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by A_Beer_Clinked 11y ago
In some ways git blame accomplishes this, at least conceptually. It chains back through the diffs to find out who edited the line. So to address the OP problem you could have a hash that was based on : Original Line number , diff id , diff
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by A_Beer_Clinked 11y ago
Can anybody with experience of using Openstack Ironic[1] in this space comment on advantages of rolling your own liek GitHub? [1] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Ironic
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by A_Beer_Clinked 11y ago
Nice find. Relatedly I found this brief history of DEC: From: http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Digital_Equipment_Corp.asp... >There was virtually no organizational structure during Digital’s early years because Ols
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by A_Beer_Clinked 11y ago
>The ability to create privacy should be a point of pride as not everyone has that luxury. It should be a human right. I agree; so does the UN in The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Article 12. No one shall be subjected to arbitra
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by A_Beer_Clinked 11y ago
Speaking of Dojo. Why not mentor at your local Coder Dojo? (Or start one) I've found it a great way to meet people and have made some good friends with other mentors and the parents of the ninjas (kids). https://coderdojo.co
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by A_Beer_Clinked 11y ago
I found this link: https://medium.com/precision-medicine/how-big-is-the-human-g... In summary: > 1. In a perfect world (just your 3 billion letters): ~700 megabytes > 2. In the real world, right off the genome se
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by A_Beer_Clinked 11y ago
I first heard about Nellie Bly via the early West Wing episode. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0745595/quotes?item=qt0297998 I hadn't realised that she had also done a Jules Verne around the world.
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by A_Beer_Clinked 11y ago
I've done a lot of data work for several other brands in a few markets and can confirm the used car part of this is true. A properly run organisation can sell and re-sell the same car several times, also selling parts and services to
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by A_Beer_Clinked 11y ago
Why not remove everything and go for vacuum spheres... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco_Lana_de_Terzi#Airshi...
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by A_Beer_Clinked 11y ago
You don't want a body lying around for a few days spreading whatever they died off. Apparently plague victims were often buried in haste.
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by A_Beer_Clinked 11y ago
good idea! Let's also change the airport code for Brownsville. Better change the ones for Manchester and Guymon too. Something does need to be done to address the gender balance in software world; this isn't it. At the coderdojo w
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by A_Beer_Clinked 11y ago
The full ruling is available here: http://www.politico.eu/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/schrems-ju... These bit jumped out at me: >Furthermore, national security, public interest and law enforcement requ
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by A_Beer_Clinked 11y ago
They have sold 100k Porsches on to an information superhighway that has only room for 1000 at a time so they only let each one use it for a relatively short amount of time each month. i.e the do contention management over a month. Most prov
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by A_Beer_Clinked 11y ago
I could imagine a scenario where this started out as something less evil. Seems to me that cars will perform differently in a lab than on the road; off the top of my head: - Stationary cars have different air-intake characteristics - The te
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by A_Beer_Clinked 11y ago
Well they could be.. Demand Side Response is a mechanism where utility companies pay energy consumers to stop using grid power at peak times. Effectively a company is treated as a power generator but instead of selling power to the grid the
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by A_Beer_Clinked 11y ago
I was curious about this; Ethnologue, which seems to be the base reference on this says: The exact number of unwritten languages is hard to determine. Ethnologue (17th edition) has data to indicate that of the currently listed 7,105 living
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by A_Beer_Clinked 11y ago
The papers I mentioned above) indicate that it can be used against postgres. You can annotate your scheme to configure how you want the tables to be handled.
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by A_Beer_Clinked 11y ago
This is a fantastic project from the MIT CSAIL team that builds brings together many cryptographic components into a integrated system. The academic papers on this are available from here https://css.csail.mit.edu/cryptdb&#x
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by A_Beer_Clinked 11y ago
Another great resource is the tz database [0]. It includes some great vignettes as well as the time zone rules: From Larry M. Smith (2006-04-26) re Wisconsin: http://www.legis.state.wi.us/statutes/Stat0175.pdf ... is
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by A_Beer_Clinked 11y ago
In the Ben Bova Mars series they have strategically positioned piles of patches that get sucked up and stuck in the holes. Maybe you could accomplish something similar with a middle layer that was oversized and stuffed in between the outer
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by A_Beer_Clinked 11y ago
Lots of databases are configured to do both. The tables store what we normally think of as "the data" and the log stores the changes. Tables are like the HEAD in git etc and the transaction log is like the chain of commits. In pri
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by A_Beer_Clinked 11y ago
Is the fact that the talks are in a "Luxury Hotel" pertinent? The article doesn't explain how. Would the EFF be happier if the the "Secret TPP Talks Continue at a Reasonably Priced Motel as the Deal Grows More Controve
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by A_Beer_Clinked 11y ago
I did a little searching to expand on your numbers. What follows is not scientific. According to https://www.datanyze.com/market-share/cdn/ CloudFront, Akamai, MaxCDN, CloudFlare, EdgeCast and CDNEtworks account
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by A_Beer_Clinked 11y ago
I've been through this a few times as both the vendor and the client. There are normally a bunch of conditions that can trigger a release of the the source code to the client. These _could_ include business failure but also non-perform
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by A_Beer_Clinked 11y ago
as a remedy I have one of my monitors rotated 90° into portrait orientation. I can just drag the offending tab across and have a screen width of 1200px. There are a (very) few sites though that seem to cache the original screen width and ne
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by A_Beer_Clinked 13y ago
An alternative approach is Microsoft Log Parser. While it is old in internet time (2005), it works brilliantly on very large files. I've successfully used it on 10+ GigaByte files. The documentation is a little sparse but once you get