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After plenty of clicking around after logging in I found this page: https://courses.edx.org/course_modes/choose/MITx/15.390.1x/3... Which indicates the minimum fee is a $50 contribution. It feels like ed
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Looking at the URL and having poked around the site in the past, I believe this link is a forecast model for 1:00 am PST on 12/11 (an hour from this post, and 2 or 3 hours from your post). My understanding is that much of the visualiza
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12y ago
It's pure CSS. Download it and take a look, it really is simple.
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12y ago
And at a glance there's a clear upgrade path to their commercial product, hopefully adding to a sustainable business model.
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I don't see how either of these papers solidly refute "because Nyquist" in the context of the article and sample rates applied to audio signals. They're both worth considering, though. The first[1], the more theoretical
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Does anyone remember a SKI.BAS character mode ski game for the Apple II? It simply scrolled a series of characters representing the slalom course and the player and occasionally had a jump, much like the VAX version they describe. In 7th gr
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12y ago
Steve of BMOW has done several amazing hardware projects including a homemade CPU from logic chips and CLPDs, Mac floppy emulators, and more. Rather than link them here, browse the links on his sidebar and read the descriptions of each proj
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12y ago
My browser URL bar has received a few passwords, usually just a local computer password but occasionally something more sensitive. Makes me wonder about the permissions my collection of browser addons has. I've also chucked a few passw
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12y ago
Nice to follow that with this short video illustrating how one type of locking differential works to eliminate some of the disadvantages of an open differential. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCxqUJCZGNU
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12y ago
Don't miss the video of it in operation. http://www.bonhams.com/video/17458/
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Agreed, Monty's articles and videos are phenomenally educational and well worth the watch.
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12y ago
Aha, not unlike the retro-encabulator: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXJKdh1KZ0w
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12y ago
Interesting project and some other interesting posts on his blog. MATLAB code at: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0BwS1t9oxSE-6N2xoQnNE... I haven't tried it in Octave yet. Pre-Sochi prediciton post on Reddit:
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12y ago
A 2 day burn-in is appropriate, mining for the company instead of the customer or on the test-net most certainly is not.
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12y ago
I'm glad I read this despite the link title, which is appropriately based on the article's sub-title (The title, "Choose Your Character", is even less descriptive). The article hits on some of the startup and indie gamed
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12y ago
The damaged S1 cooling panel lends it an authentic, lived in, this thing is here to stay look. http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/station/crew-27/h... https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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12y ago
I used to feel this way but I've come to the opposite conclusion. Most homes have a rarely updated, always on computer connected to the public internet with increasing numbers of known vulnerabilities.
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12y ago
It stands for Capture The Flag, in these exercises it usually means completing a series of reverse engineering scenarios exploiting vulnerabilities in a simulated environment or possibly obtaining and holding root access to a host while ot
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There is no 'DMCA institution', further issues are handled in US courts assuming that the theme marketplace is operating under US jurisdiction. Read through the DMCA FAQ at http://www.chillingeffects.org/dmca512&#x
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12y ago
Federal government will say it's a local issue, talk to SPD. SPD will eventually cite confidentiality agreements with Aruba Networks. When pressed, one of them will provide outdated and/or incomplete data citing jurisdictional bou
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There is! https://twitter.com/parliamentedits Nothing tweeted yet except mention of the US Congress one, corresponding accounts also for Canada and Sweden and a mention of IFTTT and code at https://github.com
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12y ago
Netflix has an open offer to move CDN servers deep into provider networks [1] to avoid peering congestion. This would put most of the Netflix traffic at the bottom right of Verizon's infographic. Why hasn't Verizon accepted this o
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12y ago
I really like Python but I think there's nothing wrong with continuing to learn Ruby and Rails. Be sure to learn both Ruby the language and Rails the framework, there's more to Ruby than Rails. You'll likely also want to at l
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12y ago
http://moz.com/ is a fairly authoritative source on good SEO techniques. They address keyword stuffing in a 'common myths' article [1] that also happens to address the metatag myth. Matt Cutts, Google's searc
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12y ago
I think they simply start different divisions on different days, at least according to the sailing instructions [1] There are a variety of handicapping systems. This race uses TPYC ratings determined by US Sailing [2] The TPYC rating uses
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12y ago
I thought it was fairly clear that this was not a DMCA takedown but part of an automated process by Soundcloud, similar to YouTube's Content ID [1], that attempts to identify copyrighted content and preemptively block it rather than wa
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12y ago
I suspect some implementation issues rather than a GFY attitude, it doesn't work on FF or Chrome on OSX 10.9. Safari works though.
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The choices offered gave away too much, I was able to pick out languages I've never spent any time looking at, much less coding, from the choices offered. Make me choose from the whole list of 20 or more instead of 3 or 4 each time and
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Worth a mention of xkcd's color survey [1] results [2] with two different shades of cerulean. [1] http://blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/color-survey-results/ [2] http://xkcd.com/color/
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The catalog isn't there yet. I'm getting about a 50% hit rate on assorted genres from a variety of artists that I don't feel are particularly obscure, stuff that Pandora plays for me and Spotifiy has in their catalog. Hopeful
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