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931.
by sehugg 13y ago
... says the blogger who makes money pennies at a time on page views from people wanting to read about passive income.
932.
by sehugg 13y ago
This section of the site has been removed and "revised" before, notably in 2008: http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/18/changes-at-cha...
933.
by sehugg 13y ago
Amazingly compact too, the whole system code fit in 9k of memory and ran circles around AppleSoft performance-wise, despite having 3D wireframe graphics and bit mapped fonts.
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Forbidden Spheres at Los Alamos(nuclearsecrecy.com)
2 points by sehugg 13y ago|0 comments
935.
by sehugg 13y ago
There are two games that we love: Amazing Frog and Bombsquad. The rest don't get played much. Hopefully this situation improves.
936.
by sehugg 13y ago
The former POTUS's quote "America does not have a functioning democracy at this point in time" was covered in few U.S. outlets, and initially reported in the German paper Der Spiegel in the German language. Perhaps the most v
937.
by sehugg 13y ago
In fairness, many API documents read like this: Ref GetRef(); // gets the ref
938.
by sehugg 13y ago
It's certainly interesting to think about, at least: http://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.ru/2009/06/more-thoughts-... Given the huge downside of a CPU exploit leaking or being detected, I'd expect them to
939.
by sehugg 13y ago
There is some talk on Twitter about how the Guardian uses OpenOffice primarily which may account for the differences in the slides.
940.
by sehugg 13y ago
Compare that to Tom Skelly, lead programmer at Cinematronics (80s vector games) who had to reverse engineer an abandoned custom CPU design while writing games for said CPU in machine code on legal pads. http://www.dadgum.com&#x2F
941.
by sehugg 13y ago
Link to article: http://www.volokh.com/2013/07/07/hints-and-questions-about-t...
942.
by sehugg 13y ago
Here's a good article on Lunar Module stability, which is a similar problem with the exception that the Grasshopper has a much longer longitudinal axis, and relies solely on gimbaling (thrust vectoring) with no separate attitude contro
943.
by sehugg 13y ago
Also for the average person shopping for a new car the extra $7k is hard to swallow, regardless of fuel efficiency over the lifespan of the vehicle. Diesels are built heavier and tougher by necessity thus pricier.
944.
by sehugg 13y ago
There are the very real issues of apathy and media-influenced distractions. For example, here's the last 30 days of Google search traffic on "NSA" vs. "Paula Deen": http://www.google.com/trends/
945.
by sehugg 13y ago
Also: 6 Cities That Were Caught Shortening Yellow Light Times For Profit (2008) http://blog.motorists.org/6-cities-that-were-caught-shorteni...
946.
by sehugg 13y ago
I meant actual times, the MUTCD only says you must use "engineering practices" in determining the interval. The ITE equation was included in my link -- however it optimizes for reduced red-light violations, so it's no wonder it's not used
947.
by sehugg 13y ago
I think short yellows are dangerous, especially with loaded vehicles. US DOT should set standards for minimum yellow light times. Here is one such proposal: http://www.shortyellowlights.com/standards/ EDIT: Linked to proposed standard and
948.
by sehugg 13y ago
This is the May 2012 story the AP claims to have set off the investigation, the writers of which were allegedly the targets (linked from Business Insider): http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/washington/story/2012-05...
949.
by sehugg 13y ago
It's worth pointing out that even tic-tac-toe is PSPACE-complete. Here is a StackExchange question discussing the "solvability" of PSPACE vs NP: http://cstheory.stackexchange.com/questions/5323/are-pspace-...
950.
Reuters: U.S. is biggest buyer of offensive security tools(reuters.com)
7 points by sehugg 13y ago|0 comments
951.
Obama May Back FBI Plan to Expand Wiretap Laws(nytimes.com)
110 points by sehugg 13y ago|68 comments
952.
National Institutes of Mental Health Director Rejects DSM V(blogs.scientificamerican.com)
61 points by sehugg 13y ago|25 comments
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by sehugg 13y ago
This SO answer has interesting comments on Fortan performance: http://stackoverflow.com/a/13079021 And this appropriately grumpy rebuttal from a JPL guy to the 2004 "Petition to Retire Fortran" makes some good arguments for not retiring i
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by sehugg 14y ago
They still sell them, but everything in them must be edible (seriously): http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2012/12/27/do-modern-no-chem...
955.
by sehugg 14y ago
If you apply this same logic to coin-operated arcade games, you are breaking the law if you use the Tetris PRNG hack mentioned today ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5640893 ) or even Pac-Man patterns ( http://www.math.montana.edu/~hy
956.
by sehugg 14y ago
by now most of the world’s programming would be happening in low-to-medium-wage countries and that customers wouldn’t have to pay a lot for high quality software. But it hasn’t happened (e.g., see my posting about California’s state govern
957.
by sehugg 14y ago
I've had that too, but when it eventually comes back (~10 seconds) I get about 100 repetitions of the last key I pressed. Mid-2009 MacBook pro.
958.
by sehugg 14y ago
Don't forget AVS (Advanced Visualization Studio). Good old software rendering, and programmable: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tka07_LC534
959.
by sehugg 14y ago
Anyone taking a look at the Senate bill S.2102? http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-112s2102is/pdf/BILLS-112s...
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Judge Denies FBI Request to Hack Computer(online.wsj.com)
2 points by sehugg 14y ago|0 comments

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