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OMBUG··on Dijkstra’s algorithm and the Fibonacci heap
It doesn't make sense to say there's an upper and lower bound on the "worst" case. If that were true, the upper bound would be the new worst case, and the lower bound would be some middle case. A best or worst case is inherently always going to be big-theta.
OMBUG··on Why Japanese Web Design Is So Different
You don't need to imagine: http://www.amazon.cn/
OMBUG··on Overview of Valve's SteamMachines specs
450W seems a little lean for a Titan...
OMBUG··on Color Test
Just clicking through without doing any reordering got me 1042 so I don't think it's in the [0,99] interval. I'm assuming 99 is just an arbitrary "you have terrible eyesight" cutoff.
OMBUG··on The De-evolution of My Laptop Battery
Nice article, might start tracking this too! My mid-2011 MBA is at 203 cycles and 99.5% capacity. Seems to be holding up remarkably well.
OMBUG··on YouTube adds Play icon to page titles so you can see which tabs are making noise
I'm curious as to why they took it out, it's a lifesaver when you have 50+ tabs and one of them has a talking ad.
OMBUG··on What is the concept underlying image processing?
To be fair you can implement any function over a finite domain using a sufficiently large lookup table.

The OP seems weird - it's clearly a beginner asking, but the answers assume an understanding of spatial frequency and Fourier transforms. I think it would be more intuitive to explain in terms of convolutions with small kernels.

OMBUG··on Logic Pro X
If you're looking to get into it, but reluctant to spend $200 off the bat, I'd recommend taking a look at REAPER (www.reaper.fm) - it's significantly cheaper ($60) and the only area it's really lacking compared to Logic and the like is the bundled samples/synths.
OMBUG··on Why (not) pay for music?
You absolutely don't need to spend thousands on mics, pres and AD converters to get good recordings, there's plenty of top quality options that are much more affordable. I'd put money on 95% of the music listening population not being able to tell the difference between a £2k mic and a £500 one in blind tests.

Obviously you'd have to be willing to put an exorbitant amount of time into getting good, but that's another issue.

OMBUG··on Django System Monitor
I get NoSuchProcess exceptions whenever I try to access the admin with it enabled. I love the idea though.
OMBUG··on Django REST framework 2.3 released: ViewSets and Routers
Last I tried this (2.1?) it took a hell of a lot more boilerplate than TastyPie, and I had a few problems that necessitated changing the source a bit. But maybe I was using it wrong (didn't spend a huge amount of time with it).

The auto generated web interface is nice though.

OMBUG··on Lessons in website security anti-patterns by Tesco
I know Halifax at least uses a separate string for those checks, which presumably is stored unencrypted.