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by mertd 14y ago
The point is that your side project needs to be more interesting than whatever the browser can offer, so you don't even think about opening the browser in the first place.
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by mertd 14y ago
Python god takes the kitten as a sacrifice for the unnecessary list of indexes you created :). range(len(some_list)) is a convoluted way iterating over the elements of a list. What you are doing is creating a new list with elements [0,.
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by mertd 14y ago
Most of the code is a little verbose for Python. For example make() function could simply be: return [random.randint(1,10000) for x in range(4)] Also remember that a little kitten dies every time you write a for loop as follows:
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by mertd 14y ago
I think the portion of gasoline tax for road maintenance amounts to less than a cent per mile, while the frequently quoted cost for road maintenance is 5-6c per mile per car. Thus it is already being funded from other sources.
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by mertd 14y ago
Model S isn't that expensive, if you factor in the long term costs. Quoting from ( http://teslarumors.com/USA-Residental-Energy-Cost-2011-by-St... ): Based on a price of $3.75 for gasoline, a 15 mpg vehicle will incur a cost of 25 cen
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by mertd 14y ago
hsmyers is referring to the first sentence in the linked pdf. Parallel machines are hard to program, and we should make them even harder – to keep the riff-raff off them. — Gary Montry
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by mertd 14y ago
You don't need to "hack" Android to install any app from any source you want. Same goes for Linux distros including Ubuntu. Package managers are not App-store type walled gardens.
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by mertd 14y ago
And you can load any .apk you want on non-crippled versions. So where is the wall?
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by mertd 14y ago
- First example is a bit unfair to vanilla python. A better implementation would be the following, which is two times faster (than the given vanilla example): from itertools import izip X = xrange(10000000) Y = xrange(10000000)
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by mertd 14y ago
Where is the wall? It is an open source project.
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by mertd 14y ago
Spot on. It is also written in the image.
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by mertd 14y ago
How do you interact with software? With keys/buttons. Think of power button as another key. Microsoft conditioned all of us to never ever touch that power button, but it is all right now. I promise.
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by mertd 14y ago
> people who really hate Google I don't think they hate it. They are just incompetent and desperate for reducing deficit. They see that Google has a lot of money and scheme to take some it.
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by mertd 14y ago
The output quality depends on the panel type. If it is IPS like these, then viewing angle doesn't matter but some other panels look awful even from a slight side angle.
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by mertd 14y ago
Steam yes, but games no. I had to jump through several non trivial hoops to get some games running on my 64bit Arch. Even TF2 kept crashing with a cryptic error until I found the solution on some forum post.
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by mertd 14y ago
What do you think about Hacker News? :)
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by mertd 14y ago
While you are depressed, I am amazed by the quantum leap we made. Up to two centuries ago travel time had been essentially the same for millenia, provided that you could afford a horse. Now I can go to any major city in the world within tw
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by mertd 14y ago
Some lox recipes include sugar: http://www.instructables.com/id/Homemade-Lox-at-14-the-Cost/
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by mertd 14y ago
A lot of people actually.
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by mertd 14y ago
In 2020, they will probably be able to grab some weed from the family pantry. On a different note, I am curious to see how economy and society will shape up once most low entry barrier jobs are automated.
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by mertd 14y ago
Minus the keyboard :). Add that and the price is in line with the MBA. Surface Pro is still the better deal in my opinion, because of the newer CPU and better screen.
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by mertd 14y ago
It has an i5, pretty good screen, USB 3 and the light form factor. Which half is missing from the equation?
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by mertd 14y ago
Is the proper term subterranean or submartian in this case?
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by mertd 14y ago
I'm having trouble parsing the SO axis as well. Python (145K tags) and PHP (300K tags) are right next to each other around 90. R (19K tags) and Delphi (17K tags) are just slightly below around 80.
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by mertd 14y ago
As someone slightly colorblind, it is almost impossible for me to distinguish Firefox and Chrome. With four things to show, even grayscale would have worked. Here is the interactive map. Hover over countries to see percentages: http://gs
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by mertd 14y ago
I was more fascinated by the original ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCw16_Yxid0 ). Interesting part starts at 45s.
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by mertd 14y ago
That is the problem. It can be the same exact product just a different randomly selected subset of people (or even same people who slept better last night) and you could get wildly different feedback. Reading the book, I thought there was
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by mertd 14y ago
Yes you can limit the problem until we can get something useful out of the other end but it is very very hard. Here is one of the latest works on the topic: "Accidental pinhole and pinspeck cameras: revealing the scene outside the picture"
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by mertd 14y ago
Second option is rather unlikely, given how many unknowns you would be solving against (geometry of the seen, geometry of the not seen, incident light sources, camera response curve etc) from comparatively very little data (a continuous sig
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by mertd 14y ago
This is truly a great effort. At the same time I am frustrated by the choice of the medium. We are well past the age of disseminating information through print. I would love to "hear" the concepts described. Why not make an interactive w

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