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by zbanks 15y ago
If you really think you can: pitch. Don't just complain that other people are getting the money.
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by zbanks 15y ago
Thanks. I guess it's similar to the whole P != NP issue.
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by zbanks 15y ago
Has anyone heard if they managed to observe the effect of gravity on the particles? The Nature article was vague... I remember hearing that this was one of the reasons why they needed to trap antimatter for observable lengths of time. To my
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by zbanks 15y ago
Both signify that the project was done quickly & may have bugs. Also, they aren't necessarily attempting to turn the project into a business, or even make money off the project. It's a warning. They aren't looking for startup advice, th
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by zbanks 15y ago
I had the same experience (Droid 2), except it crashed before I could even accept the Root Permissions dialog, so I doubt I suffered any major damage. (The default permissions are more innocuous)
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by zbanks 15y ago
Using http://www.alloscomp.com/bitcoin/calculator.php : On my computer (netbook running Chrome in Ubuntu), bitp.it clocks at 2.2khash/sec. Using this, I'll give 2000hash/sec/user as a conservative estimate. If you had 1M daily visits, ave
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by zbanks 15y ago
You might be able to do it with Java, but honestly that's even worse. The hard part is that it is a security issue to record video from a webcam from a webpage. Flash lets you get around this.
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by zbanks 15y ago
When I started, I was thinking about using JS both "for the lulz" and because I'm comfortable enough with it that it wouldn't be a hindrance, like LOLCODE or Befunge. I went with python instead because I assumed I'd need to squeeze as much
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by zbanks 15y ago
So fossil does have rebase?
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by zbanks 15y ago
Thanks for providing that. The biggest question I had was "Why?" Even still, I don't completely understand his point (is he being rational?). Hasn't mtgox been invaluable in giving value to Bitcoins? Without it, it'd be harder to liquidate
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by zbanks 15y ago
When we did a stock market game in high school, we weren't allowed to use penny stocks. I was so excited to find stocks that were doubling or tripling daily, only to realize how worthless it'd be in real life. If anyone out there is a trade
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by zbanks 15y ago
To be fair, the same happens in the stock market: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_stock#Artificial_Inflatio...
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by zbanks 15y ago
With bike locks, you're not looking for tensile strength, you need to resist shearing & shock loads. Carbon fiber, for example, may be considered to be almost as strong as steel, but it breaks pretty easily when subjected to shear and s
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by zbanks 15y ago
You can debate the validity of Crockford's claims all you want, but I think you're missing the point. This exercise just shows how silly benchmarking is, especially when all the contenders are "sufficiently good."
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by zbanks 16y ago
To help improve the quality of comments, what if the OP's vote was weighted more than everyone else's? Their upvotes could be worth 3-5 instead of just 1 point. An OP is motivated to keep their comment thread awesome: having better comments
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by zbanks 16y ago
I tried unity in 10.10 and found it to be cumbersome. I was shocked when they announced they were moving to it for 11.04. But, it looks like it's undergone a few improvements. (Strangely, I know,) I trust the people working on Ubuntu to mak
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by zbanks 16y ago
Thanks for addressing the issue. A lot of people are taking this as an opinion question: it's not.
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by zbanks 16y ago
Knuth has a large range of problems in his text. He scales them all by difficulty on a log scale from 0 to 50. Things rated 00-05 might be a basic facts or arithmetic (What is 6! ?). A set of problems in the 20s would be a good chunk of wor
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by zbanks 16y ago
To the human or the printer?
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by zbanks 16y ago
This is pretty amazing & clever. I wish the font file was available just to play with, even if it was a crippled version. Even though it's not a "full" typeface, I'm surprised he's not charging more. If it works as advertised, I'd gladl
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by zbanks 16y ago
Agreed. A QR link would be nice. "color camera group" isn't working for me, sadly.
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by zbanks 16y ago
I'd have to disagree too. I just applied this year, and was incredibly pleased to get accepted. (woo!) The thing is, my grades weren't stellar . Don't get me wrong, they were great, and I was ~15th in my class-- but people had better. Si
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by zbanks 16y ago
github_update.php wouldn't be linked to by any of your pages, so it shouldn't show up in the google index. You could also force it to accept some password as a GET parameter for a wee bit more security. I agree though, this is still a reall
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by zbanks 16y ago
If you're doing this sort of manipulation, it's not like you can't afford the extra cycles.
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by zbanks 16y ago
I set up a jsperf to do some benchmarking: http://jsperf.com/noisy If you can help out by running the tests, it'll be great to compare browsers. This isn't exactly the perfect tool for the job, but it's close enough.
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by zbanks 16y ago
> Could you link to a Twitter account, e-mail subscription of some sort? There's a 95% chance that I forget everything you just wrote after I close this tab, unless Techcrunch, Daring Fireball, and HN shower you with attention. I think
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by zbanks 16y ago
I assume they're doing this because of some government restriction on photographing the city? Otherwise, I can't imagine that this kind of effort could be profitable...
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by zbanks 16y ago
Can you indicate where your company is located? (This really does not sound like a telecommuting job) Edit: Looks like SF.
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by zbanks 16y ago
Is there a reason that Apple needs to keep creating its own proprietary connections/protocols? Worse, they keep changing.
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by zbanks 16y ago
I've also spent some time on http://hacker.org Rather than focus on a specific "answer," you instead write algorithms to solve various flash games based on NP-complete/hard problems. Its interesting since there's always ways to improve.

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