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by ordinary 14y ago
It's the censorship lift that shocks (as in 'surprises', not 'offends') people, not the film itself.
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by ordinary 14y ago
The market is a solution to a problem (or perhaps a set of problems). In the example of in the grandparent's post, that solution does not adequately deal with the problem at hand. This makes it a bad solution . Even if we can't think of a
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by ordinary 14y ago
Honestly, I'm surprised so many of Kickstarter's top projects shipped at all . I'm not being snarky here. 68% is a much better success rate than I'd expected, even taking into account that these are their most famous (and therefore, likely
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by ordinary 14y ago
Color.Bleu will give a compiler error. "Bleu" will not. And is "White" a valid color? No idea, need to check the docs. Try Color.White and the compiler or editor will tell you.
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by ordinary 14y ago
Mutually exclusive means that either one, xor the other can be true, but not both. That is not the case here. You can be OK with running someone's code and with sending them your personal information.
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by ordinary 14y ago
You know how the IE team sent (do they still?) cakes to Mozilla for Firefox major version releases? This is the opposite of that.
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by ordinary 14y ago
> Based on current engine failure rate, that's (17/18)^9 + (1/18)^8 + C(9,2) * (1/18)^2 * (17/18)^7 I think the second part of that calculation is incorrect. I'm getting: P(0 engine fail) = (17/18)^9 ~= 0.5978 P(1 engine fail) = (
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by ordinary 14y ago
David Courtwright used a slightly different version of it to describe the Vietnam war: "we were not in Vietnam for 10 years, but for one year 10 times."
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by ordinary 14y ago
I'm a LibreOffice user and it regularly pisses me off. It's not terrible, but it definitely has a lot of sharp corners that I keep hitting. Image placement is my current #1 gripe. It's apsolutely horrific. More generally, it starts up slowl
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by ordinary 14y ago
I would love for this to work, but "like X but open" is not enough. What you need is "better than X and open". I wish I knew how to do "better", but unfortunately, I don't.
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by ordinary 14y ago
Try to capture a stream of video or a screenshot in most operating systems, and the OS declines to do so or produces a blurred or blacked-out display. This really surprised me. I'm right up there with the other tinfoil-hat wearers, but it
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by ordinary 14y ago
Meta: what's up with that URL?
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by ordinary 14y ago
Gamma rays and X-rays are photons.[0] _____ [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:EM_Spectrum_Properties_edi...
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by ordinary 14y ago
I don't think history before the digital age will fade away any more than it already has, thanks to the likes of the Internet Archive and Wikipedia.
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by ordinary 14y ago
It appears that most of the directories that appear between the domain name and the final file name are optional. The following URL points to the same page: http://www.theiacp.org/This/Is/Something/That/Does/Not/Exist...
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by ordinary 14y ago
That's because it's based on something out of Dune: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bene_Gesserit#Litany_against_f...
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by ordinary 14y ago
I was 'slightly' sceptical upon seeing the title. The readme makes it clear no fundamental laws of nature are violated: this package sends information forwards through time, but can obviously only receive it from the past. I admit to feel
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by ordinary 14y ago
The essay that preceded the book is also food for thought. It's freely available online: http://www.maa.org/devlin/LockhartsLament.pdf
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by ordinary 14y ago
Thank you, that does explain it.
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by ordinary 14y ago
Maybe it's because of the way you put it, but I can't help but see an algorithm that exponentially increases the reliability of the message by linearily adding bits. 1 bit for an error rate of 1/4, 2 bits for 1/16, 3 bits for 1/64. Am I wro
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by ordinary 14y ago
Episode 5 of Walking with Dinosaurs was dedicated to Antarctica. Their setting is another 50 million years earlier, as the title implies, but it may interest you nevertheless.
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by ordinary 14y ago
> The article claims that the US is "near the bottom in terms of actual social mobility", but only supports this with some points about how social mobility in the US isn't that good. Data that supports their statements is easily found:
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by ordinary 14y ago
How well would the internet hold up against a billion people watching the Olympics opening ceremony[0]? _____ [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_watched_television...
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by ordinary 14y ago
If you pay me, I will work selflessly for the masses. I will implement features I don't need, I will fix bugs I don't care about and I will write documentation for features I already know in and out. If you don't pay me, I will still contri
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by ordinary 14y ago
Thanks for the link. It may not be a cash cow in comparison to the rest of Apple's business, but a 44% gross profit margin sounds pretty substantial to me.
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by ordinary 14y ago
I would be interested in seeing the numbers on this, as I have a hard time figuring out how they could not make a huge profit on selling other people's work.
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by ordinary 14y ago
(let ((rpar (get-macro-character #\) ))) Escaped. :)
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by ordinary 14y ago
I'll save everyone the trip to their favourite search engine. It's part of a larger quote: "宰予晝寢。子曰：「朽木不可雕也, 糞土之牆不可朽也。於予與何誅」子曰：「始吾於人也, 聽其言而信其行; 今吾於人也, 聽其言而觀其行。於予與改是。」" "Tsai Yu slept during the daytime. The master said, "Rotten wood cann
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by ordinary 14y ago
I had 2 people check for me, one with 7 Home Premium, one with 7 Ultimate, in addition to my own 7 Ultimate; all had the feature I described; none had added it manually.
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by ordinary 14y ago
I don't like how the article implies this makes me less of a man. I don't think it does that, but nevertheless, this raises an interesting question that I've been having real trouble answering, so maybe you (or others) could help me out:

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