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hardy263

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    Comment #4245907

    Can you explain what rule this is? I'm highly curious as to what rule can solve all derivatives, and it might be useful for me.

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    Comment #3822617

    > Can you imagine, then, diving into a website's back-end to see @ all over? It turns out, the previous developer realized all those nasty notices and errors stopped happening if h…

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    Comment #3796338

    "7 bits" versus "half of 8 bits" are two slightly different things. One has a padding, the other does not. So the file size for a 7 bit encoding would be slightly smaller than an 8…

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    Comment #3785867

    Can you use Photoshop filters to do this, or are there more professional programs to do so?

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    Comment #3634451

    As a curiosity, how many bits were gained (rather than lost) when the second and third characters obtaining a death note were entered? (female and male respectively) Do the bits of…

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    Comment #3551230

    I had the same thing happen to me. I realized it was because I stopped reading regularly. Before, I would used to read at least 1-2 novels (100-200 pages per book) a day. And durin…

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    Comment #3409400

    It's impossible to delete your account with Godaddy, that's probably what he's referring to.

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    Comment #3354947

    I play violin, so although I'm not illiterate in reading music, I find that when I look at a piece, I cannot immediately understand what the melody sounds like until I actually pla…

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    Comment #3204577

    It'd be nice if it was possible to search up an exact song based on the melody. Sometimes I remember a melody but I can't remember what song it came from, and it drives me nuts try…

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    Comment #3146579

    So does this mean using biginteger for small numbers could require almost 30x more memory?

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    Comment #2958124

    Aside from the bigger companies, I can see why some of the smaller ones wouldn't want to do this, like the restaurants or his vet. Most of the time they just hired someone to creat…

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    Comment #2874848

    The purpose of the visibility feature was for positioning purposes. Determining player position is not a trivial task, and the information is not unnecessary, it was an engineering…

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    Comment #2852268

    Well, that was what the author of the article was trying to tell us, wasn't it? Don't give marks and they'll be intellectually curious. Anecdote: I was really good at school at a y…

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    Comment #2852230

    From the title I thought "give 100%" meant putting in your full effort, rather than the mark you got. Maybe change it to something less ambiguous?

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    Comment #2804614

    I almost laughed out loud at the part "Have you ever invented a programming language? :-)" Off topic: It annoys me when people go "Oh you don't know this person? But they're so fam…

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    Comment #2802189

    Though the main problem if someone breaks into your system, the first person you'd suspect is your SSH buddy, because there is a possibility of them using a public machine to log i…

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    Comment #2800698

    Depending on the design, some would require some sort of ugly hack and a lot of testing to get it to work in all browsers consistently. Sure, anything is possible on the web, but i…

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    Comment #2798330

    No, it was done in C#, and even if it was in C, it's not worth the trouble to preprocess the code anyway. The assignment answers were usually simple but short. Something like sorti…

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    Comment #2798084

    In my university programming class, we submitted assignments using turnitin, the same software you saw in the screenshot. We were allowed to see how much of our programs matched ot…

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    Comment #2797162

    Personally, it usually doesn't cross my mind to remap the keys when I make simple games, because I'm so busy thinking about all the logic to actually make the game work. If the gam…

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    Comment #2790108

    Leaving medicine to doctors is not the same as leaving politics to politicians. One has far stricter requirements than the other. Not everybody can become a doctor. But almost anyb…

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    Comment #2763398

    The difference between stories and technical papers is that stories leave the conclusion for the ending and technical papers put the ending at the beginning. The article seems to s…

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    Comment #2738951

    I imagine it's because iPads also fall under the category of iOS.

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    Comment #2708092

    I'm genuinely curious as to why you say it's the other way around. Can you elaborate on this? EDIT: Oh, you've edited your comment

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    Comment #2673007

    It's not incorrect. At the bottom of the blog post, they explore different ways to "trick" people trying to look at the fingerprints If that weren’t enough, my friend actually brai…