Big endian or little endian? It's not as universal as you may think.
Endianness is irrelevant for ASCII. It only determines the order of bytes within multi-byte words. ASCII is 7-bit and therefore, there is no difference between "big endian ASCII" or "little endian ASCII".
No. They are not compiled and therefore lag behind the state of the code in almost every software project I have encountered so far. If you can choose between naming and commenting, use naming. For example, a parameter called ZeroBasedIntegerIndex will be in your editor's autocompletion and therfore visible where you use it. A comment is only visible where you define it, and therefore gets lost in usage. And if the ZeroBasedIntegerIndex happens to be defined as a string, you'd change it immediately. The comment would probably stay wrong for a very long time.
So you are actually promoting the use of variables named like ZeroBasedIntegerIndex?
That name really sucks, dude. I understand that you want to clarify the advantage of good variable naming, but ZeroBasedIntegerIndex is NOT a good example. Names should describe what the variable means semantically.
You have read correctly.
When it is given that one of the children is a boy there is no difference between the statement that "the other child is a boy" and stating "both children are boys". There is no ambiguity there.
"I have two children, one of whom is a boy. What's the probability that my other child is a boy?"... it is given that the FIRST child is a boy.
I must admit that English is not my native tongue but I fail to see how this gives that the FIRST child is a boy. Doesn't "one of whom" implies that it can be either the first or the second?
I've never heard of Foursquare and Gowalla until reading this.
Foursquare as over 2 million unique visitors per month. That is twice as much as/. So yes, it's a big guy. Never having heard of it before is kinda your problem here.
it wouldn't have been UNIX as you know it. The 8088 didn't have privilege levels, so essentially everything would run as root.
I don't think the two are related. Most modern operating systems use two processor privilege levels: one to run kernel level operations, and one two run userland operations. Processes running as root or processes running as any other user can use both processor privilege levels.
In other words, you can perfectly well distinguish between running as root or running as another user in a system without processor level privilege levels
On the other hand, processor level protection is required for preemptive multitasking, which is quite essential to implement the complexity of a modern OS
My iPad has correctly found me in all four locations I've tried by triangulating WIFI access points.
Apparently mobile users with GPS have tagged my access points.
That would be Skyhook that licenses their database to Apple. They claim not to use any user-generated wifi locations but only wifi locations found by driving special trucks and scan access points themselves. They claim that this results in better accuracy then user generated locations.
I have a profile for an inflatable sex pig, with a name clearly implying it's a sex pig, and a photo of the pig for the profile pic. They aren't completely on the ball. I also have a profile for a character from a very popular book series, and the profile pic is a still from one of the film adaptations, and both of these profiles have existed for over two years.
Why?
No seriously, I'm intrigued if there is any reason other then complete boredom, to carefully create and maintain these profiles
After all it seems to defy the whole idea of using facebook
You must be new here, it should be obvious. Send the company a picture of goatse, and have your pattern...
I'm not sure that is possible. From google translate of the second link:
However, this fact "made a slight tint of color patterns," is what, this Jigazopazuru liver. By utilizing this pattern, with a whopping "Self Portrait" I would make the. Moreover, not only their faces can also face other people. Even great men in history, even heterosexual love, even in the face of the pet... "If life on Earth, even in the face any" I would make! What kind of mechanism and say something, but... Well anyway, let's say that you actually try.
My car consumes no resources either. I put gas in at the pump, and then burn it and return it to the atmosphere, thus recycling it. When its old it will eventually go to scrap and most of its parts will be directly recycled aswell. The rest will be buried in land fill, thus returning it to the ground from where it came.
True but there's a huge time-scale problem you are missing
The difference is not in how it is recycled but in where its energy comes from. The carbon in dog food was taken out of the air some mere centuries ago at max. The carbon in gas was taken out of the air hundreds of millions of years ago.
No matter how many humans or other animals there are, they are all still part of the same short-time carbon cycle. It is extracting carbon from fossil fuels that imbalances this cycle.
Making the equations "symmetrical" for both electric and magnetic charges does not make them any more elegant or powerful, any more than not having "negative mass" makes Newton's equations any less valid.
You're saying two thinks. Of course symmetry doesn't make equations more valid, but elegant? In my opinion symmetry of different equations is one the most elegant things of nature.
They supply the standard C library, but they expose no other API whatsoever. In practice, this means you cannot do any input/output in C and it's use is limited to processor intensive logic.
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Well spoken. It's "Tuttle", not "Buttle".
Memcached is a distributed in-memory cache implementation, it has nothing to do with noSql. See: http://code.google.com/p/memcached/
Incorrect
Memcached is a key/value store, which doesn't use SQL or RDBMS concepts and is therefore by definition a noSQL project.
The fact that it is an in-memory cache implementation is irrelevant.
Memcached is a distributed in-memory cache implementation, it has nothing to do with noSql. See: http://code.google.com/p/memcached/
Incorrect
Memcached is a key/value store, which doesn't use SQL or RDBMS concepts and is therefore by definition a noSql project.
The fact that is an in-memorty cache implementaion is irrelevant.
Offer companies tax credits to reduce emissions and fine them for exceeding but letting them pay to pollute is a joke.
So what is the difference between fining them for exceeding and letting them pay for exceeding?
"Uncompressed ASCII is universal."
Big endian or little endian? It's not as universal as you may think.
Endianness is irrelevant for ASCII. It only determines the order of bytes within multi-byte words. ASCII is 7-bit and therefore, there is no difference between "big endian ASCII" or "little endian ASCII".
