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by hn9780470248775 9y ago
I literally wrote hand-written letters to IBM asking questions about BASIC. Later: Borland Pascal came with a glorious full bookshelf of printed documention, and instant-access context sensitive help within the (console mode) IDE.
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by hn9780470248775 9y ago
Why?
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by hn9780470248775 10y ago
Did that happen?
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by hn9780470248775 10y ago
Not really. Electrons do have mass, but a device powered by an electric current will generally have the electrons flowing out at the same rate that they flow in.
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by hn9780470248775 10y ago
> poultry feathers or hog hair Yum! I'm not sure the truth is all that much less disgusting than the myth.
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by hn9780470248775 10y ago
If these points are true, then why has X been spun off into a separate entity (just "X", under the Alphabet holding company, with increasing separation from Google)?
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by hn9780470248775 10y ago
If you're talking about making a map of the astrophysical or cosmological backgrounds of gravitational waves -- you're right. As you integrate (i.e. capture more data), the noise will tend to cancel out while the signal will rei
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by hn9780470248775 10y ago
> Does that mean Apple is worth less than its market cap? Yes.
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by hn9780470248775 10y ago
Obligatory shuttle reading: http://idlewords.com/2005/08/a_rocket_to_nowhere.htm
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by hn9780470248775 11y ago
> quicksort O(log(n)). Quicksort is O(n log n) average case and O(n^2) worst-case.
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by hn9780470248775 11y ago
> It's the top of the bell curve that matters. I think that this attitude has gotten us into a pretty big mess.
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by hn9780470248775 11y ago
I take it you haven't read "Go Set a Watchman"...
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by hn9780470248775 11y ago
> at least one having MD License Plates Don't vehicles used by federal agencies typically bear U.S. Government license plates?
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by hn9780470248775 11y ago
It's the Department of Computer Science, not the Department of Programming.
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by hn9780470248775 11y ago
Lost 76% of its value... And still valued at nearly a billion dollars.
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by hn9780470248775 11y ago
Regular expressions strike me as a far more fundamental CS concept than Unicode.
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by hn9780470248775 11y ago
Doing laundry in Poland, I was grateful for the standard icons, whose meaning a quick Google search revealed.
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by hn9780470248775 11y ago
The standardized laundry icons are way better than the alternative (no standard icons, or verbose text in a potentially foreign language).
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by hn9780470248775 11y ago
SkyMall is back!
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by hn9780470248775 11y ago
Jarringly different in style than the rest of the site.
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by hn9780470248775 11y ago
>>I'm a junior college student doing some side projects[0] while taking 21 credits, jogging daily, going to mandatory club events, etc. Those except side projects take more than 40 hrs/week so I guess I have even less time f
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by hn9780470248775 11y ago
In the United States, for example. http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/who-owns-patent-right...
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by hn9780470248775 11y ago
Another question: How do you develop a side project when your employer insists that it owns all intellectual property you produce? Edit: As far as I know this is a very standard clause in tech company employment contracts, and is perhaps th
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by hn9780470248775 11y ago
Since it's a character in Unicode's "private use area," its correct rendering is unspecified. (That code point's "use and interpretation may be determined by private agreement among cooperating users" acco
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by hn9780470248775 11y ago
Apparently Apple uses U+F8FF, part of the Unicode "Private Use Area", to represent its logo. It's not surprising that it fails to render on non-Apple platforms, given this warning in http://www.unicode.org/Pu
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by hn9780470248775 11y ago
Confusingly, my browser renders that symbol () as a... square.
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by hn9780470248775 11y ago
A classical particle can't literally "take every path at once." But fundamental particles - electronics, photons, etc - are governed by quantum mechanics, in which they really consist of a wave of probability amplitude. The
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by hn9780470248775 11y ago
"Economies of scale" when tunneling through solid rock?
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by hn9780470248775 11y ago
Perhaps for compatibility with the rest of the Swiss rail network?
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by hn9780470248775 11y ago
https://store.google.com/product/nexus_5x is a bit smaller.

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