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by psyklic 17y ago
I've always typed "define: <word>", but this seems to be superior.
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by psyklic 17y ago
In their USER AGREEMENT (available from the Home page), they only mention there is a "purchase fee" but do not tell you what it is. Once you start to order, they only mention the fee under the TESTIMONIALS section (and also do not tell you
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by psyklic 17y ago
As someone who has done some experimental work, I can appreciate how emails like this sound bad but may actually not be. With every set of data, there is a lot of additional information necessary for interpreting it. I'm sure that if someon
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by psyklic 17y ago
I agree with the OP -- from my experience, it's very difficult to tell how a person will act on a date, personality-wise, merely from their photos, profile, and non-video chat. And personality is such an essential part of a person for dati
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by psyklic 17y ago
I disagree. I've done quite a bit of online dating, and professional photos (a) don't show your fun side, and (b) often look quite different than how you look on an average day. What this results in is me distrusting them -- before I meet a
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by psyklic 17y ago
The thing that shocked me the most was reading that Direct2D which can be used in place of GDI+. IMO, Microsoft should have made available a hardware-accelerated 2D library a LONG time ago ... before this, you had to use Direct3D to attain
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by psyklic 17y ago
This has just as much substance as someone posting "What should I go into in college? I'm good at math." It's hard to choose, but careers aren't like funnels where everyone who would enjoy software development would be a great architect!
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by psyklic 17y ago
My "eye strain" usually consists of me wearing contacts for too long. Especially in front of a computer screen, they dry up a bit and irritate my eyes. Wearing glasses when the eyes get irritated is the best solution here!
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by psyklic 17y ago
I disagree with the author that a nerd lives to build things -- rather, a nerd is just really into non-mainstream stuff that the public understands is important but isn't for them.
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by psyklic 17y ago
Direct link to the original article "Consent will be required for cookies in Europe"-- http://www.out-law.com//default.aspx?page=10510
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by psyklic 17y ago
Alpha is their #1 revenue source? Whatever happened to Mathematica?
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by psyklic 17y ago
Fantastic article. I just wanted to point out -- if you click on the links on the top left navigation, you can see the graphs/animations/etc for every book. This wasn't obvious until I read the entire article!
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by psyklic 17y ago
What if someone decides to spam you? Is there any way to enact daily limits or to block numbers?
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by psyklic 17y ago
Also of note is their Superseeker computer -- email it your sequence and it will perform a lot of additional analyses on the sequence beyond the normal web interface. http://www2.research.att.com/~njas/sequences/ol.html
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by psyklic 17y ago
Maybe a good tip for beginners who confuse = and ==, but I don't recall ever making this error, and I've written a ton of code.
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by psyklic 17y ago
Huh? (1) Most engineers are NOT "wannabe doctors." The two professions are orthogonal. People who drop out of premed rarely go into engineering -- the classwork is at least as difficult, if not more. (2) Regarding the "difference," no diffe
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by psyklic 17y ago
Most likely Apple never considered those patents. Except that the actual complaint states that Nokia offered to license Apple the patents and Apple declined multiple times. http://www.scribd.com/doc/21458614/Nokia-vs-Apple-Complaint
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by psyklic 17y ago
Just a quick rebuttal of the author's specific points: (1) Given a set of elements X, E(X) = \sum{x \in X} xp(x). The problem the author mentioned is solved, since we are now summing over all elements in X rather than using the input variab
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by psyklic 17y ago
I don't think that the author's points are valid. He seems to be using references with sloppy notation. Suffice it to say that if he picks up a mathematical probability textbook he should be satisfied. * I do agree that people use shortcuts
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by psyklic 17y ago
Why do you use C++ for an embedded processor?
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by psyklic 17y ago
When I code in a team, we don't just write one big mass of C++ and hope that all the interactions work out okay! Instead, we follow modular programming practices. If some interactions are too slow, we know who didn't optimize his section
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by psyklic 17y ago
Worrying about not knowing how functions are called on your first iteration is such a moot point. Simple programming conventions (e.g. no multiple inheritance) can eliminate this problem. Even if each function call does take 10x longer, I w
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by psyklic 17y ago
The author is worried about optimizing . He should know that in high-performance applications, you should just write the code then profile it. We all know that C++ is fast; the real question the author should be asking is whether C or C+
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by psyklic 17y ago
Well you could potentially help people too ... :-)
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by psyklic 17y ago
Interesting, but it is now a single AAA battery-powered server ... which appears to be down!
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by psyklic 17y ago
If an ISP hosts content, would analysts also say that they "have no bandwidth bill"? This article states that "[Google] has purchased unused fiber optic cable known as 'dark fiber'. ... Its costs for bandwidth are then amortized across the
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by psyklic 17y ago
Make it or break it for me might be images and math equations. Good idea though -- I actually thought of tying something like this to your GPS for roadtrips, and have it pop up the relevant Wikipedia article for the closest town/landmark, e
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by psyklic 17y ago
I was lucky enough to write software for government supercomputers and work with government scientists. From these experiences, I've come to the realization that "science has turned into data management" is completely the wrong conclusion.
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by psyklic 17y ago
Since when was Caltech a large enormous entity? MIT admitted 1500 freshmen last year, about the size of all undergrads+grads combined at Caltech (~2000 students total).
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by psyklic 17y ago
The author is rather nitpicky, and in my opinion overly so. At a beginner's level, teaching students to break down problems into solvable pieces, then using functions or methods to implement each piece is a sufficient introduction to modula

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