jcarreiro

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by jcarreiro 15y ago
Benford's Law predicts the first digit will be 1 about 30% of the time, not 50% of the time. Your method also seems to depend heavily on the choice of starting and ending points. If I chose 1-99, then only 1/10th of the numbers in the inter
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by jcarreiro 15y ago
Those contracts were signed a long time ago. The first version of _Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone_ was released in 1997! Edited to add: Hindsight doesn't wear glasses. ;)
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by jcarreiro 15y ago
I wonder if this is what the founders of github expected from "social coding"?
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by jcarreiro 15y ago
> America does benefit from a healthy relationship > with Israel and, more importantly, from Israel's > existence How? Edit: I am really curious. I don't know much about this topic.
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by jcarreiro 15y ago
Just curious: am I being voted down for suggesting that a society use electronic voting? If so, oh, the irony!
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by jcarreiro 15y ago
Thanks for the thoughtful reply. I agree completely; history is both what actually happened in the past, and the narrative that we construct for ourselves from those events. What scares me about postmodernism is that many of its adherents s
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by jcarreiro 15y ago
I was being a bit facetious, yes. But voting electronically would solve this problem, assuming that you could trust the voting software! Public terminals could be provided for citizens without computers/smart phones/netbooks/tablets/implant
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by jcarreiro 15y ago
Why not just have everyone vote on their iPhone?
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by jcarreiro 15y ago
> I am hoping that my son grows up being taught by postmodernist that don't present history as fact How else could it possibly be presented? Could you elaborate on what you mean when you say that history is "a perspective"? Can one chan
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by jcarreiro 15y ago
I don't understand why someone who invents a better combustion engine should deserve a patent while someone who invents a better computer algorithm should not. That doesn't imply that I think that every bit of programming deserves the prote
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by jcarreiro 15y ago
> It's OBVIOUSLY impossible for Johnny Coder to be aware of every patent There is no requirement that you be aware of the patent to infringe upon it. In fact, awareness of the patent may entitle the patent holder to increased damages. D
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by jcarreiro 15y ago
Thanks. I'll have to check it out, I love learning new languages. Can you recommend a good Scala book?
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by jcarreiro 15y ago
This is how we know that the initial gamma-ray flash is not caused by positron-electron recombination: > The dance of light and matter continues when positrons encounter electrons again; they recombine and produce a flash of light of a
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by jcarreiro 15y ago
I don't much about Scala, but looking at the examples on http://www.simplyscala.com/ , it looks like the language has a lot of syntactic sugar. Scala users, is that an accurate assessment or I am misjudging it?
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by jcarreiro 15y ago
> But it's not a breakthrough in performance. The tri-gate transistors have lower gate delays (they can switch more quickly) and can operate with lower voltages. How is that not a breakthrough in performance?
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by jcarreiro 16y ago
Wouldn't wearing these reduce the perceived intensity of the screen quite a bit?
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by jcarreiro 16y ago
Many of the commenters at Ars Technica (which has been following this story closely) have similar opinions of Sony and of Mr. Hotz. Those praising the actions of Sony don't seem to understand any of the larger issues here. It doesn't matter
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by jcarreiro 16y ago
I think the idea of the disappearing caption was to let the reader guess the source of the screen grab without spoiling it. FWIW, I completely agree that adding more stuff to the page when the user scrolls to the bottom is just annoying.
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by jcarreiro 16y ago
What is the difference between "linking" and "deep linking"? Whatever else W|A is, it is a web server and it responds to my requests by sending me web pages. Why does Wolfram get to decide for me which web browser I should use to view those
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by jcarreiro 16y ago
I am not a Terminology user, and I do have the Alpha app on my iPhone. But I still think this is foolishness on the part of Wolfram. I am more likely to use W|A if I can click on a button and jump straight to the page I want, then if I need
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by jcarreiro 16y ago
IANAL, but I have signed non-competes before. I am sure that the contract he signed states that disputes must be litigated in WA.
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by jcarreiro 16y ago
Just switched back to Safari. Sorry google, but I own an iPad. :(
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by jcarreiro 16y ago
CPTN Holdings is "a consortium of technology companies organized by Microsoft Corporation". So, Microsoft.