jerfelix

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by jerfelix 15y ago
I still would like to be able to buy coffee without having to announce my real name out loud to everyone around me. Cash provides me that privacy. Heck, credit cards even keep the transaction between me and the merchant.
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by jerfelix 15y ago
Isn't about half the universe closer to the Earth than to the moon (at a particular time)? Meaning: stand on a point of the Earth such that the moon is situated exactly above the opposite side of the Earth. Then look up. All that stuff yo
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by jerfelix 15y ago
Someone joked that they'd sell a lot more at $4995. I second that! People, don't under-estimate the issue of signature limits! My old signing limit at one job was $5000, meaning that I needed to get my boss to approve something like this,
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by jerfelix 15y ago
Django Unchained has a bit of a blip (which you can see in the totals), but I don't think it significantly changes the overall analysis. http://www.google.com/trends?q=ruby+on+rails%2C+django%2C+dj...
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by jerfelix 15y ago
OK, so I am trying to tell someone by phone how to get to my webpage. How do I do that? "Key in Right Arrow.ws/abc" Yeah, that'll work.
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by jerfelix 15y ago
So the real post should be: How to lose $81,000 in Bitcoin. Step 1, go back in time to August 2010, and use the old client Step 2, get $90 worth of Bitcoin, and don't take proper precautions with your wallet file.
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by jerfelix 15y ago
Think about decibel. People talk about decibels all the time, but don't ever talk about bels. According to Wikipedia, "A decibel is one tenth of a bel, a seldom-used unit." In other words, people will adjust. Someday, we'll be dealing in
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by jerfelix 15y ago
so the darknet is working then?
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by jerfelix 15y ago
So how is this change in strategy a "funding" problem?
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by jerfelix 15y ago
The percent of North Korean prisoners may be much higher, if you include those imprisoned that are not in concentration camps.
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by jerfelix 15y ago
I can't debate you on that. I'm just reporting what I read in Harry Lorayne's book. And with one simple reading, and about 5 minutes of rehearsal, I knew all 26 letter translations. But I never tried to convert it to use. It seems on the
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by jerfelix 15y ago
Want to learn Morse Code? Harry Lorayne, the memory expert, has a mnemonic way to do it. The system is as follows. 1) t and d represent dash; r represents dot 2) commit 26 phrases to memory Here are some of the phrases:
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by jerfelix 15y ago
It's possible that the problem was originally stated in such a way that there was no solution. Perhaps the original statement of the problem was that each name must be adjacent to every name in its cluster, and readable. But the cluster o
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by jerfelix 15y ago
Good link. I find it interesting that some people think that the point of singularity will be some cataclysmic event. I use this analogy instead: Many years ago, prehistoric man was inventing and creating tools at a certain (slow) rate. T
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by jerfelix 15y ago
Congrats on your new position! I love Kahn Academy. Do you think there's any chance that Sal will open up contributions to other teachers? I believe that Kahn Academy could evolve into a MUCH better tool if Sal focused on establishing the
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by jerfelix 15y ago
They are not in error if you are trying to get a 0. This is yet another good technique for obfuscated code.
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by jerfelix 15y ago
Forget "security questions" altogether. We've gone to a set of "insecurity questions". It makes people smile when they've forgotten their password. "Do these jeans make me look fat? "Why is everyone staring at me?" "Is there
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by jerfelix 15y ago
Yes, I was guessing that 108 was the date 10/8. But guessing in a way that increased my odds of being correct (from roughly 1 in 365, to 1 in 12). Since I didn't know if 10/8 was a date, or maybe a special date but not your birthday, I tho
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by jerfelix 15y ago
Let me guess, you're a 50-year old Libra.
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by jerfelix 16y ago
Hey guys, we're coding feverish right now, so please bear with us. The site is pretty raw, but you get the idea of the concept if you read the docs. Can't talk now... gotta code!!! But if you can vote for us, between 6:30 an 6:45 Eastern t
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Show HN: Startup Weekend Project: under development NOW(amyiris.com)
2 points by jerfelix 16y ago|1 comments
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by jerfelix 16y ago
I believe you can follow 1000 people who don't follow you. So I think the Grandparent post was saying 20 accounts, each following a different 1000 people = 20K people followed, equals 50% firehose.
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by jerfelix 16y ago
I could be mistaken, but I think Project Honeypot is trying to address a different problem - harvested email addresses. I believe the Honeypot concept that has been discussed on here is referring to creation of a honeypot field on a web for
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Show HN: Switch / Case statement for Python(github.com)
2 points by jerfelix 16y ago|0 comments