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by jzwinck 12y ago
First you need the thing to be optically clear. Then you need it to be watertight even with 100 MPH winds blowing on it. And once that's done, you'll find water inside anyway. Condensation can easily form in a closed container
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by jzwinck 12y ago
It may well have been taken using the usual screenshot mechanism, but legal documents often end up in printed form, passed around and photocopied. People working on the case may not have the original image files, only paper copies or (gasp
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by jzwinck 12y ago
About five years ago I saw a chalkboard outside a trendy SoHo NYC apartment. For sale: 2 million euros. The same story is playing out in London as well, with the consequence that many central flats lay empty most of the time, owned by fore
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by jzwinck 12y ago
You don't need to copy those boilerplate functions everywhere you go. Bash and others have "set -e" which will make the overall script exit with an error if one of its commands returns an error. Also useful is "set -u&
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Social interactions in two preschool classes, in graph form(blogs.msdn.com)
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by jzwinck 12y ago
I thought the exact same thing, but then I realized that we don’t need Redis to actually support a choice of two passwords for a single account. Rather, clients can be configured with a list of credentials to try. When rolling credentials
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by jzwinck 12y ago
That's right. Joel Spolsky (co-founder of StackOverflow) and others said long ago that offering people cash incentives can work against you. Some people will do quality work for free if they receive a non-monetary incentive like reco
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San Francisco orders parking spot auction app to cease-and-desist(arstechnica.com)
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by jzwinck 12y ago
It is illegal to drive on the shoulder, so they need to handle this case for a lot of reasons (another being that substantial debris from collisions usually ends up on the shoulder). I do wonder how much space this thing will give cyclists
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by jzwinck 12y ago
Read about Singapore's "Park Connector Network." It's more or less what you're describing, and it's already (partially!) implemented.
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by jzwinck 12y ago
If each of the four variables is a vector, naively you might do (x + y) first, producing a new vector. Then you would multiply by z, producing a second new vector. Finally, subtract w, producing a third new vector. You have now iterated
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by jzwinck 12y ago
Not to mention tell the operator if they are alive at all. It may not be obvious if you see from a few meters away someone who is mostly immobilized by a fallen whatever. For this sort of application, a microphone on a winched cable might
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by jzwinck 12y ago
> strip clubs on the other hand are required by law to be tucked away in isolated locations Really? I used to live across the street from one in Manhattan. It wasn't an illicit club, and I didn't live in some sort of squat ho
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by jzwinck 12y ago
We should acknowledge the second edge of this sword. When a company invests in its employees' networks, it not only expands its ability to recruit more people directly, it also expands its employees' ability to find new jobs. Thi
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by jzwinck 12y ago
"The deniers and their think-tanks would be exposed to the sun; they’d lose their thin cover of legitimacy." Don't we have the ability to do this now by visualizing or analyzing citations? A set of "fake" think-tan
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by jzwinck 12y ago
If you think 30% is high, I would like to introduce to you Getty Images, the juggernaut of stock photography. They take 50% now.
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by jzwinck 12y ago
Nice comparison. I'm of a different opinion on the schema language point: XML is readily usable with standard libraries, whereas any "custom" language is unlikely to be. This matters when users want to implement their own t
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by jzwinck 12y ago
I like Excel as much as the next guy, but even in 2013 when you open a delimited text file it makes you manually tell it what the delimiters are. A computer should be able to guess whether a large text file is CSV, TSV, etc. This is an ex
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by jzwinck 12y ago
Yes it takes about an hour from Oxford to London. But worse, a one-way ticket bought on the day costs something like 23 quid (US $39)! Trains in the UK are lovely, but the average price for a year of rail commuting to London is 3400 pou
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by jzwinck 12y ago
This is a bit strange: this seems to come from Google, who already invented another general-purpose compression scheme called Snappy[1], which is also usable in streaming. TFA mentions gzip and deflate but not Snappy. Brotli seems to aim
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by jzwinck 12y ago
Drinking too much water kills: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_intoxication Of course, too much coffee or tea will kill you the same way.
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by jzwinck 12y ago
This article is ridiculous. While there are certain areas (e.g. pattern matching) where a typical English major is likely to do well, rigorous logical thinking of the sort needed when we program computers is simply not developed as well as
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by jzwinck 12y ago
It's unfortunate that literal strings in C++ cannot be programmatically distinguished from char* buffers. It would be useful if there were a separate type for literal strings which could implicitly decay to char* when needed. And fun
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by jzwinck 12y ago
Of course you wouldn't write it all out like that in any programming language. But instead of writing code like this: y = a * x + b You could write code like this: height = slope * run + ground It may not be helpful to w
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by jzwinck 12y ago
The paper envisions post-op reproduction as possible: "The chimera would carry the mind of the recipient but, should he or she reproduce, the offspring would carry the genetic inheritance of the donor." If the head and the body ca
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by jzwinck 12y ago
If your data are rectangular and you care about performance, CSV is better than JSON just because it avoids repetitive key names everywhere. Then again, if your data are rectangular and you really care about performance, you would not us
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by jzwinck 12y ago
There's a cultural quirk buried in the article, when the technician uses his or her "very long thumbnail (in lieu of a spudger/guitar pick)." Some Chinese men grow one fingernail quite long as a sign that they do not toi
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by jzwinck 12y ago
I presume you would advocate this new law in hopes that it would drive up the feasibility of repairs, therefore lowering costs to consumers. But it won't do that: it will increase costs (and reduce revenues) to manufacturers who will
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by jzwinck 12y ago
If you're set on using arc4random it's no big deal to use ctypes to invoke it from Python. Bash is quick to bang out but it's funny how your parent needs to compile a C program then invoke it N times per bash script run. Us
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by jzwinck 12y ago
1926: "It saddens me that Britain has lost control of its colonies. Maybe not everyone is British here, but the resources in these colonies will no longer benefit the Crown. The whole world will miss the nineteenth century world orde

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