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en.wikipedia.org 11y ago

Sagnac effect

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blog.korelogic.com 11y ago

SSDs evidence storage issues

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docs.google.com 11y ago

Are Modern Programming Languages Easier to Learn?

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news.ycombinator.com 12y ago

Coral Cache (*.nyud.net) is down

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researchblogs.cs.bham.ac.uk 12y ago

The category of cardboard rectangles and bits of wool string

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www.facebook.com 12y ago

Banco do Brasil was placing Facebook share buttons on account pages

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research.microsoft.com 12y ago

The semantics of clip art

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misinformedcognoscenti.blogspot.com 13y ago

Reading code is bad

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atlas.lib.uiowa.edu 13y ago

Atlas of early printing in Europe

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www.pawfal.org 13y ago

Fluxus (3D engine for livecoding) now runs in WebGL

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psychochild.org 13y ago

Fun vs. satisfaction in games

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blogs.msdn.com 13y ago

Mathematical formulas are designed to be pretty, not suitable for computation

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www.templetons.com 13y ago

Fixing DNS -- how to break up ICANN

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ideas.4brad.com 13y ago

Anatomy of the first Robocar accidents

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computinged.wordpress.com 13y ago

Reaching an intellectual peak: Should everyone go to college?

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blogs.msdn.com 13y ago

The x86 architecture is the weirdo: Structured exception handling

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www.math.rutgers.edu 13y ago

Zeroless arithmetic: Representing integers only using 1

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mirtitles.org 13y ago

Books from the Soviet era

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blog.accuvantlabs.com 13y ago

TeamViewer authentication protocol

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www.roguelikeradio.com 13y ago

Designing for the visually impaired

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www.roguelikeradio.com 13y ago

Game design in Academia

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replicaisland.blogspot.com 13y ago

Building a Reflective object system in C++ (2010)

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www.softpanorama.org 13y ago

Classification of corporate psychopaths

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kqueue.org 13y ago

IDIV DoS (INT_MIN / -1)

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kuashio.blogspot.com 13y ago

Visual brainfuck (2011)

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blog.lorentey.hu 13y ago

C++ template metaprogramming solution to the 9 digit problem

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lambda-the-ultimate.org 13y ago

Numbers and how to represent them

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mathman.biz 13y ago

Discoveries in math by Donald Cohen's students

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www.drdobbs.com 13y ago

It's a Heisenbug

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stackoverflow.com 13y ago

Does codegolf make a better programmer - or is it even useful?

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This is the first time I see moderation adding to the title instead of subtracting or replacing it. But in the way it is titled now, they made it look like I meant to submit the latest post and haven't put the permalink by mistake.

I am surprised by the community reaction on the philosophy essay. It's not undeserved, I just couldn't expect him getting that much critic around here.

Math notation should be terse because you have to do symbolic manipulation on the expressions. It's easy to argue for longer variable names when you are just using the ready-made results. I think it's acceptable to use long names for programming.

I noticed today that my submitted stories page shows upvote arrows for my older submissions (as if I hadn't upvoted/submitted them). Only the 20 first ones have the red asterisk. And my saved stories page does not show old stories.

So it's not just me. Just to make sure, you know that link only works for yourself, each user can only see his own saved stories page.

Why? They're not that large, just click the original title instead. I would understand if you asked for a Google Cache replacement, though (I use a bookmarklet for that).

My answer to GP looks silly now. I see what he meant. The submission title should change to vote-counter button to avoid the confusion.

sarvesh, you were hellbanned more than 3 years ago. His post:

Windows script host (cscript) allows you to execute js files in addition to vbscript (vbs). This is particularly useful in extending the functionality of batch files. This can be useful in a lot of circumstances build process, installation etc.

> he completed all 33 courses (...) in less than one year.

> That works out to around 1 course every 1.5 weeks

WTF? What kind of university imposes that you take only one course at any given time? It's not just linkbait, it starts from a wrong assumption. When you take many related courses simultaneously, you see the pieces meshing together and that helps learning. That's different from taking them in a serial manner.

Even if the official position was against using downmods to show disagreement, it'd not be enforceable. As soon as a large enough group starts using the "disagree" button, almost everyone would follow the trend.

The recent wave of password and hash theft might become an incentive to move to this login method. I was skeptic about the possibility of BrowserID catching on, thinking the Google/Twitter/FB wouldn't give up tracking users with their ID methods. But if there is a way to make this widespread (though I can't imagine how) I'd really like it to happen.

Will Mozilla provide native support or an extension? Or they feel like it would hurt if someone could implement a bad login page that still works if the browser has native support?

Dear ICO, Sue Us 14 years ago

How do you read back the tracking information from a cached object, page or image without replacing it with a fresh new one?