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Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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neo4j.com is offering a free PDF-Copy[^] of "Graph Databases" from O'Reilly. free in the meaning of: in exchange for your contact details.
(Tip originally posted in the Lounge a few days ago by someone else.)
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Update: this is now the 2nd. edition of the O'Reilly book, and it is, imho, excellently written.
imho of interest to anyone keeping up with "post-relational" innovation in database architecture: [^].
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
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Cross-posted from the Lounge[^] as requested by OriginalGriff.
As Matthew pointed out last December[^], using AdBlockPlus can dramatically slow down your browser, and eat memory like it's the last bacon sandwich on Earth.
Scott Hanselman's just posted a link to a new alternative: µBlock[^]. It claims to have a much lower memory footprint, much lower CPU, and block more ads.
NB: Avast currently claims[^] the add-on has a poor reputation. It's possible that this is just because not many Avast users have installed it, but caveat emptor.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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after "short" test in Windows Firefox:
Work: Yes
Lower memory usage: Yes
thanks for tip
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I use Freemake Video Converter[^] to convert to MP4 (as that's my Chromecast's prefered format), or HandBrake[^] which works, but prefers M4V to MP4 output, and seems to lose a little clarity when Freemake doesn't.
Both of them accept every video format I've thrown at them, and can produce a whole load of different output formats.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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fyi: The FreeMake Video Converter download has Application.Win32.AdSweet in its '.exe which is flagged by my AV program, but it is flagged as "No Risk," so this may be a false positive.
«I'm asked why doesn't C# implement feature X all the time. The answer's always the same: because no one ever designed, specified, implemented, tested, documented, shipped that feature. All six of those things are necessary to make a feature happen. They all cost huge amounts of time, effort and money.» Eric Lippert, Microsoft, 2009
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Great for the blind, me and when doing presentations. clickity[^]
Quote: ZoomIt is a screen zoom and annotation tool for technical presentations that include application demonstrations. ZoomIt runs unobtrusively in the tray and activates with customizable hotkeys to zoom in on an area of the screen, move around while zoomed, and draw on the zoomed image.
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0
My goal in life is to have a psychiatric disorder named after me.
I'm currently unsupervised, I know it freaks me out too but the possibilities are endless.
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I recently wrote my own file syncing program and thought I would share it. It's a basic one-way sync program I use for syncing files from my pc to an external hdd, but with some 'special' features:
- detects file renames by comparing file size and last modified date, so it doesn't have to delete / re-copy renamed files. This saves a lot of time if the renamed files are big.
- gives you a choice of external copying programs (Unstoppable Copier / TeraCopy) or the standard Windows copy process
- saving and loading of folder pairs
Some polish is still required (e.g. select all / none) for the checkboxes), but it is fully functional.
Get it from here and let me know if it has been useful.
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It's a bit raw, but perhaps I need to RTFM.
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I hadn't used it in a while and the other day when I wanted to use it I had to RTM  Maybe it can do with some more user friendly-ness 
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Version in Bulgarian (and Russian ?) also available on the site: [^].
Book in English (.pdf): [^].
Impressive collaboration for the public's benefit ! Sponsored by Telerik academy.
«A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards ... as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push» Wittgenstein
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Countered univoting idjit.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
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The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
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Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Downvote countered.
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly"- SoMad
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Let's assume I have a simple look-up table with columns 1, 2, and 3. The valid values for column 1 are A and B and the valid values for column 2 are C and D. Let's assume the look-up table looks like this:
Column 1 Column 2 Column 3
A C Look-up table result E
A D Look-up table result E
B C Look-up table result F
B D Look-up table result G
In the table above it is easy to see that if column 1 is A then column 2 is don't care and the top 2 rows could be combined into 1 that says "Don't care" in column 2. Is there a ready-made application available that could do this for me (of course, with bigger and more complex tables)?
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There is an algorithms forum here where this could be posted, or you could ask this question on the C# language forum, or the C# QA Forum.
This is an interesting problem.
«A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards ... as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push» Wittgenstein
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This looks like a standard use of an AI technique for building decision trees.
Normally, in an AI context, the data would be noisy, so we would be looking for rules that apply over a certain threshold.
From your description, it sounds like your data will be clean, and your rules perfect.
Look at a tool called WEKA, it can generate these types of rules, or an algorithm called ID3.
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So I had a look at some tutorials on WEKA and it seems it can take my data in table format and create a decision tree out of it. But is it possible to get a reduced table (with don't cares inserted where applicable) from the decision tree? I want the end result to be a condensed table, not a decision tree.
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Run-time or compile-time? If compile-time, gperf (GNU perfect hash) could probably help.
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Api Monitor[^]
API Monitor is a software that monitors and displays API calls made by applications and services.
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+5 This is free, looks interesting. Down-vote of #2 countered.
«A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards ... as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push» Wittgenstein
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