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by andyjpb 7y ago
The author spends a whole section on "The importance of integration", the value being sold as "...the two [SAP] modules were able to seamlessly interact with each other since they shared the same database." and "bec
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Instagram uses DMCA Complaint to protect users' content(torrentfreak.com)
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by andyjpb 7y ago
The DCMA has an "anti-circumvention" provision. This means that tools that can be used to "steal" copyright works can be subject to a DCMA takedown notice. Instagram is asserting that this software is such a tool. "
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by andyjpb 7y ago
Whenever I talk friends who are interested in such things, they tell me that Open Sound Control ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Sound_Control ) is the new MIDI. It seems to support a lot more than traditional MIDI
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by andyjpb 7y ago
Thanks for the link. The guarantees they present in that article seem a lot stronger than the HN submission. They explain what they intend by "self limiting" and then it turns out that it doesn't work anyway (with a 4% surviv
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Decimal floating point math support for a calculator kernel(knightos.org)
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by andyjpb 7y ago
One of the datasheets I have here says: ----- During the initialization sequence the bus master trans- mits (TX) the reset pulse by pulling the 1-Wire bus low for a minimum of 480µs. ----- There is no maximum time limit for the reset pulse.
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by andyjpb 7y ago
I have wondered this too. Maxim have documentation about the fact you can get device IDs but I've never actually worked out how to get some. I guess people didn't want to be reliant on Maxim as the numbers authority? It's pre
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by andyjpb 7y ago
1-wire is pretty slow (kbps max in normal mode) and very tolerant of devices with a wide range of timing skew.
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by andyjpb 7y ago
If you only want to select one device at a time (which is often the case) then you only need log2(devices) pins on the microcontroller because you can decode that binary number into the appropriate chip select. Obviously that requires more
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by andyjpb 7y ago
The Netscape business model was largely about selling their FastTrack Sever (for "eCommerce") and per-seat browser licensing to for-profits. They had a reputation for giving away betas and pre-release copies on their FTP servers.
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by andyjpb 7y ago
This argument is built out of rough numbers that came to hand using quick searches. It's not particularly accurate but gives an idea of the orders of magnitude involved. Google has approximately 100,000 employees. Not nearly all of the
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Designing Software(snell-pym.org.uk)
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Thoughts on Forth Programming(call-with-current-continuation.org)
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Amateur Radio(snell-pym.org.uk)
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Deadly Sins of Enterprise Software [video](blog.frankmtaylor.com)
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Untangling your secret data architecture(youtube.com)
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by andyjpb 7y ago
As I understand it, it was due to some problems that were repeatedly encountered when trying to prosecute members of the Provisional IRA. http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/20&#
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by andyjpb 7y ago
The right to silence was changed to this in the 1994 Criminal Justice and Public Order Act. The reason for the change (AIUI) was due to the arrest of IRA dissidents who remained silent and then produced alibis in court that would have been
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Digital Restoration and Typesetter Forensics(doc.cat-v.org)
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Twitter can help you produce great content if you have ADHD(twitter.com)
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by andyjpb 7y ago
> The 7090 ran at 458.7 kHz -- https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1201977408175235072 That's actually really fast for 1962. By 1980 the workstation market was thinking about 3M: A megabyte of memory (RAM)
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FB2700 PSU Trials, Tribulations and Lessons Learned(firebrick.co.uk)
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Introduction to Answer Set Programming (Asp)(lucas.bourneuf.net)
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The Beautiful Hidden Logic of Cities(erdavis.com)
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The First Design of Varnish(varnish-cache.org)
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The Space Fountain(en.wikipedia.org)
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by andyjpb 7y ago
My favourite space elevator alternative is the space fountain ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_fountain ). It's an active structure made of small parts that are held together with a stream of magnets. If the
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Mission control loses contact with Indian moon lander(spaceflightnow.com)
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Excel yourself with our web spreadsheet editor(registers.blog)
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