sratner

18 ms·

121.
by sratner 18y ago
> As you note, if the Chinese can eat it for thousands of years without negative impact, I reckon it's safe. That's a dangerous statement. Your lifestyle is different to the lifestyle of the Chinese over the past few millennia. People i
122.
by sratner 18y ago
"Except it'd be a map about 50,000 times as big as the U.S., with 50,000 times as many roads and intersections..." Great! So now, all you have to do is give some sort of a comparison that lets people visualise exactly how big an area 50,000
123.
by sratner 18y ago
Having checked out the top five, I have to say I found the knol to be most useful in actually teaching someone to read Russian. The current #1 may have been there for a long time, but it is a very poor resource. The knol certainly has the r
124.
by sratner 18y ago
Haven't played with scsh before, but the thing that struck me as interesting while flipping through this was just how similar Microsoft's powershell is in terms of look-and-feel . I suspect it [scsh] may have been a source of inspiration :
125.
by sratner 18y ago
Exactly. In .NET heap allocations are practically as fast as stack allocations, although of course there are other things you need to be aware of when using a compacting generational GC, such as avoiding medium-lived objects at all costs. .
126.
by sratner 18y ago
"Cambridge" includes companies in the UK. But then again, most of the companies that come up for Boston are not actually in Boston. Need something like address:Boston, but they don't seem to have implemented that yet.
127.
by sratner 18y ago
My instinct would be: don't bother. If the data you are protecting is worth enough to someone, they will decompile it anyway.
128.
by sratner 18y ago
With the exception of stricter typing, these are problems of the new Flash runtime, not AS3 (even the ones labeled as AS3). As a language, AS3 is far superior to its predecessors, but because of its simultaneous release with the new runtime
129.
by sratner 18y ago
It is a meaningful way to attack many of the current captchas, if the alphabet and the space of transformations applied to it is sufficiently small. It is being done right now, in fact.
130.
by sratner 18y ago
I have a captcha idea: lets make users watch a 90-minute movie and summarize the plot in 6 words. Oh, and serve ads over it while they are watching, just to recover the bandwidth costs.
131.
by sratner 19y ago
We are working to fix that soon. Thanks for the report. -Simon
132.
by sratner 19y ago
You are just jealous you don't have one.