Luyt

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by Luyt 15y ago
The video has a fatal flaw. You can't read the text. Please maximize the terminal window, and use a larger font. Otherwise, nice idea.
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by Luyt 15y ago
From the article: we're in a "post-PC" world in five years, the PC won't be what it is today. Allow me to be skeptical. Those statements sound just like 'the novel is dead' from the 60's of the past century. It's now fifty years later,
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by Luyt 15y ago
"We’re sorry, but your Gmail account is temporarily unavailable. We apologize for the inconvenience and suggest trying again in a few minutes."
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by Luyt 15y ago
URL for the entire article on one page: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/14/world/europe/prado-researc...
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by Luyt 15y ago
Carrying around such a letter is analogous to always being prepared to walk away from a negotiation. Which you must always be, otherwise it'll seriously undermine your position.
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by Luyt 15y ago
It's possible to descend to lower levels, if given enough curiosity. Some people just want to know how things work under the hood. I can remember starting to program our brand new PET-2001 in BASIC (at 13 years old or so). After a while I b
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by Luyt 15y ago
Makes me immediately thinking of http://xkcd.com/386/ ;-)
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by Luyt 15y ago
spellcheck i ng ? ;-)
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by Luyt 15y ago
One thing that bugs me about putty is its cramped GUI, which isn't even resizeable. (The terminal screen is, but not the windows in which you configure the connection parameters).
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by Luyt 15y ago
I wrote up an history of how I got involved in the IT industry, http://www.michielovertoom.com/cv/software-developer/ , the 'Background' part. It all started with programmable calculators...
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by Luyt 15y ago
An acquaintance of mine who once worked at a mexican restaurant told me that there was hardly any profit made on the food -- the profit came from the drinks the restaurant sold along with it. The taco as a loss leader ;-) Same with inkjet
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by Luyt 15y ago
I got curious what you meant by 'INTJ and INTP'. I founds this in the WikiPedia: "INTJ (introversion, intuition, thinking, judgment) is an abbreviation used in the publications of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) to refer to one of th
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by Luyt 15y ago
The same happened to me, on a bunch of old diskettes I found a computer game I wrote more than two decades ago. http://www.michielovertoom.com/software/risky-software-archa... It's revealing to look at source code you wrote 20 years ago.
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by Luyt 15y ago
...and I have a 64GB SSD drive. Everything counts, in large amounts ;-)
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by Luyt 15y ago
turning if off returned it to a known state. One of the first things I did with out PET-2001 was to solder a switch to pin 40 ;-)
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by Luyt 15y ago
This reminds me of a medieval tale, telling the adventures of the Belgian scoundrel Tijl Uilenspiegel: "Tijl was visiting the market, and noticed a food stand where a butcher was roasting chickens over a fire, spreading a delicious smell. T
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by Luyt 15y ago
Jacob Kaplan-Moss did a talk on 'Django Deployment' which is really more about scalability (reverse proxies in front of your webapp) and reliability (multiple database backends etc). http://ontwik.com/python/django-deployment-workshop-by-
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by Luyt 15y ago
PEP8? http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/
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Currying in Python(mtomassoli.wordpress.com)
53 points by Luyt 15y ago|21 comments
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by Luyt 15y ago
Same here, both my providers Xs4all and Ziggo were ordered by a Dutch judge to block thepiratebay.org, an initiative of MPAA sockpuppet 'BREIN foundation'. See http://www.xs4all.nl/geblokkeerd/ I know that it can be easily circumvented,
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How many Apple accounts do you have to remember?(rachelbythebay.com)
31 points by Luyt 15y ago|26 comments
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by Luyt 15y ago
There's a 'Hyper' key, too ;-) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-cadet_keyboard
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by Luyt 15y ago
http://winaero.com/e107_files/downloads/MetroController.zip
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I’m an Engineer, Not a Compiler(numbergrinder.com)
263 points by Luyt 15y ago|151 comments
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by Luyt 15y ago
How is changing your UserAgent string fraud?
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by Luyt 15y ago
What a pity! But there is still infrastructure: roads, water, electricity, telephone lines...
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by Luyt 15y ago
Sit back and enjoy the royalties for years. Apparently, that's not the case anymore for educational book writers. The article states: Today, royalties are a thing of the past for most writers and work-for-hire is the norm. ...and during
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by Luyt 15y ago
Google figured this out, and look how big they are nowadays! ;-)
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LaserJet display hacks for fun and more(rachelbythebay.com)
2 points by Luyt 15y ago|0 comments
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by Luyt 15y ago
Indeed, the performance bottleneck of a webapp is often the database. But isn't that what the 'M' in 'LAMP' stands for? MySQL? Now, if the 'M' would stand for memcached, things would be better. Maybe it's time for the 'LAMMP' stack ;-)

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