smallblacksun

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by smallblacksun 17y ago
number_format returns a string - I would expect it to return null rather than 0 for bad input
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by smallblacksun 17y ago
Um, what? You want your compilers to be very fast, otherwise you end up wasting a lot of developer time (and thus money) waiting for compilation.
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by smallblacksun 17y ago
I was hoping for a good comparison of the two, and instead got a typical fanboy rant. There are a few good points, too bad they are buried.
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by smallblacksun 17y ago
Agreed. Despite what you see in movies, a guy with a knife (even if he isn't very good with it) can very easily injure an unarmed opponent badly enough that he can't continue to fight.
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by smallblacksun 17y ago
That's just an argument against our current court system. We allow virtually unending appeals, even with no new evidence or reason for believing that the earlier trials/appeals were somehow unfair. Some states have (or had) mandatory appe
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by smallblacksun 17y ago
I'm not really convinced that this tells you the "size" of the index. It could be that both search engines A and B know of 500 pages with "archiloquy" on them, but A returns all 500 while B doesn't think half of them are relevant, so it on
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by smallblacksun 17y ago
The problem with using only books to try and understand what people who are disagree with you think is that they aren't interactive. While reading something you disagree with, you will probably find yourself thinking "Well, what about X",
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by smallblacksun 17y ago
Learn something new every day.
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by smallblacksun 17y ago
Agreed. I don't see why people think an advertising company would want to make it easy to block ads in their browser.
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by smallblacksun 17y ago
We already use pressure sensors in the road to control traffic lights, which works well (other than the high cost of installation/maintenance).
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by smallblacksun 17y ago
The main thing that they are used for is protecting against spam, which has a very low dollar to account/post ratio, almost certainly lower than the cost to use Mechanical Turk.
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by smallblacksun 17y ago
Steps 2 and 3 sound like a great phishing opportunity.
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by smallblacksun 17y ago
The publisher makes more profit than the author, but they also take more risk. The author is guaranteed $50,000, while the publisher could (theoretically) lose $50,000 plus the cost of printing and distributing if the book doesn't sell wel
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by smallblacksun 17y ago
The post starts with "This comment deserved some expansion." What comment? I spent 5 minutes looking around his site and still have no idea.
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by smallblacksun 17y ago
Do people really have trouble finding the things they want to buy online? Whenever I do a search for information on any kind of product, I get a ton of ads offering to sell it to me. This seems like a solution in search of a problem.
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by smallblacksun 17y ago
first! is classified as "not likely to be stupid", which shows how much work it needs.