly) standard key bindings. It's not too bad. H and K are not far from their respective QWERTY positions. J and K remain next to each other.
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by finnw 15y ago
That would not explain the claimed effect on depression
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by finnw 15y ago
Was that with or without a current regulator?

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