jamesrom

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by jamesrom 11y ago
People love to hate tabs, but in a world where we represent logic in megabytes of alpha-numeric characters, doesn't a semantic notation of indentation make just a little bit of sense? Tabs are for indentation, spaces for alignment. The
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More samples would be cool.
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Why on earth would you care about entropy for a UUID? You can use the most basic PRNG to generate your 128 bits. There's your UUID. Call me when you find a collision.
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I feel like you give any talented engineer 2 years and they could write Zappos from scratch on Amazon architecture.
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Fingerprints aren't secrets. Once you have your fingerprint stolen, it's useless. https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/10/stealing_fing... http://www.theguardian.com/tech
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Could not agree more. I have opened multiple issues on GitHub and he is always quick to reply. It takes a lot of diligence to maintain an almost always empty issues list on GitHub.
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Moon (and Earth) were given their momentum during the formation of the solar system. I'd say that's solar. And if you want to make a distinction about which star forged the heavy elements required for radioactive decay, then I&#x2
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Why do people think programming is wiring up boxes with arrows? That's like 10% of it. This does look neat though and should be useful for education.
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All energy on earth is solar energy.
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In summary: Positive correlation: (Anxiety, Low Choline), Intelligence Positive correlation: (No Anxiety, Normal Choline), Intelligence
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Probably the worst thing I've ever seen followed by "no offense".
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FYI, you have a typo in cell F32 of this demo: http://spread.grapecity.com/Demos/JS/ExcelLikeSample/
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by jamesrom 11y ago
The reason why artists aren't getting tech jobs isn't because there's a letter missing from an acronym...
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It was supposed to be the text 'not secure' but they didn't allow single quotes so now it's just not secure.
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Another great piece of content made completely unreadable by Bloomberg. Ever since Joshua Topolsky joined Bloomberg, this novelty-over-form style is everywhere.
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Can someone explain why you would want to fuzz ffmpeg? What's wrong with ffmpeg crashing when you feed it invalid input? What's the alternative to it not crashing? Should it continue transcoding or should it exit quietly? What&#x2
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The lack of ability to share search results is a conscious decision by Google to make their search engine feel private and personal. You have your own Google that knows a great deal about you. It's is tailored to you, your location, yo
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Levenshtein distance is a metric that counts the number of insertions, deletions, and substitutions between strings. If Sift4 produces different results, what does it count exactly?
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Nope. Making a simile with Buridan's ass is a strawman. It's not that you wont be able to decide (yes, that would be ridiculous). It's that you will be less satisfied with the choice you make because it's harder for your
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by jamesrom 11y ago
Well... Yeah. What's your point? That Apple knows better about the content and performance characteristics of my app than me?
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A lot of commenters here are afraid of developers disabling user scaling to get better performance. That is incorrectly making the assumption that user scaling is good thing for every kind of website. If a 350ms click delay is actually a pe
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The problem is developers expecting experimental features to be around forever. You don't need an API key to set expectations. Using console.warn is enough.
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No experimental feature is cool enough to require you: 1. To register 2. To Use an API key 3. To detect support for (and presumably fallback) 4. To provide feedback for You have a problem with burn-in of your experimental APIs?
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Chem suit and breathing gear $100-$200. Mercury vac: $1500-$2500 Take your time with the work, and definitely have your home inspected after. But if you don't have $50,000 for this kind of clean up, you can definitely do it yourself.
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by jamesrom 11y ago
I haven't read the full paper, so I don't have a complete understanding of this scheme... But what stops a malicious attacker from registering a bunch of dummy accounts, and then using the known passwords to reconstruct the Shamir
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Wow. In hindsight, this idea seems so obvious and incredibly useful. I can't believe we haven't seen anything like this before. I would imagine that the ability to land on a hillside would be incredibly useful for military operati
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And there are 6 million rivets in the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
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I remember in secondary school our psych teacher told us he was going to conduct an experiment. Without going into the full setup, it was a simple experiment where 3 of the 4 participants were "in" on it and had canned responses t
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Can someone explain the half position clearly? I don't understand how anyone could think half is the correct answer. Let me frame the question a different way. You are one of three volunteers in separate rooms. I flip a coin and if it&
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He and everyone here knows what he needs to do. He just needs to do it. Create.

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