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by NinetyNine 14y ago
Is something like this possible locally with the new FileSystem APIs?
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by NinetyNine 14y ago
In the specific example of the blog post, an isDefined() is still necessary. How is `isDefined()` different than `ref !== null`?
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by NinetyNine 14y ago
Possible opportunity charging students facebook credits to get their essays checked.
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by NinetyNine 14y ago
Interacting and exploring APIs is either the newest fad or a gold rush for new business, but one of the biggest things stopping me from using them is integration into my existing stable tools. webshell.io is another service which is hosting
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by NinetyNine 14y ago
There's no automated service, but you can have the post office hold any package for you for a week or so. These guys look like they're going after the online retailer distribution market though, similar to Amazon's upcoming "lockers" platfo
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by NinetyNine 14y ago
That's a pretty interesting situation. I certainly don't think there's any "something" blocking you, I'd guess it's more of a vague feeling of caution that you're clinging to because you can't quite understand it. It's easy to get into thes
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by NinetyNine 14y ago
"Trolling" is a term of perspective, if you are witnessing the trolling then you have no information about the original intent.
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by NinetyNine 14y ago
Pair that with a slightly stronger form of data hiding by using TrueCrypt's hidden partition feature to encrypt the second OS partition. Just make sure not to ever boot into the honeypot os afterwards, or it could overwrite parts of the hid
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by NinetyNine 14y ago
In my current project we do actually stand up, although only due to the pleasure of the team leader. The main reason it's called a "stand up" is to serve as a reminder that it should be very short, 5 minutes max, or otherwise the time most
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by NinetyNine 14y ago
I'm not really sure how you're implementing scrum. Our scrum standups are always just the programmers, once a day in the mornings, and are used to keep all the programmers on the same page and talk to each other to find out if features migh
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by NinetyNine 14y ago
The exchange doesn't have much of an effect when most goods are priced relative to the exchange rate (many sites even automate this). The only thing the currency price represents is the relative change in market size where these coins are u
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by NinetyNine 14y ago
It's worth noting that the author of this blog is a 17 year old self-taught hacker. Highly impressive.
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by NinetyNine 14y ago
The sampling frequency doesn't directly effect the audio frequencies it can encode. Telephones do PCM encoding (meaning it has data representing the graph of the sound wave) at 8 kh/z. Following the nyquist sampling theorem (cut your rate b
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by NinetyNine 14y ago
There's a certain allure to saying code should be a certain way because of natural properties of computing, or our own feelings on what things are different and similar from what other things. The reason OO shines is because it allows you t
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by NinetyNine 14y ago
Piracy isn't stealing; it's copyright infringement and often a contract violation. Using metaphors for complicated legal issues is not a good way to approach things.
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by NinetyNine 14y ago
I can't verify this, but unless you installed Helvetica manually, windows installations won't have it and will fall back to whatever is specified next in the family (usually Arial or the default Sans Serif).
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by NinetyNine 14y ago
Socketstream is a framework in active development based on exactly that idea.
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by NinetyNine 15y ago
Your comment would be correct if it were PHP.
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by NinetyNine 15y ago
The idea of bump was consensual near-field communication, I think that it applies quite well in this case.
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by NinetyNine 15y ago
Your comment is nothing but a metaphor for fearing the unknown.
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by NinetyNine 15y ago
Whether this drug does damage your health in the long run is no where near determined. I think, more interestingly, I'd ask if it were to become known that modafinil (or adderall) were harmful long term, would people still use it to gain co
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by NinetyNine 15y ago
In my understanding, 44.1 kHz was chosen because it's twice the maximum of human hearing (22 kHz), and thus you can reproduce all audible sounds without worrying about aliasing (as per the Nyquist-Shannon sampling theory). What is the point
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by NinetyNine 15y ago
Another possibility is that a drug comes along and enhances cognitive function with minimal side effects, and while the long term effects are virtually unknown, users of these drugs outcompete those who don't. What do you think any appropri
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by NinetyNine 15y ago
A massive redundant array of probabilistic logic networks sounds pretty familiar to me.
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by NinetyNine 15y ago
I don't think anyone is incapable of learning. I'd say the reasons more people don't do it are (it's not easy) and (there's no hard evidence, therefore it's easy to dismiss). At the end of the day, there's one solid evidence of advice that
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by NinetyNine 15y ago
In my experience, pleasantness and unpleasantness are day to day feelings that sometimes work in my favor and sometimes don't. Many times I have a responsibility which requires unpleasant things, and it makes it more difficult to do, and mi
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by NinetyNine 15y ago
I disagree that anyone is "naturally-inclined" to be better at algorithms, or coding, or abstract thinking. Rather, approach it as if we've been a blank slate that has picked up techniques and patterns of thinking, as throughout our lives w
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by NinetyNine 15y ago
My profile is outdated, I've been working in the valley for 8 months. If anything, the sexism at RIT was far more widespread.
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by NinetyNine 15y ago
The skill of learning how pieces fit together in a project you've never touched is one of the most valuable skills in a programmer. Everyone can learn it, it just takes a lot of practice reading code. It also helps if you're strongly famili
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by NinetyNine 15y ago
I think you have a very good point, and a great technique. In general, it works great when reacting to things. In this case though, you have a third party journalist complaining that a racy joke is a cultural set back to an entire group of

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