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by smanek 17y ago
I know it's old, but this is one of my favorite programming stories ... (Along with Mel, and a few other goodies)
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by smanek 17y ago
or grammar, apparently ;-) ("your not to" => "you're not too")
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by smanek 17y ago
I think it requires an encryption key to sign code (so you can actually run it). This is prohibited by several open source licenses, notably the GPL v3. Nintendo lawyers probably just got a bit squeamish and decided it wasn't worth the trou
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by smanek 17y ago
Your anecdote is a reason why I shouldn't incorporate in California. It isn't a reason why I should incorporate in Delaware.
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by smanek 17y ago
As a really high level overview of math, I like The Princeton Companion to Mathematics (or the ~1/4 I've made my way through so far). It's a bit too abstract though - it covers an immense amount of material so they have to be - but I still
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by smanek 17y ago
Maybe it's just me, but Clear always pissed me off. You shouldn't be able to pay the government to cut to the front of the line. I'm perfectly fine with paying more to the airline to cut to the front of their line. But everyone should get
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by smanek 17y ago
Wow ... You seriously think knowledge of financial engineering has a greater impact than knowledge of DNA? You need some perspective.
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by smanek 17y ago
One term is a semester, which is ~ 4months. Most classes meet about 4 hours a week, so ~60 hours of class time per term. Profs always say you should spend 2 hours studying out of class for every hour in class, but very few people do that -
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by smanek 17y ago
The rule of thumb is that '100'-level courses are for first year undergrads, '200'-level for second years, '300' level for 3rd years, '400' for fourth years, and '500'-level for graduate courses. There are, obviously, a lot of exceptions. M
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by smanek 17y ago
Hmm, it's possible. I'll gladly admit I need to lose about 20 pounds ... I can't really notice an extra 10 lbs (with clothes) on a frame my size, but maybe someone more observant can. I think you might be nitpicking a little though, my frie
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by smanek 17y ago
Actually the course number for me was 'ECE 110.' A 101 course is, traditionally, the first course in a series while 'EE' is traditionally 'Electrical Engineering.' Hence, 'EE101' is an idiomatic way (at least in America) to indicate the fir
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by smanek 17y ago
heh, this could be the one post where a link to Tag Heur watches could actually be on topic (I'm half joking ...). In all seriousness, I have a friend who looks quite a bit like me (both indian, both wear glasses, similar hair cuts, I'm 6'3
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by smanek 17y ago
ITIL and Six Sigma? They're looking for the wrong skills. If that's his complaint, he's right. I'm not going to waste my time memorizing a series of 'comprehensive checklists' in college. I doubt I know a single CS/Math student who has done
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by smanek 17y ago
Maybe I'm being a bit slow today ... but I don't see the binary numbers encoded in the pattern. I get gray codes (yay Karnaugh maps from EE101!), but I just don't see the binary numbers - someone mind explaining?
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by smanek 17y ago
Go read up on Benford's law. (See http://www.journalofaccountancy.com/Issues/1999/May/nigrini.... for an example of how it was used) I'm not familiar with the digit-distribution law the article mentioned, but on its face it doesn't seem e
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by smanek 17y ago
Of course no idea appears ex nihlio - but I think certain ideas are just so novel and groundbreaking that they mark a qualitative change in humanity (I would include, for example, newtonian physics, relativistic physics, or quantum mechanic
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by smanek 17y ago
I don't know - Id on't consider those to be that significant. The Human Genome project was a fairly natural extension of the discovery of DNA 50+ years ago, the DARPA Grand Challenge is a pretty natural extension of Turing, Von Neumann, etc
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by smanek 17y ago
Fine, you got me - that was 40 years ago, not 50 like I said ;-)
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by smanek 17y ago
Probably alert the user that it can't be parsed (like browsers currently do for XHTML). Maybe do something like firefox does when it encounters a self signed SSL cert - allow the user to accept it - but make that choice explicit and painful
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by smanek 17y ago
Hawking's story is extraordinary - but you can fill books with entertaining anecdotes Feynman's exploits (in fact, they have). Hawkings probably 'wins' in terms of sheer impressiveness of what he has accomplished and what he has overcome. B
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by smanek 17y ago
I don't think it's a cultural thing - I just don't think modern scientists are as personally interesting (for the most part). Most people know of, say, Hawking or Perelman because of their personal stories. But even their lives aren't as ne
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by smanek 17y ago
With all due respect to Hawking - I don't think he's anywhere near as interesting as Feynman or Erdos. Feynman traveled to Brazil to learn Bongo drums on whim, he worked in a Strip Club, mastered the art of the pickup, broke into TS safes a
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by smanek 17y ago
When did MLK call for violence? (I'm not disagreeing (I don't know enough about the topic), just curious).
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by smanek 17y ago
Compared to Feynman or Erdős or Tesla ;-)
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by smanek 17y ago
I know that's in the RFCs, but that's the kind of thinking that caused the web standards nightmare everyone has to deal with today. If you accept incorrect input, then people will expect you to continue to do so into eternity - and if you h
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by smanek 17y ago
No, users explicitly enter their email password. I blame this on user stupidity.
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by smanek 17y ago
""" First of all, there is only one version of the document, so no one is ever unsure if they are editing an old draft. [...] Second, version tracking is built-in so you lawyer can see what changes you made, and spend time looking at those
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by smanek 17y ago
This is what Wittgenstein called the 'Beetle in the Box' problem. He is an interesting enough philosopher - it just seems he found one hammer and tried to make every problem into a nail.
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by smanek 17y ago
Just to clarify, this makes a collision attack feasible, not a preimage attack. That means (iirc) someone can create two messages that have the same hash - but not create a message that has a particular hash. Still not ideal - but not terri
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by smanek 17y ago
Memrisistors (theoretically) can make SSDs that are faster than RAM and denser than magnetic hard disks. You can also build crossbar latches which function as smaller/faster transistors for a lot of purposes.

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