Tarski

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by Tarski 15y ago
I think this is kinda similar to Eat That Frog? http://www.amazon.co.uk/Eat-That-Frog-Important-Things/dp/03...
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Open Source Journal Issues 1 & 2(opensource-central.com)
1 points by Tarski 16y ago|0 comments
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by Tarski 16y ago
I agree with your first line. I'm sceptical as to how scientific this study can be, when as you say "beauty is in the eye of the beholder". A measure of beauty changes over time and from culture to culture. I'm sure, if you selected a diffe
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by Tarski 16y ago
Well I think you hit the nail on the head, that the disclosure isn't responsible. I'm all for bringing the flaws in chip-and-pin to the public attention, however I find it distasteful that a leading university publishing the schematics of a
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by Tarski 16y ago
No it doesn't? I'm not taking the side of the banks here, just trying to understand why the author took the approach he did. It's a shame that at times the HN community is one of single-mindedness where opposite views are met with immediate
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by Tarski 16y ago
I like the idea, however some of the things I want to do aren't on wikihow. So I would like a way to add them without assigning them to an existing wikihow list. Can you add a feature to create a custom list?
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by Tarski 16y ago
Wouldn't it have been far nobler to approach the banks affected by the exploit with these findings rather than publishing schematics for the exploit into the public domain?
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Ask HN: Advice on a Video Skill Sharing Encyclopedia
2 points by Tarski 16y ago|1 comments
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by Tarski 16y ago
At lunch yesterday I held my fork in my right hand and knife in my left. I was very pleased with myself afterwards...
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by Tarski 16y ago
It seems the author needs to brush up on Bayes' theorem, i.e. before giving a percentage confidence in a given theory, you need to consider the likely hood of the theory not occurring. #1 Analysts explain it away by saying, for example,
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by Tarski 16y ago
When I print preview in firefox, the margins seem to big. All the text is squished into a narrow column.
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by Tarski 16y ago
"While the fidelity of the scans from this machine are of surprisingly low resolution, especially compared to the higher resolution “naked scanners”" The pictures don't quite live up to the title of the article.
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by Tarski 16y ago
What does the HN community think of having a public ideas website? Sort of like ASK HN: Rate my startup. Users can post their ideas from inception and receive creative input, reassurance that someone would buy that, or no-way don't waste yo
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by Tarski 16y ago
Someone should do a webgl game that doesn't crash the experimental builds that support it.
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by Tarski 16y ago
In his first first of the series the author states "I convened a meeting to suggest ways that we could get past this problem that everyone wanted access to computers in almost all classrooms almost all the time" - In places like Italy they
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by Tarski 16y ago
Whilst you might not create a stable business out of a Twitter feature, if you can implement a feature that lots of people want for a time when no one else provides it you could make a lot of dosh in the short term.
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by Tarski 16y ago
LaunchSet.com has absolutely no public information on it. The only links require you to sign up.
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by Tarski 16y ago
creeepy
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Positech Games(positech.co.uk)
4 points by Tarski 16y ago|0 comments
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Command Line Dictionary in 50 Lines of Perl(grepmonster.wordpress.com)
1 points by Tarski 16y ago|0 comments
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I need a world cup scores web service/rss feed to manage my work's sweepstake
1 points by Tarski 16y ago|0 comments
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by Tarski 16y ago
Somehow I can't see the BBC adopting this approach anytime soon...
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by Tarski 16y ago
Lessons learned from 13 failed software products: - 1. Give up.
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Enums are Brittle(grepmonster.wordpress.com)
1 points by Tarski 17y ago|0 comments
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by Tarski 17y ago
Well you could argue that Yahoo search is just a news website with a search page driven by Bing. I see Bing's background as a differentiator to Google, which is why I'm trying to combine the two and promote free media.
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Creative Commons rival to Bing launched(searchbandit.co.uk)
2 points by Tarski 17y ago|4 comments
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The Original Free Media Search Engine(searchbandit.co.uk)
1 points by Tarski 17y ago|0 comments
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by Tarski 17y ago
I agree with most of this. I think the post demonstrates what a chore some adventure games can be when you get stuck on a puzzle: waste hours trying to get past it (before wasting hours on the next puzzle) or cheat and lose the satisfaction
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Most Complicated + Verbose Java Method Signature(grepmonster.wordpress.com)
4 points by Tarski 17y ago|1 comments