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by gabemart 12y ago
It's none of my business, but to an outsider it seems like you're being extremely frank about this whole thing.
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> In this case, the generally “correct” answer is a tortoise-and-hare algorithm, where you have two pointers at the head of your linked list, one traverses the list two nodes at a time, and one traverses the list one node at a time; if e
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by gabemart 12y ago
The criterion is distinguishing words from non-words. That's it. You don't have to know the meaning. You just have to distinguish it from a word-like series of letters. If you incorrectly identify a non-word as a word, your score
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by gabemart 12y ago
I found the vocab test itself [1] quite interesting, but without information about the distribution of scores it's difficult to interpret the "% words known" metric. Is the distribution of scores publicly available anywhere?
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by gabemart 12y ago
Will it be possible to flash the phone with a stock Android ROM, or some other ROM that has access to the play store? I realize that's not relevant to the vast majority of the market, but I'm curious.
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by gabemart 12y ago
I used to use Technorati occasionally. For a long time (at least a couple of years), the results of its ranking system have seemed arbitrary and unhelpful, with little relationship to other metrics of site authority.
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by gabemart 12y ago
> If you're SEOing in a small niche it's very easy to simply outrank the competition if you know what you're doing. Is this really true? I struggle to imagine how generating legitimate and high-value backlinks is easy, ev
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by gabemart 12y ago
The reduction in memory usage seems impressive for large PDFs, but peak usage of 695MiB to display a 14-page pdf [1] still seems like loads of memory. On my machine, a native reader (Foxit) [2] takes ~30MiB. [1] http://cdn.mozi
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by gabemart 12y ago
>A pictogram…, is an ideogram that conveys its meaning through its pictorial resemblance to a physical object. By this definition, @ is not a pictogram just because it is named for a pictorial resemblance. It must convey meaning
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by gabemart 12y ago
Given that laptop screens tend to be smaller than desktop screens, the benefits of a second monitor for a laptop seem even greater than for a desktop. Sent from the second monitor attached to my laptop.
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by gabemart 12y ago
My hobby projects (e.g. [1]) are database-less JS. All the server does is serve a few static files. [1] http://vidyabuzz.com
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by gabemart 12y ago
toy extremely quick and dirty version: http://jsfiddle.net/g6JS8/ The results are both hard-to-pronounce and hard-to-spell, unfortunately. Edit: and here's a version with letters in their most common positions -
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by gabemart 12y ago
Eugh, I'm blind. Thanks!
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by gabemart 12y ago
The hint for level 3 reads: As before, using <script> ... as a payload won't work because the browser won't execute scripts added after the page has loaded. How do you solve level 3?
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by gabemart 12y ago
> The main critique I have for the OP is that is that it should be responsive -- and only work on tablets and mobile All it does is add and remove classes. It can be as responsive or unresponsive as you like with @media rules.
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> CPU mining is so slow in comparison to ASCI mining that the attacker is probably making pennies on this Given that a decent proportion (most?) of people downloading and running a modern PC game like Watch_Dogs will have high-end discre
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by gabemart 12y ago
The Google Ngrams graph for "hacker" may be of some interest: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=hacker&year_st...
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by gabemart 12y ago
Thanks for the clarification. It also bugs me that there's no way to enter the mode of transportation as part of the URL query string. I'd love to be able to use smart keyword syntax like: from London to Cambridge by bike
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by gabemart 12y ago
The Museum's OASC initiative provides license- and cost-free access to images of artwork in the collection that the Museum believes to be in the public domain and free of other known restrictions for scholarly use in any media which t
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by gabemart 12y ago
> I personally f.i. enjoyed the from: to: keywords in Google Maps search. That feature disappeared and probably the majority of users wouldn't use those anyway. I still use that feature every day. I have a smart keyword setup so tha
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by gabemart 12y ago
The Cabal met four days a week, six hours a day for five months straight, and then on and off until the end of the project. The meetings were only six hours a day, because after six hours everyone was emotionally and physically drained. Th
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by gabemart 12y ago
We can have reasonable confidence in that assessment in hindsight. At the time, I would have been unwilling to gamble my net worth against the possibility of some unforeseen event causing a spike in the value of the pound. It was a non-zero
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by gabemart 12y ago
> How about game with much smaller search tree complexity first, like poker. I presume you're talking about limit poker. In pot-limit or no-limit poker, the search tree is large, especially (as you say) for 6-max or full-ring. I don
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by gabemart 12y ago
I didn't realize PoF doesn't use Adsense any more, but I was more interested in letting HN users know in case they were inspired to share the same kind of data and risking having their accounts suspended.
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by gabemart 12y ago
I believe it's against the Adsense ToS to share any data except gross earnings. However, I find these data very interesting and am personally glad you shared them. Quote: 9. Confidentiality You agree not to disclose Google Confident
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by gabemart 12y ago
This sounds reminiscent of similar accusations regarding books from Lightning Source being sold on Amazon being given long delivery estimates. Lightning source is a print-on-demand publishing service from Ingram that competes with Amazon&#x
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by gabemart 12y ago
This is exactly what people on reddit used to say about reddit six or seven years ago. I have to believe the decline in general quality, and the quality of the front page most of all, in reddit could happen in some form to HN, without vig
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A clear conversation is difficult in the absence of a clear, canonical definition of "bad". It would be very easy for me to get a few friends together and make a 90 minutes improvised movie filmed on my phone. That would be an abs
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I am in a similar position to you, in that I only very recently picked up any javascript. What's worked for me: use whatever meager skills you have to work on a real project that you find interesting. Not something that can hurt people
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> For 1 burger you need like 4 pounds of vegs In terms of calories, this is technically correct, but the metric of calories is not at all useful in a first-world context. At my local market, £1 gets you about 10,000 kcals of rice or past

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