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by smanek 18y ago
I don't think that patents are a particularly good proxy for innovation - I've never even tried to get patents for a lot of the most cutting-edge stuff I've worked on (that would, in my lay opinion, be worthy of being granted a patent). And
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by smanek 18y ago
I'm a bit of a compiler neophyte but if profile guided optimizations yield such a drastic improvement, why doesn't Mozilla (or my distribution via their package manager) put out binaries that were compiled with PGO?
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by smanek 18y ago
There's definitely something missing from that story ... How did the 'attacker' just happen to have a wardialer and know to use it that night? Why couldn't the NOC just shut off that one guy's service? Why can't I find any reference to this
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by smanek 18y ago
You really think that macros have almost nothing in common with functions? Granted that the semantics are a little different but, in my mind, macros and functions are just two different tools that serve the same goal: allowing for code reus
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by smanek 18y ago
Well, my first thought would be using macros to ensure you never have 'unsafe' strings anywhere. But, for some inexplicable reason, Joel says "Don’t use macros to create your own personal programming language." How is using macros to encaps
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by smanek 18y ago
The real problem is that the heuristics that Mail.app and Gmail use to determine which emails constitute a thread/conversation are slightly different. That means that GMail might count ten messages as being part of a conversation, but Mail.
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by smanek 18y ago
why? You have the files, which is pretty much the best API you could want, isn't it?
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by smanek 18y ago
infinity You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means.
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by smanek 18y ago
I don't know if this is a bug or a feature ... but, the edit button is no longer present on the main page. I have to click 'link', and then 'edit' is available. I was just going to edit my comment with a link to searchyc.com. It tells me, f
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by smanek 18y ago
It might be useful to be able to see the average score for my last 50 comments on my user page. In principle, I could of course compute it myself - but might as well have the computer do the tallying for me ;-)
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The Intelligent File Format: Bootstrapping, Self Documenting, Portable Files(akaimbatman.intelligentblogger.com)
1 points by smanek 18y ago|0 comments
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Insightful (non-trolling) criticism of Linux(linux.slashdot.org)
3 points by smanek 18y ago|5 comments
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by smanek 18y ago
How is this a non-sequitur? The two stories have a lot in common, and both are anecdotal evidence of his underlying point.
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by smanek 18y ago
s/trumpet/trump/
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by smanek 18y ago
After this trial ends, they should just not offer service to Italian internet users or businesses ... Ideally they should set up some sore of embargo with all the major players [content providers, network owners, software producers, etc]. I
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by smanek 18y ago
I think the key problem (no pun intended) is that email encryption can't be securely implemented on the server side. Simply put, most of the people who are paranoid enough to need email encryption don't trust Google (GMail) with their PGP p
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by smanek 18y ago
The one point that I agree with the author on is that it is exceedingly hard to write a non-trivial closed-source application that is easy to install and works on all Linux distributions (or even just the major ones like RHEL, Fedora, Ubunt
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by smanek 18y ago
An uncompressed DVD is only 9GB max - 2.5TB is still ~300 movies.
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by smanek 18y ago
Windows has had 64 bit versions available since XP. Just like Linux. Hell, I'm running vista 64bit on my desktop (well, I can dual boot into it) right now.
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by smanek 18y ago
Depending on who I'm talking to, I've heard that Princeton, MIT, and Harvard are each the best in the world (for undergrads). I'm not really in a position to judge, so let it suffice to say that all three are fairly impressive.
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by smanek 18y ago
The SEAS (School of Engineering and Applied Science at Harvard) is a actually surprisingly decent. The one thing that gets some people is that CS is taught from a very mathematical bend - about a third of the CS classes don't require any si
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by smanek 18y ago
I actually did the same back during my freshmen year of college (although it took me a few weeks - that last layer was tricky). But I don't think you gain sexy points for it ;-) Geek Cred != Sexy, unfortunately.
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Is your ISP throttling you?(measurementlab.net)
2 points by smanek 18y ago|0 comments
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by smanek 18y ago
I like the Defense News periodical, and have heard good things about Jane's Defence Weekly. There are a lot of Field manuals available (e.g., see http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/policy/army/f... ), but those are (in my exper
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by smanek 18y ago
So, slash is really 'or'? Oh, my head.
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by smanek 18y ago
The author of this article links to that same post and gives credit to Roger Alsing. He was just using it as a demonstration of Clojure, nothing more. Read the article before criticizing.
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by smanek 18y ago
Did you look at the videos, or just the static pictures? The static pictures are just screenshots taken halfway through the videos. You can see my videos at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1ZPSbImvFE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_VFZ
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by smanek 18y ago
Incidentally, I wrote the same thing for a class recently in Common Lisp. See http://github.com/smanek/ga The biggest portion of the code was the bitmap/image manipulation libraries. Excluding those, it was about the same size.
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by smanek 18y ago
As a very offtopic question, is there a central registry of all the mainstream-ish companies that spam or do other unscrupulous things? Just so I can make a point of avoiding giving them money ...
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by smanek 18y ago
If I'm interpreting this correctly (which I may not be, since there is some ambiguity in the wording) Resig seems to have a bit of a misunderstanding of how neural networks work. He says that an edge weight in the neural network means "At p

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