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by gmiller123456 9y ago
Suppose someone answers the question very well, even to the point giving details (possibly incorrect) that you were unaware of? What good does this do you? Suppose their answer contradicts what you think you know? This is one of those whe
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by gmiller123456 9y ago
"The Elements of Computing Systems" and the accompanying course Nand2Tetris on Coursera. It's a course that starts with just nand gates, and leads you through the development of higher level logic gates, then an ALU, then a
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by gmiller123456 9y ago
IMHO, this is not a good book for learning JavasScript. It's probably a good read for someone with intermediate knowledge of JavaScript looking to expand their understanding of the language. But it covers nothing about the DOM, or ho
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by gmiller123456 9y ago
"My personal view is that computers should have to play candidate matches as well to get to a championship match" Important point is that this was not a championship match, it was just a regular exhibition match. The world champi
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by gmiller123456 9y ago
This problem gets a lot worse when all you see is a thumbnail of the cover. At least the image on his blog post is large enough that you can figure out what it means if you take a second. But in search results, the text "Seventh Edit
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by gmiller123456 9y ago
tl;dr from above. Yes, he agrees it's deceptively named and they're not going to change it. :(
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by gmiller123456 9y ago
It isn't a valid assumption (nor expectation) that MS would design it so that anyone not skilled in Windows development would understand it. If you want to see a nightmare, look at a *nix file system. If it were a contest, I'm su
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by gmiller123456 9y ago
While I hate to interfere with any Microsoft bashing, the use of system32 is actually because too many 3rd party apps didn't bother calling "GetSystemDirectory()" and just assumed it was system32. And Wow64 is Windows On Win
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by gmiller123456 9y ago
If you don't want to take the long drive out to the Racetrack on a road that'll probably pop your tires. The same thing happens on a dry lake bed just out side of Death Valley near Bonnie Claire. It's on HWY267 about 5 mile
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by gmiller123456 9y ago
See also: Pheonix, I mean Firebird, oops I mean Firefox.
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by gmiller123456 10y ago
There are several ways to do depth mapping with just a single camera. Structure from Motion, and Multiple View Geometry are a couple. Of course, more sensors will usually provide better data. I imagine there are plenty of situation where
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by gmiller123456 10y ago
It's been my experience that the type of "programmers" that network at these events aren't the type I'd like to be networking with. It's usually beginners and hobbyists, or recruiters trying to use me as an &q
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by gmiller123456 10y ago
>If you enjoy this, Matousek and Vondrak have a better one. Curious as to why you would say that. Having a cursory look at both, they don't appear to be even close to discussing the same things. The link you provided is much more
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by gmiller123456 10y ago
I "made" a set using different sized shot glasses for each piece, and different colors of alcohol for each side. No doubt I wasn't the first, nor the last to do so. Never managed to have everything line up in having a willi
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by gmiller123456 10y ago
To cite "Triumph of the Nerds" again. There were several things that came together to make it possible. IBM's support for it was pretty essential, their bureaucracy being incompatible with a fast changing market leading to
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by gmiller123456 10y ago
And in "Triumph of the Nerds" Ballmer said working on OS/2 set them back 10 years too. So, I guess with these two setbacks together, the PC became un-invented.
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by gmiller123456 10y ago
> I consider the license an investment in Sublime's future. I'm exactly the opposite. I consider the license as compensation for work already done, I operate under the assumption that the vendor will have made enough to not ca
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by gmiller123456 10y ago
> Angular 2 is a different framework, plain and simple. Yes. Retaining the Angular name is just a way to slightly disguise that they've dropped a framework altogether and left its user high and dry.
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by gmiller123456 10y ago
Been a while since I've tried Vultr, but my experience with them wasn't good. I started one instance, and all went well, decided to get a second one going. The performance on the second instance was horrible, nothing like the fi
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by gmiller123456 10y ago
I usually take two bottles of water with me on a 25 mile bike ride. It's actually pretty common that I don't take a sip of water for the whole ride, because I never got thirsty. I suffer no ill effects, nor decrease in performan
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by gmiller123456 10y ago
Same here
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by gmiller123456 10y ago
The author was most likely talking about a FIDE rating. I think you'll find pretty much every on-line site has people rated well above their FIDE ratings. This is partly because people who pay money to join FIDE and pay money to play
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by gmiller123456 10y ago
This argument is only valid in a theoretical environment. In reality, the microphone on a phone is not as sensitive as those used for Alexa/Google Home. Additionally, if your phone really did record and transmit everything you said t
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by gmiller123456 10y ago
Not a better view, just a longer totality and you won't have to worry about clouds. I attended a lecture by Fred Espenak a couple months ago and he said a crappy view from the ground is better than one from a plane.
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by gmiller123456 10y ago
Actually, no. This is about "memorized secrets", not "secrets stored somewhere else". That's not to say that secrets stored somewhere else can't be better than passwords in certain situations, they're ju
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by gmiller123456 10y ago
Not sure why this is on Hackernews, but I guess I'll take the opportunity to plug my own similar app (for Android only): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.principiap...
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by gmiller123456 10y ago
>I'm actually curious what is new within this. As it stands, NASA research pre-prints are available on the tech reports server One big difference is that most journal will not allow papers to cite a pre-print paper. A lot of the pr
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by gmiller123456 10y ago
The "open inwards" issue is due to building codes prohibiting doors from blocking traffic in a hallway. I think you'll find that most doors that aren't in hallways actually do open outwards.
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by gmiller123456 10y ago
Your argument would make sense if our system were actually base 12, or if we actually worked in halves or thirds of feet. Or if we ever had a reason to convert feet to eggs, or feet to hours. No, the base changes for every unit of measure