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by voidpointer 10y ago
One doesn't become a leader by just being called the lead. Some people have personal traits that make them assume a leader role more often then others. In my experience, a team that is constantly looking for one person to call all the
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by voidpointer 10y ago
"Working at one of the Big 4" is not a good way to state your goal. Whatever yor definition of the big 4 is, they are very different companies with different cultures and different products. Find the company (from those four if yo
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by voidpointer 10y ago
Is that really true? I am not a US citizen but I have an account with a US broker. I just need to file a single form once in a while declaring my foreign tax status and that's it. This can hardly be the reason why it is absolutely nece
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by voidpointer 11y ago
There are options that would fit your budget on the german amazon site. I really recommend investing a little more (€30-40) and get something nicer. I've had my go board and stones for 20+ years now (not that I get to play much but it&
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by voidpointer 11y ago
> This is just huge hypocrisy and full of lies. First of all, Apple CAN attempt to brute force the password. Compiling whatever new firmware is needed and signing it with their keys will not introduce any new backdoor like they claimed a
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by voidpointer 11y ago
While a tweaked configuration can be a great productivity boost, it has a major drawback. My main reason for using vim is its ubiquitousness. Whenever I need to ssh into a box to check something out, I can trust that it's there. Howeve
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by voidpointer 12y ago
> It's also unclear what LaTeX software they used, since the one I use has integrated spellcheck, etc. That's a hugely important point and in a way it shows that they are comparing apples and oranges. Word is a complete documen
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by voidpointer 12y ago
However, by their measure, the results that were prepared in LaTeX were inferior to the results created in in Word. Even for papers that were heavy on equations. So while the LaTeX users would think they create a better end-product, this is
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by voidpointer 12y ago
Sounds pretty real to me and the theory behind it is written up very nicely. I wonder: would this work the other way round? Take a (stereo) recording of thunder and an exact time measurement between the flash and the first sound and plot th
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Extract 7,250,000,000kg of plastic from the oceans in just 5 years (boyanslat.com)
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by voidpointer 14y ago
Cool, thanks!
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by voidpointer 14y ago
I am not familiar with hackermonthly but they seem to "reprint" material that was popular on HN. Is all that content actually correctly licensed to be used in that way? Just wondering how those logistics are working... contacting all the in
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by voidpointer 15y ago
Yes, it was all projected. (also the side walls of the theatre). Some 20+ projectors pushing 300 million pixels/sec. The intro to the keynotes was pretty amazing as well, meshing the projection with light effects and live performance: http
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by voidpointer 15y ago
I have no idea how the US tax system works. But how about this thought: from saying you are taxable if running servers in some state, it wouldn't be a big leap saying "your javascript code runs in browsers on computers that are in our state
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by voidpointer 15y ago
This is pretty much the same technology that Adobe demoed back then. Todor Georgeiv and Chintan Intwala also refer to Levoy et al. in their papers, e.g. http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.104...
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by voidpointer 15y ago
This wasn't so much aimed as a direct response to the joke but rather a general comment towards the fact that there are actually people who want to believe that Macs are actually more secure then any other computer. Sorry for being so uncle
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by voidpointer 15y ago
The fact that Macs are statistically less likely to be infected by malware does not mean they are immune. It just means, that most malware-authors are more interested in windows because of the larger number of potential victims. (Who came u
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by voidpointer 16y ago
This little thread illustrates nicely that the smart thing to do is not to implement list or string functions yourself but to use a library that has been tried and tested. Spend your brain cycles on the important stuff. I find it much more
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by voidpointer 16y ago
Yes, or the library of the nearest university will be likely to grant you access for a small fee even if you are not a student there, plus you will also get access to their books.
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by voidpointer 16y ago
"3D movies" is a very inaccurate tag applied to the current steroscopic productions and equipment. It is, in a sense, a pragmatic extension of both traditional film-making and film watching. When the technology for producing and watching in
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by voidpointer 16y ago
I think he is comparing apples to oranges here. Using HTMl as the "rendering device" works on a different (higher) level of abstraction. The additional layer of abstraction in HTML has already solved the complexity of doing efficient partia
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by voidpointer 16y ago
Just like with everything else...
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by voidpointer 16y ago
Depending on what you want to do, Adobe AIR would be a practical way of delivering applications on Mac, Win and Linux...
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by voidpointer 16y ago
If you feel like PayPal stole from you, shouldn't you be contacting the police?
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by voidpointer 16y ago
Do we really need these pesky pronouns? Putting labels like your pen, your mug, your red stapler on stuff is equally crazy, isn't it? Al link/button labeled Profile/Account/Settings... is just fine. There is no surprise in clicking on somet
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by voidpointer 16y ago
Just imagine the immense satisfaction of delivering a well executed spinning kick to one of these things when it drives up to you on a Monday morning squeaking "Hey, what's happening?" - ka-zonk!
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by voidpointer 16y ago
Does that include factoring large prime numbers? If a good approximation would exist for that, wouldn't that make public-key encryption pretty useless?
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by voidpointer 16y ago
I find it quite practical that a certain type of people started to attach these rockstar/ninja labels to themselves. This way it becomes very easy to spot the douchebags. The same goes for job listings that state these terms. Why would a sm
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by voidpointer 16y ago
The high figures seem to result from the fact that the *AA argue that the file was _potentially_ shared with _millions_ of people around the internet. I wonder why they are not required to prove every single instance of downloading that the
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by voidpointer 16y ago
As with 99designs, there is a high risk here for the buyer to end up paying for plagiarism and rip-offs. People with low/non-exiting ethics will throw together rip-offs and submit them to a broad range of "contests" hoping that a fraction o

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