dave_au

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by dave_au 17y ago
Sorry to those who are curious, but I'm not going to state my reason - it's not all that personal but is still well with in the realm of "my own business". Surely it's not a prerequisite for deleting an account. If I knew that there wasn't
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Ask PG: I'd like to delete my account.
23 points by dave_au 17y ago|44 comments
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by dave_au 17y ago
I'll bite. From the bottom of the summary here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbian#integrated_Symbian_plat... We get: http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/08/21/canalys_iphone... Symbian OS had 50% of the smartphone market as of Au
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by dave_au 17y ago
Maemo is a Debian based linux.
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by dave_au 17y ago
And if you like it check out boardgamegeek.com for more ideas :) Dominion isn't really my thing, but there's masses of really good games around these days.
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by dave_au 17y ago
I tried "the" first, and then "friend". It looks like it's generated from statistics plus a language model plus the contents of the web (possibly and/or google books). If that's the goal it looks like they're doing some great work. If bein
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by dave_au 17y ago
I really liked "The Complete Guide to Capital Markets for Quantitative Professionals"
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by dave_au 17y ago
From what I can remember, Schors algorithm gives you a polynomial speedup for factoring rather than putting it in polynomial time. It's been a little while since I was up to speed on this though.
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by dave_au 17y ago
Not wanting to step into an argument here, but I'd like to tie it back to the climate thing. I think it's cool that you'd go to an expert to see a reproducible experiment. I'm also going to assume that it goes without saying (could be putt
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by dave_au 17y ago
Nothing else? What about the other gods that will damn you for not following them? I'd say it's an even split between all religions with a positive afterlife. Better heavens and nastier hells might skew the distribution...
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by dave_au 17y ago
It's interesting to compare the results of the polls after they stabilise. I'm not sure if it fully accounts for selection bias, but it seems to be a better basis for comparison. In terms of show stopping problems, Karmic is currently abou
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by dave_au 17y ago
It looked like the most recent wave of erlang threads - or the one around the time when _why disappeared - got deleted by the admins. I was really disappointed by that, since it seems like it was the unofficial way for the community to sign
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by dave_au 17y ago
C++ Coding Standard and C++ Common Knowledge are both pretty good in that regard. Although once you know what's going on under the hood you should be fairly safe - it just takes a while, and probably a read of Modern C++ Design or something
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by dave_au 17y ago
This bit struck me: "...the vehemence of the editors’ point of view caught me off guard." I could be wrong, but is sounds like the editors of a publishing company were pushing for a negative article about a site that's having an effect on p
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by dave_au 17y ago
I can think of about 10-15 people worldwide who might be interested in my thesis, and since 3 of them are going to be examiners and all of them know each other it seems like a pretty quick way to disseminate the information. Well, except f
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by dave_au 17y ago
Now replace "touching my laptop" with "urinating in my car". It won't ruin the car. And it's just an object after all. If you urinated in someones car and they were upset, would you tell them they were being irrational or to get over it? M
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by dave_au 17y ago
Free e-copy of Red Mars at the same link. I've got the series in dead tree form already, but may as well grab it while it's there.
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by dave_au 17y ago
I know it's been mentioned before, but the leechblock extension for firefox is pretty good for that kind of thing: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4476 It lets you specify rules for different groups of sites. I have HN in
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Ask HN: Level of spam / sock puppet activity?
8 points by dave_au 17y ago|4 comments
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by dave_au 17y ago
Fab@Home dream project: chocolate easter bunnies with anatomically correct frosting organs.
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by dave_au 17y ago
I'm hoping that he's turning into a Bond villian, considering the alternatives. He's been building terminator-style arms for a while now, out in the open, hiding in plain sight.
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by dave_au 17y ago
I'd be interested in knowing how many of the safety razor using folk in here made the switch after this http://www.shaveblog.com/2006/03/welcome-new-york-times-read... did a lap of the internet a little while back. I made the switch after
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by dave_au 17y ago
"If you're into it" is also pretty sweet. For several meanings of the word. Kind of. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pY8jaGs7xJ0
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by dave_au 17y ago
You could potentially use a run (or runs) through the O(n^100) problem to optimize approaches for smaller problems. If you were lucky that would ammortize the cost of the first run. With a bit of luck you might also be able to come up with
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by dave_au 17y ago
The quote is about the consequences of P = NP. NP is the set of problems with solutions that are verifiable in polynomial time. If the problem size is n, imagine a non-deterministic Turing machine that can make one of 2 choices at each ste
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by dave_au 17y ago
Excellent advice. It has hidden bonuses as well - if you schedule your workouts for the mornings it might bias you towards getting a little more sleep at least 3 times a week. Never underestimate the effects of being fit and well rested on
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by dave_au 17y ago
If any one of you get paid for journalistic writing and at any time need a pseudonym for your byline, I beg of you, use Wolfram Alpha.
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by dave_au 17y ago
I made something like this myself a while ago, albeit much simpler, for some crazy project. Generated a couple of CDs of data in not very long - the RS232 link was the bootleneck. A couple of good links for those that want to give it a try
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by dave_au 17y ago
Aaaargh - I don't want to give away the punchline but I also don't like the idea of some people becoming horribly confused. If only HN has spoiler tags...
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by dave_au 17y ago
I noticed significant improvements searching for "qt" and for "boost".

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