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by zb 14y ago
This seems like a step in the right direction, because GitHub's search remains awful. For example, I can now type in "<user>/<repo> #123" to go to an issue, but if I am already on the Issues page for that repo and I type "#1
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by zb 14y ago
Good point - this wouldn't such be a great solution if it caused problems for other people. That has been accounted for, though: the sign actually says "Sonderfahrten" (special trips) in the area where the bus number(s) would be, to indicat
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by zb 14y ago
It's called rape because of the psychological effects on the (alleged, in this case) victim, not because of the psychological affects on people who read about it in the paper, and a lot of people here on HN would do very well to stop trivia
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by zb 14y ago
Can we get rid of the editorialising in the title? The linked article mentions no such law or proposed law, and in fact encourages the NZ government to maintain its existing position in ongoing multilateral trade negotiations. Edit: thanks
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by zb 14y ago
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/21/science/21brain.html?pagew... This article suggests that it's computationally infeasible even for an organism with only 302 neurons, all of which have already been completely mapped.
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by zb 14y ago
Indeed, Part 1 of this post was all about that, and is definitely worth reading too. http://www.empiricalzeal.com/2012/06/05/the-crayola-fication...
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by zb 14y ago
It's true that this makes the VDOP generally higher than the PDOP, which leads to lower precision in the vertical direction. The 10-25m figure is a complete nonsense, though. It's more like 3-5m.
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by zb 15y ago
> I'd totally use some kind of smart discovery service to find me cool art. So find a dealer gallery you like and develop a personal relationship with them.
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by zb 15y ago
If the beat frequency is audible, it will be on the recording. Obviously.
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by zb 15y ago
Systemd services are configured with a .service file, which is a text file (but not a shell script). I don't know why the author made the bizarre suggestion that anybody would start tinkering with the source of systemd itself in order to co
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by zb 15y ago
Actually I think C emerged from its original ANSI standardisation process in much better shape than when it went it. You don't see too much K&R C being written these days for good reason.
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by zb 15y ago
The complaint here is not so much that they don't know, but that they're unwilling to consult anyone who does before making a decision. And 'bandwidth' is a technical term from electrical engineering that refers to the width of the frequenc
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by zb 15y ago
> this was well known 10 years ago. This was well known 40 years ago: The most deadly thing in software is the concept, which almost universally seems to be followed, that you are going to specify what you are going to do, and then d
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by zb 15y ago
For the benefit of non-native speakers: the plural of "life" is "lives".
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by zb 15y ago
Dietrich Dörner, The Logic of Failure .
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by zb 15y ago
I believe a recording of a performance would be considered a derivative work under copyright law. As such what you're advocating is large-scale commercial copyright infringement against the NFL and the networks who pay it for exclusive ri
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by zb 15y ago
That sounds pretty plausible to me. Remember that the BSA is an organisation that is in constant danger of looking like a cartel. To avoid giving this impression too strongly, it's quite likely they have a fair degree of autonomy over copyr
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by zb 15y ago
It's a reference to a previous article that specifically called out Microsoft and Apple as tacit SOPA supporters by virtue of their membership in the BSA.
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by zb 15y ago
Why should the laws be ridiculed? They prevent companies from promoting their trade marks as generic terms and then claiming a monopoly on them - rather like the old days when people would sneak patented technologies into IEEE standards and
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Measurement and Its Discontents(nytimes.com)
1 points by zb 15y ago|0 comments
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by zb 15y ago
The brain is much messier than a physical system. ... So it does not lend itself to being easily described by simple mathematical laws. Here is a nonsense that I really wish people would stop repeating. The only simple physical systems ar
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by zb 15y ago
No, he didn't. He was legally in the country and he applied for asylum before his authorisation expired. It was all above-board, though that doesn't mean he gets to stay since the asylum application was eventually declined.
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by zb 15y ago
It has been proposed several times. 2008: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-sharhalakis-httptz-05 1995 - shot down because (paraphrasing) "I don't need this so neither should you": http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/ange/archives/archives-95/
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by zb 15y ago
I'm not talking about the entire system failing and falling over to the other, I'm talking about the probability that from any given point you can see enough satellites to get a fix. More satellites is better.
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by zb 15y ago
It means more satellites in the constellation(s), and in circumstances where that makes the difference between getting a GPS/GLONASS fix and having to rely on cell tower/WiFi positioning then the difference in accuracy would be very signifi
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by zb 15y ago
I think you might be paraphrasing what the books say. What they usually say is that arrays and pointers are equivalent - which is true. It's easy to read that as saying that arrays and pointers are identical , but that's not true at all.
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by zb 15y ago
You are mistaken (as is _delirium). Pointers to arrays are fundamental to how multi-dimensional arrays are implemented in C, and this question is designed to test your understanding of them. (It is most certainly not about a fancy way of ge
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Tufte: USPTO dashboard "one of the worst interfaces ever designed"(edwardtufte.com)
25 points by zb 15y ago|11 comments
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by zb 15y ago
This paper: http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/ptti/1996/Vol%2028_16.pdf states that "the time rate is appropriate to observers on the surface of the rotating earth, that is, in the ECEF". I'm interpreting that to mean that the issue raised in th
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by zb 15y ago
When you solve 3 simultaneous equations in 4 unknowns there are far more than 2 possible solutions. However, you are correct that if you have a priori information about one of the unknowns (usually the altitude, since it's easier than car

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