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by atdt 11y ago
If things are tied up in QA, that is a problem in and of itself, because relevance is an important quality for a security bugfix to have. If my system is compromised today, it will do me little good that the bugfix Apple ships next month wa
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by atdt 11y ago
It's a bit too precarious to be an adequate solution, in my opinion. It depends on /usr/local/bin always being ahead of /usr/bin in $PATH, and on scripts never invoking the system git via its full path, and on
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by atdt 11y ago
What is wrong with the topmost bike?
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How Wikimedia counts unique devices(blog.wikimedia.org)
2 points by atdt 11y ago|0 comments
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by atdt 11y ago
https://dpaste.de/zXsM
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by atdt 11y ago
The autism spectrum is a continuum of mild to severe impairment in the domains of social communication and restrictive repetitive behaviors and interests. It is not coextensive with the range of possible cognitive dispositions. The introduc
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by atdt 11y ago
Is DOMContentLoaded the right mark to be benchmarking, given that first paint doesn't happen for another several hundred milliseconds?
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by atdt 11y ago
I am not able to reproduce the load times reported as benchmarks. My test runs on WebPageTest put start render and document complete at around the 700ms mark (Chrome 49 / no throttling): http://www.webpagetest.org/resul
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by atdt 11y ago
Douglas Crockford's JSON license-griefing has done quite a lot of harm to open-source software: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Crockford#.22Good.2C_n... * https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=6
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by atdt 11y ago
> The dam was designed by a Swiss firm of consultants and built by a German-Italian consortium in 1984. Water began seeping through in 1986, when it became apparent that the geological issues were worse than the consultants had predicted
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by atdt 11y ago
As I've noted elsewhere: to use AMP, you must load JavaScript from the AMP CDN, which is operated by Google. So you are handing over the security of your site and your user's privacy to them. From < https://github.c
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by atdt 11y ago
There aren't 20 million pages. Read my comment again.
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by atdt 11y ago
To use AMP you need to load JavaScript from the AMP CDN, which is operated by Google. From < https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml/blob/master/spec/amp-h... : > The AMP runtime is loaded via the
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by atdt 11y ago
How did you arrive at 20 million? This sounds like one of those "technically true" facts that are cooked up for investors. http://wikis.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_Wikia_wikis puts the combined total of the top 1,
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by atdt 11y ago
You may like "The darker side of tech", a talk Bryan Liles gave at Velocity 2015 in New York: < https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQ5wYZqHQGo> .
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by atdt 11y ago
Thou art exaggerating.
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by atdt 11y ago
Energy expended by the brain makes up one-fifth of the resting metabolic rate, so if it is largely ornamental (by volume), it is a very expensive ornament.
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by atdt 11y ago
One piece of feedback: I'd argue that it isn't important to specify the type of parcel. Recipients usually already know what type of mail they're getting, especially if the sender is identified. Good job, though! I enjoyed th
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by atdt 11y ago
I am not aware of Chomsky ever making the argument that language has a specific physical location with the brain, or that it is the achievement of a single organ which evolved for exactly this purpose. You may be confusing Chomsky with Jerr
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Wikipedia Deploys AI to Expand Its Ranks of Human Editors(wired.com)
52 points by atdt 11y ago|6 comments
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by atdt 11y ago
I was surprised by the sheer number of options that staff have for retaliating against inmates. Among the items in the "Prohibited Acts and Disciplinary Severity Scale" that have the maximum severity level of "Greatness"
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Admission and Orientation Manual, United States Penitentiary ADX Florence [pdf](bop.gov)
2 points by atdt 11y ago|1 comments
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by atdt 11y ago
This particular source is apparently well-known -- it is cited in http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2014/08/05/happy-birthday-to-you-c... as the first publication of "Happy birthday to you". If you could fi
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by atdt 11y ago
How is that a problem, though?
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by atdt 11y ago
> I knew that it would be closing for good, though I was surprised to find that its fermeture definitive was to be this week, on Saturday, June 14th. Saturday is the 13th. I know it's a minor detail, but when I see something like th
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by atdt 12y ago
The flooding and landslides of 1969 killed 91 people, not "more than a 100 people", as the article claims. (See < http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/heavy-rain-leads-... )
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by atdt 12y ago
(Off-topic: Figures 1 & 2 are graphically simple and tidy. Does anyone know what software they used to generate them? Or failing that, what software is good at generating such graphics?)
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by atdt 12y ago
The argument here is that the middle class acts in self-interest while feigning sympathy for the working poor. Maybe so, but the argument neither affirms nor denies the necessity or utility of sweatshops.
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Modernizing MediaWiki with libraries(blog.wikimedia.org)
1 points by atdt 12y ago|0 comments
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by atdt 12y ago
Just to underscore your point: I'm an engineer at Wikimedia, and I worked quite closely with Brett, the author of the blog post. As a small nonprofit operating a very popular site, we're accustomed to being approached by salespeop

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