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by sly010 13y ago
Does this mean it's actually possible to improve traffic by introducing extra tempo setter cars whose only job is to smooth traffic?
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by sly010 13y ago
This may be obvious, yet unmentioned in the article, but if you are a Chinese student, you can take this exam exacly once, and this is the one single number they will judge you on. Understandable if you are upset. Perhaps if no single exam
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by sly010 13y ago
Nice one! When I did something similar, I found the clicking sound of the relay more satisfying, than a lightbulb, so I eventually completely removed the lightbulb. At the time I used MacMini, which was a tiny bit expensive for this very pu
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by sly010 14y ago
Every time I have to choose between "clever" and "explicit", I just choose "consistent".
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by sly010 14y ago
Such an unambiguous grammar would only have as many state transitions in its FSM than characters in the grammar, which would limit the language considerably, so you would have to raise the number of characters. Also ( means something differ
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by sly010 14y ago
There was an x-ray machine called "Therac-25" which had a chance of killing you if the operator typed a specific (non-lethal) configuration too fast. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25 That was a disaster. This is a bug.
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by sly010 14y ago
TCP relies on lost packages for congestion control. They improve their bandwidth by removing that control. I really wonder what happens when you deploy something like that in scale. My guess is that if you don't implement this carefully, it
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by sly010 14y ago
Re: "Boo, unfair! I am creative too!" Fine, probably you are. But creative coders in the context of this article do slightly different tasks and their job requires a different mindset, than conventional software engineering. I know, I do bo
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by sly010 14y ago
Like... a long time ago in a galaxy far far away?
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by sly010 14y ago
Today if I loose my keys, I call a locksmith with my phone and pay him with my credit card. A year from now if my phone runs out of battery, I am homeless. :)
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by sly010 14y ago
An important aspect to #8 was the 250ms lock, that allowed you to send multiple requests while others were locked out. First I was trying to send the requests from my local machine, which made it nearly impossible to get usable numbers beca
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