onewland

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by onewland 15y ago
i is commonly used as the unit vector in the x-dimension (a basically meaningless term without more context). 3-dimensional vectors are often written as: 5i + 2j + 3k. Since you can assume that 2 is getting multiplied by the unit real vecto
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by onewland 15y ago
The media doesn't have such a pro-corporate message in the UK. The Economist, widely considered a conservative paper, is wholly in support of government-run socialized health care. The BBC is also a great source of news that's not as tainte
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by onewland 15y ago
Why k > 2? k > 1 is bad enough. Otherwise, recursive fib(n) would be just fine (O(~1.618^n)).
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by onewland 16y ago
Step #2 involves learning LISP. As I embark to learn elisp, am I then to re-install Linux and emacs and SLIME? Then make my way to step 2 again...
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by onewland 16y ago
I hate to derail, is that ripped from Greg Proops? If you're going to steal, he's a great source for material :)
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by onewland 16y ago
Upvoted and also interested in this.
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by onewland 16y ago
It's suburban, which means the roads are generally 40MPH or faster, and cars drive extremely aggressively there. Though a busy SF street may seem chaotic, the upper limit on speed gives drivers a lot more time to react to you and vice-versa
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by onewland 16y ago
Cycling in the same roads as Miami drivers must feel like a gamble for your life. (I cycle every day here in SF, and I used to live in Fort Lauderdale, I speak from partial experience).
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by onewland 16y ago
As thorough I'd say. I don't think they really suspected me of anything, as a white Jewish kid, but I'm not very religious and maybe my answers to their religious questions while claiming Judaism as a religion was a red flag.
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by onewland 16y ago
As another anecdote, I was questioned heavily going into Israel for the Birthright program (flying out of Miami on El Al). They actually confiscated my Nintendo DS because I didn't have a game to play for it in my bag. I also got a full phy
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by onewland 16y ago
Since you're a Heroku employee (sayeth the HN profile), I assume this is a Socratic-method type question. I don't really care to research it, though, so perhaps you would like to elaborate?
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by onewland 16y ago
I haven't had to manage a site at that traffic level before, but is there really a use case where you're immediately going from no managed hosting to needing $1500/month in managed hosting? I don't doubt these are the resources necessary fo
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by onewland 16y ago
I see one obvious potential for improvement. My word was 'treatise' and I asked for prefixes, and I got things like: hurttreatise.com but that's not a very good domain name because it's ambiguous when spoken whether both words are fully spe
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by onewland 16y ago
Do you "trust" your iPhone to auto-correct? One thing I've found helps a lot is to just allow yourself to finish a word with a mistake in it and hit space, assuming the auto-correct will get it right. It feels backwards at first, but I thin
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by onewland 16y ago
Certainly not me, but a little birdie whispered in my ear that it makes writing boring boilerplate/glue/test code a lot more tolerable.
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by onewland 16y ago
Is gently open source or could it be?
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by onewland 16y ago
One thing I'll say is, that in the ingredients columns, experienced cooks know that (uppercase) 'T' is tablespoon and (lowercase) 't' is teaspoon, but why not explain on hover (or just spell it out)? I imagine units are somewhere in your DB
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by onewland 16y ago
Pardon? Most of my experience is with Skype/iChat, but I find sound quality to be far better than POTS.
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by onewland 16y ago
NWS warning please, was not expecting giant ass pictures. Fittingly, I'm sure they would have been linked if those were male asses.
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by onewland 16y ago
If only 10% of all companies work employees too hard, that means we're achieving 210% care-i-tude! Seriously, though, a lot of companies may discourage people working longer than 9-5, which accomplishes the same goal but would be "uncaring"
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by onewland 16y ago
Sure it's 33% the size of PNGs. It's 33% the quality. Am I the only person in existence who hates the "quantization" look? edit: The strength of PNGs is not photography, but images with large blocks of solid colors; screenshots, etc. That's
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by onewland 16y ago
I worked at a company developing proprietary image processing SDKs (more like libraries) for .NET/ActiveX. We actually had very extensive QA, probably >100% code coverage (at least 1 test for most code paths) in unit and functional tes
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by onewland 16y ago
I use the wmii window manager which is based off some Plan9 principles. Surely you wouldn't bring it home to grandma, but for fast efficient use of screen space with a keyboard I think it's hard to beat.
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by onewland 16y ago
I don't like this new thing. It is not similar to the old thing, which I do like!
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by onewland 16y ago
You created an account an hour ago and this is your first comment? I hate to get too meta, but this seems pretty astroturf-y.
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by onewland 16y ago
It sounds asinine since it requires the creator of documents to make the mistake in the first place, but is there possibly a useful service to be made for detecting sensitive documents of a company in a public location (public URI location,
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by onewland 16y ago
Why isn't this automatic? Maybe it's a privacy issue, but it seems to me that some sort of neural-networky thing (excuse my AI ignorance) could automatically group these. Especially with some training from the user, I bet a program could d
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by onewland 16y ago
`More importantly, why is the teacher Facebook friends with her 10-year old students?` I'm pretty sure photos of you are by-default public. If you don't change any settings and you have friends, they can tag you in photos that show up in "P
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by onewland 16y ago
Some of these do LA->SF too since there's no good train option for that. It's retarded to take Greyhound because the Chinatown buses will go direct.
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by onewland 16y ago
Predicate = Invented has some scary results for "reliable" sites: Al Gore invented global warming (33) Jews invented the Catholics (7), Christianity (5), the legend of the Holocaust (5) Staples invented the office superstore concept (6)

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