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Comment Wrong approach (Score 1) 43

Eye strain isn't from the colors - it's from the brightness of the screen switching and if the screen is the only light source in the room your eyes has to constantly adjust to new brightness levels.

To avoid eye strain - turn on a small lamp in the room. Make sure the ambient light in the room is not zero. That's way better. If anything I'd think this make it worse - the brightness of the whole room changes constantly making your eyes having to adjust more, not less.

Comment Re:A much simpler method (Score 1) 93

You're using the lower bound of Wilson score. But the Wilson score is an interval, in this case 93.6% - 98.9%. The center of that interval is 96.2% which is pretty close to this algorithms 97,1%.

I agree that you probably should use the lower bound of the Wilson score for these kinds of ratings, but you can't claim he's algorithm is badly wrong.

Submission + - Visual studio search replace for HTML attributes

joke_dst writes: A search/replace for VS2010 to add quotes around XML parameters that doesn't have quotes.
Not fool-proof. Should be supervised:

Find what:
[ \n]{:a*}={[^"][^ \>]*}{ |\>}

Replace with:
  \1="\2"\3

Comment Re:Why on server? (Score 1) 133

Because you want an internal infrastructure that allows you to replace the scanner easily. Those thing brake down, or more importantly gets replaced with faster new scanners.

One of my clients has a scanner farm that scans documents, then the images are sent to a OCR server farm. It's way easier to replace any part if it that way (we're actually trying out a new OCR suite right now so I'll test this one).

Even if you just have one scanner and does OCR on the same machine, braking it up this way makes it easier for you in the future.

Comment Re:I for one... (Score 1) 260

So it's entirely plausible that the gene might have been caused by a spot mutation very early on while all mammals were basically mice, and it then had a sufficiently small effect on actual survivability that the trait didn't get bred out.

Not really. Unless there was an actual advantage to having the gene there will really not be a "sufficiently small effect" as long as it's greater than zero.

And there IS an advantage of having this gene: Scaring.

Scaring is faster and fixes you up good enough for most part. Regenerating takes so long you might very well die from the damage before it's finished.

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Journal Journal: SQL Server Search in stored procedures

A small script to search for a string in all stored procedures/triggers/functions etc. It outputs every occurance with some context (currently 50 chars before & after)
This searches for InFileID. Replace with something else.
This is not a stored procedure, because I don't want to create stored procedures in every database I need this functionality...

Comment Re:Monitors (Score 1) 460

It's not equivalent. In a CRT the "image" only appears when the ray passes a certain pixel, the pixel then goes more or less black. In a LCD the pixels are shining all the time, and then suddenly changes color.

The effect of this is that the brain interpolates better on a CRT, when the pixel is black the brain fills the void. This does not happen as well on LCD, which is why we need much higher refresh rates on LCD's to get the same impression.

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