johnlbevan2

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by johnlbevan2 10y ago
Thanks for the info on Plasmids... I guess that has an impact on evolution where you start having to look at whole bacteria populations rather than just the evolution via individuals or species to the point where the model becomes similar t
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by johnlbevan2 10y ago
My thoughts exactly. I'd speculate that they're saying that all bacteria had some resistance to start with, rather than the various types of bacteria all having mutated to have this characteristic. The implication being that if a
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by johnlbevan2 10y ago
Very nice look & feel. Sadly double clicking to edit doesn't seem to work in Chrome.
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by johnlbevan2 10y ago
Confirmed; thanks vanderZwan.
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by johnlbevan2 10y ago
It seems he may be a hybrid: http://franklycurious.com/wp/2012/06/25/bugs-rabbit-or-hare/
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by johnlbevan2 10y ago
Interesting study; whilst it's possible to guess which ending is expected as correct, the alternate could be easily argued. For example, in the case of Jim's getting a new credit card, I recall during my uni days many students too
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by johnlbevan2 10y ago
Good point; I'd not considered whether the human imprint would be down to familiarity (individual's) or in-built through evolution (inherited familiarity); likely a combination of both. In fact, I recently read that chimpanzees r
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by johnlbevan2 10y ago
"you're confirming that humans are designed in a way that makes the abstractions they can make maximally useful." ... to other humans.
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by johnlbevan2 10y ago
Think of Bugs Bunny. He looks nothing like a real rabbit, yet humans recognise him as a rabbit (presumably) because we look at the characteristics that separate him from a normal human, then compare those characteristics with our list of t
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by johnlbevan2 10y ago
> "In fact, anger and sadness are an important part of life, and new research shows that experiencing and accepting such emotions are vital to our mental health." Translation: "New Research": Having watched Inside Out
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by johnlbevan2 10y ago
TL;DR Conclusion: "TDD does not affect testing effort, software external quality, and developers’ productivity" However, per jdlshore's comment ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12740978 ), test parameters
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by johnlbevan2 10y ago
I've always thought of this as precompiled vs interpreted; i.e. the more experience someone has the more hard-wired their response to that scenario; which makes people with more experience faster at reacting to familiar situations, but
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by johnlbevan2 10y ago
Thank-you; great summary / much clearer than the paper itself.
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by johnlbevan2 10y ago
Or given lots of hotels are likely setup the same, write an app that lets people take advantage of this / broadcast their own tunes to these services, so they can choose their own lift music in a Sonos-like way. If this were an officia
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by johnlbevan2 10y ago
Or phonetically similar / by moving a space: "John was set up on a date" - someone arranged a romantic encounter for John. "John was setup on a date" - on some specific day John was assembled. "John was set upo
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by johnlbevan2 10y ago
Whilst this ambiguity is a pain for those learning the language and for clarity, it's also one of the things which makes English a great language for puns/wordplay. I suspect that having a reduced vocabulary would likely increase
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by johnlbevan2 10y ago
They did select "relatively sedentary humans"; perhaps in that subset, women are heavier than men? - Men tend to do more muscle-increasing sport than women; meaning a sedentary man isn't gaining that muscle weight. - Women te
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by johnlbevan2 11y ago
I heard Justin Time was lazy... though is always there when needed.
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by johnlbevan2 11y ago
I like to think it's because the article mentions the Georgian empire, which in the UK means something very different, so could be confusing. i.e. Georgians being the British immediately prior to the Victorian era, or (for obscurity p
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by johnlbevan2 11y ago
Thank-you. For others' info: the above link points to a UK accessible version of this article.
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by johnlbevan2 11y ago
MS SQL does support XML types / allow you to use XPath in your queries. To my knowledge it doesn't do JSON; but its easy to convert between the two. http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2012/04/27/sql-serv
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by johnlbevan2 11y ago
Why would you answer a question if you then don't want the person to use the answer you give?
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by johnlbevan2 11y ago
You get a poorly written book which no one buys because they can get the content for free online.
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by johnlbevan2 11y ago
NB: Duplicate post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10904693
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by johnlbevan2 11y ago
FileFormat.info probably deserves a mention, given that has pretty much the same objective: http://www.fileformat.info/format/a.htm
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by johnlbevan2 11y ago
Thanks @teddyh; glad someone got it :).
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by johnlbevan2 11y ago
Great work. Have you considered adding a score (i.e. using time to complete level and amount of ink used (e.g. length of lines, or simply number of lines), or was it a conscious decision to keep the game simple & allow players more cre
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by johnlbevan2 11y ago
That's good; it means if you make a mistake you can box your way out of it.
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by johnlbevan2 11y ago
I'm loving the glitches; made a bit of a rail gun by putting the ball on top of two really close parallel lines!
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by johnlbevan2 11y ago
I concur with your thoughts; the big difficulty with enforcement here (beyond nukes) is figuring out how to detect when someone breaks the rules. The Fourier Transfrom was developed to help determine if nuclear weapons tests were taking pl

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