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721.
Making your explicit reasoning trustworthy(lesswrong.com)
19 points by ivank 16y ago|1 comments
722.
by ivank 16y ago
If you have an LCD screen with a normal RGBRGB pixel layout, you really can't expect problems. Then again, you can always use a magnifying glass.
723.
by ivank 16y ago
I tried Resolver One two years ago and it took 2 minutes to launch. I tried it again right now; first launch took 70 seconds and a subsequent launch took 55 seconds. Also, the interface is quite a bit less responsive than Excel. This mig
724.
by ivank 16y ago
One problem is just how successful 'medieval' computer programming is. A decent programmer can write software that works nearly all of the time. Very few programmers have any incentive to write provably-correct software. The other problem
725.
XZ Utils 5.0 released(tukaani.org)
1 points by ivank 16y ago|0 comments
726.
by ivank 16y ago
There are some server-side implementation notes here, focused on Apache: http://journal.paul.querna.org/articles/2010/07/10/overclock... http://www.imperialviolet.org/2010/09/05/blacklisting.html is also interesting; it says Chrome will
727.
by ivank 16y ago
Anyone tempted to watch it on NetFlix should know that their copy is pan-and-scan 4:3 instead of the original. (Also, how cool is it to have correctly predicted widescreen TVs in 1993?)
728.
by ivank 16y ago
You've never plugged a USB cable into an Ethernet socket? Often it doesn't even take any force.
729.
by ivank 16y ago
http://ycommonapp.com/
730.
by ivank 16y ago
Related: "Frequentist Statistics are Frequently Subjective" http://lesswrong.com/lw/1gc/frequentist_statistics_are_frequ...
731.
by ivank 16y ago
Another way: pace around or sit outside after writing new code.
732.
China-Japan Rare Earth Fracas Continues(chovanec.wordpress.com)
1 points by ivank 16y ago|0 comments
733.
by ivank 16y ago
I was using Chrome and imported a .doc into GDocs a week ago. A ton of words were marked misspelled; it was internally seeing "wor d" instead of "word". Deleting and retyping the words didn't help.
734.
by ivank 16y ago
http://www.evanmiller.org/how-not-to-run-an-ab-test.html http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1277004
735.
by ivank 16y ago
Just to reduce confusion (hopefully): > or even this (which is how my old webcam software worked): > request - answer - answer - answer - request - request - etc This is not HTTP pipelining, though it sort of looks similar. It's a n
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by ivank 16y ago
> dumping answers in to the pipe pre-emptively That's a very interesting hack, but I hope no one decides to deploy it today. You really can't predict what the next request will be - the browser can reuse the connection for some other re
737.
by ivank 16y ago
Even better would be to convince GoogleBot not to pipeline, while keeping keep-alive on. Perhaps by sending some kind of IIS/4 Server header to Googlebot?
738.
by ivank 16y ago
> Is it even working for advertisers? Some success stories on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=371349 > now common knowledge, that one shouldn't start using the Web without AdBlock or NoScript That's not really known except
739.
by ivank 16y ago
Yet another example: Lars Bak wrote V8 in his 40s. There are some details in "The genius behind Google’s browser" http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/03775904-177c-11de-8c9d-0000779fd2...
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by ivank 16y ago
Many of these amazing things are around in embryonic form, but few people choose to invest any money or time in them. The future can certainly blame us for that.
741.
by ivank 16y ago
Never mind, they fixed it.
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by ivank 16y ago
Yes. In the page source you'll find UTF-8 octets as HTML entities.
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by ivank 16y ago
The creator talked about it on Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/dk1au/hey_rgaming_i_...
744.
by ivank 16y ago
"Theoretically you could make an extension for this using the Context Menus API ( http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/dev/contextMenus.ht... ) and an NPAPI plugin... " https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1019#c45...
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by ivank 16y ago
(I didn't notice, I just somehow landed on it via the bug tracker.) The tracker has quite a few of these amusing threads. You'll frequently notice: 1) it's only one line of code! 2) this bug has been open for a year - outrageous! Edit: the
746.
Ever notice Chrome has no "Set image as wallpaper"?(code.google.com)
34 points by ivank 16y ago|37 comments
747.
by ivank 16y ago
Previously discussed at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1714544 , when the bill text wasn't online yet.
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Bill text for S. 3804: Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act(thomas.loc.gov)
1 points by ivank 16y ago|1 comments
749.
by ivank 16y ago
Cuil theory reminds me of the pataphor: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pataphor#.27Pataphor
750.
Founder's Conference Panel: YC, TechStars, Founder Institute compared(vimeo.com)
2 points by ivank 16y ago|0 comments

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