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by sesqu 14y ago
I'm not familiar with the Pirsigs, but I certainly do not consider the attitude in question to be lawyerlike. While lawyers do occasionally face philosophical conundrums, they also tend to have the desired answer known to them. This is cons
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by sesqu 14y ago
The one that Apple holds two positions in for arbitrary code execution vulnerabilities?
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by sesqu 14y ago
Do beware turning off JS; the results page no longer has a submit button for submitting new searches.
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by sesqu 14y ago
This is not a Windows blog, it's a Skype one. I find it entirely plausible that someone on their web team has been sold on resizing to 50% in the browser, which is one suggested way to engage Apple's spare pixels. edit: Also, even if it wer
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by sesqu 14y ago
They are 1,366x768 resized to 600x350 for me, which I guess could ha started as a retina thing.
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by sesqu 14y ago
It's also worth noting that the error bars on a given year won't be constant for the month, due to the differences in expected citations.
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by sesqu 14y ago
I found it very interesting that the contributing userbase has gone up but the vote count has not. I've certainly noticed the userbase expanding, but would have guessed that voting followed.
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by sesqu 14y ago
> Isn't the pivot point in standard quicksort randomized? Quicksort isn't standardized. Randomization is a common approach, both then so are median of 5, middle and first datums.
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by sesqu 14y ago
Another common one might be f(x)=log₂ x and g(x)=logₑ 10x
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by sesqu 14y ago
I'm not sure I agree that Θ is more useful than Ο; rather, I think Ο∘E, the expected (time) complexity, is most useful. Take quicksort for example (see misconception 4). Few people care that it's Ο(n²), and even fewer bother to ask if the i
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by sesqu 14y ago
Be sure to watch in 480p, not 360p. I can make out what he's typing, though it is a bit blurry. Plus, if you only care about the commands, he always mentions them - just not all of the parameters.
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by sesqu 14y ago
Derren Brown did a couple of bits on the door study that you might enjoy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBPG_OBgTWg
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by sesqu 14y ago
Given that you're only getting dozens of replies, why are you asking for institution? The only useful pattern I can think of would be something like correlating against university ranking, but that doesn't sound too useful.
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by sesqu 14y ago
It's originally because someone once had to work with ASCII. But I believe the reason it has stuck is because it's often used in contexts like f(n)=2^O(n), which is difficult to fix elegantly. There are a couple of other notations, but they
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by sesqu 14y ago
There's a quote I can't quite place right now (maybe from a TED talk?), but a metrics-oriented guy went to one of these top salesman companies and calculated the inter-year correlation of performance bonuses. Most of the salesmen figured it
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by sesqu 14y ago
Yeah, I meant clauses. Translation error.
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by sesqu 14y ago
Non sequitur much? Only two of those sentences have anything to do with each other, and one factoid argues against the interestingness of another.
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by sesqu 14y ago
Italy has the same problem as Germany and Japan: http://populationpyramid.net/Italy/2040/
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by sesqu 14y ago
Since we're talking about pagination and article lengths, I'd like to take this opportunity to voice my #1 annoyance with unpaginated (and some paginated) articles: the comment section. I'm perfectly able and quite willing to approximate my
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by sesqu 14y ago
Another link in the article pointed to Topomapper which had the best map, in my opinion - an old Yahoo! map. (If you also want to find Atri, it's on the OSM and Bing maps). http://www.topomapper.com/index.html?lat=24.87709&lon=85...
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by sesqu 14y ago
Hmm. I recently saw a company advertize their Red Herring award, and my scam-sense was tingling. I did a little looking and decided the whole thing was a bit of a scam, but targeted at me, the potential impressee. I never considered the pos
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by sesqu 14y ago
I have every right to tell my browser to display all text in green-on-black 12pt Courier Just a sidenote, but if you do this, make it override author settings. I used a custom (white-on-black) default color scheme for a while a year or tw
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by sesqu 14y ago
I started with a couple of flat files. Then I used a notepad, then I moved to Xfce Notes (one of my favourite pieces of software), and lately I've been moving to a folder of text files. While this is certainly an important habit, I wouldn't
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by sesqu 14y ago
The lighting was artificial[1]. I don't mind that part as much though, it's the professional camera that's more disingenuous. [1] https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/578446_101510870...
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by sesqu 14y ago
Yes, the calculation of a p-value is always done by assuming a specific model, though usually a less controversial one than what is proposed. But I wouldn't go so far as to demand smaller values. I would prefer we stop thresholding so much
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by sesqu 14y ago
The issue I take with that (important) observation is that just because the threshold is set at 5%, the results can be far more convincing. In an analysis, you may see several components with p<10⁻⁶, a few with p=0.23, several more with
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by sesqu 14y ago
Some of us still don't enjoy downloading 5 gigabytes just to try a game. Granted, this makes crafting the demo a little harder than putting in an unlock code. As for torrent sites - demos could easily be distributed separately from full gam
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by sesqu 14y ago
Yes. This is a "no such file" error.
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by sesqu 14y ago
> Was that not the whole point of the patent-system? That there is an incentive in doing/thinking first? No. The point of the patent system was to provide an incentive to documenting your inventions and sharing them with others.
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by sesqu 14y ago
In my experience, Moleskine notebooks are better as notebooks than the usual alternatives. That's not because of build quality, though - it's more because of the design. Unfortunately, the surcharge for that usability is too much for me. Fo

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