joshmaker

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by joshmaker 14y ago
However, the length of the average password is probably closer to 8 chars ( http://www.codelord.net/2011/06/18/statistics-of-62k-passwor... ) at which point the time to crack a password drops to 84 minutes for SHA-1 and 30 minutes for MD5.
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by joshmaker 14y ago
Computers may not be able to solve proofs, but they can help. In fact, there is a BOINC project aimed at finding triples for the ABC conjecture: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABC@home
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by joshmaker 14y ago
The same way advertising a product is different from giving it away.
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by joshmaker 14y ago
I think that is a bit of an ad hoc fallace. Sure, because Obama won we declare him the most charismatic candidate. Had he lost, people would say the oposite, declaring him 'professorial' 'aloof' or 'elitist' (all criticisms directed at Obam
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by joshmaker 14y ago
A poll of American economists a while back found 0% in favor of returning to the gold standard: http://www.igmchicago.org/igm-economic-experts-panel/poll-re...
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by joshmaker 14y ago
Does anyone know where they pull there SEO data? Are all the sites doing this sort of thing using their own bespoke SEO algorithms or are there third party API solutions for this market? If not, that could be a valuable service.
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by joshmaker 14y ago
Which is why the paper used "various cognitive measurements" which together could be taken as a proxy for intelligence instead of relying on only on S.A.T. scores.
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by joshmaker 14y ago
If you are a Django user, you should checkout django-choosen which makes it easy to use Chosen in your admin: https://github.com/theatlantic/django-chosen
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by joshmaker 14y ago
Backbone has a lot of neat features, but when I used it I really didn't like that I had to specify the tag name, the class name, etc in a Backbone.View object. It seems like these are part of the template logic that should be in a .js file.
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by joshmaker 14y ago
Because Iran is a signatory of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treat ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_Non-Proliferation_Treat... ) and their development of Nuclear weapons is thus in violation of international law.
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by joshmaker 14y ago
Not just odd, but completely wrong. For data that doesn't add up to 100%, they should be using a bar chart or some other representation of data. Unfortunately, this is the sort of sloppiness that makes me wonder what other amateur mistakes
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The Pernicious Myth That Slideshows Drive Traffic(theatlantic.com)
1 points by joshmaker 14y ago|0 comments
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by joshmaker 15y ago
"We have identified the root cause of this incident. It has been traced back to a cert issue triggered on 2/29/2012 GMT"
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by joshmaker 15y ago
The problem with that idea is that in the current political climate any new carbon tax is a dead on arrival. Realistically, the only options that are politically feasible are to either do nothing or else subsidize green tech industries that
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by joshmaker 15y ago
From this statement by Louis CK: https://buy.louisck.net/statement "Minus some money for PayPal charges etc, I have a profit around $200,000... This is less than I would have been paid by a large company to simply perform the show..." If
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by joshmaker 15y ago
http://home.howstuffworks.com/toaster1.htm
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Should IT Workers unionize?(theatlantic.com)
3 points by joshmaker 15y ago|0 comments
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by joshmaker 15y ago
From my limited clicks, it seems like both science and mathematics are even faster to get to in this method than philosophy.
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by joshmaker 15y ago
Two things: 1. That movies are being projected at considerably less than their intended brightness seems like an empirical fact to me. Unless you really believe that watching a movie through a pair of sunglasses (the equivalent to projectin
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by joshmaker 15y ago
When I first saw the redesign, I thought it was kinda weird but would probably be great on an ipad. But when I checked it out, the navigation was broken. I checked it again just now on my iPad to see if they had fixed the problem. This time
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by joshmaker 15y ago
As an FYI, the creator for The Big Picture now works for The Atlantic and did a very similar photo gallery several days earlier: http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/04/japan-earthquake-...
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by joshmaker 16y ago
WebObjects now power the iTunes store: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebObjects