lurker14

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by lurker14 14y ago
> Now go find prior art for this where it shows steps a, b, c, d. Not easy anymore is it? Go out side. Turn left. Walk to the park. Look at the 11-year-old boys on the swingset.
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by lurker14 14y ago
These all make me think my monitor is dirty. Why is this a feature? Also, why are they called "patterns" and not "textures"?
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by lurker14 14y ago
> sticky audience xkcd has sticky content, too.
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by lurker14 14y ago
AWS credit, not cash.
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by lurker14 14y ago
This actually happened. George Bush did it in 2008, $300 per person: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_Stimulus_Act_of_2008 > 51% popular share electoral college share, not popular share.
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by lurker14 14y ago
That's why it's called "financial security " or "financial independence "
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by lurker14 14y ago
Social Security and Medicaid/Medicare step in at this point.
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by lurker14 14y ago
Eh, you bought a working Leopard system, you messed with it (removed the OS and installed an unsupported alternative), you broke the original media sometime over the next 4 years, and you didn't make a backup, and chose not to use any other
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by lurker14 14y ago
Customized how? I have never seen a customized Google search results page. Are you referring to the default home page ?
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by lurker14 14y ago
http://www.ubuntu.com/community/get-involved/donate
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by lurker14 14y ago
Eh, Google is forcing this experience on Android users with their batallion of Play apps (Apps, Magazines, Books, Videos, Toilet Paper, etc) and people seem to tolerate it.
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by lurker14 14y ago
Isn't that the point? That hashing maps an arbitrary set of numbers to an approximately uniform scale-invariant distribution.
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by lurker14 14y ago
Direct link to the pre-generalized: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~moore/best-ideas/mjrty/index.html Note that this algorithms fails silently if there is not majority element, which limits the scope of its utility. I assume that the reason it
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by lurker14 14y ago
You can write simple perl/python plugins to create JSONPath index functions against JSON content.
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by lurker14 14y ago
Is there a reason for any modern compiler to support linking to functions like gets() without setting an "--use-unsafe-libraries" flag?
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by lurker14 14y ago
https://developers.google.com/appengine/articles/using_xmpp ?
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by lurker14 14y ago
Especially impressive to say "calculus", which shows actual awareness of mathematics, and suggests that the speaker really has tried something like that. Usually people say "algebra" when they want a word that just sounds mathy.
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by lurker14 14y ago
Jury decisions do not set precedent, only judges' decisions do.
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by lurker14 14y ago
Judges can overrule juries, in extreme cases. http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Can_a_judge_overturn_the_decision_... Jury nullification is the only counter-example: a judge cannot overrule a nont-guilty criminal decision.
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by lurker14 14y ago
I keep thinking that he's some sort of (witting or unwitting) plant from Samsung, put there to taint the trial and have the whole thing discarded on appeal.
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by lurker14 14y ago
Was that because the author had no comprehension of complexity and couldn't understand what was wrong with the design, or because of a lazy oversight that was fixable once the problem was brought to light?
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by lurker14 14y ago
For me, it was because of bad mobile webkit support.
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by lurker14 14y ago
Similar to why pure declarative programming is less popular than imperative. It's far less efficient to maintain all that unchanging state, except in special cases where optimizations are applied. And it's often easier to describe what you
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by lurker14 14y ago
100% accuracy does not exist in real-world systems. 99.99999% accuracy might be good enough, though.
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by lurker14 14y ago
Analog is far more energy-efficient than digital, though, because digital is really analog with huge gaps inserted to make the 1s and 0s detectable and not look too much like 0.5s. So there is a theoretical possibility that the efficiency b
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by lurker14 14y ago
Sure there is. If you cut out protein, and eat chips or cookies whenever you are hungry, you will eat a lot more calories total, because you will feel less full.
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by lurker14 14y ago
I love that they managed to fail to fit 5-letter section titles without ellipsis, preferring to have part of the work in a giant find and to save room for vast tracts of empty space.
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by lurker14 14y ago
Mac OS and iOS do not have a unified UI. Mac has a desktop UI, with windows and menus. iOS has a touch UI.
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by lurker14 14y ago
And may well be "downgradeable" to Win7 for a fee, like Vista computers had the XP option to buy out of that mess.
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by lurker14 14y ago
Why would that API be buried in the Metro UI code, and not in a system library compatible with 7? A bit of laziness, perhaps.

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