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So apparently Howard Stern is a better author than Angelina Jolie... I'm going to take this with a grain of salt here...

For measuring things so small such as fringe patterns, having this thing sitting in a non-temperature controlled room with a laser going through the room's air (which your breath a…

Whatever you do, don't do what my office did - they installed speakers that play pink noise. It helps with the noise (so much chatter) but it's annoying as hell.

Well, one of my friends in Arizona has not necessarily his whole roof covered, but he is able to generate about 90% of his yearly energy usage. The only problem is that he doesn't …

Try this one: http://nomorecaptchas.com/ It's very similar. I might go as far as saying that Google copied them.

Hung, do you really believe that tech recruiters don't already have github accounts?

Uhm, I'm pretty sure it can use all your ram if you want. It's an in-memory database, so all your ram will be used for data...

In short, Deep Blue had 'preparation' against Kasparov from all his game histories, while Kasparov did not have the same benefit. Kasparov had the benefit of playing all those game…

Yeah, and all those things exist for Python, yet you don't see people using Pyjamas everywhere instead of javascript... people are not going to switch to ruby to do front end work …

Reminds me of myself a few years back, but it was a different tactic. Ok maybe it was 13 years ago, but still... I was offered $14/hr for some job at a factory as computer support.…

Mao is Chinese for cat.

I think it's a bit premature to be bought out at this time. You're still a young company, and had just started to get traction, and I doubt you are profitable yet. A couple more ye…

I believe the word you mean is improbable. Nothing is impossible. And you may be using the later versions of the test. I'm not saying he was the smartest in the world, in fact, it …

Supposedly 'Albert Einstein' had an IQ of around 160. My father's IQ was tested to be around 200. Yet you wouldn't know who the hell my father was even if I told you his name. It w…

It is becoming an accepted spelling. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/carmelize Also it's not 'US Americans' but Usanians.

You're right, it is absolutely senseles. However, that doesn't mean you shouldn't take pride in your work. Take a look at my Pythagorean cipher. It's idiotic and not practical, but…

tiles.ice.org was good, now they have a new site, but it's not quite there yet, the forums are filled with spam. It was a collaborative art project, where either you were given a t…

No autocomplete for julienne, sautee, carmelize. It seems like this was written without any input from a trained chef. Hint: http://www.d.umn.edu/~alphanu/cookery/glossary_cooking.…

Thanks for this. Have you considered using a GPU to speed up computations?

It hasn't changed at all. I have it enabled, its funny sometimes. The 2013 year end video brought a tear to my eye, and it changed some beach photos by adding in snowflakes (must h…

It's called "Parallel construction"... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction Most likely, the NSA got the information around May, tipped off the FBI and the FBI starte…

Well, that's the thing - they are not providing packet traces even though they were doing a forensic investigation, putting their methodology into doubt. Also, there are no logs in…

Because it's not just USB flash drives. Any device, a cell phone, a mouse, a webcam, anything that connects via usb, could essentially connect as a USB HID (human input device) and…

The 'intangibles' you speak of are housing and money.

I just don't understand the justification for this. > pre 2000 I'm pretty sure a lot of good technology is written pre-2000. Why you'd want to throw it away is beyond me. Just beca…