icedpulleys

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by icedpulleys 15y ago
Binary search is a pretty obvious algorithm.
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by icedpulleys 15y ago
While translocation is cool, this certainly isn't a novel case and Robertsonian translocations are covered in undergrad genetics courses. Well written if not for the way that it starts off, making it sound like the doctor in China has made
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by icedpulleys 15y ago
Open an incognito window in Chrome, don't log in to your google account, and search there.
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by icedpulleys 15y ago
I've yet to hear someone define what useful, diverse set of results is that has been filtered from them; they simply state that the sites that they see on Google, FB, et al. are filtered and that some other filtered pages could hypothetical
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by icedpulleys 15y ago
You don't have to put quotation marks around hard; one of its definitions is an adjective meaning painful or difficult to endure.
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by icedpulleys 15y ago
I've never stopped reading something faster than I did after I got to "'Feels like' is an important disclaimer here." and glanced up to see that it was written by Sarah Lacy. Dear Sarah: don't worry, I think that London will not be that pis
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by icedpulleys 15y ago
I've heard that larger banks and brokerages (not the underwriters) will start making shares available for shorting as early as Tuesday, which should help ease the share price down.
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by icedpulleys 15y ago
> Is it my lack of energy or the piece does not read well. I had to backtrack a few times to see what she's talking about. That phenomena is endemic to TC posts.
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by icedpulleys 15y ago
I haven't been able to follow the story as closely as I would have liked. Did TEPCO actively deny meltdowns and leakages, or did they just not confirm them? I thought that it was the latter, but could have missed overt denials.
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by icedpulleys 15y ago
As someone who has had research written about in popular media, I would bet an enormous amount of money at very unfavorable odds that the words "it couldn't be done" were not uttered by the CS researchers but instead are the voice of the Ne
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by icedpulleys 15y ago
My tl;dr reads differently: "we lacked appropriate congestion control in our EBS recovery algorithms." The trigger was a bad and unexpected network configuration change, but the error was that the attempted recovery by the stuck volumes was
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by icedpulleys 15y ago
Ah, that does seem to follow from the quoted section. Thanks for referencing it, I appreciate it. It's a big bummer as a potential Twitter-hacker, too. I can see why they wouldn't want clients & add-ons to surface unfollows, but it blan
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by icedpulleys 15y ago
> I recently had to make changes to my own service because the Twitter API policy team didn't like me telling people who unfollowed them. Just curious: which section of the Twitter API ToS do you read as restricting notifying them of pe
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by icedpulleys 15y ago
Regardless of how you want to parse a company's public statements and written policies, it's the height of naivete to think that a data host (ANY host) wouldn't share your data with law enforcement or has encrypted data in such a way that t
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by icedpulleys 15y ago
There's a considerable difference between having a sense of entitlement and being rational.
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by icedpulleys 16y ago
Maybe I'm missing the point too, because I don't understand why he's arguing that Python and R should cater to people that don't want to use a programming language. Isn't that akin to arguing that C is too complicated because it allows you
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by icedpulleys 16y ago
Maybe tomorrow's? Today's revolutions are already organized on Facebook.
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by icedpulleys 16y ago
It was the first site blocked in our office yesterday when we installed the chrome extension!
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by icedpulleys 16y ago
In case anyone missed it the first time around, the nytimes mag had a pretty good writeup on Watson back in June -- might be worth instapapering and reading later if you're going to catch the broadcast this week: http://www.nytimes.com/201
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by icedpulleys 16y ago
I have nothing against security firms or their work, but > At the heart of the matter, we are scientists investigating the truth. No, you're not. You're consultants doing analytical work. I'm not arguing that one is intrinsically more w
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by icedpulleys 16y ago
> there is absolutly NO reason why bing should have linked to those documents There is absolutely a reason. A user queried for a string, then followed a link. Biasing Bing's search results towards the followed links is a signal that imp