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by jemfinch 16y ago
The DX does reasonably well if you can handle smaller fonts. I've had no difficulties with mine for computer science papers.
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by jemfinch 16y ago
DuckDuckGo is just an interface to Bing.
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by jemfinch 16y ago
People can create an account with just a username and password; we're already effectively allowing anonymous posting.
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by jemfinch 16y ago
Because he was probably downmodded (appropriately) for his comment, and considered it an embarrassment. I'm not fond of such deletions, but I think it's good for people to be able to retract their statements when they realize they don't ref
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by jemfinch 16y ago
The fact that computers use instructions in our universe? Seriously, if you don't understand what he's basing his claim on, it's because you don't understand the Boyer-Moore algorithm. If you know how Boyer-Moore works, the reason is obvio
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by jemfinch 16y ago
C++ can only be compiled to C in the same sense that ANY language can be compiled to C. The point is moot if that's all that's being claimed.
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by jemfinch 16y ago
Studies have shown (see McConnell's *Code Complete for citations) that bugs are far new likely to recur in previously buggy code than in code not yet found to be buggy. Since so much time in development is spent in testing and debugging, i
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by jemfinch 16y ago
C++ hasn't been compiled to C in any production compiler for a rather long time.
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by jemfinch 16y ago
The draggable time sliders seal the deal for me. Finally I can choose between the for flights that are actually relevant to me and not the 200 that aren't. Find a way to get Southwest in your output and I'll never use another site.
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by jemfinch 16y ago
Merge sort may use an optimal number of comparisons, but that doesn't stop it from being slower than quicksort in most cases in real life.
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by jemfinch 16y ago
"Many targets of the Righthaven lawsuits are political blogs and discussion boards, both liberal and conservative, which have posted content—nearly always entire articles—written by Review-Journal reporters." I'd be curious to see the perc
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by jemfinch 16y ago
> Many targets of the Righthaven lawsuits are political blogs and discussion boards, both liberal and conservative, which have posted content—nearly always entire articles—written by Review-Journal reporters. What's the problem there?
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by jemfinch 16y ago
It reminds me of the apt quotation (I can't get an authoritative source on it in 30 seconds of searching), "If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter."
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by jemfinch 16y ago
I'm interested in more detail regarding your comparison of Helvetica and Verdana, if you're feeling generous.
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by jemfinch 16y ago
> Fecebook Pun intended?
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by jemfinch 16y ago
Except it doesn't substantially differ from the FCC's NPRM from back in 2009, the one everyone was so happy about. It's the NPRM for wired networks, and a "wait and see" approach for wireless networks.
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by jemfinch 16y ago
Why did you get modded up? You're wrong. Sort will write temporary files to /tmp if you exceed its in-memory sort threshold. Did you really think sort(1) just bails if you pipe it more data than can be contained in memory?
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by jemfinch 16y ago
Compared to the IO costs, the computational difference must be inconsequential.
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by jemfinch 16y ago
Exactly which part of the proposal does that?
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Google-Verizon proposal compared to FCC's "Notice of Proposed Rulemaking"(techliberation.com)
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by jemfinch 16y ago
> Looking over the front page, I wonder what the people thirty years ago would have made of some of the other headlines People thirty years ago? Heck, I wonder what my in-laws would make of those headlines :)
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by jemfinch 16y ago
What even net neutrality advocates want to avoid is the FCC becoming the "objectionable content police." The FCC should be able to enforce net neutrality, but not create new regulations regarding content. The EFF discussed this in thei
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by jemfinch 16y ago
> I've found that a pretty good rule of thumb for recognizing corporate BS is any time a campaign is called "Get The Facts" or something similar. Good thing that phrase doesn't occur anywhere in the linked post. Or is your aversion to a
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by jemfinch 16y ago
> Having said that, the EFF's claim that "lawful content" is insufficiently vague does seem fair. Really? That seemed the least substantial to me: this is a proposal to the US Congress . It seemed obvious that "lawful" means "what ou
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by jemfinch 16y ago
> I can extend the list: one applicative, one concatenative Because it really matters whether your function names go before their arguments or after.
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by jemfinch 16y ago
Has the mainstream press even picked up on the P!=NP paper yet?
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by jemfinch 16y ago
Where's the evidence?
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by jemfinch 16y ago
Somehow I misread that as "Linux and OSX" and completely missed the "and Windows" part. Mea culpa.
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by jemfinch 16y ago
> Do you have numbers on the dial-up users for your server? My understanding is that there's far fewer, so this is bogus. Show evidence of high dial-up penetration first. He doesn't need to show that it's high , only that it's high en
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by jemfinch 16y ago
> No it doesn't. Linux, OS X and Windows all use memory not used by apps to cache storage (and other things). That's a very blanket statement for a segment of the market that covers only about 5-10% of desktops.

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