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811.
by lsb 17y ago
Crowdsourcing. Micropayments. User-generated content. TAOCP sounds tragically hip, when described like that.
812.
by lsb 17y ago
Haskell obviously isn't Ruby, but its Maybe monad, where you have Just the login, or Nothing, looks pretty appealing.
813.
by lsb 17y ago
Link doesn't work for me; it's asking for a guest/admin password.
814.
by lsb 17y ago
This assumes that Page's Law is said negatively. That's not necessarily so. Speed is a feature like any other. The vast majority of programs are written to solve a need for a human being, and if the answer comes in a human-acceptable time
815.
by lsb 17y ago
I wonder what they called POPCOUNT.
816.
by lsb 17y ago
Wooden box, piano hinge, dovetailed joints, tasteful incisions in the front, discreet plugs on the side. It's like a steampunk modem, except in earnest.
817.
by lsb 17y ago
If you take all out the HFCS and caffeine, you have (mostly) flavored seltzer.
818.
by lsb 17y ago
Garbage in, garbage out. Why not just drink water, instead of Brawndo?
819.
by lsb 17y ago
Broken in Safari 3.2.3.
820.
by lsb 17y ago
No one's won the Grand Prize yet, for which they're still offering $1M. It'd be fascinating to know how much each percentage point increases sales.
821.
by lsb 17y ago
In http://www.simple-talk.com/opinion/geek-of-the-week/dr-richa... he specifically says that if he knew more about copyright, he would have released under the Apache license. That said, it's a warm fuzzy feeling to read "The author discla
822.
by lsb 17y ago
Yes; I'm sure if he were doing it in Camden or Shoreditch or Clapham (right on the outskirts of the capital), he would have gotten a lot of grief for it. Imagine, however, making this in West Virginia; that's tantamount to Wales, in compar
823.
by lsb 17y ago
Unscrupulousness is easier if the other party is complicit: much more profitable to make people want to lower the thresholds before spinning up a new server ("We recommend setting the trigger when your CPU load is 0.1 and disk iops is 10/s
824.
by lsb 17y ago
There's the piracy, and there's also the question of replacing components. The costs of replacing machines on a boat are very different from on level ground that trucks can drive to.
825.
by lsb 17y ago
Perhaps we'll get a big shift towards more ARM processors soon? "Performance per watt" was big in Jobs' pitch of the move from Power PC to Intel Core. The 8086 was released in 1978, and 31-year-old bytecode still runs on Intel's newest x86
826.
by lsb 17y ago
It's not necessarily better. For example, you can't punch any new values into the cache.
827.
by lsb 17y ago
Why not just charge for them?
828.
by lsb 17y ago
Like Chris Rock once astutely observed, You could drive a car with your feet, that don't make it a good idea. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgWv5-I8Qy0#t=1m28s
829.
by lsb 17y ago
Most people do it by affiliations with ticket vendors, and you get a cut of their cut. It's tricky if you're doing it locally from small venues that only have at-the-door sales. But if you can branch out into recorded music and merchandise
830.
by lsb 17y ago
It's stunning that packet losses are so high at sea that they need to exponentially distribute it for transmission to be successful.
831.
by lsb 17y ago
For the uninitiated, what does that mean?
832.
by lsb 17y ago
Having lived in Ruby code for a bit, I think it's fair to say that you're entirely right. It's immature, it's poorly profiled, it has memory leaks, and the scoping rules are a nightmare. But it sounds like you were doing profiling and opti
833.
by lsb 17y ago
Here's the problem -- you're throwing a lot of user data away. Are you saving the mouse position every mousemove or click? Are you continually monitoring if that page has focus? Are you turning on the videocam to see where they're lookin
834.
by lsb 17y ago
Quis incubet ipsos incubatores? Nice try though (I'm sure Juvenal would be proud) but custodiet is just a plain-old future, and incubo incubare declined the same way is incubet. See http://nodictionaries.com/novifex?text=Quis+incubet+ipso
835.
by lsb 17y ago
Here's an hour of your time: the secret to high productivity is doing less and feeling more motivated, so make things more fun by pushing back against requirements. In short, work on things that matter, and if you see an easy shortcut, ask
836.
by lsb 17y ago
That's one way. Luis von Ahn solved this problem cleverly. His ESP game has a bunch of images, and you and a partner have to come up with the same tag for each image. Do it fast, score lots of points. Instead of having people play realtim
837.
by lsb 17y ago
That doesn't work as a text message.
838.
by lsb 18y ago
"This article explores this fourth possible explanation for the dearth of women in science: They found better jobs." http://philip.greenspun.com/careers/women-in-science
839.
by lsb 18y ago
Personally, I think it'd be awesome to have something like Yahoo Pipes, but for MetaFont.
840.
by lsb 18y ago
If memory serves, Tom Hanks did that. He married when he was relatively unknown, and his marriage has lasted much longer than most Hollywood marriages.

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