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by qxcv 14y ago
> And I wouldn't care less. It's not harming me in any way, like it's not also harmful if they drink a bottle of beer on their way home in the subway, which is totally accepted also. To claim that second-hand smoke is not harmful is utt
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by qxcv 14y ago
He also said that there aren't any rails and it runs on the ground. At the moment, we have a Concorde without wings[0] (a lifting body Concorde, perhaps?) crossed with a railgun without rails. Sounds like vaporware. [0]: It could still have
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by qxcv 14y ago
> Has there ever been attempt to implement it in openssl, gnutls, etc, so as to not depend on this ActiveX plugin? SEED is implemented in NSS (Firefox's network security backend)[0] as of 2010. I'm not sure whether or not that removes t
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by qxcv 14y ago
> Why do I need to pick someone who poorly represents my views and will probably vote against my interests, when I could easily vote on actual issues. That's a great idea! In fact, I can see a business opportunity for an enterprising in
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by qxcv 14y ago
> why would a 14 year old want to make sure his age is on the post title? Because they know that they'll be praised for it and probably manage to sell a couple of copies. It also makes sense as something to put on a higher-ed applicat
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by qxcv 14y ago
Two problems with UA strings: 1) They can often be used to identify you, especially when combined with other HTTP headers or information scraped from the client via JS[0]. 2) They are abused by web developers who wish to lock out web browse
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by qxcv 14y ago
Looks good. I was using cURL, so that explains the ~100k vs. ~28k discrepancy.
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by qxcv 14y ago
This looks incorrect. http://web.archive.org/web/20110713000446id_/http://www.goog... is only 28K according to ls -lh. Perhaps OP forgot to put id_ after the capture timestamp in the archive URLs? The id_ makes sure that the Wayback Machi
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by qxcv 14y ago
I can't speak for everyone, but it is most likely the former. The handful of maths teachers I know absolutely loathe word-processed assignments since the majority of students don't bother using proper mathematical notation when they type th
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by qxcv 14y ago
http://buildnewgames.com/physics-engines-comparison/ uses WebGL via three.js It's pretty hard to fault this site in terms of neutrality. There's even an article about SVG where the author uses Ubuntu and Inkscape.
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by qxcv 14y ago
Not necessarily. The rock may only be a few centimetres underneath the sand dune, in which case it would not appear to protrude out from the dune significantly. There is also the possibility that the "spiders" are black sand[0][1] or silt,
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by qxcv 14y ago
> Newegg.com does not currently ship internationally; we only deliver to locations within the United States and to Puerto Rico. Granted, Newegg are retailers rather than manufacturers, but country-based product restrictions are surprisi
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by qxcv 14y ago
No, but scrolling across is difficult. And they hijack all the scrollbars so that they can show you a light grey box instead of the slightly lighter grey box which your browser normally shows. If they just displayed everything vertically an
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by qxcv 14y ago
Interestingly, Facebook sponsored a project to build a prototype PHP interpreter using the PyPy[0] toolchain for JIT compilation, which turned out to be even faster than HipHop[1]. I have to wonder whether statically compiled Ruby would a
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by qxcv 14y ago
But for the love of $DEITY, please wear adequate sun protection. At the very least that means a hat and sunscreen, but you probably want to be using long sleeved clothing and sunglasses if you're outside for an extended period of time. Vita
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by qxcv 14y ago
I only noticed it in FF15, but it may have been there for longer. Change pdfjs.disabled to false in about:config (followed by a browser restart) if you want to turn it on. Here's a test file[0] should you wish to test it out. I've been usin
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by qxcv 14y ago
It's not that async is hard, it's that callback-based frameworks like node.js force the programmer to structure their code in an entirely different (and more verbose!) way to what they would writing synchronous code. It doesn't help that th
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by qxcv 14y ago
Lodsys were "just protecting an idea" too - does that mean that Lodsys are no longer patent trolls?
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by qxcv 14y ago
You should really read Steve Yegge's original blog post[0] before reading this submission. [0]: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com.au/2007/02/next-big-language...
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by qxcv 14y ago
> real estate Aren't there already unmanned blimps built to solve exactly this problem? > surveillance Except they're insanely loud when they get in close to you. > art, video productions There are a lot of good videos and pic
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by qxcv 14y ago
Murder (n) - The unlawful premeditated killing of one human being by another. Nobody is debating the definition of murder, the debate is over the definition of "human". When does an unborn child get the rights of a human? Is it at conceptio
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by qxcv 14y ago
It's one thing to make a Pacman-like game. But this is being called the trademarked name Pacman, and you've copied the artwork straight from Pacman. Seems certain this isn't an official licensed version. In which case, you should change all
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by qxcv 14y ago
The point is that scatter plots are harder to read than histograms. It's not two histograms vs. one scatter plot, it's replacing the current single histogram system with a single scatter plot. Also, side-by-side histograms aren't the only w
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by qxcv 14y ago
I imagine it as more of an attempt to engage with the bystanders, maybe to try and tell them that he can do better. "Ugh! I failed", he says, trying to smile in the direction of the onlooking girls. A quick attempt at a chuckle to make ligh
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by qxcv 14y ago
> so when the cats lays in front of it -- it will just run over it, not being able to see it? LIDAR stands for Light Detection And Ranging. Much like sonar (which is also used on an autonomous car) it is used to map 3D environments, pro
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by qxcv 14y ago
> 100 more cameras at each corner?? There are cameras on the autonomous cars, I'm sure they'd do the trick just fine. > Second, I still have no idea how on Earth would AC riding on a highway know that it is a black cat, not a black
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by qxcv 14y ago
When you're using somebody else's computer.
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by qxcv 14y ago
> Nobody is saying space is America's Really? [0] rings a bell from a few years back, but I'm not sure if it's still current. If denying access to space to anyone "hostile to U.S. interests" isn't "ownership" (or maybe "guardianship", i
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by qxcv 14y ago
$ vimdiff <(curl http://www.fastcompany.com/node/28121/print?donttaseme ) <(curl http://www.fastcompany.com/node/28121/print ) Aesthetics, perhaps?
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by qxcv 14y ago
All realestate.com.au are trying to do is give the user a persistent session registered to their email address. Think of it as kind of like a cookie which you can easily transfer between browsers to get a slightly more personalised experien

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