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by pfedor 14y ago
Why is it important to make satellites which are cheap to build? Isn't the total cost dominated by the cost of bringing it to orbit anyway?
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by pfedor 14y ago
I always assumed that the poor composition of the original AS11-40-5903 (and many other photos from the Moon which suffer from the same problem) was because every pixel was precious, so they didn't want the uniformly black sky to take up an
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by pfedor 14y ago
I think you're one of those HN readers that think this is Apple vs Android, but really it's a case against Samsung and their cloning behavior. Except it's not, as one of the infringing phones was Nexus S, i.e., vanilla Android.
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by pfedor 14y ago
At a ten feet distance. Do you seriously believe that anyone actually bought a Galaxy Tab by mistake, thinking it was an iPad?
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by pfedor 14y ago
It could be bad news even for Apple users, since now Apple will increase the fraction of resources allocated to legal bullying (since it works) at the expense of making better phones.
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PDF fuzzing and Adobe Reader 9.5.1 and 10.1.3 multiple critical vulnerabilities(gynvael.coldwind.pl)
2 points by pfedor 14y ago|0 comments
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by pfedor 14y ago
The timing doesn't match--this might have been the answer ten years or so earlier--the intercontinental ballistic missiles had long existed in 1970. But, preventing another world war from happening, which is what nuclear rockets did, proba
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by pfedor 14y ago
Isn't Blekko also powered by Bing? It had the same result for hiybbprqag.
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by pfedor 14y ago
Your point may be true, but this is not a good example, since the question discussed was of political nature, and even very smart people will ignore whatever evidence contradicts their political choices. That your argument was ignored had
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by pfedor 14y ago
It's not like before Popper scientists didn't know they had to design experiments to test their theories. Popper himself, from what I read of him, considered his work more useful as a way to tell apart real science from fake science (he gi
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by pfedor 14y ago
I phrased the thought that way, but that doesn't mean that only hyper-logical people feel like that and everyone else agrees with you. Quite the opposite: most people would think you're crazy if you suggested that they want to go to the of
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by pfedor 14y ago
None of my software-engineer friends are doing things they don't want to do. That would be remarkable. That would mean that the solution to an optimization problem without constraints ("Of all the things I could be doing, which will make
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by pfedor 14y ago
By the same logic, any price greater than zero would be implying that your service is infinitely more valuable than Google Search?
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by pfedor 14y ago
I know of two, but haven't used either so far: 1. Cocos2dx (open-source) 2. Marmalade (commercial, you don't even need a mac, can prepare iOS binaries on a Windows machine)
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by pfedor 14y ago
You're not allowed to take pictures in a restaurant in France? Instagram is going to have a hard time catching on there.
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by pfedor 14y ago
In which country?
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by pfedor 14y ago
While it may be true that it's impossible for a newspaper to be completely unbiased, that doesn't mean this is not the ideal they should strive to. Just like it's not possible to have completely bug-free code, but you shouldn't give up fix
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by pfedor 14y ago
Believe it or not, your analogy would be much closer the other way around. People from the eastern bloc in general didn't work anywhere near as hard as even in the western Europe, let alone America (the running joke was "We pretend that we
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by pfedor 14y ago
This is very disappointing. I hoped that the government would treat its duty to protect me from cheap car services more seriously.
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by pfedor 14y ago
Do you still have great ambitions for Arc? Do you think one day there will be a book "Programming Arc" from O'Reilly?
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by pfedor 14y ago
Don't know if it's best, but I learned a lot reading GLib code. Contains the implementation by the book of main data structures and utilities, and the code is easy to read (unlike day glibc.)
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by pfedor 14y ago
At the very least you'd also need 3) Software patents expire after three years instead of twenty which as far as I know would be a harder change to make than abolishing software patents completely.
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Q Circles: The Crop Circles of IRacing?(iracing.com)
2 points by pfedor 14y ago|0 comments
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by pfedor 14y ago
Of course, by that definition, there is never a shortage of anything.
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by pfedor 14y ago
I think the mistake you're making is you assume it's the skills (gained and later forgotten) that the employers care about, but in reality the college degree is just a filter, not unlike an IQ test. Sure, it sucks that it takes four years
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by pfedor 15y ago
OSX ahead of Linux and iOS ahead of "Other Unix variant". Can we now get the name of this site officially changed to Hipster News?
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by pfedor 15y ago
Sorry, it's hard to predict. I am guessing that yes, it would probably help.
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by pfedor 15y ago
I just played and I can second that a hundred percent. It's very pronounced and a big detriment to the experience. Otherwise the game is very engaging.
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by pfedor 15y ago
The metaphor of "shouting fire in a crowded theatre" was actually used in a Supreme Court ruling in Schenck v. United States, which justified putting a guy in prison for speaking (distributing leaflets) against the military draft. This dec
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by pfedor 15y ago
3) He has "more" money nominally but the majority of the difference is due to inflation. If Fred invests in TIPS with zero yield, he will have exactly the same amount of real money when they mature, but he will likely be faced with a big t

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