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by seccess 12y ago
Okay, but can we come up with a calendar system where the months September, October, November, and December don't have the wrong names? It has always bothered me that the prefix sept- means seven, but it is the ninth month, oct- is for
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by seccess 12y ago
I have a more recent example of this: I knew a Google software engineering team which writes all open bugs for their product on a whiteboard. If you want to tackle a bug, you put a post-it note with your name next to it and then go fix it.
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by seccess 12y ago
> Slips through? Mediocre work is the norm, or at least close to being the norm. In computer science, this is likely because of the ridiculous number of conferences there are and how eager each one is to fill out their roster. I want to
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by seccess 12y ago
I agree completely. In my experience as a PhD student (comp sci), all conferences make reviewers anonymous. As a result, there is very little accountability regarding the reviews you receive for your work. More than once, I have had papers
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by seccess 12y ago
For those of you who aren't familiar, Brady Haran, the creator of numberphile, produces a ton of awesome videos of experts talking about science and math. Besides numberphile, he does Sixty Symbols (physics), Periodic Videos (chem), an
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by seccess 12y ago
I'm really impressed with how powerful HTML has become with respect to video content. Of particular note is the Flow Player [0], which I love to see websites use, primarily because it works without JS enabled! In addition, it is fast a
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by seccess 12y ago
"The amount of time and effort I spent wasted on package incompatibilities, instabilities, and debugging strange hardware/driver related issues isn't worth it." Doesn't this assume that this cost for commercial OSes
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by seccess 12y ago
"inhabitable - suitable to live in; habitable." [0] [0] https://www.google.com/search?q=inhabitable&oq=inhabitable&a...
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by seccess 12y ago
This covers many of the reasons I prefer web browsing without JS enabled: speed, less mem usage, safer. Before I started doing so, I thought that disabling JS would make the internet unusable, but a vast majority of pages display their cont
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by seccess 12y ago
Reading this, I'm reminded of Kary Mullis, inventor of PCR (polymerase chain reaction). PCR is widely considered to be the most important discovery of modern biology, ushering a new era of scientific research after he invented it in th
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by seccess 12y ago
My PhD adviser's rule of thumb with pie charts: don't use pie charts.
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by seccess 12y ago
My favorite reason I've heard of for prescribing medical marijuana: writer's block. A police officer told me that, so I'm inclined to believe its true.
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by seccess 12y ago
"Scientists are analyzing the data to see whether the organic compounds detected by Philae are simple ones—such as methane and methanol—or a more complex species such as amino acids" I feel like there is a big difference between f
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by seccess 12y ago
I haven't seen any discussion of the possibility of Philae receiving light to its solar panels as the comet tumbles through space. Is there no chance of the comet turning to a point where the sun can reach the lander?
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by seccess 12y ago
Bear in mind it left Earth more than 10 years ago, I'd imagine they did send state of the art tech for the time.
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by seccess 12y ago
I rather like this interpretation, actually. But I'm still going to try disagreeing. Speaking more broadly, Orwell portrays a world where the freedoms of people are forcibly oppressed, whereas Huxley portrays a world where they are wil
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by seccess 12y ago
I don't personally agree that Obama should have received it, but this article presents an interesting position as to why he did [0]. The author argues that giving the president the prize at the beginning of his presidency may have been
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by seccess 12y ago
You might find this paper about stealing a botnet interesting [0]. Even though its five years old, the crazy stuff these researchers found is still amazing. [0] http://www.net.t-labs.tu-berlin.de/teaching/ws0910/IS
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by seccess 12y ago
In my experience, PHP can have really unexpected runtime performance. This site has some interesting benchmarks highlighting this: http://www.phpbench.com/ I'd like to hear of any other PHP performance gotchas people k
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by seccess 12y ago
This. SSL/TLS can ensure perfect forward secrecy when the private key is compromised, as long as the session information is ephemeral. With session tickets, compromise of the key used to create the tickets means every session created u
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by seccess 12y ago
Interesting, could you elaborate on this a bit more? Say I have a header file "foo.h" with an "auto foo();" declaration. Another file (eg, "bar.h") imports foo.h. How can the compiler do type checking when comp
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by seccess 12y ago
Using 'auto' for return types seems just awful to me. In the context of a collaborative project, I don't want to have to dig through the implementation of someone else's function just to figure out what type it returns.
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by seccess 12y ago
Logic gates and T-flip flops can be built in Minecraft. They might not be the same as their silicone counterparts, but understanding how they fit together is an important part of "real" circuit design. I honestly never understood
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by seccess 12y ago
Does anyone know if WebView is similarly susceptible?