technoguyrob

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   by technoguyrob 16y ago

   Could be an easy Putnam problem.
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   by technoguyrob 18y ago

   Bookmarked this HN page for later so I can make the obvious joke about this article.
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   by technoguyrob 18y ago

   I'd like to live for a time, sure, but even five hundred years might be too long. I'd either get driven insane by the constant bow-shocks of ever advancing culture, or I'd lapse into some kind of boredom-induced stupor. It's not wrong eit
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   by technoguyrob 18y ago

   .............. ........................ I thought David was kidding. Jesus.
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   by technoguyrob 18y ago

   Centralization. (OpenID)
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   by technoguyrob 18y ago

   Indeed. The title should have appended: "...dramatically."
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   by technoguyrob 18y ago

   What if your business partner dies? I thought everyone needs to confirm you are dead? What if they are dead?
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   by technoguyrob 18y ago

   Sing this out loud in a low voice...awesome.
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   by technoguyrob 18y ago

   The same key can be used for each session...when the Gmail page is being generated, I am saying this embedded in-line key can be associated TO the user's cookie, so that there is a one-to-one correspondence between this "Javascript cookie/s
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    by technoguyrob 18y ago

    And the Gmail engineers should add an opt-out "high security" mode that checks the referer to make sure the form submission is coming from Gmail itself and not some outside website. This way people who like to use custom/blank referers can
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    by technoguyrob 18y ago

    Reading that article made me expect a future in which a musician will not be known for a particular composition, but for the algorithm he devised for creating music of a particular flavor. This only goes to show that eventually, all field
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    by technoguyrob 18y ago

    Hahahaha, I like the profile update.
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    by technoguyrob 18y ago

    The Reddit discussion on this is really good: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/7eoth/sounds_li...
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    by technoguyrob 18y ago

    Sweet, I can now say I've been told "fuck you[r downvotes]" by a professor from Cornell.
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    by technoguyrob 18y ago

    XSS detection is not just as simple as that. For example, in IE, entering the following produces a pop-up: <table style="background-image:url(javascript:alert(1))"><tr><td>Hi</td></tr></table
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    by technoguyrob 18y ago

    I think mediocrity is sort of the complement to laziness, in that respect. For example, settling for a cubicle job that drains you because you don't think you can do anything better or don't want to--that's still "laziness" in the way you'r
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    by technoguyrob 18y ago

    http://www.google.com/codesearch?hl=en&lr=&q=lang%3A...
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    by technoguyrob 18y ago

    http://www.google.com/codesearch?hl=en&lr=&q=lang%3A...
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    by technoguyrob 18y ago

    This is John Baez. I am pretty sure he has read GEB. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Baez
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    by technoguyrob 18y ago

    Some people read that presentation in NOT full screen? Maybe someone should write a "How People Really Use Slideshare" post...
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    by technoguyrob 18y ago

    Wow. http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=20...
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    by technoguyrob 18y ago

    I am a mathematics student and sometimes need to look up papers. A lot of these papers are in journals not available online and have references to more of such papers. This can sometimes make even understanding a relatively simple proof tha
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    Ask YC: Question about writing Terms & Conditions (getting users to read them)

    3 points by technoguyrob 18y ago|1 comments
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    by technoguyrob 18y ago

    Oh wow, learn something new each day, huh...
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    Y Combinator in Python(akropolix.net)

    8 points by technoguyrob 18y ago|6 comments
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    by technoguyrob 18y ago

    "Account balances as of 31 October 2008:" But it's the 30th today....
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    by technoguyrob 18y ago

    I have previously asked Eliezer publicly on Hacker News this question (he has an account on here): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=195959
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    by technoguyrob 18y ago

    I can actually pronounce that. :) I spent an hour one afternoon learning how to, and now it's instinct. http://llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwyll-llantysiliog...
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    by technoguyrob 18y ago

    And with the recent discovery that graphene nanoribbons may be able to replace silicon as the semiconductor in processors at least one researcher predicts that clock speeds in the terahertz range may be possible. [1] Has anyone ever heard
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    by technoguyrob 18y ago

    With the history of unusual ways things have been discovered in science, I'm not sure if that is sarcasm.