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by tl 17y ago
"If these trends continue for 10 generations, Stearns calculates, the average woman in 2409 will be 2 centimetres shorter and 1 kilogram heavier than she is today. She will bear her first child about 5 months earlier and enter menopause 10
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by tl 17y ago
I have --enable-plugins turned on atm and I don't see any difference between chromium's flash and firefox's, except that when the plugin crashes on chromium, I reload the page instead of the entire browser.
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by tl 17y ago
They do fool my mother, who sees things like this constantly (constantly enough to ask me about them a lot). The sad thing is that they're completely obvious to me (an XP-based picture on her Vista laptop). If not for people like my mothe
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by tl 17y ago
"To view this page you need Microsoft Silverlight 3 plug-in." I don't think that was a good idea.
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by tl 17y ago
When Grace Hopper was programming your choices involved Assembly, FORTRAN and COBOL. Yes, we still have to write code, but 10 lines of Python / Ruby / Lisp / etc... do the work of 100 lines for FORTRAN or 1000 lines of Assembly. I'll call
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by tl 17y ago
"VoloMedia, which used be called Podbridge, filed for this particular patent in November 2003 — a time, Navar said, before it was obvious that people would download episodic content such as podcasts." Ok, now 2003 still a little late to the
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by tl 17y ago
Interesting game but it hardly seems like Hacker News. Also, the domain holding the high scores is "for sale."
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by tl 17y ago
Colbert Report June 15th episode (includes interview with Rushkoff): http://www.hulu.com/watch/83170/the-colbert-report-wed-jul-1...
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by tl 17y ago
The point (apparently) is to slowly reinvent OpenGL on web, since no one has (yet) added it to Javascript.
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by tl 17y ago
Shouldn't there be max along with min and avg? Std dev is higher in many cases. Could there be an issue where max (worst case) has worse performance in Unladen Swallow?
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by tl 17y ago
Here you go http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=cache:http://gandol...
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by tl 17y ago
Interesting, but the site doesn't handle tools like NoScript gracefully.
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by tl 17y ago
Maybe they meant klepto-fascist?
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by tl 17y ago
How many of those processes are small / simple enough that you can fit dozens of them on a single core with no performance loss? On my dual-core box, top shows very few programs registering 1% of CPU usage. Of those, only firefox needs i
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Major UK ISP: video streaming's "free ride" is over(arstechnica.com)
1 points by tl 17y ago|0 comments
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by tl 17y ago
You know what, I'm glad that companies choose the route that Spolsky derides. Even if Apple (or whoever) makes them obsolete, these products are still useful (and should be profitable) during the interim. The only good advice (which the ar
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by tl 17y ago
Even that option has limited PR value; Microsoft either uses their "shared source" licenses (and comes under fire for not using a more recognized license like GPL or BSD) or they use such a license and feed ammo to the "shared source is tra
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by tl 17y ago
It still needs work for more complex queries: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=debt+%2F+pop++japan%2C+... So there's a small bug when you look at France. Also, it took trial and error to get a query that actually worked. (ex: compari
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by tl 17y ago
~$ sbcl * (- 399999999999999 399999999999998) 1 * (- 12.52 12.51) 0.010000229 * (* 850 77.1) 65535.0
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by tl 18y ago
Men and women have a lot more similarities than the males and females of some species, and we'd hardly be the first species where a genetic trait hurt one gender but helped the other.
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by tl 18y ago
Well, sort of. The difference is that, at least on my box, Grooveshark actually works (as in music plays).
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Halmos, Non-Standard Analysis and Names(rjlipton.wordpress.com)
2 points by tl 18y ago|0 comments
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by tl 18y ago
Aren't we missing the elephant in the room here? Mercurial = Python-based = runs anywhere Python runs Git = Unix-like systems only Doesn't Python shelter a decent sized Windows community? (Free, more accessible than the Windows flavors of
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Internet Explorer 8 launch fails to dent Firefox(electronista.com)
9 points by tl 18y ago|14 comments
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An Idea For Discussions on My Blog(zedshaw.com)
2 points by tl 18y ago|0 comments
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Ideas I Have For Pedals(zedshaw.com)
15 points by tl 18y ago|13 comments
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by tl 18y ago
Reading the full text, I wanted to bring attention to a section titled "Thoughts on the World Economic Crisis." The introduction could easily describe what's happening now, and it is followed by useful refutation of causes of the depressio
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by tl 18y ago
"An interesting one this. Unless this got misprinted somewhere, they must have gone to 64-bit arithmetic to issue bills this big." I really hope anyone handling money isn't using standard floating point numbers.
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by tl 18y ago
The article offers a simple solution here: if the regex fits the model (no backtracking, no arbitrary code, etc..._), use the linear-scaling algorithm described. Else, use the slow, exponential one. Perl (according to the article) is not
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Writing AppleScripts That Dynamically Target Either Safari or WebKit(daringfireball.net)
2 points by tl 18y ago|0 comments

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