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by kmak 16y ago
Can always shorten it later. I find myself hang up on it sometimes, but even Facebook started out on "thefacebook.com".
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by kmak 16y ago
I was holding it okay until "Wonderwall" started playing.
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by kmak 16y ago
http://blogs.ft.com/rachmanblog/2010/02/the-secrets-of-malco... Got to learn the talks by heart.
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by kmak 16y ago
A few weeks ago, I finally gave in and tried to learn Python. It is surprisingly easier to learn. From a guy with mostly C and Perl experience, it takes good parts from both. I was writing code in only a few days. It's also easier with
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by kmak 16y ago
The 499$ version was at 99$ maybe ten minutes ago. I can't tell if it just expired or got changed. It said this was "today only for DNA day", which is Friday, so at least on the East Coast it should still run. Maybe they ran out of some
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by kmak 16y ago
I agree with the concept, but at some point it became trivia, which kills the point.
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by kmak 16y ago
I replied to the other thread, but basically, you're not supposed to put your private key on your iPhone app anyhow, as it can be taken. As for the public key, it is obviously public anyhow.
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by kmak 16y ago
For Facebook things, you can go through a session proxy instead of using the private key. I'll imagine storing a private key on the app (on the iPhone) is not desirable anyhow. The public key is, obviously, public.
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by kmak 16y ago
Not an iPhone developer, so let me know if this does not make any sense. Is the Facebook public key hardcoded on the app? Since presumably the app needs Facebook to run, they need to be connected to the internet, so maybe there could've be
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by kmak 17y ago
Basically, if there's a group of people out there with one friend, chances are you're not that friend.
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by kmak 17y ago
Steamboat Willie is still not in the public domain. I'm just stating an interesting plan, not that it is realistic. Please do not make unnecessary assumptions.
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by kmak 17y ago
Depends on what you do. Finance jobs (they hire people with engineering degrees) will typically pay better than an engineering job.
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by kmak 17y ago
It is what markets are willing to pay. Rent is outrageous, but there are also people in college or just out of college who doesn't mind having a few roommates. My friend's old studio was 1600, and was replaced by two college guys paying 18
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Choosing Random Elements(propersubset.com)
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by kmak 17y ago
I think there's an idea where copyright extension fee grows exponentially, so free for first N, $1 for the next N, $10 for the next N.. And after a few N's, it'll either be economically infeasible, or you can still keep them, but it'll be w
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by kmak 17y ago
If you play Bobby Fischer, you probably won't need to give up - it might be over before too long! I agree with the perceived skill though. During the Winter Olympics and curling, everyone thought they could do better. Probably not so much
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by kmak 17y ago
Typically the way that optimization is you only need the subproblem solution from the previous row, so the rows before that you can ignore (and thrown away) by keeping only 2n entries. This assumes you don't need to reconstruct the path th
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by kmak 17y ago
Perl was my first language, and my progress suffered as a result. Don't get me wrong, I love Perl and use it for things, and while there are many ways to do things, most of the ways are fairly awful, and I had to go through many iterations
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by kmak 17y ago
Seconded. I wrote an online game as a 16 year old (10 years ago) with all the bugs that a 16 year old might code (though no SQL injections!) and there were tons of angry/concerned players whenever something happens. Most of the players un
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by kmak 17y ago
The best camera is the one you have with you.
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by kmak 17y ago
Hate the game, not the player? ;) Seems to make sense, just take the better side of a trade. Think the market's going to crash? Short it. Might be trickier to buy CDS if you don't believe in the mortgage market, but apparently someone
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by kmak 17y ago
The part I don't understand is, for this particular problem, it is well-known enough that a simple visit to Wikipedia would've been enlightening. I remember reading up on it awhile ago, and it seems like the Wikipedia entry already had the
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by kmak 17y ago
BBG's GUI is not pretty, but the real reason people use it, and pay a hefty fee at that, is because it is full of things people need, and that's an understatement.
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by kmak 17y ago
I read this thread again, saw the * next to my comment, and got instantly reminded of an KV art..
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by kmak 17y ago
I read your TrueSkill article, and it was very thorough. Coincidentally, I was looking over the papers and things for a few days just prior, trying to figure out all leaps that the authors made. The math was simple, but there are a few ga
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by kmak 17y ago
This was also in "A Man Without a Country", his last book. So it goes.
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by kmak 17y ago
Interesting thing to note is that even if cancer rate is "steady", it means we're doing better in general. More people are dying from cancer because people are living longer to die from cancer, with lower risk of dying from other things.
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by kmak 17y ago
Graph theory was easily the most practical thing I learned from programming contests. Most of the applications are "obvious", but only if you play with enough graphs.