anonymous246

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by anonymous246 16y ago
"it's too hard to coordinate all of these efforts." 3 MILLION people have access to the docs Bradley Manning leaked. ONE leaked it. I think you're overstating the difficulty of coordinating activities.
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by anonymous246 16y ago
"At that point, unless you picked a strong, unique password on every single site you've ever visited, the situation gets ugly." PSA: PwdHash FTW. It solves exactly this problem. Firefox: https://www.pwdhash.com/ Chrome: https://chrome.go
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by anonymous246 16y ago
PwdHash FTW. Firefox: https://www.pwdhash.com/ Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/search?itemlang=&hl...
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by anonymous246 16y ago
Hmmm, I think the dreamhost guy gave a pretty good explanation. Thanks for that. But he seems to be getting downmodded (downmod if he's wrong; not if you disagree). Yes, it's subjective ("doesn't require us to upgrade infra just for you"),
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by anonymous246 16y ago
"email, web browser, text editor and a compiler" and Ubuntu manages to screw up even this. I somehow find that Ubuntu seems to have less vertical space on the same laptop than Windows. Too many window bars etc. The consolas programmer-fri
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by anonymous246 16y ago
Sorry, I misread the OP's comment. I was wondering why restaurants with $200 bills would worry about a $1 charge. Thx for the correction.
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by anonymous246 16y ago
That's exactly what I thought; however the blog article linked from the nytimes pieces has some interesting info: ``One independent study estimates that OpenTable’s fees (comprised of startup fees, fixed monthly fees, and per-person reserva
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by anonymous246 16y ago
Brown noise (from simplynoise.com) works wonders for me. I can work in a room with the TV on!
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by anonymous246 16y ago
The point the article was making but didn't flesh out is that the dollar's status as a reserve currency has HUGE benefits for the US public. If that status disappears (due to the rise of other countries), the standard of living in the US
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by anonymous246 16y ago
What business do you run? Is the stolen CC # problem greater with certain kinds of businesses than others?
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by anonymous246 16y ago
Why not link to the original source http://chicagobreakingbusiness.com/2010/12/sources-groupon-r... instead of a content mill like Mashable.
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by anonymous246 16y ago
When have I heard this before? Yes, in 1999 when home broadband networks were getting rolled out. And retail ISPs have spending money earmarked for network upgrades on other things. From the technical point of view, as long as Netflix's mac
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by anonymous246 16y ago
Obvious rebuttal: Google vs. everybody else.
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by anonymous246 16y ago
Even though Comcast customers already pay Comcast to receive those bytes? As others have pointed out above.
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by anonymous246 16y ago
My understanding is that you do that just so they don't book you on phony "disorderly conduct" charges.
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by anonymous246 16y ago
Somebody downvoted you instead of replying. I upvoted, but looks like the Stackoverflow-like algo pg has didn't count my vote. Or the person who downvoted you has a posse. Anyway, here's a web page with an extract from the US federal court:
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by anonymous246 16y ago
I know I'm in the minority, but Sun/Oracle's position is hardly surprising. It's their toys, and hence you play by their rules. Asking BigCo's to pay to use Java on mobile devices is hardly an onerous request. I fail to see how Apache's gra
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by anonymous246 16y ago
The C++ committee answer to this is to use "partial template specialization". I'm hoping all the standard libraries I use such as Boost etc have already done this to avoid code bloat. But I agree that it would be nice if the compiler did th
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by anonymous246 16y ago
Looks like you didn't read the article: "overt ingratiation can backfire." :)
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by anonymous246 16y ago
How well has this tactic worked for you? Good bosses are very rare, so if it's working for you, stick with that boss.
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by anonymous246 16y ago
You mean identical source code or identical assembly code? I would expect that compiler strip away typdef'ing so unless Foo and Bar are really different, only one copy of the code should exist. Yes, you can probably defeat this heuristi
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by anonymous246 16y ago
I suggest that English steal 'tartle' and 'prozvonit'.
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by anonymous246 16y ago
So it's not a big deal that he's making money doing the opposite of what conventional wisdom (and media) says sells, namely parties with the opportunity for underage drinking and drugs? Kudos to this kid+father for finding a way to make m
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by anonymous246 16y ago
Sorry, I don't think you're addressing what I meant, and I don't see the relevance of your latest statement to what I wrote. Can you please explain? In the scenario you described, the pilot dies ("A pilot does not need a box cutter to crash
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by anonymous246 16y ago
Really? It's still early days in the DVCS "wars". :) I use git and I love that it's faster than Mercurial (a couple of years ago, I timed 'git log' at 1 second and 'hg log' at 13 seconds on same repo contents). But precisely because it's
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by anonymous246 16y ago
How else do you prevent a pilot from smuggling in weapons etc and giving it to a (non-pilot) accomplice who flies on a different flight? Am I missing something obvious here? Pilots' protest seems totally misplaced.
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by anonymous246 16y ago
Teach how to implement a couple of data structures more complex than linked list and binary trees (maybe hash table). Teach how to implement a couple of non-trivial algorithms (e.g., quicksort, topological sort).
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by anonymous246 16y ago
> Why would a company as smart as Google forge ahead with schemes like this in the face of all available evidence that it's a bad idea? My guess: because it can be algorithmized.