No. They are not compiled and therefore lag behind the state of the code in almost every software project I have encountered so far. If you can choose between naming and commenting, use naming. For example, a parameter called ZeroBasedIntegerIndex will be in your editor's autocompletion and therfore visible where you use it. A comment is only visible where you define it, and therefore gets lost in usage. And if the ZeroBasedIntegerIndex happens to be defined as a string, you'd change it immediately. The comment would probably stay wrong for a very long time.
So you are actually promoting the use of variables named like ZeroBasedIntegerIndex?
That name really sucks, dude. I understand that you want to clarify the advantage of good variable naming, but ZeroBasedIntegerIndex is NOT a good example. Names should describe what the variable means semantically.
No, he is not arguing that at all.
You have read correctly. When it is given that one of the children is a boy there is no difference between the statement that "the other child is a boy" and stating "both children are boys". There is no ambiguity there.
"I have two children, one of whom is a boy. What's the probability that my other child is a boy?" ... it is given that the FIRST child is a boy.
I must admit that English is not my native tongue but I fail to see how this gives that the FIRST child is a boy. Doesn't "one of whom" implies that it can be either the first or the second?
Human rights activity? These girls are allowed to sleep during working hours ?! My employer would seriously kick my ass for that.
But 2 million is still a really large number for this metric. In any case it is by far the biggest location based social network at the moment.
I've never heard of Foursquare and Gowalla until reading this.
Foursquare as over 2 million unique visitors per month. That is twice as much as /. So yes, it's a big guy. Never having heard of it before is kinda your problem here.
it wouldn't have been UNIX as you know it. The 8088 didn't have privilege levels, so essentially everything would run as root.
I don't think the two are related. Most modern operating systems use two processor privilege levels: one to run kernel level operations, and one two run userland operations. Processes running as root or processes running as any other user can use both processor privilege levels.
In other words, you can perfectly well distinguish between running as root or running as another user in a system without processor level privilege levels
On the other hand, processor level protection is required for preemptive multitasking, which is quite essential to implement the complexity of a modern OS
My iPad has correctly found me in all four locations I've tried by triangulating WIFI access points.
Apparently mobile users with GPS have tagged my access points.
That would be Skyhook that licenses their database to Apple. They claim not to use any user-generated wifi locations but only wifi locations found by driving special trucks and scan access points themselves. They claim that this results in better accuracy then user generated locations.
Rotate 90-degrees and it would be a filled-in rectangle.
Wouldn't the left and right side of this "rectangle" be half circles?
One of the earliest machines I learned programming on only had 256 bytes of memory.
You lucky bastard.
My parents could never afford such computer. I had to learn programming on a computer with only 1 bit of memory (Yes that's right: 1 B I T of memory!)
Those were the days. And you tell the kids these stories and they won't believe you...
20 times more random?
I don't get it either. First they claim it's a true random generator that generates "purely random" numbers.
Then they proceed to explain that
... The degree of randomness possible depends on the size of the array ...
Can anybody tell me how this works?
I have a profile for an inflatable sex pig, with a name clearly implying it's a sex pig, and a photo of the pig for the profile pic. They aren't completely on the ball. I also have a profile for a character from a very popular book series, and the profile pic is a still from one of the film adaptations, and both of these profiles have existed for over two years.
Why?
No seriously, I'm intrigued if there is any reason other then complete boredom, to carefully create and maintain these profiles
After all it seems to defy the whole idea of using facebook
You must be new here, it should be obvious. Send the company a picture of goatse, and have your pattern...
I'm not sure that is possible. From google translate of the second link:
However, this fact "made a slight tint of color patterns," is what, this Jigazopazuru liver. By utilizing this pattern, with a whopping "Self Portrait" I would make the. Moreover, not only their faces can also face other people. Even great men in history, even heterosexual love, even in the face of the pet ... "If life on Earth, even in the face any" I would make! What kind of mechanism and say something, but ... Well anyway, let's say that you actually try.
Lead-acid batteries have been recycled by law in the US or several years ...
Wow! I knew you guys had way too much lawyers over there, but I've never realized it was that bad...
My car consumes no resources either. I put gas in at the pump, and then burn it and return it to the atmosphere, thus recycling it. When its old it will eventually go to scrap and most of its parts will be directly recycled aswell. The rest will be buried in land fill, thus returning it to the ground from where it came.
True but there's a huge time-scale problem you are missing
The difference is not in how it is recycled but in where its energy comes from. The carbon in dog food was taken out of the air some mere centuries ago at max. The carbon in gas was taken out of the air hundreds of millions of years ago.
No matter how many humans or other animals there are, they are all still part of the same short-time carbon cycle. It is extracting carbon from fossil fuels that imbalances this cycle.
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His ideas intrigue me and I'd like to subscribe to his newsletter
It is worth noting that in the coordinate system most used today (WGS84), this is no longer true.
See this explenation or check google maps.
Making the equations "symmetrical" for both electric and magnetic charges does not make them any more elegant or powerful, any more than not having "negative mass" makes Newton's equations any less valid.
You're saying two thinks. Of course symmetry doesn't make equations more valid, but elegant? In my opinion symmetry of different equations is one the most elegant things of nature.
Android has full C/C++ support
They supply the standard C library, but they expose no other API whatsoever. In practice, this means you cannot do any input/output in C and it's use is limited to processor intensive logic.