thomasbk

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by thomasbk 14y ago
Idea: remember the EURion constellation? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EURion_constellation It's a pattern of circles that's printed on money, and when printers detect it in a file they will refuse to print that file. I wonder what would
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by thomasbk 14y ago
That background made the article unreadable for me. Both because it slowed down the browser and scrolling, and because it was incredibly distracting.
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by thomasbk 14y ago
Given the amount of work this project is, I would presume that very few people will get anywhere near completing the course. So it doesn't seem impossible for the people running it to study the submitted solution in some depth and compare i
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by thomasbk 14y ago
I think something like this might be a very cool project for those of us who have the time. You get intimate knowledge of C++, compilers, assembly and other close-to-the-metal aspects of programming. I wonder how much time it is going to ta
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by thomasbk 14y ago
I agree, but only because the office installation in this screenshot is set to use the darkest theme -- by default all that gray is just more white.
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by thomasbk 14y ago
Outlook.com has a related feature: it has a button that creates a filter which automatically deletes any messages from that sender after N days, or only keeps their most recent email.
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Hackers Deface Entire MIT Website in Aaron Swartz Suicide Revenge Attack(gizmodo.com)
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by thomasbk 14y ago
I've been using high-ish DPI in Windows for a few months now ("Windows XP style"), and I pretty much never encountry any problems. Only apps I've encountered that don't scale are some Java apps.
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by thomasbk 14y ago
FWIW, the founder has informally responded here: http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showpost.php?p=36587703&#3...
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by thomasbk 14y ago
Could you be more specific about the things Lyx does worse than Word? For me, most of its WYSIWYM-features work pretty well. For what it's worth, the most annoying thing for me have been the tables, which overflow in awkward ways.
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by thomasbk 14y ago
You do however build up a tolerance to modafinil, and it has various negative side-effects. But I agree that it's weird to make some sort of hard separation between various types of nootropics, and say that you should never touch some. Ever
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by thomasbk 14y ago
When you work business-to-business in an industry with few players and mostly fixed relationships, you pretty much never get new clients through your website. Especially for service providers in this industry it's much more about your reput
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by thomasbk 14y ago
Hardware?
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by thomasbk 14y ago
I'm surprised that he got fewer than 1000 hits. I always thought that HackerNews and Slashdot (probably much larger, I guess) would send way more people, for some reason. I guess HN traffic is quite targeted and valuable to some people thou
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by thomasbk 14y ago
What incentive is there for users? Prizes, points, fame? As a game, I think prediction markets do not entertain too many people because predictions are very long term. Have you thought of a way to fix that? For what it's worth-- one of the
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by thomasbk 14y ago
It's back up for me in the Netherlands after doing ipconfig /flushdns in console, fwiw.
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by thomasbk 14y ago
Actually, http://m.facebook.com was down here too.
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by thomasbk 14y ago
ipconfig /flushdns in console got me back on.
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by thomasbk 14y ago
A great site with 95 documented attempts at proving P ?= NP is over at http://www.win.tue.nl/~gwoegi/P-versus-NP.htm , for those interested in the subject.
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by thomasbk 14y ago
Becoming a (cash-)billionaire sounds pretty good to me, freedom and all. You can still use that money for businesses to start or run if you want, perhaps focus your life on charity. But these are just empty words from the rail; the article
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by thomasbk 14y ago
Based on the fact that this database is free and public domain, apparently it's possible for such data to have a restrictive license. So, I'm wonder what the sources of this data are? Is it compiled from public resources from the government
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by thomasbk 14y ago
I would characterize this as cheating/fraud, not as hacking. The technical details are interesting nonetheless.
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by thomasbk 14y ago
A little-known operator in C++, the "goes to"-operator: int i=4; while(i --> 0) { cout << i; }
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by thomasbk 14y ago
They could run it from a non-profit instead of a private company. Would be an interesting experiment!