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by tb 16y ago
I can understand Fermat's Last Theorem but I don't understand its proof.
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by tb 16y ago
That's because you must be in an area with relatively high signal strength. The signal bars on the iPhone are very non-linear. If you had been in an area with marginal signal strength (but still enough to read 5 bars), holding your phone no
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by tb 16y ago
May I ask why you don't use another cheaper provider for fixed base load and reserve EC2 for peak load capacity? Is it that the overhead of running on two different providers not worth the money you'd save? Or is this something you've consi
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by tb 16y ago
The Bing marketing people may not be interested in promoting the fact that it's a Microsoft product - their aim is only to get more people using Bing.
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by tb 17y ago
Yeah me too.. I get XML parsing errors because there are a couple of extra bytes of garbage at the beginning of the file, things like: "1caaa" on http://sivers.org/real and "df9c" on http://sivers.org/ff2
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by tb 17y ago
Here's a counter: http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/was_the_citi_bailout_really_a.p...
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by tb 17y ago
Isn't the whole point that they are equivalent? Both can calculate anything that can be calculated (in finite space, since both are limited by the finite length of the tape / size of RAM).
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by tb 17y ago
It'd be good if after you entered some text, the sample at the bottom showed the text you entered un-hyphenated and hyphenated for easy comparison, rather than keeping the Article 7 sample.
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by tb 17y ago
If it's close to the horizon then there's a definite "up" - towards the zenith. Many telescopes invert the incoming image, hence why the kids would've thought it was upside-down. (I am assuming the object in question was visible with the na
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by tb 17y ago
FCC Part 15 approvals[1] cover all electronic devices, not just those that intentionally emit electromagnetic radiation. All computer equipment still needs approval before it can be sold to ensure that it doesn't unintentionally radiate exc
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by tb 17y ago
Run the key nodes on ordinary EC2 nodes, and only use Spot nodes for things that you can cope with disappearing i.e. things that can be frequently checkpointed and won't disturb other nodes when they disappear.
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by tb 17y ago
Mobile phones and digital cameras etc often come with USB cables for charging. The intent is that they be charged from the ports on a computer but there's no reason they can't be charged directly from a socket. The exception is the iPhone,
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by tb 17y ago
The wall-plate most probably has a AC-DC converter in it, and you're correct in thinking that these draw a small amount of power even under no load. However it would be almost trivial to completely turn this off when there is nothing physic
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by tb 17y ago
f() is only available in the Erlang shell/REPL. The reason it has such a short name is that it's intended for use in the shell and not in real code. Its purpose is for forgetting a variable name that you may have defined earlier during inte
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by tb 17y ago
FPGAs (as the name implies) work at the gate level, not the transistor level.
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by tb 17y ago
I quickly switched from reading to skim-reading to trying to find a pattern in the boldness to giving up. I might've read it all if it used one font face consistently.
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by tb 17y ago
I should expand upon my comment. Anyone who claims that, "I will argue further that moving to a signal-based, synchronous software model will not only result in an improvement of several orders of magnitude in productivity, but also in prog
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by tb 17y ago
How did this get to #2 on HN? This guy is a known nutcase and a troll.
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by tb 17y ago
A true second-price auction is one where the bidders (secretly) inform the auctioneer of the maximum price they'd be willing to pay, and the bidder who nominates the highest price wins, but pays the price nominated by the second-highest bid
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by tb 17y ago
In metric countries (i.e. most of the rest of the world) we use litres per 100km, which is the "right" way around. :)
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by tb 17y ago
The do-while "nonsense" is a pretty standard construct, so much so that I'd never seen your approach - which I admit looks nicer. How well is that supported across different compilers? Is it part of C99, for example?
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The eyes have it - a tale of 3 vision problems(codemines.blogspot.com)
2 points by tb 17y ago|0 comments
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by tb 17y ago
I don't know if you misunderstood or just didn't read the linked page, but this is a compiler for hierarchical Bayesian models, not a compiler that uses Bayesian inference in the process of compiling, neat as that would be.
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by tb 18y ago
Generally speaking, that's true. The standard practise in Erlang is to treat processes like you'd treat memory allocation in other languages - don't be wasteful, but don't spend too much time worrying about it until it becomes a problem. Pr
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by tb 18y ago
Compilers licensed under the GPL do not transfer their license to their output. This is explicitly stated in the GPL.
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by tb 18y ago
Because ESR is a tool.
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by tb 18y ago
How do you figure out if the candidate is going to be able to meet your goals though?
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by tb 18y ago
You appear to misunderstand the meaning of the terms "inconsistent" and "incomplete" in the context of Gödel's theorem. "Inconsistent": There is at least one statement within the system that can be proved both true and false. "Incomplete":
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by tb 18y ago
I recommend you check out jQuery (jquery.com). It makes simple Ajax stuff like this really easy.
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by tb 18y ago
If someone uses Google Reader to subscribe to your RSS feed, then your new blog posts are likely to get indexed as soon as Google Reader sees your new post show up in RSS.

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