andybalholm

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by andybalholm 7y ago
Nope. If you did, I'm pretty sure the EPA would shut you down. Emissions regulations aren't quite as strict for tractors as for cars and trucks, but they are headed in the same direction. I don't think it's possible to m
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by andybalholm 7y ago
But it probably used : to separate the volume name from the file name.
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by andybalholm 7y ago
Actually, agua is feminine. But it takes el instead of la because it starts with an accented a . The common language-learning advice is "Don't learn the genders of nouns; learn the articles that go with them." But it d
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by andybalholm 12y ago
I assume that some site has hostgator-related links with two slashes instead of one. Due to the two slashes, the GoogleBot doesn't realize that it's indexing their own results pages.
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by andybalholm 12y ago
If the sender has an ASCII Wingdings, and the receiver has a Unicode Wingdings, the receiver gets a J (at least if the receiver is using Apple Mail).
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by andybalholm 12y ago
Go provides straight-ahead, blocking-is-OK concurrency. GCD provides callback-based concurrency, like node.js, but with several worker threads instead of just one.
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by andybalholm 12y ago
Yes, websockets should be fine. Making my proxy support websockets was a little difficult, but I think it works now. If the traffic is compliant with the protocols that ports 80 and 443 are supposed to use, it's not a problem. The one
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by andybalholm 12y ago
On the other hand, there are firewall administrators who do extensive filtering on ports 80 and 443 and allow other outgoing traffic by default. We get pretty ticked off when some thermostat, credit card machine, or postage meter decides to
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by andybalholm 12y ago
That is the OP's main point, except turned around. He was measuring progress by results, not by effort expended, and saying that it takes exponential effort to reach linear results.
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by andybalholm 12y ago
I finally managed to track down the definition of memoryword from texlive-20130530-source/texk/web2c/texmfmem.h. Here it is: typedef union { #ifdef TeX glueratio gr; twohalves hh; #else twohalves hhfield
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by andybalholm 12y ago
It works when unions are used correctly. If they are used to deliberately subvert the type system (e.g., put in an int, get an array of char out) it doesn't work. But C has so many other ways to subvert the type system that there'
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by andybalholm 13y ago
Probably because a lot of Go users _are_ generics-hating curmudgeons :-) (even though the team aren't)