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Comment · 12 years ago
"Updated javascript"
Comment · 13 years ago
Comment · 13 years ago
You have to take into account sweat as well. A boxer's face is probably going to be sweaty as they exert themselves quite a bit during a fight. As a result, the blood is going to get watered down.

I tried to find pictures to verify my idea, but every head injury picture I found was of an athlete.

Comment · 13 years ago
Finally my knowledge of Scheme comes in handy!
Comment · 13 years ago
Given that this is a naturally-occurring hormone, is there any chance that taking Melatonin regularly could cause your body to "get lazy" and eventually produce less of its own?
Comment · 13 years ago
Comment · 13 years ago
I don't know, Angry Birds (and smart phones in general) ushered in a new era of bathroom-related hygienic disasters.
Comment · 13 years ago
Great for touchscreen, but tricky with a mouse. I would like to see an option for drawing gears where mouse down sets the center of a new gear and dragging away determines the radius.
Comment · 13 years ago
Drawing a slash through a gear seems to delete it. I'm not sure whether or not that is intentional
Comment · 13 years ago
It also works with smartphones, which most people have and use regularly. Not to mention the fact that the kind of person who would buy a Chromecast is probably an above-average user anyway.
Comment · 13 years ago
Comment · 13 years ago
In my experience, "good" code and "pretty" code are the same thing - and similarly for "bad" and "ugly". Of course, when I say "pretty", I mean well laid-out, properly documented, non-spaghetti code. I've spent far too much of my time tearing out thousands of lines of "bad" code that wasn't written in a way to allow for easy changes.
Comment · 13 years ago
Comment · 13 years ago
This is questionable. If I enter 15 random alphabet characters, it gives me 49 years. 15 numbers is 2 days. 15 characters of punctuation is 743,000 years.

If the cracker was trying to brute force a password, then they would have to try every available character in every valid position. Unless I'm misunderstanding something, and n-length password would take a similar amount of time to guess as any other n-length password with the same restrictions. The cracker doesn't know going into it that I only have letters in my password, so he has to use any valid character.

Perhaps a more useful system would be one that would let websites enter their password restrictions and tell them how secure their users' password can be with those restrictions.

Comment · 13 years ago
I use Astrid all the time to keep track of things I need to do, so I will be very disappointed if (read: when) Yahoo shuts it down and opens up a new "Yahoo To-Do" service. I understand the willingness of small businesses to be acquired, but it often really sucks for end users.

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