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541.
by madars 16y ago
More advanced users tend to dislike being forced to move away from the home row. TrackPad forces the slow hand movement while TrackPoint doesn't; and this is why I can't imagine using an Apple computer again (except maybe with this - http:
542.
by madars 16y ago
ThinkPad's are just great (I'm currently using a T60 myself). You should aim for X series, they are ultralight and mobile. Why ThinkPad? ThinkPad's sport hardware features that are hard to find in other laptops (TrackPoint, hardware-based f
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I Can't Believe What I'm Confessing to You: The Wikileaks Chats(wired.com)
9 points by madars 16y ago|0 comments
544.
A Look at the Gear That Experts Use to Spy on Spies(wired.com)
31 points by madars 16y ago|2 comments
545.
by madars 17y ago
The video can prove grave incompetency. If you can't distinguish between standard photo lens [1] and a full-blown rocket-propelled grenade [2] you shouldn't be engaging in combat. [1] - http://collateralmurder.com/file/photos/5dwlens.jpg.h
546.
by madars 17y ago
It seems it was pulled of the Internet, here's a copy - http://img38.imageshack.us/img38/329/harrietjacobsfuckyougoo...
547.
by madars 17y ago
From Wikipedia: On 20 January 2009 Adobe announced it will publish the RTMP specification. On 21 May 2009 Adobe filed a DMCA removal request on a Sourceforge-hosted implementation of the protocol. And now we are about to be
548.
by madars 17y ago
It apparently got unfrozen due to, ahem, popular request - http://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/8192453527 .
549.
by madars 17y ago
By the way, there is a working mirror at http://mirror.wikileaks.info/ , last updated 21 December, 2009.
550.
Abusing the Cache: Tracking Users without Cookies(joshduck.com)
55 points by madars 17y ago|19 comments
551.
Bruce Schneier on how US government surveillance enabled the Google/China attack(cnn.com)
18 points by madars 17y ago|4 comments
552.
by madars 17y ago
Unfortunately they are served as 200 OKs (see http://tinyurl.com/yzca7ec )
553.
Why Google allows target.com to spam search results(goodroi.com)
35 points by madars 17y ago|30 comments
554.
by madars 17y ago
There are two introductionary books on linear algebra I would recommend. "Linear Algebra Done Right" by Axler gives you a _very_ nice and rigorous way to the foundations (this text requires a small bit of mathematical maturity, so be aware)
555.
by madars 17y ago
Shouldn't my $regex = qr/0(??{$regex})*1/; # (1) rather be my $regex = qr/0(??{$regex})?1/; # (2) ? Otherwise it matches many other strings (e.g. 001011) in addition to 0^n 1^n; you actually want it to match zero or one ti
556.
Fables of the Reconstruction(iowahawk.typepad.com)
43 points by madars 17y ago|5 comments
557.
Vim Plugins You Should Know About, Part V: a.vim(catonmat.net)
29 points by madars 17y ago|7 comments
558.
Skype Open Source "in the nearest future"(ofaurax.free.fr)
68 points by madars 17y ago|13 comments
559.
by madars 17y ago
Newer version of these can be found on AIMA-Python site, which is an excellent read alone: http://code.google.com/p/aima-python/source/browse/trunk/uti...
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Widely useful Python utilities by Peter Norvig(aima.cs.berkeley.edu)
95 points by madars 17y ago|22 comments
561.
by madars 17y ago
Workarounds: GMail gadget for iGoogle ; IMAP/POP3. It's not all that bad :)
562.
by madars 17y ago
Sorry, but I just can't call something that lacks tail call optimization a Scheme :) Not to say that Clojure is bad or something.
563.
by madars 17y ago
Breaking in customer's account could happen anywhere? Really?
564.
by madars 17y ago
I thought the whole point of netbooks is that they are damn cheap...
565.
by madars 17y ago
For those who don't know Spanish: http://www.merriam-webster.com/spanish/mensa
566.
by madars 17y ago
Google Talk is not standards-based at all. It is a proprietary extension to XMMP. Edit: I was wrong. Thanks, riffic! They have documented everything -- http://code.google.com/apis/talk/talk_developers_home.html
567.
by madars 17y ago
> PC's are $700 pieces of crap - check Ever tried a ThinkPad? The only thing ThinkPad's haven't got, I wish they had is MagSafe.
568.
by madars 17y ago
You might enjoy "Counterexamples in analysis" [1], it shows, for example, a two argument function for which the order of integration matters, while the geometric interpretation would suggest otherwise. A must have! [1] www.amazon.com/dp/048
569.
Fun with NULL pointers (how the 2.6.30 exploit works)(lwn.net)
35 points by madars 17y ago|7 comments
570.
by madars 17y ago
> Name a major piece of software for which the source isn't leaked Mathematica. Even Microsoft Office hasn't ever been leaked.

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