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by rwolf 17y ago
"Open source developers have had to think on their toes and patch the programs that Microsoft has (often times) intentionally broken." This is definitely true for members of the Samba team, but open source development does not necessarily i
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by rwolf 17y ago
Since machine translation doesn't work well at the moment, I don't think it's interesting when an example fails to reach equilibrium. I'm not sure what your point is here. Additionally, I'm not sure your example, "i am a boy but not a girl"
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by rwolf 17y ago
A recent story that agrees with you: http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2009/08/03/arrington-loses-lib... While it would be more mediagenic if Arrington had to fork over some cash, I think jurisdiction is separate from the issue of who the cou
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by rwolf 17y ago
"The court in no way found that TechCrunch’s statements about you were false, but simply that no-one from the company turned up to defend them." While a default judgment is not the same as a victory, they seem reasonably similar. I'm as ups
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by rwolf 17y ago
Sure it's funny, but it could be useful. If we take a list of all found equilibrium expressions and have a human translator eliminate the ones that have different meanings in the source and destination languages, we'll have a list of phrase
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by rwolf 17y ago
I agree. Any suggestion for a 90% tax bracket for anyone making more than the (above board) income of a civil servant cannot be taken seriously. I wish he had written this naked insanity at the top of the page so I didn't waste my time read
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by rwolf 17y ago
It's painfully slow, and I ran into some glitches (ctrl v outputting only first letter). pretty fun, anyway. what about different (random) colors for different users, and a fade over time so older words decay?
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by rwolf 17y ago
While focusing on a problem, my google-fu always seems to diffuse. An example from today: ie7 css background-image second try load page Unsurprisingly, this did not return the results I was looking for.
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by rwolf 17y ago
What I'm hearing from these comments is that there is not enough product information for a technical audience. It's possible that you are marketing to a group that does not want the same product information as us, but it's not clear. Are yo
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by rwolf 17y ago
In Firefox, I can only see the first two columns of the comparison that makes up the bulk of this article. This article in unusable to me. They are using the default drupal theme, which doesn't normally do this sort of thing. My guess is th
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by rwolf 17y ago
This "flying up impossibly at the last minute" is a feature of graphs of national debt ( http://images.google.com/images?q=national+debt ), but it's also a feature of graphs of US furniture sales. I'm not saying the US dollar is fine. I'm j
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by rwolf 17y ago
The EMH doesn't take in to account arbitrage risk ( http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1292533 ) among other things. Bonus questions: Is it so inefficient that models based on EMH should be replaced? Is there a better assum
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by rwolf 17y ago
It looks like this rng uses a publicly-available seed.
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by rwolf 17y ago
With NoScript, I had to allow kruisit.nl before http://vldtr.com/?key=HN would do anything besides list the urls. It's not a big problem (just makes me a little nervous), but since you seem to control both servers you might want to move w
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by rwolf 17y ago
It's not obvious that the difference in computer science degrees by gender is due to brain chemistry. With the "politically correct" idea that everyone should be able to pursue whatever field they want without social barriers, researchers a
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by rwolf 17y ago
Maybe it's been a while since I used BASIC, but the first code snippet looks pretty arcane. I think event triggers are not very simple. I started programming in the procedural style, and "program as recipe" seems like the most accessible id
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by rwolf 17y ago
The name "Designer Decimal" gave me a fun idea for a quick frolic with perl's Math::BigFloat. Take my username, rwolf, for example. Using a leading 1., ASCII characters padded to 3 digits, and a terminating character of 004 (EOT), it could
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by rwolf 17y ago
You could be right; wiki describes XMPP (BOSH) as an alternative ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_(programming)#Alternative... ).
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by rwolf 17y ago
For things besides chat, Comet sounds simpler than XMPP. I'm planning a project management project with a whiteboard, this article is going to save me the time I was going to spend trying to make a chat server act like things it's not. edit
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by rwolf 17y ago
This sounds like the kind of story Technologists love. Machines at better are stock market trading, so the humans are being replaced in this industry.
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by rwolf 17y ago
Without discussing whether the Kindle should be open source, it seems like there's something easier Amazon can do to prevent this from happening again. If Amazon's ebooks were DRM-free, customers could back up their titles on hardware that
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by rwolf 17y ago
The implication is that non-Mac PCs have had a greater share of high-end sells before the campaign, but it's not stated (some other places seem to back this up http://www.betanews.com/joewilcox/article/Apple-has-91-of-ma... ). The particul
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by rwolf 17y ago
The problem with registration news sites--they don't own the underlying news. A nag-free copy of the same information: http://www.livemint.com/2009/07/24122026/De-Beers-H1-net-pro...
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by rwolf 17y ago
Someone took the time to make this joke, but it doesn't make the search engine work any better for me. I like it when I find easter eggs in video games. I don't like it when I find easter eggs in tools I use for work. edit: Since I'm yellin
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by rwolf 17y ago
For the gedit kids feeling left out in the audience, check out the plugin "code comment". Who loves you, baby?
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by rwolf 17y ago
If I haven't seen it before, it's new to me.
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by rwolf 17y ago
Some data seems to back up the kid's claim ( http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/nielsen_twitter_was_fas... ), which is not to say he arrived at his conclusion in an scientific way.
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by rwolf 17y ago
I'll admit to throwing a paper out the window for including the phrase "occluded feminine matrix", but I expect things I haven't studied to be hard to understand. Focusing in computer science has some unexpected dividends in related fields
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by rwolf 17y ago
The input (1k of play money) and the output (a change in % on a table) are both fairly ethereal. Aside from claiming the benefits of market efficiency, I don't see a reason to call a system where you get 1,000 different votes a market. I ag
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by rwolf 17y ago
There was also mention of a tiered command structure (units, groups, everybody), fuzzy logic, and different (I assume simpler) AI game mechanics. I remain unenlightened. The phrase "emergent AI" sure is cool, though--taking notes, EA?

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