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151.
by zbanks 16y ago
Those are not the kind of bugs I'm used to searching for...
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by zbanks 16y ago
Tic-tac-toe is proven to be unlosable. (You can win if you go first & you are playing an imperfect opponent) Check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tic-tac-toe#Strategy for the description of the algorithm.
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by zbanks 16y ago
Note: blogs.msdn.com
154.
by zbanks 16y ago
Forcing a background for all logged-in users is kind of a small mishap. Adding a huge new search feature that pretty much renovates the workflow of the UI is a much larger, and harder decision.
155.
by zbanks 16y ago
"To put that into perspective, 850 billion is enough ISK to buy about 2575 PLEX."
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by zbanks 16y ago
I, on the contrary, trust Google here. They're known for their extensive testing. I highly highly doubt that they would make such a major change to their main page without knowing for sure that it would be for the better.
157.
by zbanks 16y ago
Kind of funny, but it gets to the point where everyone tries to throw in their own punchline. (I'm sure the same would happen here...)
158.
by zbanks 16y ago
And then the important part: employees will be forced to use IE12 (or whatever) because Chrome 25 & Firefox 6 don't support silverlight, which will slow adoption of html6.
159.
by zbanks 16y ago
It's the very nature of the beast (social news, that is) You can't have a site to aggregate the "best" news without restricting your user base. With fewer users, you can't make as much money.
160.
by zbanks 16y ago
Cool idea. It's one of those "cheap" speed boosts which are always nice to find/have. It'd be nice to see this implemented in Django as well...
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by zbanks 16y ago
"From a bit to a few hundred megabytes, from a microsecond to a half an hour of computing confronts us with completely baffling ratio of 109! The programmer is in the unique position that his is the only discipline and profession in which s
162.
by zbanks 16y ago
What if I want to reset my schedule to something unnatural?
163.
by zbanks 16y ago
Is this really important? Sure, the source may be slightly polluted, but it's not going to slow down the application once it's compiled. Really, these sort of things are probably good in code: they make it explicit that you are dealing wi
164.
by zbanks 16y ago
What changed? It seems the same...
165.
by zbanks 16y ago
Similar thing happens all the time with powers of 2...
166.
by zbanks 16y ago
Yes, sorry. I meant that they refrained from using canvas/svg/flash.
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by zbanks 16y ago
Interestingly enough, they did it with "pure" HTML/CSS, plus 2 images for the nodes & connections. I was a bit surprised that they didn't use canvas, which seems to be all the rage these days. I'm assuming this implementation, however,
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Google's HTML/CSS 3D Buckyball(google.com)
50 points by zbanks 16y ago|24 comments
169.
by zbanks 16y ago
...python? Or ruby? I disagree with his criteria, however. "An extremely good preprocessor" isn't necessary for every compiler/interpreter. Also, OOP isn't necessarily a requirement in modern languages -- there are other ways of doing thing
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by zbanks 16y ago
The stories that he's wrong about are really important here, and would determine if this is news or not. If his site has a higher quality of content, good for him! It's like the netflix prize, except no cash. If it's worse than digg's page,
171.
by zbanks 16y ago
Great. Yet another instance of anti-Net Neutrality. Thoughtful question for the day: would an ISP that prioritized P2P traffic be considered amazing, or evil?
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by zbanks 16y ago
Great point. That million-dollar homepage experiment where the guy sold pixels for $1 each took almost no effort on his part. "Easy" The likelihood it would ever work again? Very very very slim. Not easy.
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by zbanks 16y ago
Oh, it's possible, but it's easier to use if there's a quick shortcut. I love how Gnome handles unicode insertion though.
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by zbanks 16y ago
Thank god. I thought this was going to be a link to the "SarcMark" http://02d9656.netsoljsp.com/SarcMark/modules/user/commonfil... That movement was just really poorly thought out. Yeah, let's choose some bizarre symbol and charge people
175.
by zbanks 16y ago
Did someone call for a nutritional anthropologist? www.nutritionalanthro.org/
176.
by zbanks 16y ago
I've always wanted to get a plate that somehow represented my PGP fingerprint. Although, it'd be hard to fit all 16 bytes into it...
177.
by zbanks 16y ago
Well, bias also comes from withholding facts. "Netherlands:0, Spain:1" doesn't mention the dramatic game between Germany & Spain. Although it's pretty harmless here, it can make a difference when you talk about bigger things, like unemp
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by zbanks 16y ago
Did these studies ever show a decline in grades? If grades stayed (relatively) the same, or even increased , then the lack of studying shouldn't be a problem. Either kids are smarter, or the courses aren't forcing them to study as much.
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Open Source Hardware - Educational & Modular Electronics Kits(kickstarter.com)
1 points by zbanks 16y ago|0 comments
180.
by zbanks 16y ago
As clueless as AP is, even they seem to pick up on the fact that TC is just trolling. I feel like there is some form of poetic justice or something going on here.

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