mikhael

Probably the key paragraph, in relation to the recent discussion: > In fact it was just not feasible to implement hardware accelerated drawing inside windows until recently. Because Android is des…

yeah, indeed -- but i think the optimization is actually broken. if you are just waiting for an HT or a TH in a sequence of flips, then you will just wind up with H..HT or T..TH, so that the very firs…

thanks for writing this. the formula used in the webpage, (HH+TT+HT)/TH, appears to be off by one. i calculated it myself from the series, i.e. sum(n=0 to inf, 2(n+1)2pq(p^2+q^2)^n), and through the a…

it seems (highly) unlikely to me that it will ever be successfully ported, as apple can surely white-list the service by IMEI or serial number.

has anyone else noticed horrible dithering on the new macbook air's screen? i will say that i absolutely love the machine otherwise, but - especially when e.g. watching a movie - i find this problem t…

The problem is that the "fuck" here really has nothing to do with the app. It would add some amount of shock and emphasis to the question ("where is this?") but there is nothing shocking or surprising…

Agreed. I almost questioned whether this post was a parody, instead of a genuine example of the entitled generation.

I have seen this article referenced rather often, and I really have a problem with it. Despite being called "Singleton Considered Stupid," much of the article is not about singletons at all, and he ba…

When I first saw it, I did find it remarkably annoying, but didn't actually put my finger on it until now: to me it doesn't feel "cute" at all, but rather like a machine or a robot, maybe trying to so…

all i see is a black, unreadable page, with a search bar and a vaguely labeled "community" button whose behavior i could not predict at all, and which produced nothing local to my own community when i…

i went for the first time this summer, and i can give a little advice; depending on your level of spontaneity, you may or may not really care: as a visitor to japan, getting a temp. cell phone seemed …

use of double-exclamation points => bias

it's not a pyramid scheme. if you read it carefully, it's actually an inverse-pyramid scheme. the payouts are limited and well defined.

it's a shame that the blogger provided inadequate summary of the article. at the same time, i found this very upsetting: "This begins with the realization that every American adult is responsible for …

it does make sense; there are two issues here. one is that the author overlooked (or ignored) the fact that "input size" means number of bits. the number N uses ~log2(N) = M bits, so that is the input…

most people would consider the so-called "linear" algorithm exponential, as the size of the input for the number n is m = Theta(log(n)) bits; the running time is Theta(2^m). the "quadratic" running ti…

though palo alto sucks for mexican food, the best places in SF are far, far above and beyond anything in boston -- anna's doesn't even care to compete. try el farolito or el castillito. my favorite in…

http://scantegrity.org/ Scantegrity is an open source election verification technology for optical scan voting systems. It uses privacy preserving confirmation numbers to allow each voter to verify …