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by jakobe 12y ago
TLDR: Players are more likely to pick the move that just won. To exploit that, the best strategy would probably be to always pick the move that wasn't played. Should give you an edge until your opponent notices your pattern :)
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by jakobe 12y ago
Apple never showed the path prominently in the first place. Since System 7 you can Cmd-Click the title bar to show a menu with the path, and you can use Cmd-I to show the path in the Info panel. Not including a path bar by default doesn&#x2
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by jakobe 12y ago
No one said love was without risks! Joking aside, I think you are misunderstanding me. I don't suggest anybody should be fired for asking someone for a date. I'm saying that company policy can give you an easy way to say "no&
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by jakobe 12y ago
I assume it's about setting expectations. If you meet your true love at work, company policy isn't going to stop you. But company policy might give you an easy way out when someone is hitting on you (and you aren't interested
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by jakobe 12y ago
But information can not be transferred as we please. I believe that our consciousness arises from the information stored in the material structure of our brain. But there is no reason to believe we have any way of extracting or transferring
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by jakobe 12y ago
The argument with the trash I was trying to make was that we don't need magic to make things that are beyond our understanding. I do believe that our conscious derives from the physical structure of our brain, but that doesn't mea
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by jakobe 12y ago
> your business failed because nobody signed up Why? Almost all websites require email confirmation; sending someone a login-URL via email actually has less friction because the password-choosing step is removed! > it's perfectly
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by jakobe 12y ago
The biggest issue here is that users are allowed to pick their own passwords in the first place. Sure, you can require them to use passwords with a capital letter and with a number and with a punctuation character, but that will just make t
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by jakobe 12y ago
> relies on the assumption that there is something special about the mechanisms behind the human brain's function Imagine someone spilled the contents of a large trash in a pile on the floor. Now it is your task to create an exact r
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by jakobe 12y ago
> It doesn't take much of a leap... Do you have any clue about the current state of neuroscientific research? Scientists are struggling to understand a single neuron, there are no models that reliably predict networks of more than t
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by jakobe 12y ago
Here, I fixed the graphs for you: http://imgur.com/xi2nhgx
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by jakobe 12y ago
If it's just about target audience, then I wonder why all these companies seem to target detergents / toothpaste / toilet paper exclusively to 25 year olds...
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by jakobe 12y ago
Losening your grip just as the axe hits the wood also works for normal axes. Makes chopping a lot easier on the wrist.
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by jakobe 12y ago
I find it odd that the only moral issue people seem to find with procedures like this is whether it is okay to kill an egg cell, or an early stage embryo. These egg cells don't grow on trees. They must be harvested from human beings. E
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by jakobe 12y ago
Mac OS X has something similar to this "Software HSM": the Keychain. You can put private keys in your keychain, and apps can use them for signing or encrypting, but they can't extract them. It's quite nicely implemented;
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by jakobe 12y ago
I don't like how every single post on unicornfree tells you that the conventional wisdom is wrong, and to learn the truth you have to sign up for their online seminar.
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by jakobe 12y ago
Reducing the number of includes in the header is very much not premature optimisation. On a phone with poor connectivity, a single blocking Javascript in the header might cause a one second delay (or longer).
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by jakobe 12y ago
The problem with reset.css is that people often use reset files made by other people without understanding what they do. For example, lot's of people use https://github.com/necolas/normalize.css , without realising
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by jakobe 12y ago
In my experience you don't need to know much about tax laws to run a small business. Find a cheap accountant* , and he'll tell you everything you need to know about taxes in two hours. * When you are just starting out, it makes a
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by jakobe 12y ago
It's also odd that the patients had to pay for the experimental surgery. This doesn't sound like a serious clinical trial, it sounds like a hack performed by some back-alley doc in a dystopic science fiction story...
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by jakobe 12y ago
I'd be happy if my GPS just stopped sending me on detours through residential areas...
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by jakobe 12y ago
Shader is a good name, because it implies what one of the main purposes of the code is: to apply lighting (shading) to the stuff. How do you shade a vertex? Read about Gouraud shading. The idea is to do the expensive lighting calculation on
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by jakobe 12y ago
This is probably more important towards the end of your undergraduate studies. At least in Austria it's quite common to receive a stipend for your masters' thesis (in science/engineering). It's not always enough to fully
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by jakobe 12y ago
Why is it out of your reach? Because they are too expensive? If you want to study at a better college, look for professors in your field, find someone that does something interesting, and ask them if they will take you as a student. If you
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by jakobe 12y ago
One compelling use case I've heard for schemas is versioning. Say you want to upgrade a stored function in your database. You need to make sure that both the new and the old version of the function are available until all application c
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by jakobe 12y ago
and "Kurzweil" means "amusedness" (as opposed to "Langeweile", which means "boredness")
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by jakobe 12y ago
> That also means the the brain could be copied Unfortunately, no, it doesn't, because there is no way we can "read" a brain. "Reading" tiny parts of a brain is possible, but requires destruction of a lot of othe
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by jakobe 12y ago
> 30 percent of all fatal accidents are "speed related" Almost all accidents are "speed related". Very few accidents happen with cars standing still.
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by jakobe 12y ago
> Also, I couldn't select any text to copy and paste. Seems to be a Safari bug. I had the same thing, after loading the website I couldn't even select text on HN anymore. Restarting Safari fixed it.
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by jakobe 13y ago
That is a pretty bold statement. Pretty much all fatal accidents I've heard about involved speeding in some way. Now, anecdotes aren't reliable, so do you have some numbers to back up your claim?

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