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by jdthomas 15y ago
HOLY CRAP!! Thank you! ... Wow, I must be retarded or not have looked hard enough as the second google result now shows that. :D Anyway Mucho gracias.
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by jdthomas 15y ago
I think this has a lot to do with not having to sell anything to anyone. OSS projects are, in general, less concerned with converting users than commercial software -- you like our project join us and use it else 'meh'. While, it would be n
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by jdthomas 15y ago
Not to sound like a pretensions CS guy ... but how can you have a book on regular expressions without even mentioning DFA/NFA? Maybe its just me, but (back in my day) I found learning about finite automata made regex just click. Edit: ahh,
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by jdthomas 15y ago
Yes! I also noticed this in Tokyo, I think they are just in the wrong timezone altogether. :)
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by jdthomas 15y ago
Uggg, completely agree. Once, long long ago, servers on the world wide web simply sent me data (text, links, and maybe images) and I could format how I pleased client side. I think we have gotten too far away from that original model. (Th
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by jdthomas 15y ago
Any particular disassembler(s) you recommend? How about on other architectures; MIPS or ARM?
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Ask HN: How would you solve redistricting?
2 points by jdthomas 15y ago|2 comments
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by jdthomas 15y ago
Hmmm, I also came away from the article with more questions than answers. Would this mean that the lyrics are not under copyright, but just the performance combined with the music? And that the music is not under copyright unless combined w
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by jdthomas 15y ago
Agreed. Unless I maximize my window, I found the article impossible to read (right side of text is clipped and no horizontal scroll provide -- chrome on linux). This isn't the first page I've found doing this recently; it seems to be a (ver
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by jdthomas 15y ago
Cheney has the Heartmate II (the same device the researchers used two of in this project). It is an axial flow as opposed to centrifugal pump. The first back non-pulsating heart assist device I could find is the hemopump: http://en.wikiped
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by jdthomas 15y ago
There's some good advice elsewhere on this thread so I will not repeat any. The only thing I would add is that if you enjoy webos development; I think there may actually be many good opportunities there. The reason I say this is that there
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by jdthomas 16y ago
Foxconn (and similar) do design a lot of products already, they just are acting as an ODM and not slapping their own name on them. I suspect, though, they are happy with this arrangement as it allows them to make many more products in any s