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epsilon = some very small number used in mathematical proofs, usually approaching zero. OP is saying that this is too similar to cat pictures. I think that it is worlds better than…

"The top two were robots, and number 3 were all the humans"

Not sure how you can love automatic programming but dismiss biology. Humans are an operating system that is not only time dependent, but spatial and gradient dependent self mutatin…

Nowhere in the video was it every implied that the doctor handed out antibiotics like candy. I wouldn't be surprised if this doctor actually wrote less antibiotic prescriptions tha…

Usually I write a little code, commit what it is supposed to do, then fixup all the little edge cases and bugs that come naturally. But what's important is that first commit is set…

From my experience with super programmers: The super programmer converts complex ideas into code coherent to the normal programmer. The super programmer makes difficult decisions w…

I was trying to find a clear description of what happened, with supporting evidence at the right times, and it was surprisingly hard (many arm-chair fencers). This is the best I co…

Another great GC discussion for LuaJit: http://wiki.luajit.org/New-Garbage-Collector

That's funny, I interpreted what he said a bit differently for "impatience" and "hubris". To me, impatience and hubris go hand in hand for a good hacker. Impatience: Why is this co…

This is a bit of a tangent, but do you have any sources for consumer-grade desktop parts being lower quality than enterprise-grade? I'd like to read an in-depth hardware analysis t…

Hanja is widely used in modern Korea. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanja

Last I checked Squeeze had a fairly straightforward Xen 4.0 package. I did have trouble with dropped packets, but I was doing some pretty complex stuff and it was already fixed ups…

Regarding zfs: the zfs on linux project ( http://zfsonlinux.org/ ) is actually fairly mature and has decent performance ( though there are still some outstanding issues with using …

Can you prove they would be? How many closed-source, for profit software projects were rescued after the supporting company went under? (I am intentionally conflating closed-source…

I also like chrome's omnibox, but I dislike their support for rss feeds as a bookmark (live rss) as well as their video adblock (doesn't work). For firefox, I use the https://addon…

the phrasing is vague, but all it is describing is tunneling http/etc through ssh. Ostensibly, you have some remote server whose internet connection is more "secure" than your home…

I highly, highly recommend http://hardforum.com/forumdisplay.php?f=40 for build your own pc advice. There are some very knowledgeable and helpful people that frequent that forum (i…

Important correction: Netflix's HD tops out at 5 Mb/s, not 5 MB/s. Bluray max bitrate is 54 Mb/s, but I've generally seen transcoding to 20-30 Mb/s have nearly the same quality.

git rebase -i can handle your last request (interactively combine/remove/move history). In fact, git can also handle your second wish by having simply creating a "sync" branch poin…

Pressing Esc brought me back to the menu.