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751.
by ramchip 15y ago
> The reason notability criteria is there so not everyone can create an article about their band which sold 3 copies of their CD. I could see this being a problem if the band's name is ambiguous with existing, important articles. But if
752.
by ramchip 15y ago
You can start a company with it after you quit.
753.
by ramchip 15y ago
I could be mistaken, but I think the TSA has nothing to do with handling visa waivers.
754.
by ramchip 15y ago
The link is to the PDF version already. It will take you to Scribd only if you click the [scribd] part.
755.
by ramchip 15y ago
The author is in high school. That may explain a certain immaturity in the writing and reasoning here.
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by ramchip 15y ago
ITRON probably has a lot more installs than all these OSes, although I don't think it's very popular in the US. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRON_Project http://www.t-engine.org/tron-project/itron (with source code)
757.
by ramchip 15y ago
I'm not sure I understand how a program could be made that scans through reports and videos and reports possible instances of corruption, at least without a few huge steps forwards in AI and image processing.
758.
by ramchip 15y ago
This is useless flamebait.
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by ramchip 15y ago
Is it sold in Japan? I have a Sharp camera-phone, and in manner mode it does make a sound when taking any picture - except for the OCR and business card reading modes, in which it's impossible to save the image anyway. I found it inconvenie
760.
by ramchip 15y ago
Regarding formatting: http://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc Using two spaces indentation can work Italics also work.
761.
by ramchip 15y ago
Can you really call something like Roomba a revolution? I've met a single person in my life with a Roomba. People everywhere still sweep manually.
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by ramchip 15y ago
The radio CPU can be optimized for its job, so it may have extra instructions for error detection, decryption, etc. It may also be on a separate bus with the antenna peripherals, freeing up a lot of bandwidth for the main CPU. It should be
763.
by ramchip 15y ago
Thanks. It's nice when IF games take into account these small details.
764.
by ramchip 15y ago
> "It's too bad that the ladder analysis department closes at noon". Out of curiosity, what game is this?
765.
by ramchip 15y ago
> The importance of economic facts may not be obvious to Americans. "What does the fish know about the water in which it swims?" asked Albert Einstein. Interesting how that water and fish story repeats itself...
766.
by ramchip 15y ago
It sounds much closer to computer engineering than to CS to me.
767.
by ramchip 15y ago
That's not it, but thanks for the input. It's interesting that you've released the source.
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by ramchip 15y ago
It's broken on Opera as well. That doesn't make a lot of working browsers...
769.
by ramchip 15y ago
The problems in Paris aren't due to immigration by itself. One of the big problems is the how low-cost housing was concentrated in some areas, putting all the less rich/successful people together and making it hard for them to make progress
770.
by ramchip 15y ago
This one isn't especially well designed. For the "yes", it presents two fairly specific answers, ignoring the general case. A lot of biased Internet polls are made like this.
771.
by ramchip 15y ago
AFAIK, this assumes a purely functional language, namely Haskell. I'm not sure about the variant of Lisp used in the LISP Machines, but it's probably rather different (eg. uses assignment, etc).
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by ramchip 15y ago
I remember a cooperative online game, with a mostly text-only interface, in which you could build smelters and tools and climb gradually the tech tree. It was very detailed and interesting but I lost track of its name and URL. Does it ring
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by ramchip 15y ago
That, and often I need recommendations when I'm not in my usual place, like when traveling. The odds that my friends would 1) use the service and 2) review a place I'm interested in are very low. If I want a recommendation from my coffee af
774.
by ramchip 15y ago
> (And, obviously, omitting the type information in the function arguments doesn't work in a statically typed language.) It works just fine in Haskell for most cases.
775.
by ramchip 15y ago
> Autonomous Air Independent Propulsion submersible drones Isn't this basically an electric torpedo?
776.
by ramchip 15y ago
Citation needed. This doesn't look self-evident at all to me.
777.
by ramchip 15y ago
Or just use VMs, etc.
778.
by ramchip 15y ago
train smash n South African informal a disaster or serious setback (esp in the phrase it's not a train smash) That's an interesting phrase.
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by ramchip 15y ago
In Japan lawsuits are less common, and an apology is expected even if it's not your fault, so it shouldn't hurt their legal defense if they apologize. I think it won't be interpreted as an admission of guilt like it could be in America.
780.
by ramchip 16y ago
Yes, that's impressive. Our largest plan here has 30GB of transfers per month... (Canada)

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