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721.
by zck 17y ago
This was very nice to read. In my experience with articles for deletion, I've never seen the closing administrator's reasons laid out like this. I hope this happens more often than it used to.
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by zck 17y ago
>One possible explanation is that in San Francisco, men who aren't gay, married, or damaged by a previous owner are decidedly cagey when it comes to dating and relationships. Wow...that's over the top. "Owner"? It's not even a quote f
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by zck 17y ago
It doesn't make sense. If it were a demo, wouldn't Intel stamp "DEMO" on it all over, so it wouldn't be mistaken for the real thing? Also, as the article points out, why would there be a blank manual in a demo chip, and why would Intel make
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by zck 17y ago
Not to be an apologist, but you still have to account for programmer skill and number of programmers. I'd be interested in seeing the average and median for different programming languages, not just the top results.
725.
by zck 17y ago
The discussion of Penn Station ( http://www.slate.com/id/2246104/ ) in the same series has more concrete examples, and is pretty cool if you've spent time in Penn.
726.
by zck 17y ago
I read staunch's post as a joke -- "obviously Wikipedia is correct, so have pg fix paulgraham.com to what Wikipedia says".
727.
by zck 17y ago
Wikipedia says "Applied Sciences" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Graham ), but paulgraham.com says Computer Science ( http://www.paulgraham.com/bio.html ).
728.
by zck 17y ago
Interesting how pg is the only YC founder listed here. Other than being the most visible face of YC, why is only he on the list?
729.
by zck 17y ago
I was thinking more along the lines of "we tested this, and it doesn't help condition X", not "this will harm you". The article's down now, but I recall the lowest level being "no evidence". That implies that no tests have been done.
730.
by zck 17y ago
This is about snake oil, but there's no "negative evidence" line?
731.
by zck 17y ago
I'm in the US, and I've seen them (here's one at Target: http://www.target.com/Haier-Front-Load-Washer-Dryer-Combo/dp... ). From what I've seen, they're more expensive. Also, if you're doing N loads, it takes longer if you have one combo u
732.
by zck 17y ago
The original page from readwriteweb: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/facebook_wants_to_be_yo...
733.
by zck 17y ago
I was surprised the ad didn't end with the person clicking on "I'm feeling lucky".
734.
by zck 17y ago
Unfortunately, it's less likely than you think.
735.
by zck 17y ago
This doesn't look Y Combinator affiliated. Is it?
736.
by zck 17y ago
Also read the counterpoint to Schneier's article (linked at the bottom of Schneier's): http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/magazinePrintFriendly/0...
737.
by zck 17y ago
>In a series of mock gunfights with colleagues Bohr always drew second and always won. I'm hoping the author of this article just didn't want to elaborate, but Bohr never thought it could've just been that he was faster at drawing than
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Is math a socialist plot?(maa.org)
87 points by zck 17y ago|73 comments
739.
by zck 17y ago
Always the s-shaped one? (Or the z-shaped) It guarantees you'll eventually lose.
740.
by zck 17y ago
Interesting; this article says the rewrite rule is F -> F+F-F-F+F , but Wikipedia says F → F−F++F−F . I think Wikipedia's is right, as (for a beginning) there are only four line segments in step N+1 for each line segment in step N.
741.
by zck 17y ago
That's because they have to reduce the price of any ticket sales beyond 1939. Note that the year has a carat next to it, indicating "documented multiple theatrical releases. Most of the pre-1980 movies listed on this chart had multiple undo
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by zck 17y ago
This doesn't account for the fact that Avatar on 3D IMAX costs more than an average movie. They're using $7.35 as the ticket price, not the $17 I've seen as the actual price. From the article: "Inflation-adjustment is mostly done by multipl
743.
by zck 17y ago
Not to mention a rip-off of amazon.com
744.
by zck 17y ago
Interesting that they consider pg's site a blog.
745.
by zck 17y ago
So even take 1% of the assets under management. Hedge funds take a percentage of assets each year. So 30 billion under management means 300 million revenue each year if they do nothing. They get a larger percentage of profits. So yes, it's
746.
by zck 17y ago
Ouch, that would be a pain to use. All four of them are on the same finger, even! The problem with leaving hjkl where they are is that it wastes a huge amount of prime real estate. In colemak -- as you've seen -- those keys are used for hne
747.
by zck 17y ago
It sounds like someone wants to cheat on Project Euler. No, I'm joking. If that was the only issue, I'd just post them. Somewhere on the Project Euler site -- I can't find it now -- they ask for the solutions not to be posted anywhere. That
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by zck 17y ago
Even if you hold that theory, there's an implicit limit as t->infinity . Certainly if a new keyboard that's objectively better was introduced today, by tomorrow it wouldn't have >50% marketshare.
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by zck 17y ago
btilly's reason is correct -- It's because Project Euler is about solving the problems for yourself, not just blindly copying and pasting. Although I'm starting to lean towards thinking that if people want to cheat, they will, and so if I c
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by zck 17y ago
I use Colemak ( http://colemak.com/ ), and I'm up to about 70 WPM (measured at typeracer.com, not anything more scientific). Unfortunately, I did no QWERTY tests before switching, so I can't compare, but I doubt I was significantly higher.

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