Cogito

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by Cogito 13y ago
My favourite bit, which I had not seen before today, is on the 'duck technique'. From Wikipedia: The duck technique in corporate programming is an applied example of Parkinson's law of triviality: a programmer expects their c
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by Cogito 13y ago
This is an 'urban interaction' installation, where two people waiting on opposite sides of a pedestrian crossing can play each other in a game of pong. Pretty cool :) I wonder what they are using for communicating between the two
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by Cogito 13y ago
This is really cool. I would love to see more details about how the engines are 3d printed, and the plans for the designs. Will these engine designs be open sourced? Also, the rewards are a little difficult to parse. A list format would pro
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by Cogito 13y ago
I appreciate the work that has gone into this, and think it is a great starting point for an interesting tutorial about git. My concern is that the tutorial ignores or discards ideas essential to how git works, and what makes git different
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Stripe CTF: Distributed Systems Engineering(stripe-ctf.com)
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by Cogito 13y ago
It seemed to claim to draw power from the Earth's gravitational field. I highly doubt it would be very effective, but it's not quite the same as a perpetuum mobile. [EDIT] Though, after a little reading, it seems most supposed per
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by Cogito 13y ago
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs-en/Rule34.el
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by Cogito 13y ago
Yeah, I was just adding it, but you got in just before me (I had to persona-ify (personafy?) my account first)
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by Cogito 13y ago
And I see someone fixed it, just as I was in the middle of adding it :D
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by Cogito 13y ago
For some reason, it looks like JavaScript doesn't make it onto the Web Platform landing page[0] (or maybe I just can't find it?) It's in the drop down list when I hover the main menu, but I can't seem to navigate to it o
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by Cogito 13y ago
As others have pointed out, the reason why this works is that Git for Windows is bundled with msys. You could achieve the same ends by installing msys standalone, but I guess many already have Git for Windows so this is a simpler path. The
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by Cogito 13y ago
Regardless of any other arguments against this idea, I think that the key implied proposition is false; that there are other brains 'similar enough' to your own to share the same physical processes is extremely unlikely. There are
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by Cogito 13y ago
The best analogy I have ever heard goes something like: Everybody knows that one piece of trash won't make the streets dirty. So what does it matter if I litter? On the other hand, if everyone littered, the streets w
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by Cogito 13y ago
A couple of other things I've noticed: * No way to copy text from other people * No way to create hyperlinks (which would be awesome) * Emoticons seem to disappear * New people are very confused by the badges * I had a weird bug where
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by Cogito 13y ago
How did you implement it? I was writing that comment, and kept thinking of the possible annoying implementations. For example, I probably don't want a notification every single time someone within 1 mile sends a message. Some seemingly
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by Cogito 13y ago
Please add push notifications? If you log in, and no one is around, the app gets closed pretty quickly. I have checked back multiple times, and always seem to miss everyone chatting. I would love to know if someone close by is online or cha
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by Cogito 13y ago
I think I agree with you, however there is a big difference between having your service stopped as a precaution and having data lost/accessed by a 3rd party. From that line it does seem more likely that they might be one of MongoHQ&#x2
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by Cogito 13y ago
If you read MongoHQ's extremely detailed report[0], you'll see that the original intrusion was based on shared credentials (that were cracked on another system). This was then exploited in a number of ways to compromise various cl
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by Cogito 13y ago
Is there any evidence there has been a breach of CircleCI directly, or just that MongoHQ suspended all access to their database(s) and so the service went down? At this point it doesn't seem like they were 'hacked'[0], but si
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by Cogito 13y ago
Sucrose is a molecule made by joining a glucose and a fructose molecule together. It is not the same thing as two separate molecules, though it is broken down rather quickly into its individual components. Additionally, the key point is tha
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by Cogito 13y ago
The author believes that Bitcoin is the first of many future 'autonomous corporations' that are defined by their nature; they run themselves. Of Bitcoin in particular it says this corporation has revenues, expenditures and p
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by Cogito 13y ago
So I think you lose your colours once you collect more than 4 total. You start with two, and you absorb the colour of any fish you absorb. Not quite sure how it all works, but that's what the source says. The arrow key commands feel a
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by Cogito 13y ago
While this may be great (I haven't looked) the comments that appear here look really suspicious. Of the four accounts who have commented, three (cursivedgreat, darkyen, and theanirudh) were each created within a day of each other, just
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by Cogito 13y ago
I see this method as similar to changing the ssh port to something other than 22 on a server. Sure, an attacker would be able to discover your custom port if they tried, however that requires significantly more work than performing a dictio
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by Cogito 13y ago
I think everyone is aware that we aren't going to be able to completely eradicate spam. As bots become more intelligent our defence against them must improve as well. I like that this is a non-intrusive technique that seems to have met
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by Cogito 13y ago
Thanks! I was just as interested as you in the article, and figured a summary of the paper would help many who couldn't get past the abstract. Glad you enjoyed it.
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by Cogito 13y ago
Haha thanks, I was adding context to my comment and forgot to add the link in!
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by Cogito 13y ago
Basically, there is a problem known as Waring's Problem[1] which asks if for any natural number k we can find a positive number s , such that we can express any other natural number as the sum of at most s natural numbers raised t
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by Cogito 13y ago
The tutorial would probably be nicer if it were more interactive earlier on, and this would allow you to ramp up players at the same time. Explain shape matching, and show some example combos, but then dive straight into playing a quick rou
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by Cogito 13y ago
== Backstory == The X Window System (known as X11 - 11th version) is currently the predominant way for Linux users to use a graphical interface, specifically a windowed interface. It is old and was designed for a purpose that doesn't m

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