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by qwerty_asdf 12y ago
The telescope on board is 10 times as sensitive and has triple the resolution of NASA’s Kuiper Airborne Observatory, originally launched in 1975 on a converted C-141 military cargo plane, and decommissioned in 1995. That te
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by qwerty_asdf 12y ago
I think the tilde operator and Underscore are both equally cryptic and represent similar degrees of obfuscation. Tilde doesn't get much use, because it's prone to quirky behavior, particularly with respect to negative one in javas
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by qwerty_asdf 12y ago
How can y'all not know 'bout R? http://www.r-project.org ...just kidding, lots of people don't know about R, but check it out, because it's pretty badass! I'd be curious to know if people still use Proce
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Steve Ballmer to Sign $2 Billion Deal to Buy L.A. Clippers Basketball Team(nytimes.com)
23 points by qwerty_asdf 12y ago|15 comments
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by qwerty_asdf 12y ago
Mmmm, yeah... I see that you have a lot of coping saw experience, and that's great, but... well... we're looking for someone who's a better culture fit . You understand, right? I thought you might. Well, thanks so much!
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by qwerty_asdf 12y ago
I would guess that the experiment wouldn't be permitted to prolong the animal's life in such an admittedly abnormal state, since the surgery might be regarded as a form of unusual cruelty in and of itself. It was probably classifi
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by qwerty_asdf 12y ago
Garbage in? Garbage out. You give me a shitty file, you get shitty results. Tough shit. None of these questions are particularly daunting. CSV means "comma separated values", so if you want to play games and use other delimiters,
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by qwerty_asdf 12y ago
The major difference between a thing that might go wrong, and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong, is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong, it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.
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by qwerty_asdf 12y ago
Not so much, Android itself, as much as the apps developed for Android by third parties.
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by qwerty_asdf 12y ago
Generally, the reasoning behind not using text on a button (or wherever) is related to internationalization and locales. Nascent software projects usually don't have the manpower or the budget to translate their user interfaces into mu
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by qwerty_asdf 12y ago
The worst part about Firefox 29 was the hamburger button. I couldn't believe it when I saw it. Aw fuck! Et tu, Firefox? ...was all I could think. As I explored further, my worst fears came true: they had destroyed Firefox's
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by qwerty_asdf 12y ago
Looking at the word " al-jabr ", part of me wonders if this might've been the lexical root that inspired Frank Herbert to name his mystical device "The Gom Jabbar" in his novel, Dune. Meanwhile, in an effort to stay
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by qwerty_asdf 12y ago
Just so long as no one starts using Asdf as a first name. I've always found it irritating and overly pretentious on the part of the parents when surnames are repurposed as given names.
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by qwerty_asdf 12y ago
I wondered the same thing. I want to try on a pair, just to contrast my total lack of emotional response against the response of those who benefit from these glasses. Also, I wonder if similar technology could be used to better visualize th
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by qwerty_asdf 12y ago
There's an aspect of this frustrating, forced busy-work behavior that can get baked into software development, and it isn't going away anytime soon. Technology innately gives rise to a behavior called yak shaving, and it's no
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by qwerty_asdf 12y ago
Don't worry. The network administrators know how lazy you really are.
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by qwerty_asdf 12y ago
No, but the targeting software will include Amazon search results.
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by qwerty_asdf 12y ago
I'm assuming that the "switches" they're currently experimenting on also probably aren't designed to function as telecommunications switching equipment might. I'd imagine they have all the frills and features o
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by qwerty_asdf 12y ago
The inverse of broad appeal is the concept of The Long Tail, where there's a vast array of niche artists, that appeal to a small number of people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Tail There's a book by the
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by qwerty_asdf 12y ago
Are you sure about that? Killer nanites could pose a far more urgent and terrible threat to a human being than any old neoplasm. On the slow side, maybe they're as destructive as a nasty dose of prions. On the fast side, maybe they&#x2
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by qwerty_asdf 12y ago
...or perhaps just killer nanorobots? What happens if they malfunction, and don't just kill cancer cells?
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by qwerty_asdf 12y ago
So, on the HN front page, for each thread, only the top-level domain is listed in parenthesis, next to the title, and no other part of the URL is shown. Am I expected believe that this is "secure"?
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by qwerty_asdf 12y ago
I think the term you're grasping for is "Lowest Common Denominator."
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by qwerty_asdf 12y ago
There's also that pesky bugaboo about being permitted to own a genuinely accurate printer, and whether or not you'd use it to counterfeit money.
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by qwerty_asdf 12y ago
I'm amazed that a talking head movie like Glengary Glen Ross (0.11) ranks lower than The Shining (0.73), with its long tracts of imagery and music. http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Glengarry-Glen-Gross.html http:&#x2
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by qwerty_asdf 12y ago
Do you need to present a series of images in rapid sequence, to the user, in a seamless manner, evocative of a particular concept?
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by qwerty_asdf 12y ago
Hmmm... Let's try on a different quote for size: "... companies grew determined to show that they prized their relationship with their product more than their relationships with paying customers, such as advertisers,
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by qwerty_asdf 12y ago
Awesome, this is exactly what I was too lazy to Google and dig up on my own. The plan pretty much shoots itself in the foot before it even leaves the gates.
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by qwerty_asdf 12y ago
But has there ever been a precise specification of what it means to "track" a user? Does "track" have any finite meaning, or is it just an open-ended plea from the user for everyone to pretend that certain events never h
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by qwerty_asdf 12y ago
Thanks! I've never heard that expression before. I'd be curious to know where it's usage comes from. It sounds like vague, new-school slang.

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