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811.
by wnoise 13y ago
> but still (in my mind) unsurpassed in writing I take it you haven't played _Planescape: Torment_ ?
812.
by wnoise 13y ago
This is the coupon collector's problem. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coupon_collector%27s_problem The formula in the article (1/2 + n*gamma + n log n) gives 2365 for the expected number, but this is different
813.
by wnoise 13y ago
So we should double tax capital gains?
814.
by wnoise 13y ago
The current title on HN of "Feminism is to equality as metrics are to performance" is far more interesting than the title at the blog of "Devops needs feminism", but it's never really elucidated.
815.
by wnoise 13y ago
How do you summon them? Just shout across the restaurant?
816.
by wnoise 13y ago
Applied Minds?
817.
by wnoise 13y ago
Tipler, "Rotating cylinders and the possibility of global causality violation" Physical Review D, vol. 9, Issue 8, pp. 2203-2206 http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1974PhRvD...9.2203T
818.
by wnoise 13y ago
United States Government.
819.
by wnoise 14y ago
For plain text, see "par", a much nicer version of "fmt". http://www.nicemice.net/par/
820.
by wnoise 14y ago
Perl 8, of course.
821.
by wnoise 14y ago
Threaded comments are not too complex. The main thing I want is a bidirectional NNTP gateway, so I can use nice clients to handle updating threads without having to trudge through the stuff that hasn't.
822.
by wnoise 14y ago
Amendment V specifies "no person", neither "no national", nor "no resident", nor "no citizen". Amendment XIV, extending this to limiting the individual states does restrict it to "citizens", but this is a case of the Federal government act
823.
by wnoise 14y ago
What do you mean by this analogy?
824.
by wnoise 14y ago
> One of these sets has only a single element, namely 0. The others have two elements each: Except for the other one-element set, containing INT_MIN.
825.
by wnoise 14y ago
The Fingerworks TouchStream keyboard did, but of course, Apple bought them.
826.
by wnoise 14y ago
Shouldn't you hope it wasn't worth the bad PR?
827.
by wnoise 14y ago
A suitcase?
828.
by wnoise 14y ago
Not the same thing. Think public-vs-private portion of a class.
829.
by wnoise 14y ago
One of the few nice things about the C include mechanism is that it's pretty easy (and standard practice) to set up separate implementation and interface files. If the implementation of something changes, but not the interface, I don't wan
830.
by wnoise 14y ago
You can't tell that incoming UDP is spoofed. The only filtering you can reliably do is outgoing.
831.
by wnoise 14y ago
It satisfies the elements specified in the law. By definition it's a crime. Now, it's quite possible that the police and prosecutors will be reasonable and not prosecute it... but prosecutors and police are human, and quite possible to
832.
by wnoise 14y ago
And now that it's in a secondary source (The New Yorker), someone will correct it. EDIT: has corrected it.
833.
by wnoise 14y ago
No. I want to be able to make slides that work on projectors. The only unit able to handle this would be "angle based on standard viewing distance", which will require markedly different "actual lengths" for different devices.
834.
by wnoise 14y ago
I want such an app to stop when I close the tab.
835.
by wnoise 14y ago
No, but it's perfect for an experienced programmer in other languages to pick up C.
836.
by wnoise 14y ago
Somewhat arbitrary, but not completely. There's some heavy math that suggests sqrt(n) scaling in the 1-d case.
837.
by wnoise 14y ago
> None of us want to understand every single domain of knowledge from set theory or quantum physics up to cosmology or social psychology. Speak for yourself. All of those are fascinating.
838.
by wnoise 14y ago
There are many DSLs for just this purpose that almost always should be preferred to a general purpose language like python. http://www.ifwiki.org/index.php/Inform_7 is the most commonly recommended. But there are many others: http://www
839.
by wnoise 14y ago
Some specific category. In general, the best we know how to do is a square-root speed up, which would only be applicable here if the number of possible solutions were 10^160. (Specific categories do appear to have marvelous exponential spe
840.
by wnoise 15y ago
Which Apple _won't_ use any code from. They're certainly capable of doing so, both legally and physically. They choose not to.

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