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It looks like the entire comment is the quote - the only closing " I can see is at the very end.

I don't know if it is the same thing that you are alluding to, but LIDAR can be used to measure distant wind speeds. I don't know if the output would be suitable for shooting, but …

To me, the obvious follow-up would be social anxiety because it is intrinsically hard to talk to other people about, yet discussing it with a computer doesn't pose any difficulty. …

The thing that jumps out at me is your first question: the majority of the actions I get from e-mail come in the text of the email and are external to the mail client (implement th…

It seems to me that you have introduced an unnecessary third party to the problem (the agent) that holds the same power and position as the current problem party in the copyright a…

Alternatively, how much of the stats were the same machines failing repeatedly until they found stable settings? [Anecdote] If my brief experience is anything to go by, overclockin…

I'm curious, does anyone know if this study counted all the computers that didn't have any of these failures at all during the time period? Or is it just those that reported a fail…

I would have guessed the opposite - I would expect the least significant bits to have a random distribution (if the image is a photo from a camera, that is) so if the least signifi…

You would have to weight that against possibly increased use of artificial lighting, but it might work.

Finding drops for the AH isn't as powerful a reward loop (at least pre-inferno) because whether you get a reward or not is at the whim of other players, and because your reward (or…

With any luck Ocado will step up for this one, it seems an ideal fit with their current business model.

Can your friend prove the Haskell and ML compilers he is using are 100% bug free as well? And the hardware it is running on? (both the compiler and the execution environment if the…

"The rebuttal of course is usually the same. Used games fuel new game sales; this is GameStop's response and some buy into it. Of course, in reality it's pure conjecture without an…

The last paragraph really bothered me, but I'm not entirely sure why; it felt authoritarian, thought police etc. That aside, the idea of a gender neutral pronoun sounds good to me.…

She describes her planning method in a post linked from the submission [0] and it has quite a lot in common with the Snowflake method. [0] http://thisblogisaploy.blogspot.co.uk/201…

At the furthest point in its orbit, the command module was probably about the diameter of the moon (plus a bit) away from the guys on the surface, so ~2000 miles.

Or use a random picture from a set which the user has set up with different "passwords".

Like one of these? http://www.campingsurvival.com/kahaemdewama.html

"Programmers are interchangeable" seems to come up quite a lot, but I don't think we have a monopoly on it: celebrities (where it is the individual's brand that sells) are the only…

If you are using C++, you can make the units (dimensionality) compile-time checked using templates. See: http://learningcppisfun.blogspot.com/2007/01/units-and-dimen... (that isn't…

I don't think it works correctly though... it uses "Author" as the first link whereas the first link in the text of the article is "webcomic" ("Author" is in the summary pannel on …

I can only speak for myself, but the arguments you list aren't things I would really consider at the time of purchase: I've never yet wanted to buy a book anonymously using cash, t…

There are a lot people who do open source stuff and make a big thing out of it ("I think a github link is more important than a CV" etc.) to the point where those of us who don't, …

I was thinking of reviews along the lines of "I'm sure this will be great. 5*" I'm not sure if I've seen any like that on Amazon though, now that I think about it.

I have no probelem with people leaving 1* reviews without reading the book, just like I have no problem with Amazon removing those reviews (and only those reviews). Yes they are an…