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by janzer 14y ago
If you think "sign up for my mailing list and I will give you a free video that will tell you how to earn $10,000 for just two hours of work" is the one sentence summary, then I'd say you really missed the message. His own email list is cer
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Might NASA kill the comercial space race?(news.discovery.com)
5 points by janzer 14y ago|1 comments
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by janzer 14y ago
Two legends, namely: "While he awaited a tonic, Qin turned to mercury tablets." and then a map where: "rivers of quicksilver represent the kingdom’s waters" finally some modern evidence: "Modern investigations have been able to corroborate
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by janzer 15y ago
My first thought on reading is this is essentially (at least in spirit) mipmapping[1] applied to his 2D (2.5D?) engine. 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mipmap
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by janzer 15y ago
Here is some recent research on the strength of a multi word passphrase. http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2012/03/07/some-evidence-...
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by janzer 15y ago
If there exists any 8 character string that hashes the same as your 64 character password then your hash function is pretty certainly badly broken.
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by janzer 15y ago
Thanks again for running this Stripe. It was quite fun and informative to actually implement some of these exploits rather than just recognize the possibility for it existed. Every level was instantly recognizable for the weakness that was
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by janzer 15y ago
Interestingly the top result for Cell Phone Use now is, "NTSB recommends full ban on use of cell phones while driving - CNN" http://articles.cnn.com/2011-12-13/us/us_ntsb-cell-phone-ban... And appearing just below the ads for T-mobile, Sp
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by janzer 15y ago
I agree; Chess has so little to make it interesting. :P
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by janzer 15y ago
In your profile page set "showdead" to yes.
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by janzer 15y ago
I just submitted it as well because it didn't seem to be posted.
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by janzer 15y ago
Although the articles seem to not mention it, it should probably be noted the author is a moderator on the Rybka forums so is most likely not coming from an exactly unbiased viewpoint.
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by janzer 15y ago
Congratulations to Xathis. Thanks to all the participants for coming out. It's great to see the effort put into it put to use. A couple of quick stats, over the course of the open submission period there were 37378 submissions from 8023 peo
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Aichallenge.org Ants Winner Announced(ants.aichallenge.org)
39 points by janzer 15y ago|2 comments
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by janzer 15y ago
This is simply a blog post writing about another site that has the computer. http://marcpic.com/ is the actual site with the mid-70's computer rebuilt using modern components.
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by janzer 15y ago
Not to mention that at least where I'm from a tattoo will not and cannot be accepted by EMS personnel as a valid order. Here is the relevant part from our Medical Control treatment protocols on what can be accepted as a valid do not resusci
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by janzer 15y ago
I don't really understand how it would matter to a user, but you do know supervisord is written in python as well right?
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by janzer 15y ago
We are no longer directly connected with University of Waterloo's CSC and have never been affiliated with UofT. There are a few current and past UofW students that are still admins in the contest but also a few others that have stepped up f
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Steve Yegge: Follow Up to His Accidentally Public Rant(plus.google.com)
558 points by janzer 15y ago|171 comments
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by janzer 15y ago
The contest is sponsored by Google, but is no longer associated with University of Waterloo CS Club (other than several current and former students still helping to organize it). Please don't contact them for anything regarding the contest.
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by janzer 15y ago
Just so it is clear, we haven't actually launched yet. Although we should be live within the next 48 hours.
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by janzer 15y ago
Thankfully since the chart also shows years-lived per century, it is quite easy to grasp the change in economic output per year-lived as well. The 20th century was the first to surpass a 1:1 ratio and did it quite impressively with almost 2
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by janzer 15y ago
and looks like they're a/b testing it; http://i.imgur.com/NsjwG.png
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by janzer 15y ago
Has the author of that post looked at the distribution of reviews in other cases at all? From everything I've seen a bimodal distribution in reviews is not at all uncommon in the real world, especially for a product that is trying to be edg
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by janzer 15y ago
While it doesn't have the demo or Coffeescript code, I found the wikipedia page much easier to comprehend what the algorithm actually does. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmony_search
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by janzer 15y ago
Unfortunate that it seems at least for FF4 there is an interaction between the <pre> and <code> tags around the actual haskell such that about the last 1/2 of long lines are cut off. It did finally get me to install the read
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by janzer 16y ago
The NP is just one variable and not N times P, it stands for Nondeterministic Polynomial time. The wikipedia article you want is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P_versus_NP_problem
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by janzer 16y ago
According to wikipedia scale an 8.8 magnitude earthquake has approximately the same energy release as a 288 megaton nuke. Since the largest nuclear bomb ever was 100 megaton and a 35km radius for the zone of total destruction, direct bombin
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PyPy Winter Sprint Report(morepypy.blogspot.com)
1 points by janzer 16y ago|0 comments
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by janzer 16y ago
I see a lot of people basically saying this same thing. It seems to me though the real question is how easily can I sell my bitcoin for a dollar? To me at least that seems more defining as a currency rather than simply say a digital good.

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