jcoffland

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by jcoffland 7y ago
You should fix it. You would be helping in the fight against ads.
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by jcoffland 7y ago
Javascript cannot handle 64-bit unsigned integers and the largest exact integral value is 2^53-1, but yeah JSON itself has no such restrictions.
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by jcoffland 7y ago
No Linux support. Lame.
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by jcoffland 7y ago
That article says that the oldest ice in the core was 2.7 million years old. It actually mentions gaps in the record and ability to date ice only with a 100k year margin of error. This does not imply that we have a continuous record of car
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by jcoffland 7y ago
Honest question. If during the warmest periods ice melts all over the planet, wouldn't ice cores lack carbon measurements for those periods? I'd love an answer from someone with some expertise.
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by jcoffland 7y ago
The problem is lawyers not privacy. The 911 operators and the state obviously don't want sued.
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by jcoffland 7y ago
> What’s a good alternative? Go outside. Read a book. Spend quality time with your family.
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by jcoffland 7y ago
> When we were a Nielsen family they would include something like $4 in cash in each week's mailing as a gift. Nielsen ratings only collected a representative sample which makes each sample orders of magnitude more valuable.
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by jcoffland 7y ago
> Better architecture, but bug-for-bug compatible" probably isn't the goal of the rewrite. Why not? From there you proceed to fix the old bugs.
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by jcoffland 7y ago
I don't agree. The code may not do precisely what was intended but it is deterministic. If you understand the language, you can understand the code.
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by jcoffland 7y ago
> 1. Are you ready to throw away all that knowledge? This is a massive fallacy. Rewriting code does not have to throw away knowledge. The old code is a specification for the new. You just have to read it. I've been involved in se
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by jcoffland 7y ago
Open-Source is alive, well and functioning as intended. Tens of thousands of Open-Source projects are producing the software that is driving most of today's tech. To a venture capitalist, Open-Source is a marketing strategy. VCs woul
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by jcoffland 7y ago
I think that what Wolfram is missing is that devs are not interested in getting hooked and then paying subscription fees. The payment model is the problem and devs won't be easily suckered by a free version.
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by jcoffland 7y ago
A year is pretty short.
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by jcoffland 7y ago
> considering the increase in mass and height. Most of today's cars are significantly less massive even if their size is larger.
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by jcoffland 7y ago
It's an example of human cooperation for a greater good.
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by jcoffland 7y ago
Today's cars are much safer than the cars of the 70s at higher speeds. Not only do they better protect the occupants in an impact but they steer better, break better and are far more stable. Add to that better fuel efficiencies and i
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by jcoffland 7y ago
It should read: > ...said it works “just like” in PCs The number of mistakes in the Techcrunch article is atrocious.
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by jcoffland 7y ago
They have touch, smell and taste.
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by jcoffland 7y ago
It doesn't show up on mobile.
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by jcoffland 7y ago
The website really needs a video demonstrating the product. Edit: there is a video but it only show up on the desktop version.
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by jcoffland 7y ago
Installing hotfix-update-xpi-intermediate@mozilla.com-1.0.2-signed.xpi on firefox-esr 60.6.1esr-1 in Debian did not work for me.
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by jcoffland 7y ago
> “I don’t know of any other software company in the history of technology that fell onto hard times and has recovered so well,” says Reed Hastings, CEO of Netflix Inc. How about Apple?
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by jcoffland 7y ago
> HN, because 99.9% of the people here have always had pleasant interactions with the police (i.e. they’re white) I'm white and as a teen growing up in Idaho I had many unpleasant interactions with police. Once two friends of mine
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by jcoffland 7y ago
> The potential for any effect on the creatures was "likely to be low", they said. Typical popsci article. A clickbaity title followed by a hint at the disappointing truth far enough down the page that 95% of readers never see
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by jcoffland 7y ago
Some really early computers stored bits in waves in mercury. A series of waves would be started at one end of a tube full of mercury and they would be read back when they arrived at the other end. The memory of course then had to be refre
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by jcoffland 7y ago
I'd be more interested in their recipes.
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by jcoffland 7y ago
> We created a standard API for cars. Does that not mean anyone else can use the API?
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by jcoffland 7y ago
All human models of reality are flawed. It is improbable that our small minds will ever comprehend the nature of the universe in it's entirety. Each answer uncovers more questions, more paradoxes. That is not to say we should not con
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by jcoffland 8y ago
Say you're standing in front of the sun and you wave your arm. As the light travels away from you, your shadow will get larger and move faster. Eventually the movement of the shadow will exceed the speed of light. In theory it will

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