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by jcl 17y ago
You mean, like this?: http://top.searchyc.com/
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by jcl 17y ago
The Apple way to play H.264 is through the QuickTime APIs (and really, as of Snow Leopard the new QuickTime X APIs), not to write your own H.264 playback code that seeks to directly access hardware accelerators. I'm confused... If hardwar
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by jcl 17y ago
Here is an example of a programmer who was able to produce a much more efficient and reliable C program by applying principles he learned in a Scheme course: http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~jsobel/c455-c511.updated.txt Now, this may not be exa
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by jcl 17y ago
IANAL, but it is my understanding that you own the copyright on the modifications you make when creating a derivative work, regardless of whether or not the derivative work is itself a copyright violation.
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by jcl 17y ago
I'm not color blind, and those two colors on the Jeopardy map are nearly indistinguishable -- the same hue, differing only slightly in value and saturation. It is a terrible choice of colors.
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by jcl 17y ago
GPL is not a "type of copyright"; it's a license that derives its power from copyright. The same is true of pretty much any license that tries to limit what you can do -- which includes most open source licenses (BSD, MIT, Apache). There a
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by jcl 17y ago
Don't assume the behavior demonstrated in the article is an advantage... The study compares words , not people -- particularly, it does not measure the speed of monolingual readers at all. The article headline is jumping to a conclusion
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by jcl 17y ago
It's the convention to use realism in audio software, but that doesn't necessarily make it an effective interface. It reminds me of the bizarre interfaces in Kai's Power Tools: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kai%27s_Power_Tools.jpg A
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by jcl 17y ago
The actual article (linked and quoted in the BoingBoing one) goes into the connection in much more depth, pulling quantum mechanics and the Big Bang into the mix: http://forgetomori.com/2009/science/folding-the-yoshimoto-cu...
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by jcl 17y ago
Sure. The split has existed since at least the second Assembly in 1993. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assembly_demo_party#Demo_and_in... I haven't been able to find an earlier example of the split; prior to that, it seems demos simply did
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by jcl 17y ago
For the curious: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molon_labe
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by jcl 17y ago
The funny thing is that it is Americans' relative willingness to pay for movies that allows the American movie industry to create in the scale that they do. If bootlegging weren't so prevalent in China, perhaps their movie industry wouldn'
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by jcl 17y ago
According to the article, using a solid-colored image for the background is actually a workaround for the problem. The fact that the symptom is a hard 30-second delay independent of processor speed, resolution, or graphics card suggests tha
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by jcl 17y ago
* Every new piece of electronics had an eye-melting blue LED power indicator. This was considered extremely cool at the time.
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by jcl 17y ago
Well, sure. But as I understand it, most people at Google are running Linux on their desktops. I'd expect most browser testing to be taking place in VMs or on separate boxes, and under test accounts -- which would have made the level of i
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by jcl 17y ago
An interesting idea, but it only seems to protect the head and shoulders. I'd expect water to run along the surface of the device onto the pants of the user, effectively making them wetter than if they had no protection at all. An umbrell
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by jcl 17y ago
My thought while reading this: "There's someone at Google running IE?"
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by jcl 17y ago
If that page is correct, typefaces are, in fact, not subject to copyright. Font software can be copyrighted, which includes some formats of fonts that can contain bytecode. But if the end product does not contain this code -- for examp
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by jcl 17y ago
Yes, negative space is useful for focusing a student's attention on the shape itself rather than the subject. But it also has the tendency to encourage a local rather than global focus, so that locally all the shapes look right, but the gl
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by jcl 17y ago
Actually, it's strike three. People associated with Hadopi have already been caught for unauthorized duplication of DVDs and for playing a song at a rally without clearing the rights. :) http://serendipity.ruwenzori.net/index.php/2009/10/
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by jcl 17y ago
I think Edwards's approach is more compatible with Ames's construction approach than your description implies. Sure, Edwards is trying to get you to see what is in front of you rather than rely on preconceptions. But what is in front of y
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by jcl 17y ago
Thanks! On further experimentation, the approach is maybe too aggressive in trading memory for speed... It runs out of memory on my 32-bit machine if you try to run it for the range 1-10 instead of 1-9.
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by jcl 17y ago
I love that they modeled the walls of the room with giant spheres... a wonderful hack to avoid having to support plane primitives while still producing something that looks like a Cornell box.
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by jcl 17y ago
Here is a script in Python that exhaustively calculates all values, then spits out the formulas for the 1900-2100 range: http://pastie.org/777044 The code is about 30 lines and runs in under seven seconds on my machine. It works by split
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by jcl 17y ago
Why didn't it work symmetrically? Shouldn't the diseases going the other way have wiped out Europe? The only major disease I can recall coming from the Americas was syphilis.
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by jcl 17y ago
Also, Lisp-Flavored Erlang: http://metajack.im/2009/01/09/lisp-flavored-erlang/
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by jcl 17y ago
How is "word choice" similarity calculated? If you have a high similarity with someone, does that mean your range of words is the same (perhaps because you write on the same topics) or that your word frequency is the same (because you have
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by jcl 17y ago
Not to mention that the acquiring company's core business is making and running big multiplayer games, not maintaining a payment platform for game authors. It's possible they just wanted the technology for their own games, which opens the
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by jcl 17y ago
And why not? If you made a propaganda piece to point out the flaws in a certain sector of society, wouldn't it be deliciously ironic if you could get that sector to promote and pay for it?
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by jcl 17y ago
No! You could also be too greedy to share or too mistrustful to believe others won't screw up your idea. Seriously, why so negative? It's not like five are necessarily better than two.

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