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by tezza 14y ago
Chinese provinces have vast coal mountains they don't use. This is to fudge the figures so that it looks as though the province is creating electricity. "Chinese Data Mask Depth of Slowdown, Executives Say": http://www.cnbc.com/id/4792903
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by tezza 14y ago
I have a bookmarklet that makes the Up arrow large enough to click on an ipad. ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1398539 ) I've adapted it to change your preference for the vector up: javascript:{im=document.images;iml=im.length;f
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by tezza 14y ago
Umm... * Tracing code execution paths to load the code into your mind * Modifying state inline so you get a different path without re-running * Modifying state like FirstName to trace just how the bugger gets into the output * Som
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by tezza 14y ago
Man, I still find myself reaching for dos2unix all the time. How sad.
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by tezza 14y ago
A few questions: * Conflicts of interest: how do I know my Product X is given fair treatment if you have another client with a similar Product X'. Say they have a higher price and your cut would be larger if you sell theirs, not mine. * if
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by tezza 14y ago
My Wife owns a cafe underneath some flats. Occassionally the flat sewerage backs up and effluent pours into the cafe basement. My Wife as the owner is the one there ungumming the pipes until a plumber can be hailed.
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by tezza 14y ago
I don't mind the way MS does C . Whacking variable declarations at the top of the scope becomes second nature quickly. I came from assembly language, where the process is very similar and not too demanding
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by tezza 14y ago
* Lots of programmers you can hire today (contrast to D, ML, Haskell ) * Excellent introductory texts (Kernighan & Ritchie) * Backed by giants like Microsoft, IBM * Everything else always has some mechanism to link against it
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by tezza 14y ago
Good point. What I would say is that my mobile apps have very large buttons. Any 'miss' could only really occur at the edge of each button. So in that case I could use the event coordinates in contrast to the dimensions of the button to d
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by tezza 14y ago
Mazel Tov to Mark & Priscilla . Nice simple way to have a wedding.
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by tezza 14y ago
I posted on Jeff's original HN posting... so I know what it's like to have one's arguments split over multiple tit-for-tat postings. I also agree with what you advise that learning is good for its own sake esp. if it is a concrete skill. --
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by tezza 14y ago
I applaud 'Learning to code' if it defined as: * taking problems and reducing them to a sequence of repeatable instructions and decision points (branches) . I think 'LtC' is irrelevant if defined as: * I wanna make iPhone apps / Facebook p
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by tezza 14y ago
The Press wrongly just focus on one issue at a time. Other problems become side-notes or explicitly ignored. Any solution to the current focus problem is paraded as a global solution. But when the long ignored problems finally burst, the Pr
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by tezza 14y ago
Data Point: I just got back from the rugby sevens in Hong Kong. The queue at _Hong Kong_ was two hours long. On return to Heathrow the queue was 30 minutes. Even in his article Cory was told there would be a 5 hour wait and had under a 2 ho
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by tezza 15y ago
VIC-20, MicroBee, ZX-81, C64, Amiga
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by tezza 15y ago
Easy, "false print" comes from the days of ticker-tape Ticker tape would literally be a paper tape. Trade info like last trade prices/qty would be sent over a telegraph link to be printed on the paper tape. That's where the Print comes from
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by tezza 15y ago
But you just draw the image first from vector and blit that. Vector gets all the normal bitmap speedup tricks that way. Reading your PNG from the disk in the first place will be slower than reading a compact vector, rendering it and caching
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by tezza 15y ago
Not sure I can agree with you. I think vector drawing can be better in both size and drawing speed. It depends a lot on the representation. Bitmap will not get a lot better than what we've got at the moment with JPeg or Gif. Vector represen
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by tezza 15y ago
I've commented on Modafinil before ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=647333 ). Please see caveats there. I would say that Modafinil does not make a boring task interesting. It does not supply any drive to work. I characterise the effe
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by tezza 15y ago
Bad, but they've had shockers before: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Macintosh_G3 or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Power_Mac_G3_AIO_corrected...
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by tezza 15y ago
Wonga for USA: a lot ( and there are v many clones ) of these lending companies are already US companies. They have presences in USA, but have exploded in the UK because the Usury laws are less restrictive. http://blogs.channel4.com/factch
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by tezza 15y ago
What sort of servers are they going into? ~ 13 servers with 4 sticks (64GB) each?
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by tezza 15y ago
G'day (esp on Australia Day). I'm an Aussie too living in London. I'm a keen cyclist and love walking. I've been hit by several cars while cycling, three times very seriously. I walk whenever humanly possible, cycle for a lot of odd jobs th
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by tezza 15y ago
Woah there on the hyperbole! Using a war analogy is not the same as being correct: it breaks down too easily and ends up silly. Do you really care if you're shot with an arrow or a bullet if you are still killed?? I also don't want to turn
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by tezza 15y ago
I use a mangled pseudonym on FB, and entered a misleading DOB... how are they supposed to know? Probably they have some common heuristics to spot a fake, but those cannot be too clever. --- Re: Scale of monitoring Does this not just make th
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by tezza 15y ago
The leakage of information by friends is a problem. But it is not a problem owned and invented by Facebook, it is any network.
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by tezza 15y ago
A google for "firefox facebook blocker" returned: http://webgraph.com/resources/facebookblocker/
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by tezza 15y ago
I meant no harm, and was just a 5 second google in a White Hat fashion. If you see some of the other posts on this topic, the same 5-second-google got some better results. I imagine there are data-mining companies that are crawling the inte
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by tezza 15y ago
Ok, so I see the point that the websites you visit invite Facebook tracking onto their pages. But one can trivially block these autoinclusions. --------- http://webgraph.com/resources/facebookblocker/ -- My work's firewall directs Faceboo
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by tezza 15y ago
It is auto-profiled in google and other indexers. -- You (gldalmaso) don't list your email address, but you haven't used a unique username, so you pop up under twitter (your name is disclosed). You have a StumbleUpon page which lists your a

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