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931.
by gweinberg 13y ago
Its patent number is 8,126,832 and its issue date is Feb 28 2012. Related application 60893237 has no patent number or issue date, is that what you are looking at?
932.
by gweinberg 13y ago
You mean numbers which are the product of two large primes.
933.
by gweinberg 13y ago
A lot of the people that live near the stops in downtown San Francisco may be pretty poor, but I think most of the people using BART at those stops don't live there, they just work there.
934.
by gweinberg 13y ago
I think the author has the "frost zone" theory backwards. It's not that it's too cold for rocky planets to form outside the frost zone (after all, there are some planet-sized moons out there) but rather that inside the frost zone it is too
935.
by gweinberg 14y ago
Requiring two passwords is not two-factor authentication.
936.
by gweinberg 14y ago
You are exactly right. Saying "there is only an 8% chance of this happening with a fair coin" is something completely different from saying "there is a 92% chance the coin is biased". The author is utterly clueless when it comes to probabi
937.
by gweinberg 14y ago
Don't worry too much about it. It's vastly more likely that it's actually their change policies that make the increase impossible.
938.
by gweinberg 14y ago
Not "could be". It's a total fantasy. Real world chimps wouldn't even start beating up other chimps for touching the ladder before you start replacing chimps.
939.
by gweinberg 14y ago
It's folklore, based on a misunderstanding of the concept of entrapment. Learning exactly what entrapment means may be worthwhile, but cops lying about being cops does not constitute entrapment.
940.
by gweinberg 14y ago
Plant patents are just for clones. If you gre it from a seed, it is not covered by a plant patent.
941.
by gweinberg 14y ago
It's not at all clear from the story why or if having multiple recipes "mate" works better than just using one recipe and fiddling with it.
942.
by gweinberg 14y ago
<i>What's the subject of the previous sentence?</i> "eat". Words used as words are nouns in that context. Like the word "eat". Like the word "word". When something is eaten, someone or something is doing the eating, eat" do
943.
by gweinberg 14y ago
It's funny that this is so popular, because I think it is probably the single most counterproductive thing written about software ever. Seriously. As far as I can tell, the only point of speaking about the poor oppressed "verbs" is to screw
944.
by gweinberg 14y ago
I would disagree with "cleave" also. "Cleave from" means the opposite of "cleave to", but I would argue that that's because "from" means the opposite of "to", not because "cleave" means the opposite of "cleave".
945.
by gweinberg 14y ago
"Note that this doesn’t mean that Daniel will always lose the game but that he can lose by at most 1/12 the value of the game. If Nick doesn’t play optimally (Nick doesn’t use his optimal mixed strategy), Daniel will most likely win!" I don
946.
by gweinberg 14y ago
It's worse than that. He rambles on, and then immediately shifts the metaphor to a more complicated and less clear one. He should have just stuck with the thermostat: if the temperature inside a house is determined by a thermostat, the outs
947.
by gweinberg 14y ago
No. Every business has a risk element, but what makes this gambling is that there is no good or service being produced. It's a game of trying to outguess the other players, with one trader's gain being another trader's loss (relative to mar
948.
by gweinberg 14y ago
If the point of the field is just to make ie work correctly, wouldn't it be more appropriate to leave utf8 out of the name and write something like "ie=💩"?
949.
by gweinberg 14y ago
Well, if the encryption is in client side javascript, people should be able to find any flaws in it pretty quickly.
950.
by gweinberg 14y ago
Yes, this "language" is clearly a joke. I'm surprised to see so many comments treating it as if it were serious.
951.
by gweinberg 14y ago
I's been a while since I ate corn on the cob, but as I recall I used to eat in a zigzag rather than "typewriter" fashion. When people say "spiral" they really mean a series of circles, right? I've never known anyone to eat corn that way.
952.
by gweinberg 15y ago
You can do much worse than "data" for a variable name. A name that gives no clue as to what the variable is isn't nearly as bad as one which gives a misleading impression.
953.
by gweinberg 15y ago
Yes. For example, Joyce's works were already in the public domain in the US, Ulysses has been available on project Gutenberg since 2003. http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4300
954.
by gweinberg 15y ago
If Bitcoin were nothing but the pyramid scheme its detractors say it is, it should not have recovered. Collapsed pyramids don't reassemble themselves.
955.
by gweinberg 15y ago
Apparently everything Apple did was no big deal, since someone else would've done it if they hadn't, but somehow that line of reasoning doesn't apply to Google.
956.
by gweinberg 16y ago
Newton told us that apples fall towards Earth with an acceleration that depends on the Earth’s mass, the apple’s mass, and its distance from the centre of the Earth, Fail.