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by yangyang 17y ago
This sounds like complete nonsense: "Lasers sweep the surroundings and when they detect a CCD, they fire a bolt of light right at the camera to obliterate any photograph"
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The Founder Visa Ignores Immigration Reality (kirkwylie.blogspot.com)
78 points by yangyang 17y ago|46 comments
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by yangyang 17y ago
Misleading title: "You may be interested to know that this document was originally written for internal use in the Operations department at Google. At the time, I was campaigning for the right to use Ruby on internal projects and I felt tha
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by yangyang 17y ago
Information on HP's site: http://h71036.www7.hp.com/hho/us/en/pclc/articles/series-dre... That mentions "simple touch controls embedded in the display", so it's not clear it's a full touch screen. The prescence of a remote suggests it's n
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by yangyang 17y ago
The bigger download would slow things down. Not sure if image resizing could even make sensible use of sub-pixel rendering...
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by yangyang 17y ago
Hard to believe because it's not true. Completely misleading headline. Motorola obviously still makes tons of hardware, and they even make the phone in question in this review.
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by yangyang 17y ago
This brought a smile to my face. Very impressive and well worth a read.
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by yangyang 17y ago
That's fair enough, more art than utility. Thanks.
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by yangyang 17y ago
But seriously, who needs to know how many hotels someone's slept in over the last month, or what baked goods you've got in your house? Surely the novelty wears off pretty fast. There are some things that I want to track (running data from m
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by yangyang 17y ago
I'm being pedantic, yes, but it's 13 to 19 inclusive. Not 10 to 19.
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by yangyang 17y ago
Teenage = 13-19 (ends with -teen).
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Twitter's New Terms of Service (blog.twitter.com)
1 points by yangyang 17y ago|0 comments
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by yangyang 17y ago
Depends on your definition of value. Aho Sethi Ullman will teach you rather more about compilation of programming languages than 2000 sheets of paper ;-)
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by yangyang 17y ago
Tact has nothing to do with accuracy, which was what you were commenting on. Tabloids by their nature print many more photos.
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by yangyang 17y ago
The second story you link to was also covered in the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/nov/10/india.internatio... The third was covered in the Independent, a (former) broadsheet which I think most would consider as respectabl
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by yangyang 17y ago
Why are they any more likely to be corrupted than any other file (including your python sources or .pyc files (which use another serialisation scheme, marshal))?
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by yangyang 17y ago
He forgot C! It's not in the language spec, but gcc will optimize tail calls, with -O2 or above.
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by yangyang 17y ago
10x the rack space, 10x the cooling, 10x the power ...
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by yangyang 17y ago
If it had any truth to it, it might stick. But from what I've read so far (not tried it), it just isn't slow.
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by yangyang 17y ago
It's not mentioned in this article, but Python 2.6 objects have a __sizeof__ method, used by sys.getsizeof(): >>> help(sys.getsizeof) Help on built-in function getsizeof in module sys: getsizeof(...) getI(object, de
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by yangyang 17y ago
References?
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by yangyang 17y ago
Ignoring the fact that, as mentioned elsewhere this comparison is not like-for-like, clojure and java won't compile to precisely the same thing. Much like common lisp and C++ compilers targeting x86 won't compile code doing the same thing t
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by yangyang 17y ago
Misleading title - it should definitely include the fact that the clojure implementation was GPU based.
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by yangyang 17y ago
Without the useless link page: http://www.kotaku.com.au/2008/08/microsoft_confirms_corrinne...
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by yangyang 17y ago
Well there are things like SWIG and Boost Python that can make your life considerably easier. But you are right, it's much more work than C.
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by yangyang 17y ago
You certainly don't need to know scheme to read SICP. You learn it along the way.
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by yangyang 17y ago
You're confusing shells and terminal emulators (if you can call them that under windows). You can use the "Powershell ISE" thing as a tabbed "terminal", but Powershell itself will quite happily run under the windows console "terminal emulat
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by yangyang 17y ago
What's next then? What OS do you use? What Linux dist? What web browser?!
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by yangyang 17y ago
That's a shell, not a terminal emulator.
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by yangyang 17y ago
They're not necessarily the same thing.

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