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by mfukar 16y ago
The problem statement says 'ignore friction'. Doesn't that imply the ball's initial energy (when thrown, presumably, but it doesn't matter) is conserved? How, then, will it travel a finite distance, since we are not told of any obstacles?
602.
by mfukar 16y ago
I felt both amused and disturbed when I realized those people might some day be able to have their finger on a big red button..
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by mfukar 16y ago
No, that shows that the optimizer work takes a non-trivial amount of time. Optimizations (how often?) happen after parsing, type-checking and constructing the intermediate representation.
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IEA: last year's inaction on climate goals cost us $1 trillion(arstechnica.com)
1 points by mfukar 16y ago|0 comments
605.
Why don't Americans want broadband?(arstechnica.com)
6 points by mfukar 16y ago|0 comments
606.
by mfukar 16y ago
You're probably right; where many see fertile soil for an entertaining conspiracy theory, there may be as little as human forgetfulness. The interesting part is the implications of such omissions, and not the reasons behind them.
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by mfukar 16y ago
I've been searching for an interview with Jimmy Page, where he mentioned this and it's the first I've heard of it, but to no avail. Hence, 'anecdotal'. If I find it, I'll post it here.
608.
by mfukar 16y ago
I doubt it. Not only phones get increasingly powerful, but the core is also evolving, transitioning to IP and LTE being just around the corner; I believe pilot deployments have already started in the US and Japan.
609.
by mfukar 16y ago
Just as an anecdotal piece of info: most musicians accept that the human brain can keep track of eleven notes. Beyond that, you can change the scale progression and the transition will be (relatively) smooth to the human ear.
610.
by mfukar 16y ago
Possibly because there's a subtle but definite difference between an experiment carried out on 51 subjects from which 1 stopped before 300V and one on 50 subjects from which nobody stopped before 300V. I'm not saying that's what happened, b
611.
by mfukar 16y ago
You can vote for both homeschooled and something else.
612.
by mfukar 16y ago
That's how I read it too. Wishful thinking, I suppose. :(
613.
Preserving science: what data do we keep? What do we discard?(arstechnica.com)
2 points by mfukar 16y ago|0 comments
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by mfukar 16y ago
Right. Users never do that!
615.
by mfukar 16y ago
There's also a huge area which everyone's discounting: research. In it, Google is a beast with some major contributions and hundreds of publications, while Facebook doesn't even exist.
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Myanmar cut off the Internet ahead of elections(net-security.org)
1 points by mfukar 16y ago|0 comments
617.
by mfukar 16y ago
You're not implying that nobody uses F# or IronPython, right? That aside, I'm not in a position to know their motivation behind it, I can only say it's a good move for the FOSS community.
618.
by mfukar 16y ago
I am not "anti-Microsoft". I am just old enough. I say it here, it comes out there. :-)
619.
by mfukar 16y ago
rbanffy is anti-Microsoft, and doesn't waste a second in making it known. It's no use trying to reason or discuss with him about this - others have tried.
620.
by mfukar 16y ago
First IronPython & IronRuby ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1833772 ) and now this. I have to say, Microsoft is (or seems to be, depending on your philosophical disposition) increasingly embracing FOSS, and that's a very good mov
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CYBER EUROPE 2010 Exercise has started(enisa.europa.eu)
1 points by mfukar 16y ago|0 comments
622.
by mfukar 16y ago
If politicians are people's representatives, then as people, we're getting increasingly more stupid.
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by mfukar 16y ago
My worst issue with Gmail at the moment is that I have a label for a mailing list with a good amount of traffic (at least 700 emails a day) and searching, browsing through pages and deleting emails from it takes anywhere from 3 seconds to 3
624.
Attackers Now Using Honeypots to Trap Researchers(threatpost.com)
52 points by mfukar 16y ago|7 comments
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Telescope - awesome testing framework for Lua(telescope.luaforge.net)
3 points by mfukar 16y ago|1 comments
626.
by mfukar 16y ago
That seems an awfully passive and uninspiring attitude, but I can understand not aiming for the top. It's hard to get there, I get it. I'm curious, however, if you're not going for being the Google/Bing/etc. killer, where do you aim? Being
627.
by mfukar 16y ago
The hypothetical universe in which 'code' is interchangeable with 'natural language' does not concern me because, as explained, we don't live in it. Or maybe not just yet.
628.
by mfukar 16y ago
No, of course not. I did not mean to imply that.
629.
by mfukar 16y ago
In certain companies, bonuses are dependent on three factors: company success, team success, and individual success, based on targets agreed upon at a certain point in time. To me, that seems a lot more fair than implicitly believing all me
630.
by mfukar 16y ago
What's your take on the multitude of software that you buy together with all the README files, Word or PDF documents describing how to use the software, what does it do, and all that jazz? Do we (humans) get to view all that code and see wh

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