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nobodysfool
12y ago
So apparently Howard Stern is a better author than Angelina Jolie... I'm going to take this with a grain of salt here...
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12y ago
For measuring things so small such as fringe patterns, having this thing sitting in a non-temperature controlled room with a laser going through the room's air (which your breath and ambient humidity / dust can affect) and a webc
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nobodysfool
12y ago
Whatever you do, don't do what my office did - they installed speakers that play pink noise. It helps with the noise (so much chatter) but it's annoying as hell.
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nobodysfool
12y ago
Well, one of my friends in Arizona has not necessarily his whole roof covered, but he is able to generate about 90% of his yearly energy usage. The only problem is that he doesn't have batteries installed, so he's selling his elec
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nobodysfool
12y ago
Try this one: http://nomorecaptchas.com/ It's very similar. I might go as far as saying that Google copied them.
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nobodysfool
12y ago
Hung, do you really believe that tech recruiters don't already have github accounts?
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nobodysfool
12y ago
Uhm, I'm pretty sure it can use all your ram if you want. It's an in-memory database, so all your ram will be used for data...
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nobodysfool
12y ago
In short, Deep Blue had 'preparation' against Kasparov from all his game histories, while Kasparov did not have the same benefit. Kasparov had the benefit of playing all those games as well. ;) As for your allegations of unfairnes
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12y ago
Yeah, and all those things exist for Python, yet you don't see people using Pyjamas everywhere instead of javascript... people are not going to switch to ruby to do front end work that will work fine in javascript, especially when you
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nobodysfool
12y ago
Reminds me of myself a few years back, but it was a different tactic. Ok maybe it was 13 years ago, but still... I was offered $14/hr for some job at a factory as computer support. I had an interview with the customer, and the agency a
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nobodysfool
12y ago
Mao is Chinese for cat.
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nobodysfool
12y ago
I think it's a bit premature to be bought out at this time. You're still a young company, and had just started to get traction, and I doubt you are profitable yet. A couple more years of not being profitable and your plug is pulle
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12y ago
I believe the word you mean is improbable. Nothing is impossible. And you may be using the later versions of the test. I'm not saying he was the smartest in the world, in fact, it may have been a flaw of the test. It was when the tests
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nobodysfool
12y ago
Supposedly 'Albert Einstein' had an IQ of around 160. My father's IQ was tested to be around 200. Yet you wouldn't know who the hell my father was even if I told you his name. It would place him as 1 in 4 billion accordi
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nobodysfool
12y ago
It is becoming an accepted spelling. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/carmelize Also it's not 'US Americans' but Usanians.
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12y ago
You're right, it is absolutely senseles. However, that doesn't mean you shouldn't take pride in your work. Take a look at my Pythagorean cipher. It's idiotic and not practical, but it's just neat. https://
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12y ago
tiles.ice.org was good, now they have a new site, but it's not quite there yet, the forums are filled with spam. It was a collaborative art project, where either you were given a tile to draw of a larger piece. Either you were shown on
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12y ago
No autocomplete for julienne, sautee, carmelize. It seems like this was written without any input from a trained chef. Hint: http://www.d.umn.edu/~alphanu/cookery/glossary_cooking.html
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12y ago
Thanks for this. Have you considered using a GPU to speed up computations?
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12y ago
It hasn't changed at all. I have it enabled, its funny sometimes. The 2013 year end video brought a tear to my eye, and it changed some beach photos by adding in snowflakes (must have thought the white sand was snow).
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12y ago
It's called "Parallel construction"... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction Most likely, the NSA got the information around May, tipped off the FBI and the FBI started working on their &quo
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12y ago
Well, that's the thing - they are not providing packet traces even though they were doing a forensic investigation, putting their methodology into doubt. Also, there are no logs indicating that they were successful in what they were tr
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12y ago
Because it's not just USB flash drives. Any device, a cell phone, a mouse, a webcam, anything that connects via usb, could essentially connect as a USB HID (human input device) and start issuing commands on the computer as if it were a
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12y ago
The 'intangibles' you speak of are housing and money.
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I just don't understand the justification for this. > pre 2000 I'm pretty sure a lot of good technology is written pre-2000. Why you'd want to throw it away is beyond me. Just because something is old doesn't mean it&
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ls is a file listing in unix/linux. a 'bindshell' would essentially open a telnet port that goes directly into a command line shell. So, if your system was attacked, you might (since it's the most often command typed) u
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MUMPS... it's sort of a database/os/programming language hybrid that uses a key value store.
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Look at the top causes of bankruptcy... #1 on that list is medical costs. To quote the article: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/pf_article_109143.html "A study done at Harvard University indicates that this is the b
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The monkey's hands are incorrect. Monkeys are not wearing a suit, so the back of their hands are generally the same color as their "sleeves". Also the emoji used to tell your story are confusing to me at least. I had to read
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12y ago
That's what happens when we don't hire americans to fill american jobs. When we depend on foreigners because they are less expensive and more loyal, we suffer for it. How many STEM majors are out of work now, yet people are compla
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