CUViper

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by CUViper 17y ago
I thought it was weird that Stephen Hawking wasn't mentioned at all in an article about black holes. But to be fair, I don't think we have any evidence of Hawking Radiation either.
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by CUViper 17y ago
I wonder if this is because of claimed patents around pinching? AIUI, patents are allowed to be selectively enforced, but I would actually prefer that they choose to be consistent about it. If software patents are evil, then at least predi
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by CUViper 17y ago
I prefer cscope & vim, but yes, I often have no idea what file I'm in.
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by CUViper 17y ago
According to one of the linked articles, they are suspected to be hitchhiking in the ballast of large ships, so their habitat is unnaturally expanding. There could always be other factors too, like an over-fished predator.
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by CUViper 17y ago
In my internship days, I had an employer who filed me as a contractor for tax purposes. It felt a bit sleazy, and I felt especially robbed when I later realized that I had to pay extra self-employment taxes. I really wish I had spoken up
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by CUViper 17y ago
It's not a static binary either, it's a script: $ file `which ldd` /usr/bin/ldd: Bourne-Again shell script text executable It's also worth reading up on LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS and the possible exploits therein, e.g. http://news.y
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by CUViper 17y ago
But they're indexed anchors, so if he ever inserts or reorders content, the links will break.
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by CUViper 17y ago
Red Hat is hiring: https://redhat.ats.hrsmart.com/cgi-bin/a/alljobs.cgi?qty=25&... (Don't worry much about the location as you search -- most positions allow working from home too...)
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by CUViper 17y ago
3dfx had a demo of this a while back. (11 years ago!) It would show 60/30/15 fps side-by-side, so you could better compare how the frame-rate impacts you. I found it archived here: http://www.falconfly.de/artwork.htm http://www.fal
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by CUViper 17y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_week_date The ISO week date system is a leap week calendar system that is part of the ISO 8601 date and time standard. The system is used (mainly) in government and business for fiscal years, as well as i
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by CUViper 17y ago
The primary goals of these apps are not so different, which is why I think comparisons can be meaningful. Consider how they describe themselves: Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing. GNU Emacs
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by CUViper 17y ago
Both MS PowerPoint and OO Impress can create 16:9 slides.
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Vim and Emacs modelines(briancarper.net)
10 points by CUViper 17y ago|12 comments
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by CUViper 17y ago
To me, a C&D implies bad intentions on the part of the recipient. I would much rather receive an informal request before any legal action is presented against me.
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by CUViper 17y ago
In the discussion of sudo -- having "PASSWD: ALL, NOPASSWD: /bin/dd" is effectively "NOPASSWD: ALL". The legitimate user will have to enter his password for other commands in a semblance of security, but an attacker who compromised his acc
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by CUViper 17y ago
So when you have such a powerful "master" password, you shouldn't go blabbing it to a bunch of websites with unknown security. You have to trust it with Google, by nature, but using different passwords elsewhere means that leaks on other s
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What Star Trek Predicts About The Future of Information Security(ha.ckers.org)
3 points by CUViper 17y ago|2 comments
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by CUViper 17y ago
Ah, but ack supports an options file, so you can actually change your own defaults. Consider adding "--text" to "$HOME/.ackrc". In case you want more, specify just one option per line.
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by CUViper 17y ago
I agree that those are nasty problems, but with the passion that went into the open letter, I believe that the project will survive. I'm glad that you're not actually soured on Red Hat. And if the best way for you to support your products
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by CUViper 17y ago
Please, there's no need for such FUD. I work at Red Hat, and the general feeling I see internally is very positive towards CentOS. Sure, there are a few who would like to be more aggressive about converting CentOS users to RHEL subscriptio
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by CUViper 17y ago
My wife told me that some of her coworkers will use their Yahoo homepage to search for Google, and from there they will search for Facebook. She even tried to teach them about the address bar, and they don't care. I think for many people i
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by CUViper 17y ago
Aha -- I almost suggested that they could do some memoization, and indeed they are doing just that. The last 100 unique patterns are compiled and stored in a dictionary for future use. You could still thrash badly if your regex "working s
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by CUViper 17y ago
One perl nicety is that the VM will optimize to only compile the expression once. Python's re.sub() has to compile the expression every time, since it's just a string argument rather than a language construct. You can manually cache the r
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by CUViper 17y ago
My "unclean" peeve is when people prepare a git patch series with a separate commit for each file. If I can't apply the first M patches of your N patch series and have a usable tree, then you're doing it wrong.
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by CUViper 17y ago
Not really -- those are all categories in the Wikipedia sidebar. The data is already structured for easy consumption. Try something like a "Version" column and it starts to break down. It makes decent guesses overall, but they're not curr
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by CUViper 17y ago
Agreed. If you really need pixel-perfect layout of your content, then use images like Wolfram Alpha does. Your time is probably better spent on content and usability though. Or for another aspect -- all displays will render colors differe
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by CUViper 17y ago
You can do it with Cygwin though, and Explorer will still have trouble dealing with it after it's been created. You can also create files with a trailing period or leading/trailing space, which usually isn't allowed.
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by CUViper 17y ago
Don't forget the warning at the top, "This information is preliminary and has not been confirmed or tested by Microsoft." So while it's funny to say, "haha, isn't this typical of stupid M$," they apparently didn't produce this advice. More
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by CUViper 18y ago
It's better to consider total compensation. A $100k salary with up to 5% 401k matching is roughly the same as a $105k salary with no 401k matching. The latter might be preferred since it gives you the choice of what to do with that extra $
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by CUViper 18y ago
There's a link to the CAETE site, which has a big register button. http://caete.colorado.edu/registration-tuition CSCI: http://caete.colorado.edu/coursedb/view-course/310 ECEN: http://caete.colorado.edu/coursedb/view-course/309 Though

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