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15y ago
A custom device including one knob to control the angle and one (physical) slider to control the strength. I know this is stupid when thinking about a casual game, but it would totally make sense to me if my job was to "play angry birds 8 h
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15y ago
Find an actual (amortized) linear time implementation for this question in the following gist: https://gist.github.com/1026638
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15y ago
I've got a landing page in "spanish". The translation is so bad that I would never ever use their service. Hint: you should never use google translate to provide localizaed versions of your website. For those who did not get it: your do
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16y ago
Yeah, I totally understand that the paper must be very hard to catch for someone without a minimal background on formal languages. However, the author said that it is uninteligible, implying that nobody can understand it, and then support
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16y ago
My short summary of what the article is about... Lucene's previous approach to fuzzy matching was to check the distance between the input word and every word in the dictionary. Let's assume that their implementation to compute the distance
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16y ago
Microsoft's whole argument is moot. Windows is designed for "desktop computing", whatever that means. Therefore, if some platform is better just because it is specifically designed "for HTML5" that would be Google Chrome OS, not any "middle
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16y ago
From the website: "Open access can coexist with traditional publishing. IEEE will continue to allow authors to post manuscripts of their articles accepted by IEEE journals on their own Web sites or those of their employers." Hence, it wou
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16y ago
An option in the config file to specify key length would be good IMHO.
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kilburn
16y ago
Warning: this is probably offtopic. There is an interesting initiative in Spain ( http://guifi.net/en/what_is_guifinet ) that's trying to build an open (wifi-based, mesh-structured) network. Although the idea always seemed really cool to me
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16y ago
No no, you're wrong. It's $10 with the promo, but with an additional $3/month for the DNS service that's free in GoDaddy. A grand total of $46/year, hands up!
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16y ago
"What I meant was: I can read, understand, and re-implement 99% of software engineering algorithms / architectures." While this may be true, you are comparing apples to oranges. "Read, understand and re-implement software algorithms / archi
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16y ago
<blockquote> Our research led us to conclude that even for the best configurations in the world (yes, that includes Google, Amazon and all biggies), maximum theoretical downtime (for a few users) will be 30 minutes. You cannot possi