killerswan

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   by killerswan 15y ago

   Well, they could be two of the most epic studies in self-loathing. Hemingway (along with his "literary style of wearing false hair on the chest") damaged himself in his maniacal rush to prove himself the pinnacle of manliness. And Hoover,
2. 62.▲
   by killerswan 15y ago

   I remain surprised that apparently nobody's just made a PPA to make that a one-step process.
3. 63.▲
   by killerswan 15y ago

   So, one paranoid lunatic contributed to the death of another? It is too bad J.Edgar Hoover didn't write...
4. 64.▲
   by killerswan 15y ago

   IIRC Android was in development at a company Google bought even before the iPhone launched. Early prototypes looked like a Blackberry, not like an Android: they adjusted dramatically.
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   by killerswan 15y ago

   Wow, 1909 was a long time ago, in literature!
6. 66.▲
   by killerswan 15y ago

   s/Perl 6/Perl Forever/
7. 67.▲
   by killerswan 15y ago

   Double entry when setting a password, at least, is reasonable: a typo in a password field is going to be impossible for you to spot.
8. 68.▲
   by killerswan 15y ago

   Well, many of the high school kids in the world are getting less than nothing about CS in school: anything is good.
9. 69.▲
   by killerswan 15y ago

   IIRC Gary Reback points out that, ultimately, legal writing is writing that people are paid to read. For better or worse, lawyers don't write to entertain and enlighten a general audience...
10. 70.▲
    by killerswan 15y ago

    We (who care about freedom speech) need to get the politicians to listen to us... We need a more effective way to jerk their chain than by committing crimes: with 4Chan/LulSec, we risk losing the propaganda war, dramatically.
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    by killerswan 15y ago

    Even within the USA, I'm surprised how few website owners have actually considered this when choosing a host.
12. 72.▲
    by killerswan 15y ago

    Hulu to buy Yahoo? Impressive.
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    by killerswan 15y ago

    If there is computer data, all it takes is a couple seconds for an industrious suspect to begin destroying evidence. MP5s or M4s would be totally unnecessary, but fast entry and pulling the power cords ASAP might be reasonable. I'd have to
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    by killerswan 15y ago

    Given the roughly 1 million year species lifetime of typical mammals, and the fact that our descendant species are also likely to be quite intelligent, ten thousand years may only be a short time. :D
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    by killerswan 15y ago

    Yep, F# works well, and Miguel de Icaza et al. are playing with it. To get F# running with Mono, you'll want (at least on Linux) Mono 2.8+, and either MonoDevelop 2.4 (for which Thomas Petricek's language plugin works) or your own editor.
16. 76.▲
    by killerswan 15y ago

    I'm sure some veterans from Sun or maybe Fujitsu could do it, but I think the CPU architectures have changed enough that it would be painful... There are probably lots of applications for which -- if you can't find hardware -- it is easy en
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    by killerswan 15y ago

    Recently, I've had reason to set up systems of various types from that era. Frankly, SunOS 4.1.3 is a dream compared to consumer stuff like Macs running System 7, or PCs with Windows 3.1. Sure, it isn't going to run modern software, but y
18. 78.▲
    by killerswan 15y ago

    Metallurgists do this. I've held lumps of the steel used in power plants (which doesn't burn when the coal does), and even a pop can sized cylinder of Beryllium. :D
19. 79.▲
    by killerswan 15y ago

    Yeah. Even after a full analysis, if you only analyze the differences between each later version after that, you could still easily miss a Black Sunday attack. http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2008/05/revisiting-the-blac...
20. 80.▲
    by killerswan 15y ago

    But who trusts you or me, anyways?
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    by killerswan 15y ago

    Just balance your marginal cost and customer demand to choose production and pricing that maximizes your profits... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microeconomics If you know customer demand so well that you don't need to experiment, that's
22. 82.▲
    by killerswan 15y ago

    Ahh, yes, those...
23. 83.▲
    by killerswan 15y ago

    Good news for people who love litigation...
24. 84.▲
    by killerswan 15y ago

    Mental illnesses are communicable. Think about establishing emotional boundaries with your parents, just as you would set up physical ones if they had a bacterial disease.
25. 85.▲
    by killerswan 15y ago

    Now we can identify the child molesting TSA agents, too.
26. 86.▲
    by killerswan 15y ago

    Yeah, pretty hilarious. Too bad he wasn't going to answer, though. :D
27. 87.▲
    by killerswan 15y ago

    How about when it can reliably do finger tracking?
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    by killerswan 15y ago

    Also, the DCT is what is used for JPEG, so maybe that helps you think about this a bit more intuitively: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG
29. 89.▲
    by killerswan 15y ago

    Well, one could use a variation of this technique to compare tons of other things... Music?
30. 90.▲
    by killerswan 15y ago

    Two words: gorilla arm. Big fat finger touch systems aren't good for everything. A Kinect sort of interface could do it, though...