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by oniTony 16y ago
Interestingly enough, in curriculums that start out with functional languages (e.g. Scheme) students have little trouble with recursion... and then consider iterative loops to be "hard".
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by oniTony 16y ago
Most social networks are in various shades of blue. http://www.quora.com/Why-are-most-social-networking-sites-bl...
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by oniTony 16y ago
Yup, just like chatroulette Message received from 858-XXX-XXXX at Sun Apr 10 2011 21:59:46 GMT+0000 (UTC) What nonsense do you speak of? The humanity! Reply received from 724-XXX-XXXX at Sun Apr 10 2011 22:28:29 GMT+0000 (UTC
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by oniTony 16y ago
The secure way would be to upload an encrypted copy of the harddrive, bring across wiped hardware, and re-download the contents after clearing the boarder. FedEx packages go through customs, encrypted internet data does not. That is to say
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by oniTony 16y ago
Dropping off a physical press kit that is unique and design~y enough might get some press coverage... about the kit itself.
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by oniTony 16y ago
That's why there were experiments with different wording of the problems. All of the logical setups and solutions are identical (when expressed in abstract P/Q, true/false), but some problem domains (took a plane) is a lot more difficult fo
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by oniTony 16y ago
But wouldn't a Ph.D., as in reading research papers and arriving at some unique new insight, be closer to "self-taught" than "taught existing knowledge from someone's lecture"?
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by oniTony 16y ago
Evercookie is the herpes of user tracking. Wear protection (don't run JavaScript from untrusted websites). Still, there are some interesting ideas for places to hide trackers. I wonder which parts actually survive (as wiki suggests that som
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by oniTony 16y ago
To be even more precise, Canadian SkypeIn numbers are not available in Canada. I've certainly had a US number that worked in Canada (makes sense for receiving calls from America).
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by oniTony 16y ago
Wait, so use of partial downloads (say reading from a stream buffer) is legally different than the same use of a full download? (If my connection is fast enough for the second song to _fully_ buffer before the first one finishes playing, do
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by oniTony 16y ago
Oh neat, this is kind of like 4sq, but without opt-in and happening ~200 times per day (also, no badges).
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by oniTony 16y ago
VC monies from Fred Wilson and co. http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2011/03/kik.html
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by oniTony 16y ago
Sorry, I meant it as "or". I guess I should have used || instead of /
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by oniTony 16y ago
On the plus side, this (staying with IPv4 behind NAT behind NAT...) will further instil the idea that an IP address is not a person. As soon as governments/corporations loose the ability to track/sue individual people, they'll be all over I
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by oniTony 16y ago
Even distribution, instead of bell-curves around popular/bias numbers.
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by oniTony 16y ago
I was going to pick 4, but then realized that 4 has been my default "random" number, ever since http://xkcd.com/221/
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by oniTony 16y ago
There are also laundry (Facebook), massages (Google), mini-day spas (Microsoft; maybe? private to employees but not clear on pricing), etc. Haircuts are very much in theme with "work and live on-campus" approach.
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by oniTony 16y ago
From another HN discussion a while back: "entry level", as in starting position at a company is not the same as "entry level" as in first job ever. Yes, the article mentions recent grads, but I bet most of those who end up hired already hav
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by oniTony 16y ago
Late night at the library a friend notices f.lux in action... "why are your colours so messed up?" "no, it's supposed to be this way at night. Check this out" disable f.lux; the bright flash starts burning our retinas "woah"
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by oniTony 16y ago
From the linked page: > However, even though booking ploys might be a breach of contract and against airline rules, the illegality of such endeavours has been disputed by legal experts "airline rules" and illegality are quite different.
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by oniTony 16y ago
If the QR code simply links to a short URL, why not just print that URL in plaintext? One of the problem with such a minimal designs is that "assuming you forgot the context of your meeting", the card itself provides no clues (and the "dyna
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by oniTony 16y ago
So here's my bug report: - Quest completion progress doesn't update until I manually click through into the details. - A retreating pet is referred to as {{pet_name}} (problem in the template layer?) - Using just about any special character
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by oniTony 16y ago
Sure it's plausible. The suggested _secure_ way of wiping a harddrive is to override it with random data (since a typical delete simply drops an entry from a table, making data retrieval trivial (in the current context)). What I don't under
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by oniTony 16y ago
This is where TrueCrypt comes in. If you are being extorted to reveal a password, you supply one that loads a "clean" OS/filesystem.
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by oniTony 16y ago
I figure that such setups could employ a number of cron scripts to spread out actions and/or generate noise. E.g. every <random_range> minutes delete a random email out of a set of everything older than 24 hours. Adjust the constant
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by oniTony 16y ago
It works even better after clicking the button a few times.
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by oniTony 16y ago
An interesting supplemental reading is the "two bowling balls" interview puzzle -- http://20bits.com/articles/interview-questions-two-bowling-b... It's essentially a 2 level skip list (but could be generalized where you get one extra leve
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by oniTony 16y ago
so... time to start maintaining multiple facebook accounts?
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by oniTony 16y ago
Sure, it's all gradients, but at 700 "friends" we are getting into an average of "half a day per friend-year" territory. Those don't sound as meaningful relationships to me.
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by oniTony 16y ago
Hah. Last year I've significantly cut down the number of "friends" on facebook. 6 months later, one of them was the first to notice this missing connection. When asked why, the response was essentially "_because_ it took 6 months to notice"

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