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Jacobi

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    Comment #4933292

    Using brute force is not very effective on 256 keys. But this doesn't exclude the possibility of a breakthrough that reduce enormously the search space. For example even for AES th…

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    Comment #4915697

    I think that it can be implemented in constant time for floating point numbers. For integers I know that the exponentiation by squaring takes O(log(n))

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    Comment #4915648

    There are plenty. The analysis of basic algorithms involve math (e.g. QuickSort, binary search, etc). Programming a user friendly website can involve advanced mathematics, for exam…

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    Comment #4910336

    The PDF document format is incredibly complex. It can incorporate JavaScript actions !

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    Comment #4731737

    I think that MS R&D is valuable for the research community because they do publish in peer reviewed journals.

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    Comment #4470935

    He works at Netgem a french start-up. It's not really a big corporate.

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    Comment #4416436

    For me sometimes it switches to Arabic even if I set the settings. And here in north Africa most people are francophone and prefer French or English !

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    Comment #4349777

    I appreciate the OP's efforts, certainly sharing code is a good thing. And one of the benefits of the sharing is to get a lot of feedback. Criticizing implementation details is imp…

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    Comment #4349371

    I don't know why it uses a garbage collector when simple reference counting would suffice. Also I hate libraries with global states/variables like this one ...

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    Comment #4301513

    One could exploit the continuity of the image regions. (The similarity of neighbors in intensity and colors). Also the output is an image with the same histogram ...

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    Comment #4235400

    The migration from MS Office to LibreOffice is not straightforward, especially if you have millions of documents. In my experience, any complex document will almost always fail to …

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    Comment #4218033

    This is a screen shot of my search results http://i.imgur.com/If1E2.jpg

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    Comment #4217988

    When I perform a search on bing the first result is the kogan website ... EDIT: It was the kogan.co.uk and not kogan.com since my country/region = UK

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    Comment #4217382

    The article describes an implementation of the observer pattern in C ... It's well known and used in many open source C projects. But I'm not sure that replacing simple tangled dep…

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    Comment #4189053

    A link for downloading the Graphing Calculator program http://www.pacifict.com/FreeStuff.html

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    Comment #4175865

    I do agree with you : mono is a subset of .NET, Cross platform compatibility is not the main reason for using Mono. I really like the C# and the .NET ecosystem. I use a native UI f…

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    Comment #4175742

    I use Mono on a daily basis. It's a mature full featured cross platform .NET implementation.

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    Comment #4090604

    Yes, they could even learn by heart the lyrics of a song and adapt it to the context.

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    Comment #4063453

    You can do OOP in any langage and there is nothing wrong with dojo. But from my limited experience, maintaining large programs written in JavaScript is a tedious job (each program …

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    Comment #4063381

    JavaScript lacks a real library/module system, namespaces and OOP facilities. I usually spend more time maintaining a JavaScript program than a program written in Java/C# with equi…

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    Comment #3970867

    The idea is quite good, but I can't even change the color (a message box indicates that this feature is coming soon !). This isn't beta software. I expect from a beta version that …