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by jcl 17y ago
Summary: Dell's web store has a copy-and-paste error in a product description.
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by jcl 17y ago
Not so incredible: The article is about what phone makers and carriers are choosing to ship. For the iPhone, those choices have already been made and are unlikely to change in the near term.
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by jcl 17y ago
After all, if we live to reproduce, then anything that sets in after that event is irrelevant from an evolutionary standpoint. I imagine there are some people who reason that way, but they'd be ignoring the obvious survival benefits of ha
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by jcl 17y ago
I know the movie. The content of the article is not apparent from the headline.
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by jcl 17y ago
This is about Apple abandoning ZFS. Zed Shaw is still alive. See also: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=899498
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by jcl 17y ago
Could you elaborate? It doesn't sound like it would improve your understanding of the code.
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by jcl 17y ago
FYI: you can edit your comments here (within two hours of the original post).
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by jcl 17y ago
FWIW, color blindness is probably not an issue with that chart, as green is the only saturated color, and it seems to be of a dark enough value that it would not be confused with the other colors in the chart. You can preview an approximati
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by jcl 17y ago
At some point in your career, you come to realize that unreadable code is bad code -- and that if you aren't writing readable code, you are a bad coder. Usually this realization comes when you are asked to fix something in code so horrible
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by jcl 17y ago
Reminds me a little of the SIGGRAPH paper on hybrid images, where the distance at which you view an image determines, for example, whether you see a smiling or frowning person: http://cvcl.mit.edu/hybridimage.htm
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by jcl 17y ago
Has that actually been shown? It would be ironic to use one unfounded fear to dismiss another unfounded fear, itself raised to dismiss a third unfounded fear.
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by jcl 17y ago
Once you vaccinate for it, it becomes less deadly. Which means there is a new (computable) "most deadly" flu. And, presumably, there is an upper limit to the number of strains our immune systems can remember and defend against.
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by jcl 17y ago
Of course, that means we'd be living in a future where the DNA sequence for the deadliest possible flu strain is computable. We'd have a pretty good reason to be alarmed every single day.
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by jcl 17y ago
I think making the keywords all-caps is a mistake. Capital letters draw the eye -- all-caps doubly so, and at the expense of readability. Anything in all-caps had better be pretty damn important for the programmer to read. And while keywo
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by jcl 17y ago
For what it's worth, Xichekolas's Greasemonkey script adds such a field and button, as well as doing several other useful things. http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/25039
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by jcl 17y ago
Skeptics point out that Google might have a hard time getting the phone out in time for the holidays, since it typically takes a year or more to bring a phone from design to production. The article's author appears to be totally oblivious
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by jcl 17y ago
The idea of parameterized typefaces is an old one; I guess this example is interesting in that it attempts to parameterize between a serif and sanserif typeface.
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by jcl 17y ago
As they say in the article, they didn't choose the responses to be neutral; they simply used common reasons people were voluntarily sending through their contact page. I agree that that is poor methodology, since it doesn't include the opin
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by jcl 17y ago
The is_prime implementation can be further trimmed down rather comfortably: def is_prime(i): if i < 4: return i >= 2 if i % 2 == 0: return False return all(i % x != 0 for x in range(3, int(math.sqrt(i)) + 1, 2)
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by jcl 17y ago
It reminds me of Neil Gaiman's short story "We Can Get Them For You Wholesale", which also features a killer and would-be client meeting in a bar. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Can_Get_Them_For_You_Wholesa...
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by jcl 17y ago
Summary: A scientific illustrator collects deformed leaf bugs in areas with increased radiation, especially around nuclear power plants. She illustrates the deformities with watercolor.
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by jcl 17y ago
I think the implication is that any languages built into Visual Studio get an automatic stamp of approval from corporate management, which is why we get millions of lines of code written in C# and VB.net and not, say, Boo or IronPython. Th
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by jcl 17y ago
Not really. It demos very well, but it's a difficult area, and there's not much real-world application (like most other a-life projects). The guys working on EA's Spore considered evolving their creature animations, but opted instead for r
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by jcl 17y ago
Or a Greasemonkey script: http://pastie.org/656481 (Adds a "Solve" link that moves the image rows into a solved position. Tested in Firefox 3.5.)
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by jcl 17y ago
It only seems weird because we are used to scenes where the sun's rays are roughly parallel. In this picture, the sun represents a point light source, so the objects are lit from different directions. (Think of balls suspended in space aro
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by jcl 17y ago
Compiled to plain C, hence fast and super compatible... In the beginning, there was cfront ... ;)
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by jcl 17y ago
For what it's worth, an ostrich egg yolk is a single cell with a volume of about 500 cubic centimeters. You could fit a small point-and-shoot camera inside (although the pictures would probably suck). :)
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by jcl 17y ago
For an alternate (and more rigorous) view on the feedback between positive outlook and positive experience, see Martin Seligman's Learned Optimism . In it, he describes a number of experiments to show that how optimistic we are depends on
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by jcl 17y ago
In XP, control-shift-escape (almost the same key combo as OSX) brings up the task manager, where you can kill whatever you want using the keyboard. By default, it comes up with the current application selected, so you can press tab then sp
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by jcl 17y ago
As I understand it, self-signed certs leave you open to man-in-the-middle attacks. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=277284

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