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by bazzargh 14y ago
Thanks for clarifying. I will try it out, it looks interesting.
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by bazzargh 14y ago
Indeed. This one used to mystify us on the UK driving test 25 years ago - way older than steam trains, and presumably anachronistic even when it was standardised: http://wwwdelivery.superstock.com/WI/223/1848/PreviewComp/Su... It's not a
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by bazzargh 14y ago
Not picking out this app particularly, because lots do it, but I won't be signing up because of the permissions it requests (from twitter): Read Tweets from your timeline. See who you follow, and follow new people. Update your
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by bazzargh 14y ago
No, that won't work. Alice, Bob each have $5. ($1, $4). Alice owes Bob $2. How does she pay? The problem of making change is worse for stores. Having lots of ways to add to the same amount is an advantage, not a disadvantage. Interestingly
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by bazzargh 15y ago
There's been some interesting efforts at that already. eg: WordsEye constructs 3d images from text descriptions http://www.wordseye.com/ Sketch2Photo takes a crude annotated sketch, and creates a composite image: http://cg.cs.tsinghua.ed
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by bazzargh 15y ago
BWT is a really neat trick, I first came across it in Andrew Tridgell's thesis on rsync, which is worth a read ( http://www.samba.org/~tridge/phd_thesis.pdf ). I changed PMD's copy-paste detector (CPD) to use it, which at the time was a mas
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by bazzargh 15y ago
It's still there, right at the foot of the page: In recognition of the unprejudiced creation of a new open source operating system leading to the largely exploited Linux kernel. The free availability on the Web swiftly caused a chain-react
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by bazzargh 15y ago
I think the selection committee downplayed the importance of Linux a bit: "Today the estimated number of users is 30 million...". According to ComScore, there's around 52 million Android users in the US alone. And then there's all the users
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by bazzargh 15y ago
Definitely. Musion were tweeting about it earlier.
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by bazzargh 15y ago
A bit more info - the tech behind this is a 2d variation on the Pepper's Ghost illusion ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepper%27s_ghost ), apparently licensed from Musion ( http://www.musion.co.uk/ ). It's had previous outings - animators
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by bazzargh 15y ago
Currently doing 20 miles each way a day, usually just over an hour. I think this would be unreasonable for many people; but I'm happy to detour and make it even longer, it's a lovely rural route. I guess for most people though, however far
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by bazzargh 15y ago
I did a similar thing (with Bill Zeller and John Udell) as a ubiquity/twitter extension a couple of years earlier[1]... but in practice the low resolution of the standard unicode caracters makes them just a novelty; the technique's been rei
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by bazzargh 15y ago
Oh dear, ticked the 20+ box then realised that its been 32 years (Sharp MZ-80K; Basic, Pascal, and a bit of assembler). Age'll do that to you.
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by bazzargh 15y ago
The numbers puzzle was easy to spot if you've ever played Petals around the Rose. Here's a classic article about that game, dating back to 1977, describing Bill Gates trying to figure it out: http://www.borrett.id.au/computing/petals-bg.ht
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by bazzargh 15y ago
Nice article, but its a bit irksome that the MessageHandler example drops the conditional and doesn't replace it - the code at the end of that section isn't equivalent to what he started with.
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by bazzargh 15y ago
The fix seems to have been to copy the definition of Chronic Back Pain. But those have different diagnoses in your system (I'm seeing Lumbago as 14% and Chronic Back Pain as 10% for the same symptoms)
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by bazzargh 15y ago
He says he's still working on his writeup https://twitter.com/#!/jonathanmayer/status/1703680046458552... He also links to the EFF coverage: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/02/time-make-amends-googl...
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by bazzargh 15y ago
Password reset tokens are single-use. If the resets are time- and IP- limited then attacking them is awkward (reset a password while the victim's in the same room?) I don't think "nearly all" is right. I've never worked on a site which mail
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by bazzargh 15y ago
He blames /dev/initctl not working on systemd - but wasn't that a change in sysvinit? They moved it to /run/initctl because /dev/initctl wasn't portable. Quite recently, too. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=638019
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by bazzargh 15y ago
Is everyone ok with the password being mailed out in plain text? (as one of these flows does, and Hacker News does itself) Even if doing this on password creation doesnt imply that the passwords are stored plaintext, by emailing out the pas
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by bazzargh 15y ago
You might want to try cairo for that instead. It has PS and PDF backends which are pretty direct (see the bottom of this page http://cairographics.org/documentation/using_the_postscript_... ), and it'll take care of font subsetting and emb
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by bazzargh 15y ago
Since we're all admitting to have done this at one point in the past, here's mine; PSTab, a guitar tablature typesetter I wrote in 1994. The code is...not great. http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/pstab I heard from a guy in NZ a whi
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by bazzargh 15y ago
Thanks. Having read the paper, it seems its more specialized to cisco IOS config files - they're building a library of patterns you can match against, the paper doesn't explain how you can add your own. And it does seem to be CFG rather tha
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by bazzargh 15y ago
Interesting that they'd go for context-free grammars rather than PEG? A few years ago someone created a PEG-matcher lua lib, similarly aimed at replacing regexps: http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/docs/peg.pdf And Ward Cunningham's explo