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by jackfoxy 16y ago
Exactly my point. Outside of the tiny number of users who have the skill and inclination to write a hack, there are countless more who simply want it to work from the get-go. "Browser" is an unfortunate term for what we do with this kind of
812.
by jackfoxy 16y ago
OK, I take this one back, but only because wikipedia fixed the problem on their end. If you do the Google Omni-box key-word > tab > search term it formerly worked only with a single search term. If you tried searching for "casey jon
813.
by jackfoxy 16y ago
Chrome is my primary browser, and while I applaud increasing space devoted to content, I wish Chrome had better support for alternate search engines. My primary searches are (in order of use) Google, Wikipedia, Amazon. By better support I m
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NJ Cop to Parents: Steal Facebook Passwords From Your Kids(nbcnewyork.com)
1 points by jackfoxy 16y ago|0 comments
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by jackfoxy 16y ago
Thank you, Chris. You did the right thing.
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by jackfoxy 16y ago
In the tradition of the late Julian Simon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Simon This will make John McCarthy reviled in some fashionable circles. I wonder if he speaks with Stanford Prof. Paul Ehrlich.
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by jackfoxy 16y ago
"Very rarely, they bring in a whole team of consultants/developers to run the whole show..." I can vouch this is not rare at all, from my experience.
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Mystery of the mummy's Chinese travel ban(independent.co.uk)
2 points by jackfoxy 16y ago|0 comments
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by jackfoxy 16y ago
To the best of my knowledge, Saudi Arabia is completely closed to archaeology due to the state religion (happy to be corrected on this one). If it ever does open up it will become a fantastic treasure trove of knowledge: all sites never bef
820.
by jackfoxy 16y ago
More on the retraction of the Salon.com article http://sethmnookin.com/2011/01/17/salon-retracts-deadly-immu...
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by jackfoxy 16y ago
tl;dr If I recall correctly Will Durant writing in The Story of Civilization stated this as a fact many decades ago. Since his work was based on a lot of research, he must have read it somewhere.
822.
by jackfoxy 16y ago
“War is the father of all things”, so said Heraclitus, and it’s true of modern America in particular. It has not been a good thing for those who cherish Liberty above all else. It has been a good thing for people who believe government can
823.
by jackfoxy 16y ago
He's referring to Combinatorial Algorithms , the title of this volume.
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by jackfoxy 16y ago
Preordered from InformIT. I figured I'm one of the first outside a close circle to get my hands on the hard cover edition. I was following the shipment tracking. I thought it would already be here when I got home from work, but Mr FedEx del
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Tell HN: Just got delivery of TAOCP 4A
4 points by jackfoxy 16y ago|5 comments
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by jackfoxy 16y ago
Add my down-vote for this new feature. I've always suspected PG kept the HN interface simple so we, as hackers, would implement our own hacks on top of it. I'm just to busy. Ultimately it's PG's to do with as he wishes, and I'm not going to
827.
by jackfoxy 16y ago
OK, I just upvoted purely for the reason of keeping it on the front page a little longer so someone more qualified has a chance to glance at this. Without any evidence and no qualification to judge myself, it seems highly unlikely.
828.
by jackfoxy 16y ago
Does not work very well in Chrome, IE8, or FF. Does not allow pasting. Not really sure what it's good for except to show off an interesting hack, and the hack needs some improvement. Ever wonder what the 200,000th Fibonacci number is? Last
829.
by jackfoxy 16y ago
Yeah, it would be great for most of us (his interested readers) if he just supervised a few post-docs to grind it all out. He could easily get the funding, but it's not his style. I'm re-reading Volume 2, section 3 on Trees. On p.320 he mak
830.
by jackfoxy 16y ago
Summary for 2010: all SaaS has sales of $11.7 billion; PaaS (I think they mean services like SalesForce, AppEngine, and Azure where you write your apps on their service) $311 million; Amazon $500 million. Add it all together and you have r
831.
by jackfoxy 16y ago
If you allocate the time, and have the desire, you can approach TAOCP in any manner you want and get something out of it. I read the 3 volumes cover to cover, including reading the exercises, but not really doing them. I did gloss over some
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by jackfoxy 16y ago
TAOCP site http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/taocp.html now estimates volume 5 will come out in 2020, and there are already links to errata in volume 4A
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by jackfoxy 16y ago
Have there been any fascicles published for volume 4B?
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The app that can read your mind: iPhone brainwave detector arrives(dailymail.co.uk)
3 points by jackfoxy 16y ago|0 comments
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Secure hash competition down to the final 5(gcn.com)
8 points by jackfoxy 16y ago|1 comments
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by jackfoxy 16y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transnational_Institute
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by jackfoxy 16y ago
Gerald C. MacGuire was a $100 a week bond salesman for Murphy & Company. Smedley Butler was retired military and the one who blew the whistle on the whole affair , which most contemporaries and historians dismiss as a cocktail putsch
838.
by jackfoxy 16y ago
The potential for military coup had never been a problem in the U.S. military for the reason of well-established civilian control of the military as well. The closest thing to a real problem having been MacArthur's insubordination to Truman
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by jackfoxy 16y ago
My long-running objection to this kind of quicky journalism exactly. No detailed attribution, no drill-down availability, no footnotes. I developed facster.com to overcome these and other limitations, the goal being to provide research-qual
840.
Proofs By Contradiction And Other Dangers(rjlipton.wordpress.com)
53 points by jackfoxy 16y ago|12 comments

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