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Web Page Making the ugliest one possible Colin Fahey
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This is a rather silly question. Why is math hard? It's not all hard, some math is simple enough for 1st graders to understand. Why is the math I am currently studying hard? Because you already learned the easy stuff and moved on to the har
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Progressive JPEGs are not smaller. They contain the same data, just rearranged. You can losslessly transform a progressive JPEG into a baseline JPEG and vice versa, without recompressing it. The jpegtran tool, included with the standard JPE
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Helmets are important for inexperienced cyclists and mountain biking, because you have a high risk of falling. But riding around town is a low risk activity and a helmet is unnecessary. We need to learn to distinguish between these scenario
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The original iPhone Maps app was only a client. It relied on Google's servers for its data, which already had years of polishing. The iOS 6 Maps app is an excellent client. Its only problem is with the data it fetches from Apple. Their maps
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The Linux kernel has about as many chars as one to two Encyclopedia Britannicae. C does not have as many chars per line as English, so printing the kernel would require three or four Britannicae.
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It's not necessary to support armv6 anymore. The only iPhones with armv6 were the original and the 3G, which was released more than four years ago. The 3GS and everything since has been armv7. Every iPad has been armv7. The last version of
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The current-generation Cedar Trail Atom also has issues with Linux. It will run but there are no video drivers so you are stuck with VESA graphics. It's not just Linux either, it doesn't have video drivers for 64-bit Windows. Even though Ce
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USB is insufficient for a dock connector. It doesn't do audio or play/volume/track buttons. You could use a USB audio device, but that would add cost to every iPhone accessory made everywhere, and there's no need because the iPhone has its
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It is so common I'd be surprised if you weren't seeing these login attempts. Every ssh server I've run in the last 10 years has had this happen, even those without domain names. They must just scan random IPv4 addresses for anyone respondin
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If you like these you might also enjoy my rules of life: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Foobaz
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I write Go and I have been satisfied with the low-level control and direct memory access. The language has pointers and you can cast between ints and pointers, so you can do anything you can do in C. If you're writing realtime code, you can
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Actually killing people is "objectionable and crude". Telling people about it, in an attempt to stop further killings, is anything but.
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Does Germany hold runoff elections? It looks like Merkel won in 2009 with only 34% of the vote. If they use the same system that the US does, that is probably why their elections only choose between the main two parties.
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France and Germany are not so two-party. In the 53 years of France's current government, they have elected presidents from four parties. In the 22 years since German reunification, they have had presidents from three parties and one indepen
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One area where we lag behind the rest of the world is our voting system. In 1992 Clinton was elected with 43% of the vote because Perot split the Republicans. In 2000 Bush was elected with 48% because Nader split the Democrats. This kind of
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Nice, here's the result on Mageia 2: http://frammish.org/systemd.svg
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I agree, CentOS would make a great beginner's Linux. It is stable, standard, and user friendly. I don't understand the Arch approach to Linux. It's like they fetishize the drudgery of system administration and want to spend more time doing
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I agree, someone who is 10-20 times more effective is a big deal. Imagine if we had pilots who could fly you to your destination 10-20 times faster; farmers who could produce 10-20 times more food; or civil engineers who could build skyscra
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Is there any way to watch in VLC? I don't have Flash Player.
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I am always pleasantly surprised when programs follow XDG. One notable example is the fish shell. Most shells put dotfiles in $HOME, like .bash_profile or .zshrc. Fish puts everything in .config/fish/.
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Using 16-bit images won't save any memory, and may actually use more memory. The iOS graphics pipeline requires 32-bit images for rendering, so all other types of images are converted to a 32-bit texture. If you are trying to optimize memor
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Go doesn't require tabs. Tabs and spaces work just like C, they separate tokens but are not otherwise relevant. It's not like Python where they indicate indentation level. The only whitespace character that works differently than C is the n
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I have been tinkering with Go for a couple months and I've been so impressed with it I'm about to start a real production server using it. It has all the low-level functionality of C with some very useful features added, like garbage collec
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DejaVu is a fork of Bitstream Vera which added more characters for Unicode support.
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If only it worked on my coworkers.
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I enjoyed the great style with which he slagged on everyone. When you have a deep understanding of a field you notice every minute flaw, even in your own work. This hyperattention to detail makes your own work better. I got a kick out of it
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No matter what you're being prosecuted for, it's always a good idea to STFU. Police can and do lie to extract information from you. They will make it seem like the case against you is ironclad and if you cooperate they will go easy on you.
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We had some really good ideas before history too, like trade, agriculture, sailing, and animal domestication.

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