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781.
by rcfox 15y ago
I'm not a web developer, so maybe I'm misremembering, but wasn't there something in HTTP that let you check the last time a page changed? Scraping the poll pages every 10 minutes seems like it would cause a lot of unnecessary requests to HN
782.
by rcfox 15y ago
> The Libertarian community Note for the future: This adds no value to your comment, and makes you look like you're trying to spin this story in someway to benefit your political alignment.
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The message from the Wikipedia Blackout: Please leave the Internet alone(blog.wikimedia.org)
3 points by rcfox 15y ago|0 comments
784.
A trip to the Voxel Farm(procworld.blogspot.com)
2 points by rcfox 15y ago|0 comments
785.
by rcfox 15y ago
Thanks, I had never heard of geohashes before, but it sounds like they might really help with a problem I've been having lately.
786.
by rcfox 15y ago
The per-thread counts are a step in the right direction, but OpenMP will take care of this itself if you use the 'reduction' clause.
787.
by rcfox 15y ago
You can even point domains at these, so that GitHub hosts your content but it's all under your domain name.
788.
by rcfox 15y ago
I use this Greasemonkey script to show the whole URL, except the www.: https://github.com/jcs/better_hn_domains (Note: I am not jcs)
789.
by rcfox 15y ago
Public Service Announcement: Don't take URLs (shortened or otherwise) as political advice.
790.
by rcfox 15y ago
It's valid, but less common, and that's why I specifically chose the wording "suggest a correction" instead of "correct". Spell checkers are still no substitute for actual thought.
791.
by rcfox 15y ago
Hey, here's a chance to invent some new terminology! I would say that Norvig's corrector is a first-order spelling corrector, since it works within the context of a single word. A second-order corrector would take into account the word befo
792.
by rcfox 15y ago
Maybe it's not fair to cite the work of super heroes, but Peter Norvig wrote a spelling corrector in 21 lines of Python: http://norvig.com/spell-correct.html
793.
by rcfox 15y ago
You could also do: kill -STOP `pidof iTunes` (I have no idea if pidof is included in OSX. It exists in Debian systems though!)
794.
by rcfox 15y ago
Does logic programming really count as flow control? To me, it's an entirely different paradigm, where there is no real flow at all; all statements operate simultaneously.
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by rcfox 15y ago
How would you make money from that though? "Please make the cheque out to Google Kenya, spelled C-A-S-H."
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by rcfox 15y ago
I get this too, generally on weekends when I don't have any obligations. I don't think I would call it depression though. There's no sadness involved. It's more like nothing seems interesting enough to motivate me to action.
797.
Can Simplicity Scale?(blog.regehr.org)
10 points by rcfox 15y ago|0 comments
798.
by rcfox 15y ago
What to Submit On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. Off-
799.
by rcfox 15y ago
When in doubt: compare the resulting assembly for the two versions. gcc -S foo.c
800.
by rcfox 15y ago
Somewhat off-topic: Have you heard of the Neural Engineering Framework? http://ctn.uwaterloo.ca/~cnrglab/?q=node/10 It's got a Python (well, Jython) scripting interface and can also interact with Matlab.
801.
by rcfox 15y ago
Yes, that's what makes C simple. If all of those edge cases were covered, the language would be much more complex. Simple != Easy to use
802.
by rcfox 15y ago
I can only speak for myself, but my 4-month coop terms are the only reason I managed to graduate. I studied computer engineering at UW, and it was more intense than anything I've had before or after university. I definitely would have burne
803.
A Land Where the BlackBerry Still Thrives(freakonomics.com)
1 points by rcfox 15y ago|0 comments
804.
by rcfox 15y ago
(I have a feeling that) my frequently used commands change depending on what I'm doing, and with time. Instead of trying to alias my current favourite commands, I tend to just use the backwards history search built in to my shell, and acces
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Copyright Infringement in Canadian Parliament(pirateparty.ca)
1 points by rcfox 15y ago|0 comments
806.
by rcfox 15y ago
Copy-pasting what you have works, but I found that whenever I type 'v' in the Javascript version, it freezes up. From the documentation, 'v' is supposed to rotate the top 3 items on the stack. If you're in TYX-video mode, there should be 3
807.
by rcfox 15y ago
It's a little naive to expect a linear relation between dollars and viewers. Charging $1 would have increased sales, but probably no more than 10-20%.
808.
by rcfox 15y ago
This is a weird thing to say. If he kept the whole $1 million, would the $5 still be acceptable? The price of an artifact (especially one with zero incremental cost to produce) should be dependent on the value created, not the need of the p
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by rcfox 15y ago
Louis C.K. strikes me as a guy with better things to do with his time. Besides, the people having issues with PayPal have (almost?) always been using terminology implying that they were taking donations without being registered as a non-pro
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by rcfox 15y ago
> Text gets blurrier quicker than when using a lighter background. Perhaps you need to get glasses. I've never had text go blurry on me, regardless of the colour theme or duration.

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