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by gregable 16y ago
I still posit that awk '{print $1}' is simpler
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by gregable 16y ago
At Virginia Tech, we did something similar with back projection called the CAVE. It was a cube (4 sides at least) of back projections large enough that you could walk into it. One of the sides was the floor, which was particularly challen
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by gregable 16y ago
Doh. Fixed.
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by gregable 16y ago
My little story about building a "real" program in awk was really just a toy example - I did it to teach myself some awk. I wouldn't really recommend writing significant persistent scripts in awk that much, if only because nobody else will
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by gregable 16y ago
I'm not an expert, but this sounds like useless crap. The comment in the article mentions that this "could come in handy in sub-Saharan Africa, where less than 25 percent of the population has reliable electricity". My best understanding
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by gregable 16y ago
Not that this means I agree that you as a developer should do this, just that I understand. There are lots of hidden issues too - your service now has added another third-party dependency that could kill you if they decided to break in som
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by gregable 16y ago
It seems like the reason websites are starting to do this is that facebook authentication gives the developer more information than just an email/credentials. The developer can access all of the basic data in the user's profile and also gr
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by gregable 16y ago
To be fair, they do point out that many of the situations are simulated to demonstrate a survival technique. In much the same way that you generally never want to, for example, be in a situation that causes you to have to use your buddy's s
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by gregable 16y ago
It would go much further for the mozilla development center to do a little basic, white-hat, on-page SEO. For example, this URL: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/JavaScript/Reference/Global... has a title of "Array - MDC". Even when it
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by gregable 16y ago
Even the soviets probably don't know that for sure.
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by gregable 16y ago
Those queries don't even begin to give enough information. Flight to LA from where, when, how long, economy/first, what times of the day, etc. Hotel room in New York next weekend which days, smoking or not, upscale or not, which part of new
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by gregable 16y ago
More structured queries that those that main search engines offer. For example: kayak, travelocity, etc. Bing bought out farecast for this reason. These kinds of queries can't be done easily if the only input a user can provide is in one
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by gregable 16y ago
And here is the blog post explaining why they did it: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/one-place-to-find-eve...
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by gregable 16y ago
So little spam makes it through to my inbox that it seems like this approach would take more time than it is going to save. Interesting observation though.
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by gregable 16y ago
Hard to say whether Apple (and the other companies mentioned below) were lying or not. You could imagine that Apple was not working on X at the time but later decided to work on X. And no, some individual engineer tinkering away in the co