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by iclelland 3y ago
That video does exactly the same job explaining the underlying reasons -- down to using much of the same wording, and the same visuals. And it was online for a few weeks before this article was published.
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by iclelland 4y ago
> > I'm disappointed that the question wasn't answered. > It was answered. And now disappointed that the article only answered the question? :D
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by iclelland 6y ago
Discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23103610 as well
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by iclelland 7y ago
An arc that spans one radian of a circle's circumference has the same length as the radius. So if you imagine a connected line of 233 suns across the sky, spanning 57.3 degrees, the actual length of that line would be the same as the d
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by iclelland 9y ago
John Conway is actually one of the authors of the book discussed in the article.
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by iclelland 10y ago
The original article is a bit better: http://www.livemint.com/Companies/lDn53REhqvhqGoIxs9MgwJ/App... Apple isn't actually prevented from selling either new or refurbished iPhones in India. What it appears th
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by iclelland 11y ago
Apparently they have that covered, too: http://motherboard.vice.com/en_ca/read/canada-changed-its-el... It can't be officially signed until after the election, but they can still negotiate. And all three part
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by iclelland 11y ago
Big Hero 6 isn't original, if that's what you're saying there -- it's drawn from the same Marvel universe as Captain America and Guardians of the Galaxy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Hero_6_(comi
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by iclelland 12y ago
From reading http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helium-3#Fusion_reactions , the 2p are two protons, and not positrons, as valarauca1 is saying. So, 4 protons and 2 neutrons go in, 4 protons and 2 neutrons come out. But charge
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by iclelland 12y ago
Related to this: https://twitter.com/__apf__/status/551083956326920192/photo/... HN Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8838332
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by iclelland 12y ago
And if your problem requires only one of each, and needs them for the same amount of time, then your optimization would be the correct one. Now scale this to a situation where solving the problem requires ten thousand machines for each deve
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by iclelland 12y ago
This all looks like a lot more drama than it really is. There's a lot of reasonable discussion going on between the two parties now. See http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q2/681 and https://cod
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by iclelland 12y ago
It's more likely that it's because they are two separate physical actions (returning the head to the left, and advancing the paper one line). They could be used independently: You could print a line in bold , for instance, by iss
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by iclelland 13y ago
It seems back now, but in case anyone finds this comment the next time GitHub is under DDoS: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:KNnwGeD...
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by iclelland 13y ago
The first argument, ",8" caused the load to come from the attached disk drive, rather than the default cassette interface. The second argument, as explained by others, was to load binary files into their defined locations. So you
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by iclelland 13y ago
That's not a configuration we'd come across in testing, but I'll check it out. Can you raise an issue on https://github.com/MobileChromeApps/mobile-chrome-apps for this?
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by iclelland 13y ago
There's almost nothing that you can do with Cordova that you couldn't do with mobile Chrome apps, since, under the hood, they are Cordova apps. In fact, the plugins themselves have all been available for some time on the Cordova
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by iclelland 13y ago
It's available to everyone right now; go ahead and clone it from GitHub, or install the cca package from npm -- it's a "developer preview" right now because some of the APIs are still changing; I wouldn't consider i
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by iclelland 13y ago
The first and last female samples are identical (except for size, they appear to be exactly the same image). Hard to believe that one was identified correctly almost 80% of the time, and the other only 30%.
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by iclelland 13y ago
As a matter of fact, most of the engineers on this project are regular committers to the Cordova project. (Cordova is the underlying project, btw -- PhoneGap is Adobe's build system built on top of it) We're very committed to the
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by iclelland 13y ago
The overall density of primes is known, and decreases continuously as the numbers get larger (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_number_theorem ) What this theorem says is that no matter how large the numbers get, n
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by iclelland 13y ago
Well, it's on github, you could look through the history, and eventually you'd find this: https://github.com/paulirish/browser-logos/blob/17bbcde4c555...
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by iclelland 13y ago
You can submit the error, with the option of declaring what language the page is really in. Unfortunately, "JavaScript" isn't in the list.
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by iclelland 13y ago
It's likely to provide some help for compression (rather than minification), if you're gzipping your assets for transfer. This is probably most effective if you tend to specify the same values for the properties as well, so that a
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by iclelland 13y ago
Yes, but: typeof(["an array", "contains multiple things"]) == typeof({but_this_one: "is an object"})
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by iclelland 13y ago
The battery notification looks identical to that in iOS6, and probably has the same behaviour. If you run your phone with the display off, say from 21% battery down to 11%, then it will cross the 20% reporting threshold. The next time that
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by iclelland 13y ago
What's with this posting? crypto-gram has been going for a long time (I've been subscribed for at least a decade). These days (since 2004 or so), the newsletter is essentially a compilation of the month's postings on his blog
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by iclelland 13y ago
15:50 UTC: We are working to mitigate a large DDoS. We will provide an update once we have more information.
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by iclelland 13y ago
Except that it's http://fuchsia.bikeshed.com/ :)
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by iclelland 13y ago
This was originally posted on Steve Blank's site here: http://steveblank.com/2009/05/15/supermac-war-story-11-the-c... -- not sure why the WSJ chose to recycle it four years later. This is probably the t

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