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by pippy 11y ago
Lexer.cpp: int X; Interesting that they started with git, instead of even a very small section of working code first
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by pippy 11y ago
How did they do this without transistors? The only thing I can find is this diagram here which looks like a small box: http://www.twinbeech.com/images/TURRETS/cfc/CFC%20computer19... which is smaller than a v
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by pippy 11y ago
The environmental impact on shipping is massive: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_shippi... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1229857/How-1... Utilizing nucl
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by pippy 11y ago
Apple's fortune started to change when they started building devices centered around the user experience. Focusing on performance is a dead end for hardware suppliers as there'll always be another company out there who can compile
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by pippy 11y ago
According to wikipedia Google Chrome bundles: Randomly generated token included in installer. Used to measure success rate of Google Chrome once at installation.[99] Encoded string, according to Google, contains non-identifying i
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by pippy 11y ago
I'm really impressed with Fedora 23. My only gripe is the horrific sub pixel rendering. I'm waiting for rpmfusion to come out so I can install an alternative font rendering engine. It's also lacking netbeans in the repo which
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by pippy 11y ago
I'm in the awkward position of supporting nuclear power in a country that has its anti-nuclear stance apart of its national identity. New Zealands Prime Minster David Lange famously argued against it at an Oxford Union debate, and ever
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by pippy 11y ago
I got a bit flustered at this snippet here: >Notice anything off about that XML? If you said, “value should be 0 instead of False”, then give yourself a pat on the back. Because text values can be valid XML for Boolean values. According
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by pippy 11y ago
Interesting, but tangently related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Klark_Graham
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by pippy 11y ago
The example in article had went from a GZIPed size of 4.1 MB to 3.0 MB. For the massive increase of obscurity the transferal optimization trade off isn't that great. But it's a double edged sword, I'd also wager obscurity wou
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by pippy 11y ago
I have one i tested too: 0x06183b08067874c411e1fe0dd7d1b14bd357506e
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by pippy 11y ago
I noticed the dropdown on the create page doesn't display the list correctly (chrome, Win7): http://i.imgur.com/QfuWYS5.png
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by pippy 11y ago
And to compound this pressure standardized testing is putting teachers under the thumb. There's an obscene amount of paperwork required and it takes the focus away from students. In today's environment standardized testing is a st
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by pippy 11y ago
After the FDA started pressuring 23andme in to not giving data relating to diseases to customers, I lost of respect for them in the genetic arena. Customers have a right to know what's in their bodies. At the moment 23andme is only cle
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by pippy 11y ago
I've always liked the concept behind GoboLinux[1], it makes so much more sense in comparison to the legacy mainframe style file structure other linux distros use. Debian dropping LSB might pave the way for more distros adopting a more
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by pippy 11y ago
You'll always find people like that in University. The interesting thing is the younger generation treating education like a commodity. And given tuition costs, they have a right to. This will inevitably cause tension between the acade
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by pippy 11y ago
Microsoft are coming out swinging at Google with their latest browser and Operating System. Their Cortana search feature is impressive, and very well integrated. Even Windows 10 isn't shying away with a search field located in the main
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by pippy 11y ago
A projection I'm fond of, but is almost unheard of is the Kavrayskiy projection: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kavrayskiy_VII_projection It solves most projection issues without looking terrible.
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by pippy 11y ago
This market has a lot of potential. The place I work for spends a small fortune every year on personal development focused on communication styles.
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by pippy 12y ago
I have severe red-green color blindness and moderate blue-yellow. As a web developer it does make me extremely reliant on the color dropper tool, and I often miss subtle color differences on pages. It's made me much more careful about
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by pippy 12y ago
MSIE 11 for mobile is still in developer preview mode, and hasn't been released. As for the desktop version, here's caniuse: http://caniuse.com/#feat=touch I'm unaware that they released a desktop version whe
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by pippy 12y ago
I'm going against the grain and make the assertion that improving the Touch Events was the better option here. Touch Events are supported by more browsers and devices and already have many of the functional requirements that Pointer Ev
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by pippy 12y ago
If we're going to focus on money, which the Author did, Apple's revenue per full-time equivalent is $2.13 million. It's obvious that Apple didn't feel that he was going to be worth that.
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by pippy 12y ago
The lack of regulation is more of a concern than the human resource allocation or event the debt to GDP ratio. The derivatives market is valued over $700 trillion dollars (forbes, 2013 est.), while the GDP of the world is S$74.31 trillion (
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by pippy 12y ago
> "Today's science doesn't known the chemicals required in a healthy diet" This is quite ridiculous. We've mapped the nutrients required by our cells down to a molecular level. We've even got a thorough unde
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by pippy 12y ago
The problem with web development isn't that there is a resurgence of bad development practices. It's that the average web developer isn't as skilled as what they need to be. The average U.S. worker spends 4.6 years in a given
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by pippy 12y ago
It is annoying when copying a movie to a USB, and having to empty the entire trash bin to fit it on the USB stick. I guess it does enforce you to be a bit cleaner. I don't really care about .DS_store etc as they're hidden, and thu
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by pippy 12y ago
He forgot an important modern rule on authentication: don't do it. If you can get another system to do it for you; persona, OpenID, Github, Google, Facebook, or twitter it's more secure for the end user. They have features such as
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by pippy 12y ago
I can sympathise with the Patriot Missile floating point issue. A bug like that would be next to impossible to track down and address, especially when dealing with specialised embedded hardware. The Ariane 5 issue however is pants-on-head r
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by pippy 12y ago
If you're referring to Encrypted Media Extensions it's not a DRM mechanism that requires proprietary software. It's a specification for a communication channel between a browser and Digital Rights Management agent software on

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