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TLDR: Players are more likely to pick the move that just won. To exploit that, the best strategy would probably be to always pick the move that wasn't played. Should give you an ed…

Apple never showed the path prominently in the first place. Since System 7 you can Cmd-Click the title bar to show a menu with the path, and you can use Cmd-I to show the path in t…

No one said love was without risks! Joking aside, I think you are misunderstanding me. I don't suggest anybody should be fired for asking someone for a date. I'm saying that compan…

I assume it's about setting expectations. If you meet your true love at work, company policy isn't going to stop you. But company policy might give you an easy way out when someone…

But information can not be transferred as we please. I believe that our consciousness arises from the information stored in the material structure of our brain. But there is no rea…

The argument with the trash I was trying to make was that we don't need magic to make things that are beyond our understanding. I do believe that our conscious derives from the phy…

> your business failed because nobody signed up Why? Almost all websites require email confirmation; sending someone a login-URL via email actually has less friction because the pa…

The biggest issue here is that users are allowed to pick their own passwords in the first place. Sure, you can require them to use passwords with a capital letter and with a number…

> relies on the assumption that there is something special about the mechanisms behind the human brain's function Imagine someone spilled the contents of a large trash in a pile on…

> It doesn't take much of a leap... Do you have any clue about the current state of neuroscientific research? Scientists are struggling to understand a single neuron, there are no …

Here, I fixed the graphs for you: http://imgur.com/xi2nhgx

If it's just about target audience, then I wonder why all these companies seem to target detergents / toothpaste / toilet paper exclusively to 25 year olds...

Losening your grip just as the axe hits the wood also works for normal axes. Makes chopping a lot easier on the wrist.

I find it odd that the only moral issue people seem to find with procedures like this is whether it is okay to kill an egg cell, or an early stage embryo. These egg cells don't gro…

Mac OS X has something similar to this "Software HSM": the Keychain. You can put private keys in your keychain, and apps can use them for signing or encrypting, but they can't extr…

I don't like how every single post on unicornfree tells you that the conventional wisdom is wrong, and to learn the truth you have to sign up for their online seminar.

Reducing the number of includes in the header is very much not premature optimisation. On a phone with poor connectivity, a single blocking Javascript in the header might cause a o…

The problem with reset.css is that people often use reset files made by other people without understanding what they do. For example, lot's of people use https://github.com/necolas…

In my experience you don't need to know much about tax laws to run a small business. Find a cheap accountant* , and he'll tell you everything you need to know about taxes in two ho…

It's also odd that the patients had to pay for the experimental surgery. This doesn't sound like a serious clinical trial, it sounds like a hack performed by some back-alley doc in…

I'd be happy if my GPS just stopped sending me on detours through residential areas...

Shader is a good name, because it implies what one of the main purposes of the code is: to apply lighting (shading) to the stuff. How do you shade a vertex? Read about Gouraud shad…

This is probably more important towards the end of your undergraduate studies. At least in Austria it's quite common to receive a stipend for your masters' thesis (in science/engin…

Why is it out of your reach? Because they are too expensive? If you want to study at a better college, look for professors in your field, find someone that does something interesti…

One compelling use case I've heard for schemas is versioning. Say you want to upgrade a stored function in your database. You need to make sure that both the new and the old versio…