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by kwantam 15y ago
Your comment reminded me of this excellent article from an IBM researcher: "Why Should Engineers and Scientists Be Worried About Color?" http://www.research.ibm.com/people/l/lloydt/color/color.HTM Some very excellent examples of how using
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by kwantam 15y ago
I don't know if the writer of this article is ignorant or cynical (leaning towards the latter), but spinning section 18 as fair takes a healthy dose of one or both. Section 18, at its root, is another attempt to invalidate a handful of pate
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Explosion in Oslo rocks government offices(npr.org)
4 points by kwantam 15y ago|0 comments
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by kwantam 15y ago
Unfortunately, there is nothing that will prevent Cisco from doing this again in the future. They didn't get the result they wanted, but in all likelihood they aren't going to see any further rebuke for this ridiculous perversion of justice
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The Day Comcast's Data Cap Policy Killed My Internet For 1 Year(kotaku.com)
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by kwantam 15y ago
It's customer focused because it allowed them to enforce strict standards[1] with regard to how devices on the telephone network behaves, which in turn let them provide high quality telephone service to a huge number of people. The Bell t
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by kwantam 15y ago
The practical problem with tau is, as was pointed out in the article, tau is already used for other things. Shear stress, torque, time constants, you name it. pi is a notational freak in that it represents something so fundamental that few
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by kwantam 15y ago
It's not just typically a bunch of sinusoids: Fourier tells us that it is always the sum of a bunch of sinusoids. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourier_transform
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by kwantam 15y ago
In the case you're talking about, impedance means "characteristic impedance", i.e., one parameter which (along with speed of light in the given medium and length) defines the behavior of a transmission line. [1] It is the same thing in the
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by kwantam 15y ago
Put simply, impedance is just complex resistance. We get it by taking the Laplace transform of the differential equation that defines the relationship between current and voltage in a capacitor or inductor. I = C dV/dt Laplace(dV/
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Threat of LulzSec reprisal keeps Telestra from installing net filters(theaustralian.com.au)
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by kwantam 15y ago
> Right now that's indeed true. If later on there were to be > a lot of intervening comments, it'd be more difficult to > tell immediately who the response was directed to. Not really. Making relationships betw
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LulzSec releases trove of AZ law enforcement documents(lulzsecurity.com)
211 points by kwantam 15y ago|198 comments
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by kwantam 15y ago
Have you considered running Synergy on the machine? http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/ I use this at work across two or three machines and it works really well. Once you get this set up the way you want it, you could probably go (literally)
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by kwantam 15y ago
Training your child to be obedient isn't (or shouldn't be---there are always pathological cases) something you do for the hell of it. Teaching obedience is important because children are wont to make bad decisions, sometimes with immediate
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by kwantam 15y ago
There's no reason to get a Meego device over an Android device. But plenty of reason to get Android over Meego, at least today. I'll be the first to admit I'm a highly atypical case, but this certainly isn't true for me.
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by kwantam 15y ago
- Enumerate the attack vectors that this practice opens, and give examples of companies that have been burned by similar attacks in the past. - Ask management if they would be willing to inform all their users about their practice of storin
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A Tour of the Haskell Monad Functions(members.chello.nl)
3 points by kwantam 15y ago|0 comments
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by kwantam 15y ago
There are some leaked photos supposedly of the N9 available: http://www.gottabemobile.com/2011/06/20/nokia-n9-surfaces-ah... If the rumors are to be believed, the N9 is the touch-only device, and the new device with hardware keyboard will
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by kwantam 15y ago
The poster makes some good points about the inconsistencies in Mt. Gox's handling of things, but it seems to me that he's ascribing to malice what is well explained by incompetence on the part of the person or people running the site. The s
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by kwantam 15y ago
John Cornyn is an unmitigated disaster. It's unfortunate that the TX Democratic party has a tenth of a snowball's chance in hell of ousting him. This is yet another reason we need term limits. Career politicians and bureaucrats are massiv
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by kwantam 15y ago
Have you looked at Programming Languages: Application and Interpretation [1] by Krishnamurthi? It doesn't address your concern about parsing---it's explicitly excluded from the book---but I found it to be a reasonable follow-on to SICP and
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by kwantam 15y ago
Just make sure no one is sadistic enough to follow you around running touch -- --
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by kwantam 15y ago
Two possible issues. As tmhedberg says (more or less), they're second-class citizens: they may contain one expression, and cannot contain any statements (e.g., 'print'). A more important issue: in LISP, ML, and other languages with a "prope
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by kwantam 15y ago
In general, using a Taylor series approximation for a function near points where the argument disappears much faster than the function's value is a nice idea. You have to be careful to specify how much precision you're going after, though:
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by kwantam 15y ago
From the outside looking in, it seems to me like the thug mentality was deeply implanted in Romania by Ceaușescu et al. By comparison, to my mind Dubcek's lasting influence in Czechoslovakia is evident in the treatment of Havel and the diss
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"Go To Considered Harmful" Considered Harmful(ecn.purdue.edu)
1 points by kwantam 15y ago|0 comments
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by kwantam 15y ago
No, puts are bought and sold in contracts of 100 options, but the price quoted is for a single option. The contract costs 100x that price.
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by kwantam 15y ago
You probably want something to hedge your long position while you write calls against it, though, or at least limit the downside a bit. After all, you're betting that the stock will go down. Go long, buy some out of money puts, and write ca
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by kwantam 15y ago
In general, to short a stock, you need to be able to borrow shares of the stock to sell. For that, you'll need a margin account with a broker such as ETrade, TD Ameritrade, et al. (Not endorsing any of them, just listing names that come to

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