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by jcl 17y ago
All the devices out there that say "802.11n" on the box also have a disclaimer saying "draft standard". Now they can omit the disclaimer.
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by jcl 17y ago
This is actually a fairly clever and atypical approach to hiring. I agree that the meaning of "hacking" is often stretched, and maybe this is one of those cases, but it's hardly the worst. (However, like the Microsoft/Google brainteaser in
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by jcl 17y ago
Well, for one reason, that 5% is strongly correlated with people who could afford a more expensive computer...
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by jcl 17y ago
Essentially, someone wrote a game that allows you to play randomly generated Super Mario levels of arbitrary difficulty, and the contest was to write an AI that gets as far as possible on those levels, in real time. This is the winning ent
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by jcl 17y ago
To be fair, Facebook did allow Techcrunch to fax photos. Their article was accurate, if not complete.
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by jcl 17y ago
some do, sure. but plenty of plants rely on animals to disperse their seeds... Yes, and that's noted in the article, a few paragraphs later: Some hunter-gatherer tribes do eat substantial amounts of fruits and vegetables (wild types, whi
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by jcl 17y ago
After a little more Googling around, it looks like there are some studies showing increased cancer rates when people are given antioxidants: http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/prevention/anti... (And some going the other way, to
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by jcl 17y ago
It's entirely possible that antioxidants make it less likely for you to get cancer but more likely to make cancer worse once you have it. Depending on how the two effects interact, the correlation could go either way. Interesting random bl
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by jcl 17y ago
Sony invented the 3.5-inch floppy disk, and the audio compact disc was invented together by Philips and Sony. Were these somehow not proprietary?
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by jcl 17y ago
I think one of the big reasons for creating a new interface was that the XO's screen is really small -- it's about as wide as 1.5 times the largest dimension of an iPhone. While its resolution is roughly the same as a standard desktop, its
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by jcl 17y ago
Actually, there are not a lot of interface concepts that are common to Windows, Macintosh, and Linux that are not present in Sugar. Textboxes, buttons, scrollbars, dropdowns, icons, context menus, toolbars, etc. are all present. It even h
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by jcl 17y ago
The Radio seems to have come out of nowhere- So far as I know, the iPhone/touch don't have them. Actually, they might. The iPod Touch 2G, at least, contains a chip that has the potential to handle both Bluetooth and FM radio reception.
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by jcl 17y ago
FWIW, the linked Wikipedia article also debunks this.
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by jcl 17y ago
But that page doesn't claim she invented the word; it claims that she indirectly inspired the use of the word "debugging" in the context of a computer program, which is conceivable.
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by jcl 17y ago
It seems these patents were mainly 3D graphics-related: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/08/microsoft_sgi_patent... So these patents probably don't apply to the Linux kernel, but may apply to other open-source software.
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by jcl 17y ago
I believe it's because Clojure constrains itself to immutable data structures, while Lisp allows both mutable and immutable structures. You can do functional programming in Lisp -- like you can many other non-functional languages -- but it
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by jcl 17y ago
This has already been done (although the original site seems to have fallen offline). http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=hotornot+captcha
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by jcl 17y ago
The next sentence says: "Whenever the in-house attacker appears to be making progress, the team responds by adding new distortions to the puzzles." So he is still apparently contributing to the difficulty of breaking Recaptcha, even if he n
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by jcl 17y ago
IIRC, they did not, but that would have been a great idea.
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by jcl 17y ago
This reminds me of a neat trick I saw in an old 4k demo: adding text (e.g. the creator's name) at the very beginning of the binary. They'd figured out what the text meant in machine language, then added a few opcodes after to undo the effe
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by jcl 17y ago
And I suddenly have much greater hope for humanity: "ur" is the biggest turn-off.
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by jcl 17y ago
The article says they intentionally did not count the iPhone in the iPod numbers.
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by jcl 17y ago
How does one win the lottery without buying a ticket? Do you mean by finding a discarded winning ticket?
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by jcl 17y ago
The phrenologists in the 1800s just lacked the correct instruments. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrenology
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by jcl 17y ago
The headline is somewhat misleading. Rare earth metals are rare in approximately the same way that noble gases have superior moral qualities. Likewise, the shortage mentioned in the article hasn't happened yet. And it might never happen,
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by jcl 17y ago
Even using an expanded definition of racism -- discriminating against someone based on the country they or their ancestors came from -- you are still using the term incorrectly. Apple imposes the restrictions within Poland on both Polish an
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by jcl 17y ago
Zed Shaw has a lot to say about the benefits of explicit software state machines: http://www.zedshaw.com/essays/ragel_state_charts.html
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by jcl 17y ago
I notice Microsoft regularly breaks its own developer URLs as well... even the links from within Visual Studio's help system to their online content. It's sad that the most reliable way to find documentation is through Google.
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by jcl 17y ago
I love the shootout, by the way. Thanks for maintaining it.
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by jcl 17y ago
The irony? No doubleplus operator ("++").

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