jurjenh

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by jurjenh 16y ago
That would never work. You'd find some garbage in the output, or even worse, get a core dump due to n being undefined. I think you mean 2x * 1000. .... or I've been refactoring my code for too long. But yes, this is generally the rule I use
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by jurjenh 16y ago
I think it is one of those problems that most people don't run into until they do - for example, you're suddenly having to work from 2 locations on the same code base - then try to find some means of keeping both in sync... The first attemp
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by jurjenh 16y ago
Well, with 859,000 sub-prime car loans already handed out, seems like they're well on the way already. Can anyone explain to me how handing out sub-prime loans to anyone is a "sign of health returning to the economy?"
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by jurjenh 16y ago
While reading about Pyjamas I came across a sidebar note that mentioned part of the OLPC team, and wondered "What has happened to the OLPC" - and so had a look. It seems like they've passed the initial press honeymoon and are settling down
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OLPC XO v3: Like an iPad but bendier(xconomy.com)
2 points by jurjenh 16y ago|1 comments
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by jurjenh 16y ago
Nice. I've also found http://buildyourcnc.com quite useful, but am still to actually get around to making one for myself... kinda is a luxury when I use a Biesse Rover at work almost everyday and am responsible for the programming / maint
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by jurjenh 16y ago
Google Apps status says its fine, but I get a 502 on both gmail and hosted...
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by jurjenh 16y ago
what about free speech?
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by jurjenh 16y ago
I read a book a few years ago called "Pure, white and deadly" by John Yudkin (first published in 1972) that still has an incredible amount of relevant information in it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Yudkin The main issue tends to com
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Password Re-use(xkcd.com)
17 points by jurjenh 16y ago|1 comments
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by jurjenh 16y ago
I wonder what the implications of this are with respect to maths / logic. IIRC the left hemisphere of the brain does more of the logical thinking, with the right being more creative - does this mean that people who read / write a lot of Ara
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by jurjenh 16y ago
Wouldn't it be nice if we could actually keep track of the quality by some measure and thus validate your model? Things said in jest are often true, and I think you actually have a valid model. It would be interesting to have some live feed
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by jurjenh 16y ago
> ruining his own students by teaching them to mimic his own flawed reasoning ... In the letter he does mention "Every year, fewer and fewer of you read newspapers, speak a foreign language, understand the basics of how government and
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by jurjenh 16y ago
I would go as far as to suggest that mentioning python in this manner (in this community) would in fact be geekier, thus merit a higher score. Not sure about ruby, but would venture that it wouldn't make much of a difference on the scoring.
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by jurjenh 16y ago
A quick check of Wikipedia states: ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celsius ) Why technical articles use a mix of kelvin and Celsius scales In science (especially) and in engineering, the Celsius scale and the kelvin are often used sim
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by jurjenh 16y ago
How did it die in the first place? Is there conclusive evidence that it was the vaccination and not just due to a cumulative effect of better hygiene, better diet and better living conditions? And when and how did it resurrect itself? These
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by jurjenh 16y ago
I recently read that Kazakhstan was one of the USSR's main testing areas, and has suffered tremendously - this due to the fact that a lot of the tests were atmospheric.
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by jurjenh 16y ago
From what I remember, most problems with windmills are due to 2 factors: Not enough wind Too much wind I believe the generating curve is exponential, in that it isn't worth generating below a certain wind speed, which most locations do
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by jurjenh 16y ago
I would imagine that the same principle may be used in slightly fickle winds, so that it could throttle back or even go back into propeller mode during fickle winds. But I do wonder what would happen if the tether did break. It says that th
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Bionic legs bring freedom for paraplegics(tvnz.co.nz)
1 points by jurjenh 16y ago|0 comments
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by jurjenh 16y ago
Funny thing is that the resolution doesn't always change at what we consider logical places - the town I live in (Waiuku, New Zealand) is split roughly down the middle with high and low resolution - most likely because of the limited availa
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by jurjenh 16y ago
So where do we find out if Amelia said yes? look in the dedications section, and you'll see what I mean...
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by jurjenh 16y ago
I do love how he mentions that the difficult part of the tea-pouring-during-a-roll was pouring the tea back-handed... I guess it all comes down to a matter of perception, as with so many things in life.
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by jurjenh 16y ago
That, and google has an aversion to common lisp... so it would need to be a rewrite. EDIT: Mind you, I've only heard of the aversion to lisp, so have no data to back my claim up. That said, it has been mentioned several times on HN: http:/
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by jurjenh 16y ago
I don't know if it would work, but has anyone tried or heard of a job posting with a "name your price" salary? Similar to the "scariest pricing idea" that was on HN a while ago ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1279660 ). I'm not sure i
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by jurjenh 16y ago
Interesting that when you launch the windows installer, it says nothing about firefox, it says Installing Minefield Is this some quirky pun on the fact that it is pre-release software? Or is there a more general name change in the works?
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by jurjenh 16y ago
One of the things I did when I started was Project Euler problems, a simple clojure REPL, and I used Etherpad as the editor - simple, cross-platform, cross-computer programming made ridiculously simple. And it worked very well - it let me e
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by jurjenh 16y ago
Clojure-in-clojure will get rid of a lot of the java stuff. However, in the end you'll be tied to some platform if you want to use non-clojure-native libraries like swing or jetty. There is of course Clojure CLR http://wiki.github.com/rich
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by jurjenh 16y ago
The best thing I found so far is clojure-box: Clojure Box is an all-in-one installer for Clojure on Windows. It's inspired by the Lispbox: you simply install and run this one thing, and you get a REPL and all the syntax highlighting and ed
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by jurjenh 16y ago
Following the chain of articles to http://www.flownet.com/gat/jpl-lisp.html - Lisping at JPL and seeing that essentially lisp was abandoned because of an unreliable inter-process communications app written in C makes me wonder what SpaceX

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