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by mmcnickle 14y ago
Backgammon sits nicely in-between chess and poker; Players have perfect information, but there is well-defined element of chance in it. Dan Harrington ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Harrington ) famously excels in all three games (chess
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by mmcnickle 14y ago
[google] does this go to http//google.com or http://wikipedia.com/Google ? URLs are as expressive as they need to avoid these namespacing issues. A custom system like yours is going to run up against naming collisions very quickly.
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I'm pretty sure the combination is done blind by an independent research group too.
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They'd need to be kept secret, so other opponents couldn't easily see each others' game screens. It doesn't make much difference in chess, but in the word game, seeing other people's letters is cheating. It would complicate the sharing a li
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This is cool, though it should be possible to create a cross-device URL for people who don't want to register. For example in chess, you'd generate two URLs, one for you and one for your opponent. http://breakbase.com/<game_id&#62
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Am I the only one who found the whole thing extremely patronising? "A homeless man who could teach me something, who would've thought. I went to MIT!"
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That couldn't be any further from my experience in dealing with Rackspace London. Have always found them very helpful and their technical knowledge is the best I've seen.
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I was feeling sympathetic with the author regarding the raise until I realised he was asking for it a few weeks after joining. I think his boss was right, he accepted the salary when he joined; if he didn't like it he should have negotiated
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by mmcnickle 14y ago
You can also rebind these to any key combination you like. Sublime Text 2 is great, and they have a free (unlimited) demo; no excuse to not try it out. Well worth the money for me.
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by mmcnickle 14y ago
"Flame could only have been developed with the backing of a wealthy nation-state" Further to other people's comments here; Has anyone seen an estimated cost to produce something like Flame or Stuxnet?
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I agree with sentiment of the author, and believe schools have sidelined physical learning to a frightening level. But this test is a comprehension test. If you look at the passage, then the question, you can clearly see what is being exami
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by mmcnickle 14y ago
There was a small room like this at my university. It was fitted with a "panic" button, because if anything happened you in there, no one could hear you shouting.
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>>> You're at a party talking to an attractive member of the opposite sex. You're at a party talking to a member of the attractive sex. A small change to make. I feel a bit conflicted suggesting a change to be inclusive of gays
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Class II (double insulated) appliances don't require an conducting earth pin. It's only needed at all to open the shutters that cover the live/neutral holes in the socket. >>> That thing is flimsy, requires manual twiddling Have
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by mmcnickle 14y ago
I've seen these in a few airports now in the UK. They seem to be replacing the "What to do at the security area" videos. I think it's a step in the wrong direction. You lose the ability to display diagrams/symbols and understand the informa
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Crockford on omitting comments: https://plus.google.com/118095276221607585885/posts/RK8qyGVa...
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Imagine someone explaining a new feature in their web framework while all the time taking time out to explain the concept of arrays, dictionaries, list comprehensions, URL routing, MVC etc. This may be a great idea for a book aimed at begin
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by mmcnickle 14y ago
Yeah, cracked.com actually treat their lists as editorial content -- "Articles are workshopped, researched, written and edited."[1] Needless to say, they don't take kindly to people aggregating their content on other sites. [1] http://www.c
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I found my ability to perform well at certain board games (even those previously unknown to me) to improve after spending some effort studying chess. I attribute this to the improved ability to analyse abstract positions, to construct an in
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by mmcnickle 14y ago
I've personally seen astronomers use red perspex covers for their laptops/phones as a way of preserving their night vision in the field. I imagine that there could be some edge cases where contrast could be low etc. But it's a cheap solutio
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Clever. I wonder if they have a tradition of having exploit easter eggs like this?
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After building a new machine for work this month, I was looking for a new distro to install due to the hassle I had with unity before (11.04 with 2 monitors -- it wouldn't even place windows on the second screen). Out of loyality (ubuntu us
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by mmcnickle 15y ago
It's not in the URL dispatcher in Django, but the class based views have separate methods that are called depending on the HTTP verb such as get(), post() etc. It was a problem with the older function based views, and there was a lot of boi
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by mmcnickle 15y ago
The article says the turbines are 30kW, not 300kW.
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Looks great. It seems to have the coarse level of detail that's great for my simple sales process. Anything more is just noise for me. Not a deal-breaker, but does it support other currencies, namely GBP(£)?
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The one thing I would tell people implementing an HTTP API; create a non-trivial sample application using the API. The benefits of this are many: 1) You will create a client library for your API in at least one language. You can release thi