kasterma
Re:Is there such a thing as a sustainable todo system?
on Wednesday October 27, 2010 @08:46AM (#1838298)
And keeping it all in one text file. org-mode allows you to easily enough set up a structure so that it remains easy to edit.
Re:There are 5,057 janitors in the U.S. with PhDs
on Friday October 22, 2010 @04:17PM (#1821328)
I think it might only be a waste if you can come up with a way to predict who is going to be the person with a BA in English that doesn't use it. If you can't predict it, then it means that those who do use it are more expensive than sticker price (their cost would be "total costs to get people BA's in English"/"total number of people that actually use it").
Re:Can you solve it? The Greplin programming challenge
on Sunday October 10, 2010 @10:08AM (#1777102)
Here (where you have to search through Fibonacci numbers) I suspect memoization is rather the way to go:
# memoized fibonacci function
fibtable = {1:1, 0:1}
def fib (n):
global fibtable
if n in fibtable.keys():
return fibtable [n]
val = fib (n-1) + fib (n-2)
fibtable [n] = val
return val
Re:I am an edge case
on Monday July 05, 2010 @03:50AM (#1487623)
Monday: Mon(th)da(y)y(ear)
Doesn't get much worse for a mnemonic, but works for me.
Re:They Did Their Homework (800 Years of It)
on Monday July 05, 2010 @03:33AM (#1487586)
I belief the Fields Medal is not only given to people below 40 b/c there are no older people deserving; I belief it is given to younger people b/c they can most benefit from getting such recognition.
Re:That Lost 4G Phone
on Monday April 26, 2010 @02:29PM (#1295503)
Do we know "the guy" is not the bartender?
Re:Visualizing Time Zones
on Wednesday April 14, 2010 @08:29AM (#1264776)
Site does not work for me, but I have been using foxclocks for a long time:
Re:Marketing Lessons from A/B Testing a Homeless Man's Sign
on Monday March 29, 2010 @04:33PM (#1227488)
"The first thing we always do is make slight modifications to what we already have."
rather contrasts with
"The next big difference is that we changed colors and went from cardboard to white to spark the interest of people walking by instead of automatically having negative associations that they have with cardboard and homeless people."
The second can (and in the context of the article maybe should) be tested. The small change is to make exactly the same text on the different material.
Re:That Facebook app is not your friend
on Friday March 26, 2010 @10:34AM (#1221091)
Re:Flash Carbon Footprint of NYTimes.com
on Monday February 22, 2010 @12:12PM (#1143123)
I distinctly remember claims that for modern monitors the color does not change energy use.
Re:Flash Carbon Footprint of NYTimes.com
on Monday February 22, 2010 @12:10PM (#1143115)
Anyone any idea how these energy measurements were made?
Re:How To Safely Store A Password
on Monday February 01, 2010 @04:03PM (#1093452)
I had the same question; I don't know the answer yet, but I found a location for the answer http://www.openbsd.org/papers/bcrypt-paper.ps
The documentation for py-bcrypt ( http://www.mindrot.org/projects/py-bcrypt/) doesn't explain what happens, but shows use is very very easy.
EDIT: current guess is that searching for the salt that was used might be part of what makes it hard.
Re:Keeping computers from ending science's reproducibility
on Friday January 22, 2010 @01:05PM (#1070233)
As another scientist I have to strongly second this. Some things might take real work on your part to understand though. Even within different fields of mathematics there are difficulties in understanding (complaint about this: http://www.math.rutgers.edu/~zeilberg/Opinion104.html).
Re:Why App Stores Are Not the Business Model for the 21st Century
on Thursday January 21, 2010 @09:19AM (#1067304)
I really hope that app stores are on their way out, for exactly the reason the article gives (lack of openness). So even though I am at this point doubtful about them actually being on the decline, I like seeing articles that suggest they are. Maybe the articles can help with this decline.
Re:Everything Paul Buchheit has bought from Amazon in the last 3 years
on Tuesday January 05, 2010 @03:04AM (#1032072)
What do you mean when you say it is not a hobby? Is it your job?
Re:What "hand sanitizer kills 99.99% of germs" really means.
on Tuesday January 05, 2010 @02:35AM (#1032048)
The article suggests otherwise (though does not quite say so in: And some makers of germ killers wish they could say their products kill the swine-flu virus -- a claim that some can reasonably make.)
Re:Can Anyone Stop Facebook?
on Friday December 04, 2009 @02:03PM (#976962)
How much free content do they need to tie it back to you? Remember AOL releasing some search queries, and quickly people were identified. I imagine that is not hard with facebook interactions either.
Re:How to crack a master lock
on Wednesday October 07, 2009 @08:47AM (#866587)
The code for my lock would not be found this way. Choosing the correct 3rd number (which obviously I know) my whole code does not appear in the suggestions to try.
Re:Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard - Now Available (Delivery on Aug. 28th)
on Monday August 24, 2009 @10:29AM (#782184)
Requires: Mac computer with an Intel processor. No upgrade for my 12" powerbook. :-(
Re:Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard - Now Available (Delivery on Aug. 28th)
on Monday August 24, 2009 @10:28AM (#782180)
Requires: Mac computer with an Intel processor. No upgrade for my 12" powerbook. :-(
Re:Dropbox ends unlimited undo--unless you ask them not to [screenshot]
on Wednesday July 15, 2009 @11:00AM (#705782)
I find this rather upsetting. I picked the unlimited option; but think that this removes the pressure on them to make a nice interface to all the deleted files.