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by alblue 11y ago
Release notes are here: https://golang.org/doc/go1.6 Notably new this time is transparent http/2 support and tighter rules for integration with C.
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by alblue 11y ago
Does this affect OSX?
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by alblue 11y ago
Guess a username that isn't in use might be a more appropriate name for the game. And why do I care what you think I should be called anyway? Bonus "this site is showing frequent pop-ups; do you wish to disable further alerts from
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by alblue 11y ago
The FAQ doesn't answer why the video is not available on YouTube, only Facebook. Other than that it's an interesting read.
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by alblue 11y ago
"If you restrict the failures to this class of issues" is exactly where the assumption that clocks behave is hiding in this paragraph. It's a bit like saying "as long as you ignore false, all booleans can be assumed to b
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by alblue 11y ago
The 3D cheese printer is a novel idea. Though obviously the creations collapse after a while and taste disgusting.
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by alblue 11y ago
Looks like a very intuitive way of connecting paths together in a more powerful way than just having lines. I like the way you can draw part of a segment and then go back and add more line segments afterwards: the line cap for three meeting
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by alblue 11y ago
Only if you've never seen libraries for other languages: there are an order of magnitude more for the JVM or JavaScript, to name two.
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by alblue 11y ago
Short answer: no. Longer answer: provided that things never go wrong it works. But the assumption that things never go wrong is false. In particular the whole basis of the original point is that there is no true universal time, and this pos
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by alblue 11y ago
Tried reading this on my phone, got three paragraphs in and then got slammed with a full screen advert for buffer.com. I mean, what's the point in advertising the site that you are already on? I have no idea what the rest of the post w
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by alblue 11y ago
Modern comedy ... in America
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by alblue 11y ago
Power outage in DC brought many machines down. Redis clusters failed to start owing to disk issues (not cleanly unmounted?). The reboot of remaining machines uncovered an unknown dependency on the machines needing the redis cluster to be up
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by alblue 11y ago
It's tough. I had a book out in 2014 and it's just been re-released as a second edition in 2016 (Swift Essentials) with fixes for all the changes introduced since the initial release. And you can't run the fix-its on a book :
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by alblue 11y ago
Prolog isn't an acronym in the same way as, say, BASIC or COBOL, and do it shouldn't be capitalised. It's a contraction of "programming in logic" (although the original came from the French name, which has the same
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by alblue 11y ago
No, not every death is natural selection. In fact, most of them aren't since the majority of deaths worldwide are either age related or age related illnesses. Natural selection is random processes that weed out certain traits (biologic
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by alblue 11y ago
That's amazing - I've got the same code on my luggage!
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by alblue 11y ago
Mercurial's storage format was broken from birth; it dealt with the concepts of individual files and history on them. Git's storage format was much more basic but more flexible, with the result that it was possible to implement th
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by alblue 11y ago
That's what the .gitignore file is for, or if you don't want/need to change that between other users of the repositor, the .git/info/excludes file.
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by alblue 11y ago
The original Java date and time API was probably one of the worst APIs ever invented, as I describe in my answer on StackOverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/a/1969651 However the new javax.time APIs (created by Stephen
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by alblue 11y ago
That's true, but arguably, the changes introduced into Objective-C (ARC, properties) were to support a future compatibility with Swift. The fact that it simplified Objective-C was probably a bonus.
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by alblue 11y ago
Lorem Ipsum is a passage quoted from a Latin book "De finibus bonorum et malorum" and has been used by typesetters for seventy or eighty years. So the fact it can be translated shouldn't be a surprise.
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by alblue 11y ago
I wrote up a series of posts on Git with my "Git tip of the week" series. I posted a finale, with back-links back to all previous posts, here if anyone is interested: http://alblue.bandlem.com/2011/12/git
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by alblue 11y ago
Emoji has always been beyond 2 bytes. The Unicode spec also includes "surrogate pairs" which allows a higher plane code point to be represented as 4 bytes.
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Sir Terry Pratchett Remembered by His Daughter, Rhianna Pratchett(theguardian.com)
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by alblue 11y ago
This is Chrome only and uses NaCl so it's not pure JavaScript.
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by alblue 11y ago
Seems like the site has gone down with traffic and CloudFlare is serving up a generic 522 error page.
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by alblue 11y ago
I think you have a typo in exist -> exits? Either that or I couldn't understand the sentence.
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by alblue 11y ago
The reason "bug" is used is because the first computers were programmed through hard wiring and mechanical switches, and they were actually insects that were present. This is from Grace Hopper in 1947: http://www.comput
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by alblue 11y ago
The APT was rushed into service before it was ready and suffered from initial glitches which ultimately led to bad press killing it off. On the other hand I use the descendent of the APT (the Virgin Pendelino) to commute into work and back.
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by alblue 11y ago
Obligatory Dilbert: http://dilbert.com/strip/1995-11-13

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