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Jan Overduin Invites You to Knuth's “Fantasia Apocalyptica” [video](youtube.com)
2 points by mauricioc 9y ago|0 comments
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by mauricioc 10y ago
The analogy helped me understand things a bit, but I have a question coming from what I think is an oversimplification in the explanation of Thompson's Trusting Trust concept. In the Trusting Trust attack, not only you change the compi
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by mauricioc 10y ago
Judging by the .cc extension, you are compiling this with a C++ compiler. Quoting from Annex C (which documents the incompatibilities between C++ and ISO C) of the C++ standard: Change: C++ does not have “tentative definitions” as in C
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by mauricioc 10y ago
What about WhatsApp? It fetches a page's title as soon as you type in a URL. I assume the fetching happens on the client, but does the URL (or the title itself) get uploaded somewhere?
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Brazil arrests Facebook executive in row over police access to data(news.yahoo.com)
97 points by mauricioc 11y ago|53 comments
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by mauricioc 11y ago
This is not directed at you specifically (I get your point), but here's an attempt at an explanation for those parts: 1) Verifying that f^(j) = 0 is 0 for all j doesn't require Taylor series (though, as 'dnautics pointed out,
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by mauricioc 11y ago
Nice program! There seems to be a typo relating to start/end dates, though: It says the grant lasts for "three months", but the quoted period is "from January 15th until March 15th, 2016".
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by mauricioc 11y ago
This announcement is on Knuth's website since June 2014 at least [0]. Did I miss an update or something like that? [0] https://web.archive.org/web/20140620191712/http://www-cs-fac...
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Adding Digits in Python (or Smarter-looking doesn't mean better)(explique.me)
6 points by mauricioc 11y ago|1 comments
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by mauricioc 12y ago
Here's a link to an older thread for the same article, for convenience: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8282949
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by mauricioc 13y ago
I think he just deleted/deactivated his Twitter account, @BrendanEich.
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by mauricioc 13y ago
I was replying to your "not typically used in mathematics" quote. As to the "and [thus] are not analogous" part, I recommend the Concrete Mathematics book. You'll certainly see at least a hundred examples of continu
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by mauricioc 13y ago
The claim doesn't hold. Half-open intervals appear in important places. That happens mainly because the family of finite unions of half-open intervals is closed under complement (that is, they form a semi-ring; this is unrelated to the
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by mauricioc 13y ago
As a further observation on this, Robert O'Callahan has a blog post [1] explaining Mozilla's stance on (not) implementing bad-for-the-web features; as an example to show this stance is long-lived, he mentions that engineers at Net
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by mauricioc 13y ago
Try right-clicking any download from the dropdown menu. There should be a "Clear List" option.
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by mauricioc 13y ago
(I only read the very first function from the implementation, so I apologise for the overly-specific comment in advance.) Simple and fast ways of calculating modular inverses are: - Bézout's identity. That is, inverting p mod q can be
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by mauricioc 13y ago
Just in case you want to buy it anyway: Due to taxes and whatnot, the LG Fireweb is selling for R$ 449 (US$ 200) in Brazil without a contract. As a comparison, a contract-free Samsung Galaxy S4 sells for R$ 2000 (US$ 920) and a 16GB iPhone
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by mauricioc 13y ago
I like the brevity of your last sentence. May I suggest saying "tu quoque" instead? It's even shorter.
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by mauricioc 13y ago
EMACS (as mentioned in the announcement) does not refer to GNU Emacs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emacs#GNU_Emacs
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by mauricioc 14y ago
By the way: The video comes from Emacs Rocks, a series of screencasts done by Magnar Sveen (@magnars). The other videos in the series are just as good.
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by mauricioc 14y ago
The :visited privacy-related leak is fixed in Firefox, at least: see http://dbaron.org/mozilla/visited-privacy and https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=147777 for sources.
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by mauricioc 14y ago
From the article: "Interestingly, we also carefully considered purchasing a communication device from PRC, and met with one of their representatives in November, nine weeks before a post on my Facebook wall introduced me to SfY (and seven w