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by skip 15y ago
Try: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=trying-to-f...
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by skip 16y ago
Oh, I missed this detail. In that case for a deterministic result I think you need to look at every possible combination. However, you can order them by the minimum criterion first, and start searching from the smallest to largest, so the
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by skip 16y ago
Since the count of items is known a priori (=sizeof(S)), doesn't that mean that the mean and the sum are related in a well defined way? Basically then both critera can be simplified to a single criterion on either sum or mean.
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by skip 16y ago
Yeah, I would. If you have a laptop just set the max CPU speed to 80% (or whatever, <100%) under power options to simulate the pain. Maybe if you just type emails and surf all day it's not an issue, but if you are debugging big applica
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by skip 16y ago
Well, I came in here to say exactly that: the paper is based on a survey of people self-reporting their past history with sleeping. Not a very good way to control the results.
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by skip 16y ago
Like any other development tool, you can leave the smartphone on your desk. No need to carry it around.
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by skip 16y ago
Unless you are saving lives (a doctor) or protecting the country (in defense), or maybe a few other edge cases, the perception that you need to get back to a person in a few hours is probably more on your end than on the recipient's.
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by skip 16y ago
Amazon and Newegg both email me after I make a purchase requesting that I review the product. They do this a little after the product is delivered--to give me a chance to use it. I almost always respond to these requests, because I find th
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by skip 16y ago
This has been a part of the MS knowledge base for at least one year. Why is this "news" now? http://blogs.technet.com/fixit4me/archive/2008/11/19/welcome...
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by skip 16y ago
[Boston, MA] Delsys, Inc is hiring Win32 desktop application developers. http://jobs.stackoverflow.com/default.asp?6580
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by skip 17y ago
The content (search results) mimic too closely the ad results. Using whitespace to separate them (or a thin blue line, like the google sidebar ads) may help. Icons would brighten the design too. It's difficult to scan the list and look at
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by skip 17y ago
This is actually not a bad idea. I've graduated now, but I would always start taking notes on each reference at the end of my paper. So it's definitely fulfilling a need. But I wish there was a lower threshold of participation--couldn't I
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by skip 17y ago
Coding for GPGPU or stream processors
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by skip 17y ago
Unfortunately he did not credit Feynman for the 'clock' analogy, who I believe originated this way of describing quantum processes.
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by skip 17y ago
Wow, this article is particularly vacuous. Someone died, and someone twittered. Lets draw conclusions!
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by skip 17y ago
Yawn. I might as well have two browser windows open. This should ferret out duplicates and merge the two sets of results. Like a metasearch engine.
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by skip 17y ago
Works in Chrome 2.0 on Vista.
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by skip 17y ago
It's a nice trick, but I will probably stick to Ctrl-K-C (block comment) and Ctrl-K-U (block uncomment) in Visual Studio, just out of habit. I hate leaving big block comments in the middle of a module anyways: hurts readability.
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by skip 17y ago
Chrome has a nice feature where you can drag a file from any folder/your desktop and drop it onto a file input element on a web page. Unfortunately, this feature does not work in Gmail (!) because they use a custom Flash-based uploader ther
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by skip 17y ago
This is in no way better than regular pagination. Or, if you want to eliminate a full page reload, just do the pagination in AJAX (but still allow me to link to a specific page). Pagination does not break the back button or the scrollbar l
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by skip 17y ago
Can't agree more. And they want me to sign up in order to see or download a plain PDF, thats not going to happen.
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by skip 17y ago
Source code contains (slightly NSFW) ASCII art--that's awesome. http://code.google.com/p/awib/source/browse/builds/awib-1.0r...
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by skip 17y ago
And this is precisely why the most recent Firefox install I have is from the 2.x series. It used to be that Firefox (then Firebird) was the lean and mean cousin of bloated Netscape. Alas, age has taken it's toll and the amount of built in
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by skip 17y ago
Well from a technical standpoint you are correct. Although, if I see buggy/weird behavior on a website, right away I question what sort of hidden unsavory stuff is happening on the server side. But there is an issue even if the implementat
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by skip 17y ago
The reference implementation seems very buggy--moving my caret and having inconsistent behavior. I would certainly be hesitant to type my password on a website which is handling the field like that. Let the browser vendors implement this o