jemfinch

22 ms·

181.
by jemfinch 12y ago
Just go to jail for contempt.
182.
by jemfinch 12y ago
No, I didn't miss the point. Your point is wrong. You even (unwittingly) argue against it in another post of yours. Cartier-Bresson's "Man Leaping" could not have been captured with a cell phone camera. The shutter l
183.
by jemfinch 12y ago
Bullshit. Features like megapixels, 51 phase detection AF points, face detection metering and other goodies all allow real people to capture better, more memorable images than cell phone cameras. 1. https://www.flickr.com/ph
184.
by jemfinch 12y ago
I have three kids: a five year old, a three year old, and an infant. They all cry when they get tired. I did too, when I was their age. Now, as an adult, I know that they're only crying because they're tired. But they, as ch
185.
by jemfinch 12y ago
How does he know what a normal person is?
186.
by jemfinch 12y ago
I'd really like my cowardly downvoter to post a reply; as far as I can tell, my reasoning is sound.
187.
by jemfinch 12y ago
How is it that giving money to political campaigns is an expression of free speech, but giving food to the homeless isn't? If municipalities couldn't pass a law prohibiting speaking to homeless people, how, in a post-"Citi
188.
by jemfinch 12y ago
There's a small triangle for that right next to the GP's username. This comment adds nothing to this conversation.
189.
by jemfinch 12y ago
You just started a few months ago; how would you really know? (Perhaps 20% of your time is alive and easy to take; on the other hand, engineers who've been working on the same fast paced project for years and have built large bodies
190.
by jemfinch 12y ago
Not in my experience.
191.
by jemfinch 12y ago
I'm not sure how old you are, but I'm 33 and remember hating red delicious since elementary school because they were mealy. So by the late 80s, at least, the mealiness had set in.
192.
by jemfinch 12y ago
> A good example of this this technique is to model Internet AS paths; give every AS number a unique prime number (there are only about 100k of them) and model AS path as the composite of its component ASes; using vectorized DIV/MOD
193.
by jemfinch 12y ago
For less than the price of one year of Netflix, you get video streaming and free two-day shipping from the largest Internet retailer. Which is to say, it offers all the stuff you use Prime for.
194.
by jemfinch 12y ago
Was anyone else surprised to find that sunscreens absorb UV rather than reflecting it? I'm curious why materials science facts led to that.
195.
by jemfinch 12y ago
It sounds similar to robin hood hashing. Is there source code anywhere?
196.
by jemfinch 12y ago
PAIP, not SICP.
197.
by jemfinch 12y ago
vi evolved from ex (not ed), didn't it?
198.
by jemfinch 12y ago
> The world is full of mockers and fools. And 84% of the population on this planet is religious... Quips aside, I regret nearly every thing I did that derived from the fanatical faith I held for my first quarter century, apart from findi
199.
by jemfinch 12y ago
"Alexander said that if he determines that he needs to use technology or methods that the NSA has patented, he will pay for a license". Why can the NSA patent anything at all, preventing the public from using the technology it gen
200.
by jemfinch 12y ago
Like I said in reply to another comment[0], asserting your rights doesn't have to be rude. There are polite ways to assert your rights. The critical point in that comment, though, is that the kind of cop that's going to be anger
201.
by jemfinch 12y ago
There's no need to be an rude about it. "Sorry, officer, I don't understand your question." "Are you paying to be a passenger in this vehicle?" "I'm sorry, officer, I want to help you, but I just don&
202.
by jemfinch 12y ago
The story would have been a lot shorter if the author knew not to answer police questions. "The officer then opened the backseat door where I was sitting and asked if I was paying for the ride." Just don't answer. You don&#x
203.
by jemfinch 12y ago
> Google is by far the largest public one, next to OpenDNS. "Next to"? Google serves 130B queries per day on average[0]. OpenDNS only serves about 50B[1]. [0] http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2013&#x2F
204.
by jemfinch 12y ago
> More distributed resolvers (like with Cloudflare/Amazon datacenters directly linked to ISPs) Cloudflare has 24 datacenters[0]. Google Public DNS is deployed in 45 peering points over at least 16 metros[1]. I would be very surpri
205.
by jemfinch 12y ago
> There's nothing magical about the medical field, that makes approaches developed elsewhere somewhat irrelevant there. There absolutely is something different about medicine: consumers' participation in the medical market is
206.
by jemfinch 12y ago
The text corpus was normalized to the first 35k words for each rapper.
207.
by jemfinch 12y ago
Just like you or I know tens of thousands of words, but only use some small subset of them in any given work, you wouldn't expect that Shakespeare would use his entire productive vernacular in producing the limited corpus of his litera
208.
by jemfinch 12y ago
Because in the real world, where all our code must actually run, quicksort beats practically every other algorithm on the vast majority of inputs. Its cache behavior is better than heap sort, its memory usage is lower than merge sort, and
209.
by jemfinch 13y ago
> Establish a culture that encourages employees to work from home as much as they want. They should really understand that face time is completely irrelevant. Then, measure how many people come in each day. As someone who works in an ope
210.
by jemfinch 13y ago
"Also, beware of writing if x when you really mean if x is not None -- e.g. when testing whether a variable or argument that defaults to None was set to some other value. The other value might have a type (such as a container) that cou

More ›