alan

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by alan 2y ago
Static a/b testing?
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by alan 2y ago
7 years ago I tried to start a project to allow customers to pay through the ad networks. IE rather than seeing ads, you'd see something saying how much you were providing to the web page owner. I've so far been unable to actuall
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by alan 4y ago
Yes, and when I bought CDs back in the 90s I didn't really expect to be listening to them 25 years later. My tastes change over time. On the other hand I'm a little confused what you mean by the format going away in 5 years. The
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by alan 4y ago
I buy .m4a files from Apple and download them, then copy them from my laptop to my Android Phone. At this point they're so disconnected from the Apple infrastructure, I don't see any way they could pull it out from under me.
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by alan 6y ago
Based on the title I thought this was about people who created and killed programming languages. I was sorely disappointed.
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by alan 6y ago
I think the server would be able to encrypt with the user's public key, that way they wouldn't be able to read it. They'd have to send the encrypted data to the client to be decrypted with the private key there
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by alan 6y ago
Duff's device does not do memcpy. It's writing all the elements of a string to the same location in memory, where there's a port.
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by alan 7y ago
I never figured out why the cobalt has to come from the Congo. There are cobalt mines in North America that are sitting idle. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobalt,_Ontario
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by alan 7y ago
I'm suddenly imagining a hydrogen balloon-plane at take off that uses up the hydrogen in the balloon as it flies, until the balloon has been fully reeled back into the plane and it lands on a runway like a normal plane, with reserve hy
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by alan 8y ago
Hmm, could we use interactions with the Earth's magnetic field for thrust when in LEO? With the Sun's magnetic field? It would be slow going.
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by alan 8y ago
We might be able to start using this as a way to specify planets, rather than the arbitrary number-by-discovery. Try StarName(with catalog info)#log(approximate radius of orbit) Earth would we Sol#0 Kepler-90#-1.3, Kepler-90#-1.1, out to K
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by alan 9y ago
The World is Not Enough is the movie you're thinking of. From 1999, if you want to call that recent; going back 18 of the 55 years of Bond movies.
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by alan 12y ago
For that matter, the app could just record every time it "sees" an object and when you mark it lost, it tells you where it was the last time (GPS coordinates and all) it "saw" it.
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by alan 13y ago
Could the fact that the other kilogram weights are being moved around maybe affect their weight? Like they're more exposed to chemical disturbance? Some form of tiny relativistic effect?
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by alan 13y ago
Sounds like an industry ripe for disruption then....
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Paxos made simple (2001) [pdf](cs.utexas.edu)
1 points by alan 13y ago|0 comments
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by alan 13y ago
> I'm not sure the author realizes TCP is a virtual circuit protocol (then again I'm sure OSI had one or more much heavier weight ones). You've missed that they're referring to level 2 and 3 virtual circuits, IE &quo
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by alan 13y ago
My take away is that it's a child dies of poor nutritional education of the parents
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Does a child die of hunger every 10 seconds?(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by alan 13y ago|1 comments
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by alan 13y ago
Some websites now will include a hidden input field in all forms <input type="hidden" name="snowman" value-"&#9731" /> to convince IE that it's supposed to be sending UTF-8, not latin1 (And so the site can recognize if the inp
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by alan 13y ago
I'm more interested in this "one-way valve" they're talking about. While they seem to talk mostly about blowing, the valve seems to be the actual invention.
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Why Adventure Games Suck (1989)(grumpygamer.com)
1 points by alan 13y ago|0 comments
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by alan 13y ago
> This is the case in every country. Those at the top will take an inordinate amount of time to make rules that benefit themselves and their friends. It's actually a bit simpler than that. Any set of rules will allow certain segments
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by alan 13y ago
Looking at those pictures, I wonder "Where are the roots?" It's like the artists think the tree stops where the trunk meets the surface. I see rooms where peoples would be walking just under the trunk of the tree. I could see using Bonsa
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Mostly harmless(robrhinehart.com)
3 points by alan 14y ago|0 comments
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by alan 14y ago
Thanks. I must be missing the movie ads recently.
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by alan 14y ago
For those of use who don't know, what is the film in question?
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by alan 14y ago
Tried to read the page, but it kept jumping back to the top on my android phone. Could not make it through the first paragraph.
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by alan 15y ago
> "What a function does" is encapsulated in that function's name. I would like to suggest that the function's name should tell you the result (going to the store) and not have anything to do with what the function does (walk, bike, driv
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by alan 15y ago
Yes. It would hang there. That was one of the demonstrations of why superconductors are so cool back in the day. I remember seeing those nitrogen(I think) liquid cooled super conductors holding a magnet above them.

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