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by gwillen 14y ago
In Chrome under OS X, the walls are invisible. (It seems like they might be supposed to be the window edges, but they're offset by an unknown and invisible amount from there.) So that makes it less fun.
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by gwillen 14y ago
That's very attractive but not very informationally useful. I think Tufte would probably want to kill it.
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by gwillen 14y ago
As a former Googler who didn't have a lot of interactions with Marissa, but has heard plenty of opinions about her, this is very interesting to read.
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by gwillen 14y ago
You would probably have to give people a unique address to send coins to, along with a corresponding secret code to use for their withdrawal.
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by gwillen 14y ago
There's no free lunch; anything that can track a set perfectly is going to end up taking as much space as just maintaining it in a more straightforward way. In the case of your specific suggestion, though, the problem is this: what if the b
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by gwillen 14y ago
First comment: "Interesting. These would be the same newspapers that once quoted my blog, without warning. This caused a traffic spike, and a hit to my hosting bill. I look forward to my forthcoming claim against The Times." Because of cour
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by gwillen 14y ago
Just in time to use it for ICFP!
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by gwillen 14y ago
As an american I spell cancellation with two L's; but I tend to use british spellings for a lot of these (travelling etc.)
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by gwillen 14y ago
My understanding is that voluntary withdrawal of artificial ventilation is not an uncommon choice for locked-in ALS sufferers, and does not count as 'suicide', but as 'death from ALS'. EDIT: I do agree with you 100% though.
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by gwillen 14y ago
I've never seen this as especially paradoxical. As long as you choose not to speak, you are free to remain silent. As soon as you start speaking, you are choosing to speak, and not be silent. The only effect of verbally invoking your right
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by gwillen 14y ago
jono_x: For some reason your account appears to have been banned from the moment of creation. Nobody can see any of your comments.
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by gwillen 14y ago
I suspect that's doing some kind of autodetection to decide which version of the page to serve. (Perhaps based on what MIME type the browser requests.)
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by gwillen 14y ago
This reminded me that I owned some CSCO, and I need to sell some stock anyway. Sell sell sell! (I laughed when I saw how _much_ CSCO I own -- I bought it in high school, also total it's worth about $250, and that is apparently about the sam
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by gwillen 14y ago
Could he target healthcare next? :-\ Seriously -- it's not glamorous but it could really use an innovator. (Then again, who would have said an electric car could be glamorous?)
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by gwillen 14y ago
I don't know if the stuff I mentioned upthread, made by 3M, is the same stuff as magic whiteboard, but I find that it erases just fine, and is stiff and slick enough to make wall surface texture not a problem.
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by gwillen 14y ago
I know of at least one temporary dry erase surface that works well. It's a 3M dry erase "sheet" that comes in rolls. You can buy it from American science and surplus: http://www.sciplus.com/search.cfm/scategory/SFM/term/whitebo... I have
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by gwillen 14y ago
Assuming the 'bluff combinator' is like what I think it is, you can do similar things in C++ by creating classes with overloaded operators. E.g. overload operator (bool) to return true, and overload operator ! to also return true.
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by gwillen 14y ago
As someone who grew up on imperative and functional programming, I am loathe to add a class where a method will do. I hate having to open a dozen files to read logic that would be 30 lines if it were consolidated into one method. I suspect
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by gwillen 14y ago
I see a lot of people complaining about the quality of English in the draft. This makes me wonder about something: Is it legal to discriminate in hiring based on English skills? It seems like it would necessarily have a disparate impact bas
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by gwillen 14y ago
I have to agree with the old saw that says naming is one of the two most difficult problems in computer science. (The other one, of course, being cache invalidation and off-by-one errors.)
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by gwillen 14y ago
I find "How to Win Friends" a bit dangerous. It's great if you use it in moderation, but the people who are most likely to need it will not understand that. After reading it, it suddenly became very clear to me why certain people, particula
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by gwillen 14y ago
This is cool, but right now it's an inferior but slightly shinier version of http://bitcoin-otc.com/ .
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by gwillen 14y ago
Actually, one of the coolest things, to me, about LessWrong, is the fact that the community as a whole is arguably more rational than the founder. Eliezer's own LessWrong comments have been downvoted many times, and a number of those were d
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by gwillen 14y ago
Don't talk to me about "forever". There is no forever. There is only "until we get bought and shut the service down." Fix _that_ problem, and _then_ I'll consider using your service.
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by gwillen 14y ago
I believe that once you have it set to use a phone number, it's always possible for the attacker to choose to have it call instead of sending a text. (I seem to recall it provides that option on the 2-factor login screen.)
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by gwillen 14y ago
"Should", yes. It's not in their interest to spend the time doing it. Realistically, how many of their users are going to bother to figure out who it is that just screwed them, so they can avoid being screwed by the same founders again in t
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by gwillen 14y ago
Gerard 't Hooft, the author of this page, is surely one of the smartest people alive, with a Nobel Prize in physics. I'm excited to see that he's set forth a course of study; I only got to study a little bit of physics while getting my CS d
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by gwillen 14y ago
I'd really like to make this work if I could, but I suspect it's impossible in my specific case: all the robocalls I get are scam calls, trying to sell me credit-score services which presumably don't exist. Is it likely that I can get a com
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by gwillen 14y ago
Honestly, I consistently find Cracked 'listicles' more insightful than I expect. It's pretty impressive, for what they are.
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by gwillen 14y ago
Virtualization without extensions is possible, but tricky on x86. VMWare has historically used binary translation to deal with the tricky bits. (I.e. go through the binary before you run it, look for instructions that don't virtualize prope

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