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by jm4 18y ago
It would be nice, but I doubt it will make a difference. Anyone else here remember when Best Buy used to sell Linux several years ago? They carried quite a few distros - Red Hat, SuSE, Caldera and maybe even a couple others. CompUSA sold Li
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by jm4 18y ago
I'm not so sure it makes sense for IBM to buy AMD either. If they are already sharing technology what incentive does IBM have to acquire AMD? Why buy the cow if you can have the milk for free? I guess they could get into the desktop chip ma
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by jm4 18y ago
How does that make sense? Maybe I'm ignorant, but it seems Apple has a good thing going with Intel these days. Why would they want to spend a ton of money to acquire AMD only to have to compete against a current partner who has a superior p
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by jm4 18y ago
Hmm... Maybe poker AI is about more than number crunching. Anyway... Interesting tidbit: craps is structured so that the pass line bettor will lose 50.7% of the time. That 0.7% provides casinos with billions in profits every year. I would t
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by jm4 18y ago
Not necessarily. Basically, the only deception available is overplaying or underplaying a hand. There are also other factors that determine whether it's worthwhile to bet. I'm no expert, but I think the size of the ante or current bet relat
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by jm4 18y ago
Exactly. When playing against a machine, a human can't use one of his skills but it doesn't apply anymore. There's no need to read an opponent or employ deception because a machine doesn't understand this. Any serious poker player knows tha
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by jm4 18y ago
You're probably thinking of Tesseract. I've actually been doing some work with various OCR tools the past few days. Tesseract and Ocropus didn't work very well for me, but I don't think mine is the intended use. I have a need to identify im
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by jm4 18y ago
I wonder if people actually read these articles before voting them up. There is absolutely nothing informative here. A more appropriate headline could have been "Drive manufacturer, Samsung, still making drives". That has about as much subs
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by jm4 18y ago
The guy is a total scum bag and just about the last person anyone needs to make a movie about, but it might be worth it just for the "you're about to experience chaos" line. Classic. http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Hans_Reiser http://blog.w
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by jm4 18y ago
My understanding is that the whole point of this feature is to identify bad sites. It defeats the whole purpose of the feature if it identifies itself as a robot and site owners can easily filter or redirect the traffic.
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by jm4 18y ago
I agree. At most I think it could be argued that what AVG does is impolite client behavior. Do enough people even use this product that it's is a problem to begin with? This isn't much different than all those web accelerators that were pop
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by jm4 18y ago
There are a couple odd choices on that list. I thought Timeline was pretty entertaining, but it's a typical Michael Crichton made-for-tv story and probably not worthy of such a list. I guess it sort of makes quantum physics palatable to the
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by jm4 18y ago
The headline goes into as much detail as this entire article. I'm not even kidding. The bankers "screwed everything up" isn't even a snippet of a longer quote from the article. It's presented the exact same way in the article with no added
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by jm4 18y ago
Strings does not work at all. It spits out nothing but junk. There's not a single chuck of legible content. If you want something quick and easy you can just look for instances of 'getURL' objects. These will always have the index of a stri
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by jm4 18y ago
I'd venture to guess nearly all developers using unit tests would say they are helpful, otherwise they wouldn't be using them. This isn't meant to be snide. I'm just saying that if you already suspect koolaid then any feedback is basically
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by jm4 18y ago
I imagine that you had to have known this would happen sooner or later so my advice would be not to sweat it too much. You decided to enter a niche market that was basically only a niche market because the major players had chosen to overlo
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by jm4 18y ago
That doesn't work even in the simplest cases. I know because it's the first thing I tried when I needed to find child Flash files and external references in Flash files. This is actually a tricky problem to solve. It's easy enough to find e
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by jm4 18y ago
As is typical of many articles on Tech Crunch this is one is also misleading. Adobe hasn't released source code for anything yet; however, they have opened file specifications. It's still unclear when or if they will release an open source
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by jm4 18y ago
Perl is a good language to know. Hear me out before you mod me down into oblivion! I'm not much of a Perl developer. At work I use Java. For personal projects I like to play around with the "cool" stuff like Python, Lisp or Ruby. For me, Pe
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by jm4 18y ago
It seems that way. As someone who develops a crawler that currently parses Flash files to find child files and links to external content I was excited when I first read that Adobe had made a special version of the Flash player that could be
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by jm4 18y ago
<rant>It's bad enough that we have to see all this Tech Crunch/Reddit/Digg type of garbage on HN all the time... Now we have people posting stuff from cracked.com? This is too much. To add insult to injury this guy even has higher k
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by jm4 18y ago
I'm not so sure the level of detail is an indication that he's disconnected with his own company's products. The vibe I got was that he was trying to describe to the people who build this stuff what it's actually like to be an end user. I t
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by jm4 18y ago
I know a few people who installed it, but I don't know anyone who's still running it. I have it on my own computer, but I only need to use it for Cubase. The last version of Windows I had a license for was 2000 (a great release in my opinio
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by jm4 18y ago
The article is covering features in C# 3.0. Mono is perpetually playing catch up to Microsoft's implementation and according to the Mono site the "Mono API today is somewhere in between .NET 2.0 and .NET 3.5". Besides the fact that the lang
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by jm4 18y ago
While slightly off topic, albertcardona may have a point here. This deserves some clarification. It may be that they specifically need Java if they're going to have some in house programmers maintain the application later, but if all they'r
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by jm4 18y ago
That's a good point, but I think it's a stretch to argue that this is on topic. If the point of the submission was the social hacking aspect it might be better received if the headline reflected that. As is, a submission like this would be
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by jm4 18y ago
You could also try Novell's NetDrive. They don't offer it for download from their site, but I believe it's free. http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/qna/999.html
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by jm4 18y ago
Have you tried DbVisualizer? I don't think it does schema diff, but it covers quite a few other features in Enterprise Manager and can extract ERDs from your schema. It's relatively cheap too (or free with limitations) and works with any da
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by jm4 19y ago
I've been using Linode for a couple years. They're reasonably priced and I've never had any issues with them.