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by _sh 15y ago
An additional case that I know about, the Tenerife airport disaster: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenerife_airport_disaster Quoting: Speculation regarding other contributing factors includes: The flight engineer's apparent hesitat
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by _sh 15y ago
The Android browser has a couple of limitations compared with Mobile Safari: no hardware acceleration (pre-Honeycomb) and no overflow scrolling. The first simply means lots of lag navigating around pages with many elements, the second reall
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by _sh 15y ago
> maybe I should learn Forth after all http://factorcode.org/ Make it easy on yourself.
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by _sh 15y ago
If my upvotes/downvotes/flags may be secretly used to profile me in ways I can't know about, and my secret profile might negatively impact my experience on this site, isn't my best option to not participate at all? In short, with this mecha
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by _sh 15y ago
Interesting question. What if HFT algorithms become so efficient they are able to easily out-compete human trading decisions, such that humans exit the system altogether? What if the stock exchange becomes exclusively HFT algorithms competi
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Libchop, tools and library for data backup and distributed storage(nongnu.org)
1 points by _sh 15y ago|0 comments
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by _sh 15y ago
Hear hear! As a software developer, my trade is a ghetto awash with all manner of amateur-hour charlatans and language silos that are tantamount to pistol-whipped lock-in (I'm looking at you node.js). If you take a step back, the entire eco
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by _sh 15y ago
Obviously I meant 'Steve Jobs knew how important regions were'. In a semi-related matter, does anyone know of the algorithm Bill used to draw RoundRects 'blisteringly fast'? http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&s...
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by _sh 15y ago
The 'regions' used in QuickDraw are an amazing (for their time) data structure, a testament to the genius of Bill Atkinson. I strongly recommend reading the patent to see how cool and useful they were to the original Mac windowing system (
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by _sh 15y ago
The reason you won't see a bytecode VM replace Javascript is because bytecode is either interpreted (slow) or JIT-compiled (complicated but faster). If you go for speed and JIT-compile bytecode, why not just compile your source and dispense
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by _sh 15y ago
If I'm advertising a Ruby job and looking for skills with Ruby-specific tools, there may be a great Python programmer that could switch over but who doesn't apply Solution: don't advertise 'a Ruby job'. Advertise 'a programming job'. What
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by _sh 15y ago
I must say, as a developer of C++ bindings for Guile, a former Io dabbler, and TiddlyWiki user, I am impressed with this project. Hats off to you sir. Oh, I also do the occasional motorcycle maintenance as well.
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by _sh 15y ago
An alternative to steganography is 'chaffing and winnowing'. Ronald Rivest describes the technique in this paper: http://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/Chaffing.txt
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by _sh 15y ago
I work with multiple files a lot, so I'm always navigating between split screens and across buffers. " Split windows/multiple files " use <Ctrl>+s to split the current window nmap <C-S> <C-W>s " use <Ct
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by _sh 15y ago
I've followed mosh, the scheme shell of this project, for a while. Not only is it a very fast, full R6RS scheme, but it contains an code serialisation/motion library (fasl). This allows me to spin up hundreds of mosh instances and have a ce
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by _sh 15y ago
I wonder about this. Was Google itself an outlier? I don't think so. Indeed I'd say you probably could have discovered Google using similar metrics the article claims they are using, such as scholarly trends (but possibly not founder histor
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by _sh 15y ago
There is an overlap: GWT itself uses closure.
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by _sh 15y ago
Solution: move it to a library, like perl did with it's format syntax, and take it out of core.
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by _sh 15y ago
It's very simple. I like it. Unfortunately, I don't have a use for it. As for in-place editing, Neyric's javascript library has something along these lines. http://neyric.github.com/inputex/
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by _sh 15y ago
Here's a thought: maybe it's time to close HN. That's right, close it down. PG said all along HN was a production experiment for Arc, so maybe it's time to evaluate the hypothesis and conclude the experiment. All this hand-wringing about 't
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by _sh 15y ago
From the article's tone, it sounds like Wall St is miffed Larry doesn't need it as much as it would like.
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by _sh 15y ago
If the Indonesian volcano reduced the human population to 1000-10000 breeding pairs, would it not also have reduced the chimpanzee population similarly? It's an interesting hypothesis, but similar to the idea that the Yacutan asteroid wiped
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by _sh 16y ago
This page shows it in action: http://16s.us/sha1_pass/
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by _sh 16y ago
'Nation-building' is one of the most positive activities a politician can engage in. I wish the politicians that govern me did more of it.
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by _sh 16y ago
An line from a stacktrace: rt: d884:main:main: upcall fail '.t0 < 3u', ts2.rs:5 Yikes!
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by _sh 16y ago
As for your point 2, if you consider a REST resource as a collection of fields, you can update it without custom verbs: GET /resources/picture/orientation => 0 PUT /resources/picture/orientation?value=90 REST is not so much abo
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by _sh 16y ago
I feel C has more boiler-plate code than any other language I've used, including Java--especially when you consider header files, malloc/free, function call error code inspection, etc.
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by _sh 16y ago
As someone who has implemented operational transformation, I believe Google dropped it because it consumes a lot of network resources. If it became popular, Google would have to dedicate a fair chunk of infrastructure to it. Could they do i
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Why I think Gnome 3 is a dead end(mso-chronicles.blogspot.com)
2 points by _sh 16y ago|0 comments
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by _sh 16y ago
Please also add 'begs the question' to Ad-Hominem Block Pro. Your post raises an interesting point, how did all these 'strawman police' become such a bunch of self-satisfied nazis in the first place?

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