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by maweaver 16y ago
Well you could complete the quote for fairness: "I just called people advocating freespeech, nutjobs - I threw up in my mouth a little."
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by maweaver 16y ago
For those in the US wanting to follow this advice, FEMA has an online map showing flood hazard zones at http://msc.fema.gov/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/info?storeId=1...
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by maweaver 16y ago
> It's bad enough that passing a small fn (1 line of code in a decent language), requires a separate class and 20 lines of code in Java. No need to exaggerate, it's only a few extra lines functionTakingCallback(new Callback() {
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by maweaver 16y ago
In my experience most traffic jams are caused by bad merging, not lack of capacity. A few years ago I regularly drove a stretch of road that went from 2 lanes to 3 for a few miles and then back again, without gaining a significant amount o
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by maweaver 16y ago
> But they also require a minimum of a two month term, and I can't find any indication on the site that they let you pay off the loan early to avoid additional interest accrual. This is the most damning part, IMO. I can understand the
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by maweaver 16y ago
A disingenuous comparison; the blurriness on the image on the right isn't from the scaling, it was blurry to start with. Here is the decoded source image: http://imgur.com/2jGWJ
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by maweaver 16y ago
I'd rather see us become licensed professionals, like CPAs, with a large professional organization (like the AICPA) to lobby for us on issues like software patents, etc.
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by maweaver 16y ago
True, but if you have command line ssh access you could also use Emacs' Tramp Mode to transparently edit the files using your local editor.
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by maweaver 16y ago
Wouldn't something like float temp_out = 0.0f; for (j = 0;j<5;j++) temp_out += filter[j] * in[i+j]; out[i] = temp_out; solve the performance issue, and allow for out = in? (which I would think would be desirab
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by maweaver 17y ago
My favorite example of this is Katrina. It wasn't a hugely powerful storm like say Andrew (it was only a Category 3 at landfall), it just happened to hit at exactly the wrong spot. People have been talking about this happening since befor
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by maweaver 17y ago
The linked bug report lists it as fixed in Flash Player 10 - 10_1_51_66, so that sounds right.
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by maweaver 17y ago
One interesting source of data is www.spoj.pl, since they keep records of the runtime of submissions to their site. For example, take a look at the solutions to PRIME 1; the task is to generate a list of prime numbers: http://www.spoj.pl/r
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by maweaver 17y ago
Do you have examples of big companies abandoning debts like that? The opposite actually comes to my mind: large companies being destroyed by their inability to get rid of underwater debts (putting aside big banks' recent problems, I'm thin
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by maweaver 17y ago
I like the fakeoffice.org idea, but purposefully taking the quote out of context and turning "we're not seeing any inclination that Zoho or Google or Zimbra or any other of those offering fake Office capabilities can replace [Microsoft Offi
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by maweaver 17y ago
for i=1 to 5 print finger[i] for(i in [1..5]) print finger[i] You're using an inclusive upper range here. Not that that's necessarily wrong, but it isn't standard for the reason Dijkstra mentioned (how many fingers do I have? 5 - 1 = 4.
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by maweaver 17y ago
Relevant quote from the article: 'A second-year was "quite convinced" that zero was odd, on the basis that "it is the first number you count"'
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by maweaver 17y ago
You're right in that it's not mandatory, but the fact that they keep saying it can be easily removed "for the time being" does make me a little suspicious. "you can disable the extension "Multisearch" in Tools -> Addons for the time bei
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by maweaver 17y ago
I've also seen a lot of "contract for hire" jobs at larger companies that are short (3-6 month) contracts, with an understanding that they are evaluating whether to hire you full-time at the end of the contract. If not, you still got some
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by maweaver 17y ago
I don't block ads because I like sites being free, and I want to do my small part to help keep them that way (and to encourage others to put out free content). So I guess you could call it ethics, but it's the self-serving sort.
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by maweaver 17y ago
I didn't realize people thought it was an acceptable answer, I just thought it was something people said afterwards (as in, "Can you believe he asked me about the fourth argument to the foo function? In real life I'd have just Googled it")
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by maweaver 17y ago
What's interesting to me is the comments. I worked in a corporate environment that seemed to me at the time to be overly-paranoid about open source (any use of open source software had to be run past a legal team). After seeing people arg
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by maweaver 18y ago
I can confirm that the article has step-by-step instructions for enabling the run command if you really need it, as well as the global key combination to open the dialog.