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by iconjack 13y ago
A few people in this thread say they are having a hard time embracing Bill as a good guy because of the monopolistic business practices of Microsoft in the 90s. To be honest, I've never quite understood the reasoning behind the charges
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by iconjack 13y ago
I saw this puzzle when I was kid, in a Martin Gardner book. Back then it was an inch worm instead of an ant. When I saw the answer, it blew my mind at first. Later I understood how it was related to the fact that the harmonic series diverge
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by iconjack 13y ago
Writing is like a hard disk. Before that, everything was volatile RAM.
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by iconjack 13y ago
Interesting that the responses on to @KirstyWark's tweet are largely pro-Greenwald, while the responses to @BBCNewsnight's are pro-Wark. [1] https://twitter.com/KirstyWark/status/385786002456842240 [2]
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by iconjack 13y ago
Control key is the wrong place.
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by iconjack 13y ago
That may or may not be his prerogative, depending on the laws where he bikes.
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by iconjack 13y ago
"You can outrun his motor, but you can't outrun his motorola."
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by iconjack 13y ago
This is absolute nonsense. The US president, wrapping himself in the role of commander in chief, does just about anything he wants if it's even loosely connected to war or security, with or without congressional approval. Surveillance. Tort
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by iconjack 14y ago
This is a very old trick. According to Knuth, it goes back to at least 1961, where it was found in IBM programming course notes in a more general form that includes a mask: x ← x ⊕ y, y ← y ⊕ (x & m), x ← x ⊕ y The mask determines the
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by iconjack 14y ago
What do you mean, a dead user? I was just quoting from the document, as an example of writing some might find obnoxious. Personally I find it rather entertaining.
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by iconjack 14y ago
Wow, more people writing Haskell than HTML. I'm impressed.
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by iconjack 14y ago
Without SHIFT, I can't type PR#6!
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by iconjack 14y ago
I'm betting on Google Drive Engine.
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by iconjack 15y ago
Pretty nice. We used to play this with pencil and graph paper in high school.
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by iconjack 17y ago
Because most of the viewers are men, and men like looking at women?