m_myers

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by m_myers 15y ago
The blog post referenced by this article ( http://nbickford.wordpress.com/2010/10/22/pi/ ) is amazing. It's not just the math and not just the C# code; he throws in all sorts of offhand references to a paper here, a record-holder there, a p
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by m_myers 15y ago
Personally, I'm on pins and needles waiting to see if it will.
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by m_myers 15y ago
It was working up until about five minutes ago. I suspect I'm not the only one who'd never heard of the The Straight Dope and started clicking through the archives after reading this article.
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by m_myers 15y ago
By way of explanation: this is a poll, my choice is not an option, therefore I posted it instead of merely upvoting it. This answer is roughly equivalent to "Would like to but probably won't in the near future."
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by m_myers 15y ago
"No, I don't feel it's relevant/valuable enough to make the time for it."
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by m_myers 15y ago
I voted for main browser (desktop), but it's not entirely true. At work, IE8 is mandated (though I did manage to score Chromium recently and switch over). At home, I've kept the same Opera session alive for the past year and a half. I use O
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by m_myers 15y ago
Yes, you could let the bank decide who gets the benefit of the money. Or you could decide yourself. Depends on your personality, I guess.
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by m_myers 15y ago
I know of several people who have gotten history degrees because of an interest sparked by the Europa Universalis series (usually either EU2 or EU3), and of course some people have become fighter pilots after playing flight sims. But the sh
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by m_myers 15y ago
"If your account is less than a year old, please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. (It's a common semi-noob illusion.)" - http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html There is much more interesting (and useful)
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by m_myers 15y ago
And was already submitted: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2762783
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by m_myers 15y ago
It's actually FreeCiv, based on Civ II, not V. The researchers needed to be able to modify the source to let the agent read messages from the screen. Direct link to the paper: http://people.csail.mit.edu/regina/my_papers/civ11.pdf
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by m_myers 15y ago
"Computer, end simulation!" Just to be sure...
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by m_myers 15y ago
I haven't used Steam, but I am becoming a fan of the relatively new Gamersgate ( http://www.gamersgate.com/ ). It doesn't even require a desktop client, which is one of the few complaints I've heard about Steam. However, none of the games I
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by m_myers 15y ago
How? Do you start all your URLs with "www"? I know I don't, so a regex couldn't possibly know until I typed either a space or a dot. On the other hand, if you could make this work, I'd love to see it.
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by m_myers 15y ago
Next question: Is it possible for a piece of string to be pi units long? How do transcendental numbers translate to the real world?
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by m_myers 15y ago
And "affect" is also a noun, although rarely used. affect: the conscious subjective aspect of an emotion considered apart from bodily changes; also : a set of observable manifestations of a subjectively experienced e
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by m_myers 15y ago
People might say the earth is cooling merely because it is? Heavens, we can't have that!
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What aspects of psychology does Stack Overflow take advantage of?(meta.stackoverflow.com)
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by m_myers 15y ago
ZOOM and ENHANCE! ... If this really works as well as it seems, it's going to ruin some of our best pop-culture-technology jokes.
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It took me 30 steps to do it manually, following the correct rules.
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by m_myers 15y ago
Wow. So much practical advice in there. I'd heard much of it before, of course, but seeing it in action really helps cement it. I may have to read it again to make sure I caught everything.
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by m_myers 15y ago
Hmm. They start talking about making things illegal at just about the same point that I'm thinking this can be a great competitive advantage for anyone who will hire unemployed workers. Different points of view, I guess.
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by m_myers 15y ago
For anyone else that was about to go check: Partly cloudy today with a 10% chance of precipitation tonight, no frost expected. http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?...
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by m_myers 15y ago
This is getting ridiculous. Under current U.S. law, felons cannot vote or carry guns; it isn't just a matter of a disproportionate prison sentence and fine.
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by m_myers 15y ago
My first thought is to run ASP.NET on a Linux server. Also, some Gnome apps are written in C#: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mono_(software)#Software_develo...
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by m_myers 15y ago
From "simian" and "tamarin" in keeping with the monkey (mono) theme, presumably.
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A closing parenthesis would never be moved inside quotation marks in any system I know of.
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Interesting bit toward the end: But the collapse of the Populists after the election of 1896 and Western Union's enormous political power kept this reform movement at bay. Not until 1910 did Congress clearly define both the teleph
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by m_myers 15y ago
This would actually be a brilliant marketing tactic if Google were behind the whole thing. Unless they got caught, of course.
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by m_myers 15y ago
Spotted in the comments on the Osama bin Laden story last week: http://i.imgur.com/Fo1qu.png (The image is a screengrab of the comments. Apologies if my use of Imgur offends you.)

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