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by nx 17y ago
He also implies nobody would write a foreword if it wasn't for the prestige. I would be honored to write a foreword for people I admire, I'd do it even if my name wasn't on the book.
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by nx 17y ago
What gray lady?
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by nx 17y ago
Awib is an optimizing compiler: o) Sequences of '-','<','>' and '+' are contracted into single instructions. E.g. "----" is replaced with a single ADD(4). SUB(4)?
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by nx 17y ago
Lasted about 2 hours.
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by nx 17y ago
Baker told Register Hardware today that each triangular key has significantly more dead space around it than you’d find on a standard Qwerty layout. Consequently, users are more likely to press the correct key each time they tap. Or less
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by nx 17y ago
I really want to believe that, but we'll have to check later on. I'd like to see the OS community triumphing over commercial solutions.
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by nx 17y ago
Nokia 1100.
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by nx 17y ago
Because it was THAT hard to Google it, right? http://www.google.com/search?q=google+ocean
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by nx 17y ago
Would be really cool if one could define "new gates" in terms of gates, e.g. a half-adder, a full-adder.
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by nx 17y ago
I hate Jeff, but this post makes sense: instead of being constrained by the backwards compatibility requirement, one can just pack every past version of the software on each release, just like HTTP clients and servers do when they ask for t
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by nx 17y ago
Why the name change? Have I missed something?
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by nx 17y ago
It would've been twice as cool if it could take voice instructions.
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by nx 17y ago
I usually can understand abstract concepts, but also need, or prefer, to work all the way from the bottom up, just to make sure it works like I think it does. I can't just believe something the teacher tells me, I have to prove it works tha
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by nx 17y ago
I'm not a native speaker of English, I've studied the language for seven or eight years, and a couple of months ago I signed up on Hacker News and Reddit. I've learned a lot about establishing strong and rich discussions by reading and writ
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by nx 17y ago
Exactly, that's why I assume everyone who is on Hacker News is aware of the Linux branch of operating systems, and at least isn't naive enough not to consider them in this kind of choice.
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by nx 17y ago
That's my point: "Mac PCs or non-Mac PCs".
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by nx 17y ago
I'd argue that "PC" has two meanings then. I'm going for "non-Mac PC", since that's what the title implies by separating Macs from the rest of PCs, and because I don't feel sensitive to exclude a huge set of possibilities.
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by nx 17y ago
It's not the same. If you say "Mac or PC", it is understood that you mean "Apple computers, or other type of general-purpose personal computers, i.e., non-Mac PCs". But if we interpret "PC" only as "Windows computer", then there's this huge
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by nx 17y ago
Excuse me, "PC" does not mean "Windows computer", so I'd pick a PC and install some Linux distro.
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by nx 17y ago
I want to be a dead programmer. No, that doesn't sound as cool as I expected.
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by nx 17y ago
Thanks for submitting the link, the content there is very interesting.
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by nx 17y ago
25 or 100? First attempt: quick typing, conscious mistake. Second attempt: quick typing, wrong password again. Third attempt: okay, I'll type it in carefully now . Wrong password. Fourth attempt: oh, yes, that was my Yahoo! password . Rem
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by nx 17y ago
Yes, that's the best way to prevent account hijacking, in my opinion. Or block the IP for 30 minutes after 5 failed logins, that renders any dictionary attack terribly inefficient.
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by nx 17y ago
It is reducing the search space drastically: Word (about 30% of the total length, and might be capitalized) + number (15%) + symbol (1 character) + word (50%). The search space for a length n is: 2 x 26^(n/3) x 10^(n/6) x 30 x 26^(n/2) = 60
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by nx 17y ago
Academic Hacker News: it's like reddit.com/r/compsci http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~ad/news/
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by nx 17y ago
It's a great programming quote I'd never heard.
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by nx 17y ago
Argentina - 1? That's me!
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by nx 18y ago
Emailing the password? Ha.
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by nx 18y ago
You mean it's interesting how irregular natural languages are, but those are the ones we use instead of well-defined ones? Yeah, I guess it is interesting. But then again, nature comes before science, right? (Well, not if you asked a string
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by nx 18y ago
Okay, trust doesn't work as well as correct security measures. That's sad, but true.

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