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451.
by lsb 16y ago
It's advertised as a 24-hour line.
452.
by lsb 16y ago
Only if we want a Named-Entity Web Spider to do the right thing.
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by lsb 16y ago
Never goes down or causes operational headaches is something I've found SQLite excels at, plus you get all the benefit from a query-optimizing relational database, plus a hot backup is just cp the database file.
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by lsb 16y ago
Because the book is an advertisement for whatever products he describes therein ("so they sat at the Au Bon Pain™, sipping Mochafrappalattes™ silently, watching each other"), and the advertisers pay per thousand books sold (CPM!), so the au
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by lsb 16y ago
Lots of people are newcomers to the Mac. Windows uptimes (edit: especially in the workplace) are usually measured in hours. Unix uptimes are usually measured in months. Also: you see the screen go dark, versus wait for the throbber after
456.
by lsb 16y ago
As a Bostonian since 2005, November, December, January, February, and March are pretty compelling reasons to move.
457.
by lsb 16y ago
1-800-FREE-411
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by lsb 16y ago
It depends on how you do it. If you're clumsy about privacy and UI, you might just make the next Google Buzz.
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by lsb 16y ago
Fun fact: Lorem Ipsum comes from Cicero! "Nor again is there anyone who loves or pursues or desires to obtain pain of itself, because it is pain, but occasionally circumstances occur in which toil and pain can procure him some great pleasur
460.
by lsb 16y ago
Yes, yes, yes. 0. Make the right kind of table. create table user_apps (user_id integer, app_id integer, primary key (user_id, app_id)); -- this does the validation for you, and (should) index the table on both user_id and (user_id,app_id
461.
by lsb 16y ago
When demand increases they turn off the server until you pay for more. It's not a charity! If you want to just serve static HTML, put it somewhere cheap like nearlyfreespeech.net
462.
by lsb 16y ago
It's so variable. I had a burrito last week at 24th and Shotwell that was more than half the size of my upper arm.
463.
by lsb 16y ago
One of the major problems involved with using third-party login systems, like Facebook Connect, is exactly that: you need to make sure it's not critical (so you need your own login system anyway) and you need to make sure it's not blocking
464.
by lsb 16y ago
A goto with no arguments can be read as an recursive but optimized tail call, in some mythic Scheme-to-BASIC compiler.
465.
by lsb 16y ago
Using Coral CDN: wget -rl 0 -np -A .mp3 http://thenine.ca.nyud.net/essential/
466.
by lsb 16y ago
That looks interesting; how are you going to beat Mint?
467.
by lsb 16y ago
That looks pretty cool, and the best performance seems to come from aggregating and doing floating point math. SQLite is designed for embedding into cell phones and web browsers and other tiny devices, so I'd expect that there's quite a bit
468.
by lsb 16y ago
Yup, forall f g xs . filter f (filter g xs) = filter (\x -> g x && f x) xs was exactly what I meant, thanks for the catch!
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by lsb 16y ago
Don't just hope, write it yourself! {-# RULES "filter/filter" forall f g xs. filter f (filter g xs) = filter (f.g) xs #-} It's a programmable programming language.
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by lsb 16y ago
Alternately, if you use a high-level-language like Haskell that can compile into machine code, you can rewrite something like regexp matching (like regex-tdfa[1]) and get better performance than what the stdlib gives you on some inputs. [1]
471.
by lsb 16y ago
Or for a young sub-Saharan girl raped by a man who believes that sex with a virgin will cure him.
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by lsb 16y ago
Back in Roman times, and even today, it's common to have cheap durable plain wallpaint up to a yard above the floor, and then fancier decoration above.
473.
by lsb 16y ago
There's a gorgeous villa that Nero owned at Oplontis. It was dug up under 50 years ago, so the air hasn't degraded the fresco quality at all. It looks, to the untrained eye, like a Donatella Versace set for Saturday Night Live. http://en
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by lsb 16y ago
Actually, in the Jewish faith, when celebrating the life of someone who died (via candles etc), it's done on the day of their death.
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by lsb 16y ago
Berkeley has a pretty good programming-languages program; a friend of mine has been working on parallelizing CSS rendering: http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~lmeyerov/#activities
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by lsb 16y ago
Thanks! Fixed.
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by lsb 16y ago
P is the set of all problems that can be verified in time polynomial to the problem space. NP is the set of all problems that can be verified in time polynomial to the problem space with the use of a non-deterministic oracle. Hold that tho
478.
by lsb 16y ago
Scrollbars being hard to use is mostly because most users have an easy time scrolling (laptops use the two-fingered scroll, mice all have buttons or touch-sensitive surfaces), and scrolling requires only mouseover not focus (try it! scroll
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by lsb 16y ago
0) Get your data into Amazon's cloud, and rent a server on EC2 with 68GB of memory. Spot instances are a buck an hour. 1) Do sort -u --buffer-size=60GB FILE. You'll sort it all in memory, and that'll be a great speedup. It's easier to s
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by lsb 16y ago
For most intents and purposes, I'd recommend using pdfTeX instead of TeX: your general output format is LCD, not paper, and Metafont renders pixel fonts, not vector fonts (because TeX's output format after all is paper, not screen). Also, I

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