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by teaspoon 16y ago
She more than likely took the witness stand and saw this guy face-to-face. You can't really charge someone with a crime without identifying yourself.
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by teaspoon 16y ago
That argument's not self-consistent, though. If people are still viewing the "stale" content, then what makes it stale? If people aren't viewing the content, then how can they recoup any costs by putting it behind a paywall?
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by teaspoon 16y ago
The parent was pretty clearly in response to, "An other option is to add features which are only behind a new paywall."
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by teaspoon 16y ago
Technically speaking, charging any amount of money is a professional signal.
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by teaspoon 16y ago
Most of the "great" languages were at one time internal to a company or research group.
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by teaspoon 16y ago
And if the kid gets bored of the visual programming language that goes with Mindstorms, try setting up NQC for him/her: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_Quite_C
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by teaspoon 16y ago
Not quite true. "I beg your pardon" and "I begged her forgiveness" are standard English.
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by teaspoon 16y ago
Plura Processing does something like that -- offering their distributed computing client for integration into Flash games, and kicking $2.60 back to the developer per month of compute time: http://www.pluraprocessing.com/games/index.html
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by teaspoon 16y ago
Also, it's not strictly wooden.
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by teaspoon 16y ago
To be fair, iPhone launched with almost all of the same limitations. Not to say that today's Kin should be competing with yesterday's iPhone, but even today, none of those limitations is a dealbreaker for me.
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by teaspoon 16y ago
There's also the optofluidic "microscope-on-a-chip": http://deviceguru.com/cal-tech-unveils-microsopic-microscope... The lensless optics are similar to the cellphone microscope, except that there is virtually no distance between the sampl
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by teaspoon 16y ago
Your mention of Python made me wonder if anyone's experimented with an indentation-sensitive syntax for Lisp. It turns out they have. In this Scheme RFI, "I-expressions" can be freely mixed with S-expressions in source: http://srfi.schemer
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by teaspoon 16y ago
O(10^25) = O(1)
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by teaspoon 16y ago
Could it be that these terrain maps are compiled from hiking maps, which tend to be very local and don't label obvious or general features like "the Nile" or "the Alps"?
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by teaspoon 16y ago
Question from someone who maybe doesn't spend enough time examining PLs: How is JavaScript "like assembler with hashtables"? What "messed-up-ness" are Python and Ruby legendary for?
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by teaspoon 16y ago
Most of these icon sizes are provided by the developer only optionally. Any sizes not provided are generated on the fly by resizing with some kind of bilinear filter. If you're not doing any better than that bilinear filter, why provide th
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by teaspoon 16y ago
Are you in the United States? What state are you working in?
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by teaspoon 16y ago
Given that OnLive is in many senses a monopoly for the time being, I think they're plenty economical without that benefit. The cost of a wasted instance-hour will probably be negligible next to their weekly revenue per user.
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by teaspoon 16y ago
Women don't read HN?
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by teaspoon 16y ago
I don't mean to be that guy who interjects quotations into HN discussions with plenty enough original insight, but Malcolm X makes a similar observation in his autobiography: "I have less patience with someone who doesn't wear a watch than
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by teaspoon 16y ago
Not quite. Even if the plane had zero ground speed, and the Iknonos were offsetting the four images to account for its own motion, the effect would still appear. That's because the offsets that align features on the ground will not be the
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by teaspoon 16y ago
I made this point under another parent: $300k includes opportunity cost. Adding four years' salary (even with only a high school diploma) to four years' $40k tuition and living expenses, $300k doesn't seem so farfetched. Of course, that def
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by teaspoon 16y ago
Jason Rohrer is an American programmer whose family has annual expenses of less than $15k: http://hcsoftware.sourceforge.net/jason-rohrer/supportMyWork... From the sound of it, they're not living on Big Macs. But they do live an unconven
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by teaspoon 16y ago
The $300k includes opportunity cost. That means it's tuition plus living cost plus four years of whatever after-tax salary you can make with a high school degree.
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by teaspoon 16y ago
That doesn't really tell us anything about variance. After all, in that single trial of generating 347 numbers, his computer could just as easily have spat out a uniform distribution.* To see variance, it would have been better to generate
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by teaspoon 16y ago
The east-side theory predicts the geographical distribution of property values and of low-income households. These maps plot the distribution of crime as measured by arrests. Poverty and crime are not the same thing.
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by teaspoon 16y ago
Contrary to that old saw, I don't believe I heard anyone called a "user" in five seasons of The Wire.
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by teaspoon 16y ago
Right. The point is that he could be considered unemployed despite making money.
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by teaspoon 16y ago
If Singapore is anything like downtown San Francisco, they may save paint and tax dollars by indicating where you can make a U-turn rather than where you can't. It could also be a way of reducing sign clutter, which is an eyesore and saf
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by teaspoon 16y ago
Has anyone seen an example of an effective arc diagram in the wild? I always find them completely opaque. I'm not surprised to learn that ordering the nodes so as to make the diagram readable is a non-trivial problem.

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