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by lurker17 15y ago
What does a committee have to do with it? Most of C++ was there when Bjarne Stroustrup created the original versions himself.
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by lurker17 15y ago
That's because you missed the hidden Part 4 where Shan&Thurston finish their solution: http://conway.rutgers.edu/~ccshan/wiki/blog/posts/WordNumber...
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by lurker17 15y ago
Rouge Websites. I'm blushing.
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by lurker17 15y ago
The answer is obvious: to expand Google Search mindshare and lock-in.
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by lurker17 15y ago
Thanks! For reference: http://www.amazon.com/reader/0486670856?_encoding=UTF8&q... Search for "Consider the cubic"
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by lurker17 15y ago
If SOPA were law, we could use it to shut down Congress for posting content to Twitter that disrupted Congress.
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by lurker17 15y ago
Setup 1: "You will be surprised to learn the truth value of this is statement, or this statement is false." Case A 2: "I will not be surprised. I know that the statement is true." 1: "Then the statement is false, and you have been surprised
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by lurker17 15y ago
What? "And I never met a "freak" who wouldn't throw over a decent wage to work somewhere lousy if they felt they belonged. These were people who wanted to be a part of something. They wanted to be valued for who they were, rather than what
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by lurker17 15y ago
Thanks for Fastmail!
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by lurker17 15y ago
I think you'll find that Hadoop is often used in preparing the data into bite-size chunks for use in Kaggle contests. Also, sometimes the contest winners do win by fetching more data related data than Kaggle provides. This happened in the W
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by lurker17 15y ago
Put current HN headlines on the page to generate content for ads.
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by lurker17 15y ago
Actually, clicking anywhere on the graph will flip to the definitions, which is very bad UX.
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by lurker17 15y ago
Whys is working for BAE worse than CIQ or Zynga? Is your idea of boring worse than your idea of evil?
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by lurker17 15y ago
Obviously the browser can MITM anything. The browser renders the page content for you and translates your input into network traffic.
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by lurker17 15y ago
The classic example: http://www.pickpocket.com/Pickpocket-Prevention-Tips.asp "Be wary of signs that read "Pickpockets About" or someone yelling, "There's a pickpocket in the crowd." They aren’t always what they seem. > I use this plo
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by lurker17 15y ago
The paradoxes are important in highlighting the ambiguities in our language. The annoying aspect is when someone uses a paradox to show off how mathematically clever they are, instead of to show how ambiguous language is. As XKCD illustrate
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by lurker17 15y ago
http://mudcat.org/detail_pf.cfm?messages__Message_ID=364502 Credit to Ogden Nash, it seems. The gum-chewing girl and the cud-chewing cow Seem somewhat alike, yet different somehow. Ah, yes, there it is! I see it all now!
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by lurker17 15y ago
It is ironic, but it is not "ironic", whatever "ironic" means when Zeldman puts quotes around the word.
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by lurker17 15y ago
We need more like you.
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by lurker17 15y ago
You won't and it won't. The hiring manager and HR are lying to your face much more.
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by lurker17 15y ago
Divulge the salary number at the high end of what you want, inclusive of the value of all benefits . State that you are more than willing (hoping, in fact!) to reduce the raw salary number in exchange for a supportive culture with good peo
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by lurker17 15y ago
Looks like it terminated.
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by lurker17 15y ago
John Carmack recently discovered that source control systems support code trees can be branched?
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by lurker17 15y ago
In 200 years you think we'll have moved past the light bulb? Or AC electricity?
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by lurker17 15y ago
Why?
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by lurker17 15y ago
No Bloatware except Google (many apps), Amazon, Facebook, and Twitter apps.
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by lurker17 15y ago
More precisely, when Amazon sells a loss leader, they don't pay the author wholesale price. When a grocery sells milk cheap, they still pay full price to the dairy vendor.
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by lurker17 15y ago
A very small fraction of Ph.D graduates land professional research positions.
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by lurker17 15y ago
Pssh. I lost $99 on the App Store, with 20 years experience!
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by lurker17 15y ago
A basic (true-to-original) wiki will hyperlink every CamelCase word. That is too complex?

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