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by bcl 16y ago
Interesting project, and I wish them luck. But Python is really not suitable as a compiled language. Its ability to change what any object is, on the fly, really throws a wrench into things. I think efforts like PyPy are much more likely to
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by bcl 16y ago
I like comment 132 better - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=638477#c132
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The Recent RA Compromise(blogs.comodo.com)
1 points by bcl 16y ago|0 comments
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by bcl 16y ago
Use https as much as possible. I note that Hacker News still doesn't have https access...
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by bcl 16y ago
Thanks for posting this.
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by bcl 16y ago
His numbers aren't right. I flew United (US Airways) last week and 1 checked bag was $23 not $50.
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by bcl 16y ago
You really can't go wrong buying Fluke.
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by bcl 16y ago
He just now realized this? Top posting has been frowned on for YEARS. Even back in the BBS/FidoNet days you top posted at your own peril. The classic description of top posting says it best - http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.htm
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by bcl 16y ago
Read "The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives" http://www.amazon.com/Drunkards-Walk-Randomness-Rules-ebook/... and everything will become clear.
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From Occasionally Great to Consistently Good(cs.uni.edu)
27 points by bcl 16y ago|3 comments
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by bcl 16y ago
Tell me about it. My wife recently discovered that her mom kept the family's Fairchild Channel F system 2 and she is now scouring the net for games. She even had me teach her how to solder so she could fix the old controllers.
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Rant: Eat Food. Not Too Much. And Sometimes Plants.(contrapositivediary.com)
2 points by bcl 16y ago|0 comments
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by bcl 16y ago
IMDB has become so ad and video ridden over the years that I've stopped using it for the most part. Their recent redesign of the detail pages has made it even less useful. There is a open project at http://tmdb.org which is more like what
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by bcl 16y ago
Started with BASIC on a ZX-81, when that blew we bought an Atari 800 where I learned Action! and Assembly. Learned C on my Atari ST, then on to IBM PC's and Linux.
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IBM announces solid-state memory breakthrough(linuxfordevices.com)
26 points by bcl 16y ago|4 comments
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by bcl 16y ago
Work someplace where they can't see you.
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by bcl 16y ago
I'll believe it when it's peer reviewed and reproduced.
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by bcl 16y ago
Just to be clear, iPhone apps have to ask before they are allowed to use location information. Even though most consumers don't care about things like this there are those of us who do care, and we can eventually make a difference. This is
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by bcl 16y ago
Evil with un-trusted input. And dangerous when you forget that passing it a new root will wipe the previous paths.
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by bcl 16y ago
And how is this supposed to get launched when you've encrypted your laptop's harddrive? ;)
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by bcl 16y ago
os.path.join is evil. Don't use it. Yes, I recently learned this myself (luckily not the hard way).
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by bcl 16y ago
HN is not your up/down service, this is: http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/gmail.com
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New technology promises cheap gene sequencing in minutes(gizmag.com)
3 points by bcl 16y ago|0 comments
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Good, Clean Fun With a Home-Brew EV Go-Kart(wired.com)
1 points by bcl 16y ago|0 comments
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Life Ingredients Found in Superhot Meteorites—A First(news.nationalgeographic.com)
1 points by bcl 16y ago|0 comments
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Mitigations versus Solutions of Bufferbloat in Broadband(gettys.wordpress.com)
1 points by bcl 16y ago|0 comments
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First measurement of magnetic field in Earth's core(news.yahoo.com)
1 points by bcl 16y ago|0 comments
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by bcl 16y ago
They just joined the SFC - http://sfconservancy.org/news/2010/dec/16/git-joins/
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by bcl 16y ago
As a friend pointed out, that's my problem :) I'm using the nouveau driver on a dual head GeForce 9500 GT. So I don't have any acceleration at all.
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by bcl 16y ago
Really, really slow on chromium 9.0.6 (fedora14 dual core system). Unusably slow.

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