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piaskal

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About piaskal

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    Comment #6782646

    If you have a smart TV you probably want to browse the web on it.

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    Comment #4631569

    While there isn't anything special marking the edge of space, the generally accepted definition is 100km https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edge_of_space

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    Comment #4141203

    It's so easy to access all kinds of information from home nowadays, it can be better at fulfilling my curiosity than going out.

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    Comment #3898567

    Google is already storing urls to those files.

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    Comment #3047546

    This is a nice example of simple evolutionary algorithm. Next steps could be separating crossover and mutate operations, selecting more parent pairs for crossover and applying muta…

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    Comment #3004160

    I'd use random data to make it hard to compress. You don't know if there won't be some link layer compression along the way.

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    Comment #2999829

    most people are not intelligent enough to use modern tools (computers) effectively Most people have never been taught how to use computers effectively.

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    Comment #2995738

    This is great. Nobody ever travels from airport to airport, yet every flight search engine insists that you enter departure and destination airport names instead of places you actu…

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    Comment #2940906

    Id games have lot's of artwork, levels, etc. that is not released under GPL. In minecraft it's users that create the content. Id can release their engines under GPL without harming…

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    Comment #2845203

    I'm not sure why, but the page is in Korean. Here is an English blog post: http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/blog/3250656#blog

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    Comment #2796948

    If it's supposed to stop bots why did they make it harder to read for humans than bots?

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    Comment #2628301

    There is an interesting followup to that story on quora. http://www.quora.com/Mircea-Goia/In-your-journey-from-coal-m...

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    Comment #2541278

    This is very annoying, especially in situations when it's not a music video, but the video has some background music not available in my county.

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    Comment #2531711

    Just ask vupen if their exploit still works on new version.

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    Comment #2461891

    When you forget your password you'll lose access to all of your data. Password recovery won't be possible if the key is password protected.

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