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by scj 10y ago
Here's how I'd state my interpretation: "Statistical analysis suggests that supercentenarians are becoming more common. However, even as their numbers increase overall, the number of people aged beyond 115 is negligible.&quo
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by scj 10y ago
I have to admit that I've never used a BB, but isn't their brand identity around the keypads on their phones? Or do they have an amazing piece of software that I'm missing out on?
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by scj 10y ago
I'd recommend http://www.internethistorypodcast.com/category/chapters/chap... As far as the internet goes, it makes the case that Bill Gates saw the future, but not the immediate one. This left ground for Ne
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by scj 10y ago
Let's say you are using a one-time pad, and the encrypted text is a string of a million A characters. While unlikely to the point that it is barely worth mentioning, it is possible. And could trivially be compressed. I think your mai
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by scj 10y ago
Wouldn't you rather be told upfront what a tool's flaws are before you invest years of effort into them? Even if you decide to embrace a tool despite flaws, isn't it best to recognize / minimize them? For example, C is
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by scj 11y ago
I did an experiment[1] last year that demonstrated JSON parsing only requires 1 bit on the stack per array or associative array encountered (as they are the two non-terminals that lead to different rules). In my implementation, I let a 64-b
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by scj 11y ago
The overflow flag is what you're looking for.
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by scj 11y ago
There's a more concise way of iterating in reverse. for (size_t i = numBurritos; i-- > 0;) if (wantBurrito(i)) break; Where an advantage is that many assembly languages have a "jump if zero" or "jump
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by scj 11y ago
That was one of my first thoughts too, but take a look at the pictures in the article. They are not just video games, but also the older mechanical arcade games.
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by scj 12y ago
As a Canadian, it would be socially unacceptable not to complain about the weather in February. It is a common topic of small talk. Less so in the summer, as the common retort to weather complaints is that "at least it isn't sno
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by scj 12y ago
Would Apple's desire not to use the GPLv3, and subsequent funding of LLVM be related to RMS' actions?
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by scj 12y ago
There are many related problems to the one pointed out by Kamp. But I'm left asking, does the cathedral scale? Does it handle evolutionary complexity well? I'm a believer that a much simpler/cleaner set of software tools co
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by scj 12y ago
That was the 1995 Cringley interview. About 54 minutes in. "You don't really want to hear about NeXT, do you?" was the exact statement. And he claims that innovation in the computer industry is in software within seconds.
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by scj 12y ago
She was briefly mentioned in Steven Levy's "Hackers", as an MIT computer user who's program crashed after the "Midnight Wiring Society" changed how the computer worked. Also, she was interviewed in "Moon M
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by scj 12y ago
Steve Bales with feedback from Jack Garman (Gar-Flash). The amazing thing is that Garman was the only one to have a quick reference of the various error (numeric) codes.
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Show HN: Bitwise JSON Parser written in C(web.cs.dal.ca)
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by scj 12y ago
Shaming congress doesn't appear to be effective at the moment. Bush Sr. talked about going to Mars with SEI. Bush Jr. talked about it after Columbia. Skylab (the space station in the 70s) was supposed to teach us about long duration
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by scj 12y ago
There are two possible scenarios where I'll get my hopes up that humans are going to Mars: 1. It is so close that it is obvious. A heavy lift human-rated rocket is in service. It is demonstrated that humans can live long duration wit
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by scj 12y ago
There was an article about a month ago that explained the asymmetry in the American court system. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8544775
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How often does your MBP crash?
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by scj 12y ago
>As an alternative to possibly engendering environmental apathy, imagine a scenario akin to the Cold War, except that one of the superpowers has a million citizens on Mars, and the other doesn't. Does MAD still apply, or does the in
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by scj 12y ago
I wear a watch, but I think about it as jewelry, and incidentally as a time piece. And until there is a killer app for a watch, I will continue to do so. Originally, I posed myself the question _if_ I would wear a smartwatch if there is no
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by scj 12y ago
From the article: "As one might expect, government officials who have such contractors in their own districts and states are unhappy with this." If many local jobs are being threatened, a politician would want to be seen attemptin
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by scj 12y ago
I think the safest thing to say is that integration of any technology takes time. Even if a technology exists, it won't be ubiquitous immediately. If we accept that one day computers/robots will be able to outperform a plurality
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by scj 12y ago
I first embraced recursion back in university when I realized that in certain situations, memory could "automatically" be allocated and deallocated by using the stack (Which is a nice short cut when learning C). In time, this lead
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by scj 12y ago
Ambiguity implies guilt! I'm pretty sure the secret service could be convinced to proceed on that maxim.
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I didn't either, but if not, my bet is that outside programmers will make an open source version (like Mono to C#).
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by scj 12y ago
It was a fear years ago when Quake was open sourced [1]. In Valve's case, the programmers probably had to audit all the source code in order to reduce possible exploits. [1] http://www.bluesnews.com/cgi-bin/finger
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by scj 12y ago
>"We should have charged $1 a seat for every Java license" and that would have generated billions in cash annually, perhaps saving the company. "There's a fine line between doing good for the community and doing too g
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I think that it is safe to say that the Surface is a failure. But that doesn't mean it should be killed, just fixed. I concur with the article when it notes, Apple's iPad is a clear winner in the high end for now and the immedia

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