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by nzmsv 16y ago
If I were writing a blog engine right now, I think I'd do something different: make the post itself static, and pull in any dynamic content via AJAX. That way old browsers still get a readable compatible page (just don't load any fancy stuf
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Exactly. Not to mention 'enthusiests' in the very first sentence, and links to content that aren't actually links. Why would I want to type not only my contact info, but my life story into a site that looks like a sign-up form for a spam li
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by nzmsv 16y ago
Actually, I'm not seeing anything about presenting this system as their own work. The book chapter linked off the top post on Habr talks about testing new image processing algorithms on the PERICOLOR hardware. The translation of the UI was
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by nzmsv 16y ago
Last time this got posted there was some interesting discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1053753
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by nzmsv 16y ago
There's a version for modern Unices: http://fsv.sourceforge.net/ Also, this gets posted on HN quite regularly :)
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I think the first question to ask is, what is the definition of a multicore processor? Is it something like the current crop of cache-coherent designs? There are concerns about scaling this design to lots of cores. Or is it something like a
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by nzmsv 16y ago
Don't feel bad - this idea is pretty old. A program called "Desktop Toys" from the Win95 era comes to mind, and there are probably more examples.
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Hitchhiking Goes High Tech With Car2gether(wired.com)
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by nzmsv 16y ago
This is an interesting question. The guideline I have heard over and over is 2L/day. I wondered what this is based on. Wikipedia says the 2L/day guideline comes from the EPA, and the corresponding British guideline is 1.8L/day. Following th
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by nzmsv 16y ago
Speaking of annoying ads, this is the page that helped me get rid of the Meebo bar on Slate: http://www.chizang.net/alex/blog/2010/08/19/block-meebo-bar/
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by nzmsv 16y ago
This is effectively a vector image. It can fit any window without losing quality. Something like this could also be done with an actual vector image (and there should eventually be good SVG support in all browsers), but I think CSS might gi
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I think everyone agrees that coming up with ideas is pretty easy (not to mention fun). Personally though, as soon as I do a bit more thinking about any idea, I realize how much work it is to make the idea a reality. Some of this work makes
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by nzmsv 16y ago
Not a ban, but an attempt to reduce driving by changing regulations. It's not necessarily bad, it's just that there will be unforeseen consequences, and it's nowhere near as straightforward as "raise the price of parking -> driving decr
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by nzmsv 16y ago
Trying to make the world better by banning things often has the opposite of the intended effect. Look at how well prohibition worked out, time after time, in various places around the world. To see a possible outcome of restricting the avai
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by nzmsv 16y ago
This isn't "seeing value". It's cheating the system by bending the rules. Ford does this today with the Transit: they install a cheap back seat in Europe, ship the cars to the States, and convert them back to cargo in a garage next to the d
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by nzmsv 16y ago
This is an interesting hack. I think most of us hold an implicit assumption that privacy is always good. So many hackers would never even consider doing something like that. I probably wouldn't. But this outcome shows that it pays to questi
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by nzmsv 16y ago
There's a way to fix the spam issue. In the source Gmail account, instead of activating forwarding the normal way, create a filter that will match everything (To: account@gmail.com), and make it forward and not mark as spam.
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by nzmsv 16y ago
Computer Modern is ugly? I guess there's no debating taste. I find very readable and quite good looking. It does tend to look much better on paper than on-screen though, because of the thin lines, and I agree that the pairing with Times is
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by nzmsv 16y ago
There's a Labs extension that can undo a send operation if you can click fast enough. But I agree, this would be a very nice feature to have.
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I know this has been requested thousands of times in every forum on the web, but if someone from Google is listening, could you add a switch to stop automatically adding contacts?
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by nzmsv 16y ago
NASDAQ has some sample data here: ftp://emi.nasdaq.com/ITCH/ Their website also has a description of the format: http://www.nasdaqtrader.com/content/technicalSupport/specifi...
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by nzmsv 16y ago
When I was growing up, my parents wanted me to be a normal kid. This means I was made to play outside a lot. A couple of my friends' parents were programmers, so they had computers at home. They could write programs in BASIC and Pascal and
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I was trying to decide between a Kindle DX and an iPad for reading PDFs. Ended up going with Kindle, and I'm loving it so far. The page turn delay has been much criticized, but it's actually faster than the older eink readers, even with the
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by nzmsv 16y ago
I think this might be an argument for grants for women :) Also, not everyone is a go-getter extrovert.
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If you take a look at @fringley's Twitter page, there's a comment from Diana Clarke, employee of FreshBooks. It says, I wonder if Dr. Browne, Dr. Hutt, Dr. Ruiz still want to give you a reference. Don't worry, I'll ask for you (@fring
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by nzmsv 16y ago
In a way, the word "journalist" is similar to "hacker" - used with pride by members of the profession, and mostly with negative connotations by outsiders.
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Coca-Cola seems to be doing fine though.
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The kernel is already evolving constantly, and a major version upgrade has to be thoroughly tested before rolling it out on a production system. A fork won't be that different - if Linus switches the license tomorrow, most kernel devs will
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That's the thing. My rational self says this is a nice design. But the first impression is "domain parking page". It might just be too high pressure, buy now, etc. Might also be the numbers in the name. And then there's the "Breaking news"
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It's still a mandatory class, but most people treat it as another mandatory class, so the majority of people you'll meet don't speak a foreign language well. However, learning English has been seen as useful for career advancement, and many

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