merloen

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The way forward(sealedabstract.com)
4 points by merloen 14y ago|0 comments
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by merloen 15y ago
Why on earth is the comment by Pooter dead?
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by merloen 15y ago
Those are the old terms.
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by merloen 15y ago
Wasn't there a military program for dropping metal rods from space? Does this sound at all familiar to anyone?
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by merloen 15y ago
I only meant "examine" as in "observe", "look at", "listen to", as opposed to "use", "run" or "execute". I never meant to make the universe seem cold or cruel. Sorry about that.
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by merloen 15y ago
Code review takes too much time. You can take a painting that took 100 hours to make, and start delivering useful criticism after a minute or so. Giving useful feedback on a programming project that took 100 hours will take much, much longe
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by merloen 15y ago
There are so much more possibilities than just "show vote counts" and "hide vote counts": different sort orders based on more than just votes, collapsing threads, marking people as friends, or adding them to a kill-file. Giving votes differ
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by merloen 15y ago
Well, I think this reaction to the Apple location issue show a lack of perspective. Apple stores the location of nearby cell towers and access points on your phone. Cell phone providers store your actual location for a period of many months
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by merloen 15y ago
Interesting, but I'm skeptical. I studied translation, and noticed to my surprise that the foreign language part of translating is fairly easy, unless it's highly technical, or contains dialect or slang. The hard part was the command of my
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by merloen 15y ago
You need to make it expensive (in time or money) to run for office. Otherwise everybody would simply vote for themselves. Or people would vote for the special interest candidate of their pet special interest, and mainstream parties would va
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by merloen 15y ago
I cannot parse this title at all. How about "Why it matters where you place buttons that call for action."
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by merloen 15y ago
This is my left eye: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/381493/photo.jpg I say "green" when people ask me, and they're greenish, but there must be a better name. Anyway, I sympathize with people who don't know their eye color. Isn't there a webservi
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by merloen 15y ago
These effects work for all industries, not just widget factories. Microsoft's highly paid engineers profit too. And twice the number of widgets at half the profit - how is that a good deal for factory owners? Finally, Portugal is a country
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by merloen 15y ago
To clarify: that only goes for the inflation beyond the expected inflation. The expected inflation is priced into the interest rates. The current level of inflation of the dollar does not amount to a tax on savers.
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by merloen 15y ago
Any other examples of bugs that you can search for?
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by merloen 15y ago
That's wrong. There is very little fructose in vegetable juice. And the liver does not convert fructose into glucose, but in a whole bunch of unhealthy chemicals, including LDL.
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by merloen 15y ago
Listen to the presentation - he mentions glucose specifically, and explains why he thinks it's a toxin, as opposed to glucose, which he calls the fuel of life. He also mentions that while eating a ton of glucose may make you obese, eating f
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by merloen 15y ago
Stack-based languages like forth have a SOV (postfix) order. An interesting property of postfix languages is that the order of evaluation of functions is identical to the order of the function names in the source code: Functional (prefix, C
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by merloen 15y ago
Try installing imagemagick on a not-too-fast computer - it'll take hours.
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by merloen 15y ago
I interpreted that last video more as a status game, actually. The guy, immaculately dressed with a posh british accent, creates a status differential by talking fast and flawless, by touching her a lot. This makes it very unappealing for h
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by merloen 16y ago
Those are unique per year, so the phrase "a simple but potentially" is counted many times. There are about 600 million google 4-grams, slightly more than there are 4-character ascii strings. Summing up, a meaningful 4-word phrase, is, in th
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by merloen 16y ago
In my 25M word corpus, "this is fun" occurs 23 times. There are only 94,000 trigrams that occur more frequently. Therefore, you should be pessimistic, and consider the password "this is fun" less safe than passwords in the shape [a-zA-Z]{3}
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Ideas, Execution, and Talking to Customers(sealedabstract.com)
2 points by merloen 16y ago|1 comments
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Time vs money as a freelancer(ryanwaggoner.com)
7 points by merloen 16y ago|0 comments