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bsdiff is not a general purpose binary delta algorithm, it's targeted at executables. When you change a single line in the source code of a program and recompile it, bsdiff produce…

Presenting this screen before you can actually get the OS does not make much sense for new users. They won't know if "hardware support on more PCs" or "performance optimisations" w…

Great Britain is the island. Scotland would find it very hard to leave it.

Relevant: http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/The-Speedup-Loop.aspx

I've used Qt a lot. In fact, I'm still a big fan and wasn't trying to sound negative about it in any way. I absolutely agree that Qt does a tremendous job at abstracting away the d…

The difference is that each environment for non-Web apps - Mac, Windows, KDE etc - has each own somewhat well defined look and feel, that applications should follow in order to fee…

Direct URL: http://code.google.com/p/collide/

Some syntax highlighters, such as highlight.js [0], can do language detection and it works reasonably well with short snippets too. [0] http://softwaremaniacs.org/soft/highlight/en…

Ruby seems to have fixed it in December, PHP in January and Node was trying to get a fix in for v8 but it's been rejected AFAIR and then they patched their version. Perl hasn't act…

I like how it displays the weather in each participant's location, now I can shorten the usual opening chit chat to a minimum.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3717754 I don't think you'll get different results 9 days later.

Well, mine had falling snowflakes even when it was summer.

If you're really concerned about people not contributing back their changes, I'd first consider whether it'd be due to their unwillingness or maybe a cumbersome process of doing th…

They bothered with the $5 account because by stealing a wallet, they'd not only acquire its balance but also any future incoming transfers to one of its addresses.

I couldn't find a link to the source code but it seems to be this project on GitHub: https://github.com/toolness/collusion

There is a bunch of ways to distinguish important updates from the others. First, prioritize updates from projects I am or have contributed to. Second, updates from people close to…

Here it is: http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/frontier-digital-education-1...

In an interview, David Evans, who teaches the search engine class, said Udacity's business model will be recruiters paying for access to the top students.

You don't need to look too far for examples. Even on this very site, there are quite a few people who want to make a huge difference with their lives in one way or another before t…

This doesn't look like a good framework for GAs. It assumes that the best solution to a given problem is explicitly provided but if it is, then there's no point in running a GA any…

The Python version seems to be using an interpreter that frankly just doesn't work: x = [1, 5, 3, 2, 6, 4] x.sort() print x Output: [1, 3, 2, 4, 5, 6] Not to mention the incomplete…

So this is something I hacked on for the past two days. It's a bit different than the numerous implementations that have been posted on HN before. It shows how Mona Lisa evolves on…