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On: Deep Shot: Google, MIT Sync PCs and Smartphones wi...

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The article seems to imply that you need a desktop app installed to extract fully-qualified URLs from the open application. I wonder why a better alternative wouldn't be to embed an encoded URL as part of the webpage itself, have the phone extract the URL from the image? Essentially a steganography-meets-QR code approach.

On: Ask HN: Who's hiring? (September 2010)

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On: The never-ending finite loop

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And you could save an additional character by changing the loop test to a+b form, i.e.:

int i,x[99];for(x[98]=i=1;x+98;)i*=!++x[i++];

The other array references are l-values.

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That would need to be *(x+98), which is longer than x[98].

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Ahh.. you're right, of course. What I wrote has an undefined termination condition, besides not being consistent with the original algo. Thanks.