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by sesqu 13y ago
"Who the hell is VikingCoder? hmm... if I click here, and here... and cross-reference these histories... yeah, looks like that's the Nicaraquan guy I talked with last week in Counter-Strike after researching fruit flies. Banana so
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by sesqu 13y ago
> what the hell does anyone need this information for Advertising. This isn't the first company to try this, and it sure as hell won't be the last. They want to know where people move, where they look, what stores they visit, a
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by sesqu 13y ago
The only exception to that rule that I personally make is indenting in-line comments; I've found that some comment-heavy code benefits from alignment, but multiparagraph alignment is a futile and counterproductive goal, so the tab mark
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by sesqu 13y ago
Well, there's stuff like word wrap and GNU indent and a host of pretty-printers, but I think you're looking for something more resource-intensive and integrated. The question then becomes, why configure a transformer when you can
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by sesqu 13y ago
Back before Warcraft 3, multiplayer usually meant LAN. Neglecting the single player campaign would have been just stupid.
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by sesqu 13y ago
Probably the former. There were a bunch of similar sites originally, this one arguably the best, and the comic didn't always link to it.
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by sesqu 13y ago
That's not entirely accurate. Many experiments were useless, notably Mengele's, but some data collected remains useful (though not necessarily used) to this day. There were results by others that were applicable, usually regarding
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by sesqu 13y ago
That's... not quite true. I'm not excusing WWII, the reason Europe is exceptional is precisely BECAUSE things like that are an aberration and not accepted as a matter of course. They discuss them as a society and change their gove
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by sesqu 13y ago
There have been a number of attempts at that. Unfortunately, most of them seem to also try to solve the problems of "PHP based" and "forum".
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by sesqu 13y ago
Humble Bundle could do more work with their payment options. Bitcoin was a good addition, I think, but not enough. As for $1 mobile apps, same deal but with less confidence that the app is worth even trying, much less paying for.
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by sesqu 13y ago
To be completely fair, π turns up occasionally in statistics too, as a symbol for probability.
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by sesqu 13y ago
The major problem is that a circle is too ambiguous a symbol; you'd need to add a notch or line or something to make it clear that you're referencing a constant. And when you do that, it becomes harder to write. I always favored a
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by sesqu 13y ago
Some people react to bullying by learning how to bully; some people by learning how not to. It's hard to see either tactic working out.
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by sesqu 13y ago
I don't have sources handy, but I think I remember reading about several such cases from the 60's or so. They didn't really make use of the discoveries back then.
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by sesqu 13y ago
While belonging to the most terrorist groups will usually give the highest score, it's not quite the same as what betweenness actually measures - belonging to the most terrorist groups that are each large but do not share many members.
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by sesqu 13y ago
Well, setting prenatal care as a prerequisite for the box almost certainly did.
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by sesqu 13y ago
That's just, like, your opinion, man. I happen to know for a fact that I did not fart at a party in 2001, but that's not generally accepted as true.
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by sesqu 13y ago
A major problem with this experimental setting, and the proposal that bets signal belief, is that they ignore the system the bets are placed in. As students observe, "the right answer" depends on who's doing the judging. Most students have
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by sesqu 13y ago
I enjoyed it more this time than I did when I last saw it, perhaps because I was more familiar with the showcased peculiarities last time (the theme is garbage in, garbage out).
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by sesqu 13y ago
When I googled around for recommendations, 12pt was the most common, but some went as high as 16pt. Personally, I prefer 14pt, leaving 12pt only for good font and layout pages.
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by sesqu 13y ago
Beware, the file is 177 MB.
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by sesqu 13y ago
While I get where you're coming from, I don't think you've come very far. IQ is not meaningless as a predictor at all - it correlates with income, and income correlates with some measures of impact. Stating that the rate of IQ change is ass
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by sesqu 13y ago
I use links2 -g a lot, but as you pointed out, many of sites are pretty bad on it, having pages and pages of crap before the content starts. That said, there are very few ads and paywalls and multimedia distractions. I do wish it supported
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by sesqu 13y ago
A common complaint of PHP is that ordering of the arguments is inconsistent. So too here.
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by sesqu 13y ago
That last picture was problematic in that it showcased three different conventions for application: fx f <*> x x >>= f The first of these (see also the Monads section) was the author's fault (should have used f &#
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by sesqu 13y ago
Thanks for the link. Note, though, that the median algorithm used there uses a different parameter for n than OP. It also is bucketsort-based and O(n), O(1) only amortized (in both parameters). Additional knowledge of your data is often use
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by sesqu 13y ago
> Also "mash A to increase the chances of catching" is also unfortunately wrong. I remember playing the game, thinking about this. I was wondering whether I had heard it somewhere or come up with it myself, how unlikely it was to be tru
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by sesqu 13y ago
The two-pivot variant has a smaller recursion depth in addition to avoiding the multiplicitous median issue, but does come at the cost of extra swaps. But in the end, quickselect is what you use when you don't worry about pessimal performan
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by sesqu 13y ago
TDWTF has several anecdotes. Try this, for one: http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Uniquely_Secure.aspx
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by sesqu 13y ago
They were heavily pushing the social streaming aspect, and admitted to as much. Letting other people know who you are listening to is a longstanding tradition, and worth good money to Spotify (who never raked it in to begin with).

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