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by gdl 16y ago
I clicked expecting this to be one of those terribly misleading science headlines, but this actually sounds really cool. I wonder how much this can be tuned to create a variety of "materials", or if it's limited to a simple novelty sensatio
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by gdl 16y ago
My take as some random guy without any particular experience in these things: Client-side hashing shouldn't make much of a difference to security. Passwords are generally hashed server-side before being stored anyway, and it wouldn't preven
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by gdl 16y ago
It sounds like she needs to just drain the brain fluid somehow - letting it overflow into her stomach was just the most convenient way to do so. Not quite as bizarre as the headline makes it sound. Here's hoping there's an especially reli
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by gdl 16y ago
If you're not going to be using them to listen to music, simple foam earplugs are comfortable, effective, and dirt cheap. As far as actual earphones, I ended up picking a pair of Etymotic ER6i's after researching various brands a few years
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by gdl 16y ago
It all depends what you're comparing it against, and how you're using it. Keep in mind that Perl was originally created to fit a text processing and shell scripting niche, in which it is tuned to perform quite nicely. I've heard it claimed
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by gdl 16y ago
Yes, as of August 14, 2003. (Of course opinions may vary.) http://no-www.org/
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by gdl 16y ago
That's not true. I'm pretty sure it would be topped by the nations of: 1) People that eat rice, 2) Those living below 1000ft altitude, and 3) People whose favorite color is either red or blue. Oh, wait, those are all random collections of
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by gdl 16y ago
Gimmicky as 3D may be right now, this is just typical "get off my lawn" trolling. His arguments boil down to: 1) We got along fine without it before, so adding it would be somewhere between worthless and a net loss artistically. 2) The earl
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by gdl 16y ago
Not to be confused with "Ook!" http://esolangs.org/wiki/Ook ! This is like "Go" / "Go!" all over again, except more people have probably heard of "Ook!".
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by gdl 16y ago
I'm not even going to venture a guess on the lower-level similarities. It's certainly easy to say that, of course they'd use binary, it's the obvious, simple choice. But I'm not an alien and don't presume to know what they would find obviou
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by gdl 16y ago
Oh, absolutely. And a lot of those are choices to make and fine-tune rather than obvious boolean working/buggy issues. ie The Tetris Wiki lists a half-dozen different rotation systems alone, some of which show fairly complex behavior ( ht
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by gdl 16y ago
Neat demo, bad Tetris. As far as I can tell, you can only rotate one direction (use the up arrow), and fast-dropping instantly drops and locks the piece, so you have to wait ten seconds for it to slooowly drop if you want to slide it undern
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by gdl 16y ago
Totally agree. Just figured I'd put that out there since some people waste too much effort trying to take on the superficial mannerisms and habits of successful people as a distraction from the more difficult task of actually getting things
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by gdl 16y ago
> Without a doubt, one way to mimic the successes of these people is to do what they do. Careful with that thought. If someone creates their own path, following in their footsteps after the fact will be an entirely different journey tha
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by gdl 16y ago
I think you're overthinking things. Check out http://www.microsoft.cc/ for an indication of how much Microsoft worries about .cc domains. (Hint: either it's not owned by Microsoft, or their web designers have really gone downhill.)
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by gdl 16y ago
The China Study (book) suggested that, almost universally, food from animals = bad, food from plants = good. I started reading it about a year ago and gave up a few chapters in because it came across as very selective in its facts, so I can
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by gdl 16y ago
Try poking around Etsy a bit. A quick search for "coffee mug" gets over 1400 hits, many of those being handmade, one-of-a-kind pieces. Quality and style varies a lot, but you're likely to find a few that pique your interest if you spend som
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by gdl 16y ago
Okay, so then your argument is that atheists don't believe in God. I completely agree with you.
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by gdl 16y ago
You are correct, of course, but this is religion bashing. You see, it is traditional to attack blindly (usually against strawmen) without regard to logic, and feel smugly self-righteous about one's obvious superiority while mocking religiou
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by gdl 16y ago
The world has been much, much more populated now than in the past, and we have much bigger weapons. There have been very many religiously motivated wars through the ages. Do you think that, had those wars taken place in a world with similar
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by gdl 16y ago
I don't think Twitter is the best solution for streaming movies...
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by gdl 16y ago
It seems to be phrased both ways, like "I want something that does these things, and I think there is a market for it". We were mostly addressing the first part. I agree that a consumer-oriented gadget to do the same thing easily could be n
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by gdl 16y ago
That was my first reaction, too. Once you add enough features (streaming video, web interface) it stops being a "storage device" and quickly becomes a general purpose computer, which have existed for a while now. It's not a sleek and trendy
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by gdl 16y ago
What if he's too busy actually doing stuff to follow ten blogs?
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by gdl 16y ago
You seem to be commiting the common geek error of assuming that people are generally logical, and that they agree with your basic values. They aren't, and they don't. College degrees are demanded, even when irrelevent to the job at hand, be
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by gdl 16y ago
"Coding, for a counterexample, is '90 percent finished' for half of the total coding time. Debugging is '99 percent complete' most of the time. 'Planning complete' is an event one can proclaim almost at will." -Mythical Man Month, page 154
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by gdl 16y ago
Define "hacker". Becoming one means different things to different people, and you haven't given much context. Without more specific information about where you are and where you want to end up, you're not going to get any useful responses.
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by gdl 16y ago
Get 10 people to buy pamphlets for $10,000 each, in which it is explained how to turn $10,000 into $100,000 within 1-2 years by selling pamphlets. I suggest marketing to Lisp programmers as they will be enticed by the brilliant logic of the
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by gdl 16y ago
For most of the article I was able to accept that he might have actually had the good intentions that he claimed, despite his rather questionable methods. Then he mentioned that his couple dozen hotmail typo domains, that he supposedly cr
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by gdl 16y ago
I felt really evil, so I tried: http://مثال.آزمایشی/ It takes it without complaining then offers a non-working gibberish URL in return: http://p4ge.in/آزم�/m Aren't encodings fun? ;)

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