Luyt

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by Luyt 15y ago
I once used the MMX registers to lowercase large blocks of text in chunks of 8 characters at once. It was faster than using strlwr().
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by Luyt 15y ago
Indeed - but when I clicked the Readability button (it's a FF addon) the site was easy to read.
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by Luyt 15y ago
Why o why do developers keep storing plain passwords in databases. They should store hashes instead.
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by Luyt 15y ago
Interesting. Your tool confirmed what I already knew: compared to dedicated colocated hardware, cloud servers are 10 times more expensive, at least in my specific case.
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by Luyt 15y ago
I now see how it all fits together. Through inside information, Color found out about Facebooks new photo sharing app, which will render them obsolete. The board decided to transform Color into a patent troll, to leverage at least somethin
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by Luyt 15y ago
This maybe works well when there's only one bicyclist, but what if there's a whole group, with half of them using these laser projectors? There would be a huge green mess on the road, not very practical. Besides that, governments will neve
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by Luyt 15y ago
It's a pity that the GraphViz family of automatic graph drawing tools don't support ASCII: (user@air) /Users/user $ dot -Tascii Format: "ascii" not recognized. Use one of: bmp cgimage cmap cmapx cmapx_np dot eps exr fig gd gd2 gi
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by Luyt 15y ago
Perl has a module called 'Graph::Easy' which can create a diagram from a graph automatically, and can also do ASCII-output. See http://bloodgate.com/graph-demo for an interactive demo. [Sun] -- [Pear] [Apple] --> [Pear] [Pear]
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Python 2.7.2 released(python.org)
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by Luyt 15y ago
#startups
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by Luyt 15y ago
See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=327710
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by Luyt 15y ago
Ha, you should have seen Alex Martelli while he still had a moustache: http://images-mediawiki-sites.thefullwiki.org/05/3/0/3/32378...
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by Luyt 15y ago
"I have since put Activity Monitor in my dock just in case" Alternatively, you could right click on the Finder icon in the dock, choose 'New Finder Window' from the menu. From there you can go to the Applications / Utilities folder, and l
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by Luyt 15y ago
The video also shows its age, MongoDB hasn't stood still in the meantime. I put up a transcript of this movie because I found the mingling of the technical discussion with contemplating working on a horrible farm an interesting concept.
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by Luyt 15y ago
Yes, and the Wirtschaftswunder [1], the huge industralisation and production of West-Germany after WWII. Whether that's a legacy of the traditional Meister-Geselle (master-student) and Zünfte (guilds), or modern capitalism, remains to be s
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by Luyt 15y ago
One thing that we'll see is that many people will just go looking for their drugs where they can get them - outside of the U.S.A., via webshops, for example. Another concern is that due to the closures of many nuclear power plants certain r
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by Luyt 15y ago
Ok, but this lack of regulation could equally well make for some spectacular opportunities to get rich (or poor) quick, in a truly adrenaline-pumping style, which the current stock exchanges lack nowadays.
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by Luyt 15y ago
The author starts with a disclaimer "I do work for Microsoft so you can expect bias" and ends with a conclusion like "we can absolutely dismiss this thing because of its shitty OS." Maybe because it's not running Windows?
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by Luyt 15y ago
You will have to become a Jedi.
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by Luyt 15y ago
Looking at http://www.gizmag.com/hoverbike/18813/picture/135534/ , I'd like to see the protective grille extend over the entire front fan duct, with holes small enough that not even your hands can get through. Suppose you have a small co
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by Luyt 15y ago
"It's the right tool for the job (as opposed to something very different, from the NoSQL world)" If I may toot my own horn, I just upgraded the layout of http://mongodb-is-web-scale.com/ so that you can scroll while the video stays visi
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by Luyt 15y ago
Indeed, it depends on the weather. When it's warm summer weather here, I take lukewarm showers. When I was in Italy, I took cold showers. What a relief!
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by Luyt 15y ago
Heh, I wish I had this prowess to make millions of dollars ;-)
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by Luyt 15y ago
Just what crept up my mind when I read the article. But then I realized: If American culture allows this kind of insight publicized, what boon that is to freedom of thought and freedom of expression! All around us we see civilians cuffed an
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by Luyt 15y ago
Apparently he reads those books while lying in a 'Presidential Cotton Rope Hammock' [1], which is at the bottom of his Bookshelf list ;-) [1] http://www.amazon.com/Presidential-Cotton-Rope-Hammock-Size/...
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by Luyt 15y ago
Aha, it works like a preprocessor: (user@pasta) /home/user $ psearch -l cobol lang/open-cobol OpenCOBOL is an open-source COBOL compiler, which translates COBOL programs to C code and compiles it using GCC. WWW
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by Luyt 15y ago
That works in Norway, but would it work all over the globe?
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by Luyt 15y ago
That announcement also makes it clear that everyone who ever used the services of the website, should expect measures taken against him/her.
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by Luyt 15y ago
"professional copyright infringement" Excuse me, but 'professional' could mean anything. Some people use it to mean that they're following standard industry practices; others use it because they're always dressed in suits. Another definit
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by Luyt 15y ago
He writes: "Regarding the resources used by each server, Nginx is the winner in term of memory usage, as the amount of memory does not increases with the number of concurrent clients." So I guess the memory consumption is caused by the nu

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