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by lepht 16y ago
>My guess is they probably had this before java supported such a syntax so that you could create arrays easily varargs came in Java 1.5, September 30, 2004 Groovy 1.0, January 2, 2007 Definitely could be for compiler optimizations or ba
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by lepht 16y ago
"If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it..." -Abraham Lincoln ( http://www.america.gov/st/peopleplace-english/2008/December/... )
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by lepht 16y ago
Maybe I'm biased as a VT resident, but Leahy (as the co-sponsor of the bill) deserves a little shout-out, too: http://leahy.senate.gov/contact/
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by lepht 16y ago
A bit OT, but I'm wondering about this sentence/typo: > The caller-id, the caller saying “Ram, this is Steve” and that he was calling from Apple did suggest that it could really be Steve Jobs. At first I interpreted this to mean that if
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by lepht 16y ago
Great summary, and what you're describing is a good practical/social example of information theory[1], where the entropy[2] is increasing with the unusualness of the phone number/backpack/whathaveyou, causing the efficiency of your ability
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Dolls used for drug smuggling — 150 years ago during the Civil War(bookofjoe.com)
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by lepht 16y ago
Any recommended links on where one could read more on the NY Subway systems you mention? I'm fascinated by pre-electronic computing, and this sounds like a particularly interesting example.
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by lepht 16y ago
Whoa whoa, your 'language dilution' train stops here. Secret's latin root is secernere, _literally_: > without; aside, by itself Also, no complaining about language degradation while also using emoticons ;)
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by lepht 16y ago
> Only Endless.com, a shoes-and-handbags site launched in-house, and Small Parts are “powered by Amazon.com,” a status which means Amazon.com customers can use their accounts on those sites. I know at least Audible also has this functio
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by lepht 16y ago
Chrome is also my primary browser, but I wanted to point out a discovery I made today: The Chromifox Extreme[1] Firefox theme in combination with its bundled helper extension completely negates the vertical pixel space waste in Firefox vs.
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by lepht 16y ago
I realize by Hacker News/Reddit/[Internet news site] a blog posting from 9 months ago is pre-historic, but: As someone who keeps an eye on RIA/RAD toolchains and frameworks I found this to be an especially astute breakdown on the State of T
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Thoughts on 'RIA', Sproutcore, Silverlight, Flex(lukesh.wordpress.com)
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by lepht 16y ago
Love the UI, but was hoping for some info in 'How it was built'... technology stack, implementation process, etc.
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by lepht 16y ago
There's certain cases, Amazon is another example, where a user interface violates what traditionally is considered 'good' design and is enhanced because of it.
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by lepht 16y ago
Ha. By these standards I am way ahead of the game. How many GamerPoints for this "nothing" achievement?
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by lepht 17y ago
Dealer.com is hiring. It's a great place to work for a developer, although there's openings in many positions. On-site gym and organic cafe Check us out: http://www.dealer.com/careers
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by lepht 17y ago
The amazing part is that this seems to be universally true. I'm also a "pclark", and I can attest to the accuracy of this statement. Watch your backs, Google, these guys are onto something.
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Performance comparison: iPad's A4 vs. Nexus One's Snapdragon(anandtech.com)
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by lepht 17y ago
http://www.catb.org/~esr/ski/ Ski is a super addictive SkiFree-like game for Terminal.
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by lepht 17y ago
Happy iPhone user here in North Eastern US, but I think your logic (and the TFA's) is faulty: It is completely possible that it is a problem with the iPhone, but one that is only visibly affecting the network when there's a high density of
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by lepht 17y ago
You should check out Chipmunk BASIC [1]. Nice simple BASIC interpreter that runs natively in Mac OS X and includes basic graphical functions. [1] http://www.nicholson.com/rhn/basic/
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by lepht 17y ago
Pretty good list, although I'm not sure how else you would expect 'finally' to function?