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by mayoff 13y ago
I agree about the lottery system idea. Blizzard has exactly the same problem with BlizzCon tickets every year. I wonder if they don't use a lottery because of some random jurisdiction's gambling laws.
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by mayoff 13y ago
Sold out in three minutes.
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by mayoff 14y ago
Look at the video after he's taken the pieces out of the frame and reassembled them on the table—say, at 1m20s ( http://youtu.be/_LY7mf49l5k?t=1m20s or screen shot here: http://imgur.com/GgxONLV ). He's kept the two reassembled halves se
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by mayoff 14y ago
Lou Montulli gave us the solution years ago. Perl, Python<blink>,</blink> and Ruby.
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by mayoff 14y ago
The Deites & Demigods preview includes the table of contents, which makes no mention of Cthulhu or Melniboné.
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by mayoff 14y ago
It wasn't clearly explained in the blog post, but that .lldbinit command should be all on one line. It creates a new command, ”rd”, that can be used in two ways. Typing “rd” by itself does “po [[UIApp keyWindow] recursiveDescription]”, so
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by mayoff 14y ago
He probably used Hopper, which he has tweeted about. http://www.hopperapp.com/
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by mayoff 14y ago
Many domains, from gas stations to stock markets, require sub-penny pricing.
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by mayoff 14y ago
You can get this effect everywhere by turning off LCD font smoothing in System Preferences > General. Personally, I don't like the color fringing of subpixel rendering so I keep it turned off. Most apps require restarting before they
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by mayoff 14y ago
A Bloom filter is subject to false positives. A trie isn't.
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by mayoff 14y ago
This would be a lot more interesting if it used the front-facing camera to generate the reflection. But that would use far too much power.
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by mayoff 14y ago
Good point. Then it's ok to be surprised. This is a non-obvious risk of shared hosting.
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by mayoff 14y ago
The warrant was (according to riseup) related to the recent rash of bomb threats against the University of Pittsburgh. https://www.google.com/search?q=university+pittsburgh+bomb+t...
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by mayoff 14y ago
The FBI should absolutely execute a seizure warrant against those companies, if doing so is effective, but: - Those companies probably have too many servers and too much data to make seizing all of it productive. - Those companies would be
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by mayoff 14y ago
This seems like a no-brainer to me. The FBI has the duty to find the Pitt bomb threatener. Perhaps Mixmaster truly does make the email untraceable, but it's the FBI's duty to try tracing it - not to take the Mixmaster claims as fact. If t
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by mayoff 15y ago
You can buy preferential treatment: If you set a higher price for your buy order, then you are preferred over every lower-priced buy order. If you select a participant at random, you are encouraging each trader to place many orders (at the
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by mayoff 15y ago
After the stink dcurtis raised about svbtle vs. obtvse, it seems inconsistent to me that he's opposed to legal protection for novel design ideas.
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by mayoff 15y ago
You said “I think the only interesting point in the author's piece is the point that English text is more difficult to read when it's randomly coloured.” Åkesson didn't talk about random colors. His sample text isn't randomly colored. I
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by mayoff 15y ago
It doesn't have to be iPad 3. It could be iPad 2S.
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by mayoff 15y ago
Perhaps they choose @[ for arrays because it requires less lookahead than figuring out whether @{ is the start of a dictionary or an array.
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by mayoff 15y ago
As a 41 year old parent of a 16-month old, I can say that some of us are still humans with a sense of humor.
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by mayoff 15y ago
I was going to complain that I could find no mention of TameJS (from which the await and defer keywords/features clearly originated). Then I noticed that the IcedCoffeeScript author is also the author of TameJS.
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by mayoff 15y ago
I think that was the "compiler for a substantial subset of Pascal using Fortran" that they originally planned to translate to Pascal after implementing it in Fortran.
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by mayoff 15y ago
Another approach: @interface NSDictionary (objectForKeyList) - (id)objectForKeyList:(id)key, ...; @end @implementation NSDictionary (objectForKeyList) - (id)objectForKeyList:(id)key, ... { id object = sel
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by mayoff 15y ago
Option (3): require both braces and indentation, with a syntax error when they don't match.
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by mayoff 15y ago
The answer, with a diagram, can be found here: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/SpiderandFlyProblem.html
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by mayoff 15y ago
I set up the demos here: http://qwan.org/scroller/demo/ (Thank you, GitHub Pages.)
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by mayoff 15y ago
Radix-exchange sort: sort = (begin, end, bit) -> i = begin j = end mask = 1 << bit while i < j while i < j and !(VA.get(i) & mask) ++i while i < j and (VA.get(j - 1) &
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by mayoff 15y ago
I don't think you can change the default, but you can use + to force the word to be present in the result pages: +linux +notebook +basketball
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Peter Norvig on a 45-year-old article about a checkers-playing program(blogs.scientificamerican.com)
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