T-hawk

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by T-hawk 16y ago
At the cost of mental cycles of your recipient reader to parse what just happened, which come in much less available quantity than network bytes or CPU cycles.
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by T-hawk 16y ago
It was pre-taped a few weeks ago in line with Jeopardy's usual schedule. There were a number of untelevised practice sessions beforehand against other Jeopardy contestants and wannabes. IBM did their tweaking then and promised that the ac
903.
by T-hawk 16y ago
> Trying to fight it is silly, as there is no mechanism whereby you can authenticate identity online. Handling fake names or other identifiers is like handling software piracy. You can't prevent it and technology can't prevent it. The
904.
by T-hawk 16y ago
When that's the behavior of the 800-pound gorilla, then the answer is yes. IE6 didn't know what counts as valid DOM or CSS but everybody else adapted to it.
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by T-hawk 16y ago
Shouldn't the spammers have figured out the "+" feature by now? Just remove it and the suffix to get a valid address, for gmail or any other provider that uses the syntax. return Regex.replace(email, "([^\+])°[^@]°(@.°)$", "$1$2") ° should
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by T-hawk 16y ago
Incredibly low tech, but printed newspapers. I'm in NYC so there's an abundance. amNY (the free one) and Newsday are pretty consistent with a small section listing concerts and comedy and other performers, usually in the Friday editions.
907.
by T-hawk 16y ago
True, although the Python compiler operates invisibly and transparently. kbutler makes a good point too. I'll clarify my original distinction: it's whether source code is executable without needing additional tools, and thus the knowledge
908.
by T-hawk 16y ago
In the business world, there's a significant distinction between a scripting language or not: whether it needs a compiler. This is a very relevant and real distinction for enterprise-scale applications and implementations. Code being in a
909.
by T-hawk 16y ago
Well, bang out 100,000 words and you have a novel. (Also known as the James Joyce approach.) You can't fail at novel writing. A weld or solder joint can leak or disconnect, but a novel can't suddenly stop being a novel. Whether you can w
910.
by T-hawk 16y ago
That just shifts the problem. Every piece of code and every developer now needs to know to hit that view rather than directly hit the table. Except the code that actually deals with deleting and undeleting which has to hit the table direc
911.
by T-hawk 16y ago
> You never actually delete rows from your tables. You mark them as deleted, sure, but the data needs to be able to come back. Space is cheap, there are simply very few cases where outright deletion from a DB table is warranted. This
912.
by T-hawk 16y ago
Topic drift: but I'm convinced that ASP.NET postback was a very deliberate design decision from someone who perfectly understood HTTP - and is intentionally obscuring HTTP in order to keep programmers and implementers ignorant of it and dep
913.
by T-hawk 16y ago
There are also lots of programmers who are clueful about security, but work for clueless managers or organizations. I've had many a conversation that went like this: "Okay I put together this prototype and it's working. I should check it
914.
by T-hawk 16y ago
That is standard behavior for many web sites whose purpose includes no important personal information. vBulletin and some other forum engines do that by default. These site owners figure, probably rightfully so, that the support burden fo
915.
by T-hawk 16y ago
As former frontline support for a small B2B ISV, I know exactly that type. What's your response to these types of questions? You probably have the luxury to just ignore them? I was always directed to call and make the sale if possible, s
916.
by T-hawk 16y ago
You probably haven't investigated, but I'm wondering if any of those are actually what they claim to be, or more likely just malware payloads. It's quite common for the black hats to shotgun-distribute a malware trojan labeled as a crack o
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by T-hawk 16y ago
It may be worth taking a quick trip into why the math of leveraged ETFs doesn't work. The fundamental problem is that they lose more on losses by the underlying investment than they gain on gains by the underlying investment. Suppose that
918.
by T-hawk 16y ago
Well, if you keep saying that Moore's law will fail, you will eventually be right. Like if you say a certain celebrity will die this year, eventually you will be right. Like how economists have predicted 8 out of the last 5 recessions.
919.
by T-hawk 16y ago
You do realize this breaks the ability of www.example.com to track its traffic? They have now lost the information as to how their search rank is performing on Google, and have acquired incorrect information that they think you typed in ww
920.
by T-hawk 16y ago
Well, the key is in that assumption, and also in the shape of that data. It could be that the average woman is slightly more intelligent than the average man: 55% of American college freshmen are female. But men have a greater variance wh
921.
by T-hawk 16y ago
You can insert object A to just the 4 squares, but you still need to check with collisions with objects in all 8 surrounding squares. There could be an object B whose top-left point is in the square northwest of A's square but still collid
922.
by T-hawk 16y ago
Most professionals have and maintain their own tools -- but tools in most other professions if poorly secured can't emit malware that sabotages everybody else's tools.
923.
by T-hawk 16y ago
"Without even a scintilla of value-add" ? Brick and mortar bookstores add value. They just add it to the process rather than the final product. They shelve the book for an indeterminate amount of time, just on the chance little old you ha
924.
by T-hawk 16y ago
FWIW, Opera has this too, and in fact had it first, by about 2005.
925.
by T-hawk 16y ago
Sorry, accidental downvote, meant to upvote!
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by T-hawk 16y ago
Funny, I usually observe the opposite use of copying at a command-line window. I often see co-workers and client users copying and pasting as little as 4 or 6 characters out of a command window, when in that case it would be more efficient
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by T-hawk 16y ago
For a programmer, words-per-minute text typing speed is not so important, but navigation typing speed is. I'm talking about the ability to, without conscious thought, tab around between windows, hit the command keys for operations like c
928.
by T-hawk 16y ago
Or more generally, that hedge funds can be structured for their returns to bear little to no relation to the stock market as a whole. They do this by making highly leveraged bets in both directions. (Buy an option for 10 cents on a stock
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by T-hawk 16y ago
It's worth noting that the mere _existence_ of a debit card on a checking account still opens a fraud vector, even if you never use it. If the physical card is stolen, or the bank has a security breach where the number is obtained, those a
930.
by T-hawk 16y ago
Well, to much of this audience, "the ability to do long division" would probably qualify as a psychic power.

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