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by jcl 16y ago
Also, the digital "interference" shown during the transitions is pretty, but it's not technically feasible... Sometimes it has horizontal scanlines, sometimes vertical, sometimes scaled chunks, etc. There's no codec or transmission method
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It is a puzzle. At one time, developer tools were priced to extract money from developers. Then, when third-party free tools came along, platform owners realized that market share and lock-in was much more valuable and started giving thei
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by jcl 16y ago
Valve's subscriber agreement says that they can close your Steam account (cutting off access to all of your games, even single-player ones) if they catch you cheating in certain multiplayer games. And apparently the Blu-ray scheme has the a
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by jcl 16y ago
Ah, I get it. You are using a captcha not for its resistance to automation but as a way to make a user pay (with time) for an action. If you start with the assumption that no one will try to attack your site, then you don't need a captcha
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by jcl 16y ago
The point of most captchas is to stop someone from writing a program that abuses your system. If you're not doing that, what exactly are you "verifying"?
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by jcl 16y ago
Heh... It's possible to fool aerial viewers as well: http://thinkorthwim.com/2007/08/19/1034/
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by jcl 16y ago
I wonder how it would have done priced at $12 but immediately discounted to $9.99? (Not only is it easy to see how cheap it is, but it's also on sale .)
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by jcl 16y ago
In previous versions, I was stuck by how terribly Red Gate implemented the "time bomb". You run Reflector one day and an innocuous dialog comes up saying "A new version of Reflector is available. Do you want to upgrade? OK/Cancel" And if
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by jcl 16y ago
It means that you're making enough to cover living expenses, provided that you are living extremely cheap -- so the different food gradings still apply. The article's description is correct but ambiguous. http://www.paulgraham.com/ramenpr
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That suggests that there is an easy way to opt out: Just include some profanity each time you check in.
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by jcl 16y ago
It is a custom font based on his own handwriting. http://www.simple-talk.com/opinion/geek-of-the-week/larry-go... If you're looking for comic book fonts, Blambot has some nice ones, used throughout the industry.
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by jcl 16y ago
The intersection point of two moving 2D objects is equivalent to the intersection of a moving point with the Minkowski sum of the two objects -- the shape you get when you "inflate" one object by the other's shape. So, for instance, the in
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by jcl 16y ago
Or perhaps the software got an accidental "early release"?
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Because if they do, but they are still depressed then that's clear evidence that the forced swim test is worthless. Worthless for measuring antidepressants, maybe. But I'm sure you could find sponsors for a drug that causes someone to ir
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by jcl 16y ago
If you want an introduction to making Scheme games in a graphical environment that lets you iteratively code and run, you might try DrScheme combined with this book draft: http://world.cs.brown.edu/1/ Note to Steve: your comment section d
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by jcl 16y ago
Velociraptor Safari is well-known enough to merit its own Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-Road_Velociraptor_Safari
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by jcl 16y ago
The explanation I have read is that it is a "wet compass" (a ball floating in liquid), which was abbreviated "W compass", which is pronounced "whiskey compass" in the NATO phonetic alphabet that pilots use. I doubt whiskey was ever used to
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by jcl 16y ago
To be fair, while the format shift has made laptop screens less suitable for programming, it has improved laptop keyboards a lot.
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In the movie "Sneakers", "COOTYS RAT SEMEN" is one of the sillier anagrams encountered when the main characters try to use a Scrabble set to figure out the meaning of "Setec Astronomy". It's a classic hacker movie -- highly recommended if
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by jcl 16y ago
Just what we need... a new way to get infected via USBs. :)
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Kind of amusing, considering that the ARM architecture was originally created for desktop computers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture#History
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...which is explicitly banned by Google's Android Market Agreement: 4.5 Non-Compete. You may not use the Market to distribute or make available any Product whose primary purpose is to facilitate the distribution of Products outside of the
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by jcl 16y ago
And yet in the U.S. Netflix consumes over twice the bandwidth that Bittorrent does. So either Netflix users use the service a lot more or they download bigger files. http://www.zdnet.com/blog/networking/the-internet-belongs-to... Is Bitt
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by jcl 16y ago
Or perhaps we should be asking: What are all the other NSF-funded scientists doing on their bathroom breaks? Knuth's output has clearly been accounted for.
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If you really are getting it for development purposes, you might want to get an older iPad regardless, since it will let you test your app's performance on the device that most of your market will be using.
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This is how the GunCon (Time Crisis) gun worked -- comparing the observed beam refresh with a feed of the video signal. Unfortunately, this method requires a CRT, so these guns don't work with LCD or plasma displays. That's why modern ligh
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by jcl 16y ago
Actually, the babysitting co-op is a bad example of a hypothetical situation, since it uses real people and real numbers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitol_Hill_Babysitting_Co-op
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The article subtly points out a logical disconnect: Obama says that we expect Jobs to be rich having created several innovative products, yet the majority of his fortune did not come from these products (at least not the recent ones), but i
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You haven't seen the Wayback Machine? http://www.archive.org/web/web.php
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Presumably they're using euclidean distance to scale down the brightness of long-distance links -- to ensure that long-distance relationships don't overpower short ones in the visualization. Otherwise, a pair of friends thousands of mile

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