Danny72
Re:BBC: How to generate random numbers in 1971 [video]
on Sunday February 02, 2020 @05:58PM (#22220060)
The content is also published on twitter.
Re:In Almost Every European Country, Bikes Are Outselling New Cars
on Friday October 25, 2013 @02:53PM (#6613710)
Aside from football, cycling is the most popular sport in Belgium. Maybe the bicycle market is saturated?
Re:HN: Please replace grayarrow.gif with Unicode character ▲
on Friday July 13, 2012 @04:51AM (#4238906)
Has this got anything to do with the Digg acquisition, and it's patent on “click a button to vote up a story” ?
Re:Apple Announces Event on October 4th: Let's Talk iPhone
on Tuesday September 27, 2011 @01:55PM (#3044420)
The 4th gen Shuffle is the 2nd gen, but slightly smaller and with the VoiceOver technology. If you loved the 2nd gen, you'll love it.
Re:This Guy Has My MacBook
on Tuesday May 31, 2011 @04:58PM (#2604538)
At that point, you could of just done a bit of identity theft and bought yourself a new MBP.
Re:Check if your email is amongst those compromised in Gawker break-in
on Monday December 13, 2010 @12:58PM (#2001338)
I had that as well. No strange IP addresses are listed as having accessed it, so I assume it's safe.
Re:What if the greatest athlete alive decided to actually get serious?
on Sunday April 11, 2010 @08:04AM (#1256731)
It's generally acknowledged that Yelena Isinbayeva has been doing exactly that in the pole vault over the last few years.
Re:Schneier on Security: Is Antivirus Dead?
on Tuesday November 10, 2009 @11:04AM (#933270)
Does it really update signatures every 5 minutes?
Seems a bit excessive.
Re:Super-oarsmen vs. Lying Historians
on Monday October 26, 2009 @01:00PM (#903562)
When it comes to the accuracy of historical numbers, I always think of the size of the Persian army at Thermopylae
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Thermopylae#Persian_a...
Historical accounts were still a form of propaganda back then.
Re: The Statistical Problem With Soccer
on Tuesday September 29, 2009 @06:41PM (#851501)
Although the World Cup is the most well known (and watched) soccer tournament, it isn't that representative of soccer.
1. It's mainly a knockout tournament which obviously increases the variance
2. International sides aren't a cohesive team like domestic club sides only playing a handful of times per year leading up to the tournaments.
Compare this to the domestic leagues where the league format reduces the variance and players spend most of the year working with who they're playing with on the pitch. In the EPL, the #1 ranked side going into the season probably wins the league 75% of the time. It's a much lower number though for the domestic cups because of the knockout format.
Re:Revealed: The ghost fleet of the recession
on Monday September 14, 2009 @12:55PM (#822031)
They're probably using the same text highlighting code as esquire.
http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/98o77/go_to_esqu...
Re:Bill Hicks's Principles of Comedy
on Tuesday September 01, 2009 @07:33PM (#799145)
You seem to have the idea that he's a blue comedian which although some of his material is, Hicks is mostly known for his political rant comedy.
I'm sympathetic to your point of view though. When I first heard some of his routine I thought "This isn't funny at all, he's just shouting about stuff he dislikes". His style does grow on you. Also it's hard to get an impression of a comedian like Hicks through youtube videos. His comedy doesn't lend itself to one-liners and the top videos tend to be lowest common denominator stuff of what one-liners he did do.