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by smolsky 8y ago
Ummm... you probably meant "median". Note, "average" is just "arithmetic mean".
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by smolsky 8y ago
So, the nun went to town.
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by smolsky 8y ago
Riiight. There must be a Borat (of KZ) joke here somewhere...
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by smolsky 8y ago
Wow, that is the most often made generic comment. Are there other languages _like Rust_? Have you heard of large, production code bases maintained at large successful companies that are written in Rust?
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by smolsky 8y ago
C'mon, we can do better: Phrozencrew
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by smolsky 8y ago
Yeah, the opposite is true in many Silicon Valley offices - the male's toilet has a line after lunch.
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by smolsky 8y ago
Also, Redfin gave me 1.5% back when I bought a house. Ka-ching!
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by smolsky 8y ago
"Put that cookie down! Down!"
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by smolsky 8y ago
Not trying to be a sarcastic jerk... any death is tragic and sad. Yet the Linux maintainers' average age is probably going up every year... so the community will have figure out a way to bring new blood in /and/ pass the rein
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by smolsky 8y ago
There is one distinguishing feature: swipe. It lets me move back/forward by swiping across the face of the Windows tablet.
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by smolsky 8y ago
Yes, that's true. Another argument my American coworker had put forth: "American rock-n-roll needed Imperial units... or the lyrics would not work".
42.
by smolsky 8y ago
Was this announced on G+?
43.
by smolsky 8y ago
This is a fun, self-monitoring prophecy of a kind. You can see clicks originating from ycombinator after this post went to ycombinator.
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by smolsky 8y ago
Not just that, the second listing used "e" registers, so 32-bit mode (and not just 8086).
45.
by smolsky 8y ago
No, no, /dev/urandom is really slow...
46.
by smolsky 8y ago
So, AdBlock++?
47.
by smolsky 8y ago
Ads? That's not the driving tech in video. Porn is.
48.
by smolsky 8y ago
"Discussion system", you say? What about alt.bin.* stuff?
49.
by smolsky 8y ago
What about using VSP?
50.
by smolsky 8y ago
So a cross between bittorrent and porntube?
51.
by smolsky 8y ago
Yeah, mini-wiki in your file system is cool. Just started using it and have mixed feelings: * The files can live anywhere (say, the Dropbox folder) * The files are plain text * The markup is minimal and there is UI for it * The app is a bit
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by smolsky 8y ago
Oh, right, that's the one. Thank you! The title is something like "The tale of Buran" now.
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by smolsky 8y ago
First of all, I agree. Yet I think I have a stigma claiming illness or disability... don't know. So, next time I'm going to try this: I am a foreigner and have serious issues understanding spoken English. Please avoid calli
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by smolsky 8y ago
I read a short novel about the legendary flight written by a security officer that was deployed at Bakonur at the time. It was in Russian (of course) and called "How we launched Buran". The novel had all sorts of fascinating detai
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by smolsky 8y ago
{quote} Also it is important to keep in mind the old tricks used to pass bad laws: they push initially for worse laws then after public protest they slowly step back to the initial goal to pretend people were listened to, so that not onl
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by smolsky 8y ago
Two questions: 1) Does it have a side-by-side diff? 2) If not, can I plug my own app?
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by smolsky 8y ago
BTW, things work correctly when the objects live inside a real array: #include <stdio.h> int main(void) { int arr[16]; int *p = &arr[0] + 1; int *q = &arr[1]; printf("pointers: %p %p %d\n", p,
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by smolsky 8y ago
Food porn. Love it!
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by smolsky 8y ago
Here in the Bay Area there is a smaller scale issue of the same kind between Palo Alto and East Palo Alto. In this case the former does not like the latter to have anything similar in its name... oh well.
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by smolsky 8y ago
So, is this the right thread to mention the honorable First Prime of Apophis? He did a few illegal things...

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