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by tspiteri 16y ago
The way I see it is that the article simplifies by just saying "lamp" for the lamp and mains, because the only relevant part to the article is the switching part. For it to be the Carter system, the mains live (hot) and neutral have to be c
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by tspiteri 16y ago
How exactly? If you deliver line voltage to the lamp, it is on and lights. Perhaps you are thinking of the Carter system ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiway_switching#Carter_syste... ), but the system in the article is the common system
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by tspiteri 16y ago
All right, but apart from the railways, what has the Empire ever done for us?
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by tspiteri 16y ago
From my customizations, these are the most I use: Pressing Return starts a new line at column 0, pressing Control j starts a new indented line. I prefer them the other way round, so I rebind: (global-set-key "\r" 'newline-and-indent)
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by tspiteri 16y ago
It's not really disproving your argument, you said almost every submission.
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by tspiteri 16y ago
Well, it's a bit like this: 1. Is it justifiable to walk into a shop? 2. John Does walked into a shop and murdered all present. Was he justified in walking into the shop? Answering yes to 1 and no to 2 is a contradiction in the same way. Bu
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by tspiteri 16y ago
Filtering comments by people who joined after time X would have resulted in people not seeing your own comment, you being only 49 days hn-old.
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by tspiteri 16y ago
The dupe-caller is being downvoted because of incorrectly saying that "neither site says where this comes from," and the replier is being upvoted for pointing that out.
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And when the time appears the same (both at 2 hours at the moment), there is always the item number, 1493907 for this submission and 1493937 for the duplicate.
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by tspiteri 16y ago
Oh, I assumed that "omega" is minuscule, and "Omega" would be majuscule, just like in LaTeX. That's why I started the sentence with a small letter. I missed your mentioning its circular shape.
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Rational numbers have more to do with ratios than reason.
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omega is the symbol of choice for angular frequency, which is very related to pi, as angular frequency = 2 pi frequency (there is another 2 pi for you right there).
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by tspiteri 16y ago
If anything, this particular comment is to show that C and C++ are quite different although they have quite a bit in common.
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by tspiteri 16y ago
A C++ version: #include <iostream> #include <string> int main() { std::string s; while (std::cin >> s) { if (s.size() >= 3 && s.match(s.size()-3, 3, "ing") ==
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by tspiteri 16y ago
The C version has a buffer overflow if more than 1024 consecutive alphanumeric characters are input. And a much less serious point, isalnum(c) looks much better than (c >= '0' && c <= '9') || (c >= 'a' &#3
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by tspiteri 16y ago
It does have an R restricted, some sexual content, warning at the beginning.
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by tspiteri 16y ago
As stated in the article, laser printers do have much higher resolutions. But then ink dots are either there or not, you cannot have as many different colors as you can in one screen pixel. So comparing laser printer resolution to screen re
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by tspiteri 16y ago
There is a good article about luck in chess here: http://www.chessninja.com/migonchess/migonchess005.htm To quote a bit: There is no "chance" on the chessboard, the pieces don't move by themselves. ... However, "extraordinarily improbabl
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by tspiteri 16y ago
Perhaps Android is trying to do to iPhone OS what MS-DOS/Windows did to Mac OS.
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Andrew Viterbi, invented Viterbi algorithm, co-founded Qualcomm(spectrum.ieee.org)
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by tspiteri 16y ago
I did not want to imply that the DA did what they did to get back at Gizmodo, I only meant that the previous comment was not clear and might imply that.
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by tspiteri 16y ago
Does this mean that a police raid was a way of getting back at them for paying the money, and for mocking Apple and the engineer? Now that would be worrying.
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by tspiteri 16y ago
Usually openings are well studied, and it is difficult to find a good new move. A novelty is a move in the opening which noone has used before. It is usually prepared and studied in advance. The player that plays the novelty will then have
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by tspiteri 17y ago
Who says that being underweight presents less consequences than being even just overweight? I had the idea that being slightly overweight actually increases the life expectancy. A quick search gave me this: http://www.upi.com/Science_News/
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by tspiteri 17y ago
"How is this any different than a proprietary license?" With GPL software, you get the right to modify and distribute under certain conditions. With proprietary software you do not have those rights at all.
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by tspiteri 17y ago
The way I see it, GNU is about free/open software, and the GPL makes it possible for commercial companies to open their code without fear that someone makes a lot more money off their own work then themselves. Not having the GPL as an optio
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by tspiteri 17y ago
Virtual functions are helpful only when you have derivation and need some common interface. When your class is not meant to be derived from, declaring functions as virtual is just plain misleading. And I am strongly against fitting everythi
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by tspiteri 17y ago
More context for the actual quote, from Miguel de Icaza's own blog: http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2010/Mar-25.html
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That's not totally correct. From http://ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html : Empty comments can be ok if they're positive. There's nothing wrong with submitting a comment saying just "Thanks." What we especially discourage are comments tha
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by tspiteri 17y ago
Apple's actions are not about suppressing free speech, but about making sure the app store keeps a certain standard. As an analogy, no one is stopping you from going for a drink in any kind of pub/shop/restaurant, but some establishments ha

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