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by bcl 17y ago
Sounds like dueling bureaucracies. There is also the LORAN system, which was resurrected a few years back and is reportedly now on the chopping block again. Even if the GAO's dire predictions aren't true it would probably be wise to have a
842.
Pseudoscience and environmentalists(ttgnet.com)
18 points by bcl 17y ago|8 comments
843.
by bcl 17y ago
I think you're missing the stated point of the book -- to focus on tasks not commands. The :help system can be a bit overwhelming to someone new to vim, especially if they are not sure what to search for help on. People learn in different w
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by bcl 17y ago
I question their methods. First off, the Microsoft Ads suck. They aren't funny or interesting. I don't say 'ooh! A new batch of Microsoft ads' and run off to their website to check them out like I do with Apple's ads. Second, their index sa
845.
by bcl 17y ago
Does anyone have hard numbers on this one? "impressive capacity" fuels the imagination but I'm not sure my laptop will run on that.
846.
by bcl 17y ago
Looks broken to me as well. I went to Settings->Linked Accounts->Open ID and tried both my website (which has a openid link in it) and the direct url of my openid and it rejects them both. They DO work, I use them all the time with
847.
by bcl 17y ago
I think you guys are being a bit harsh on this article. Its not as if it was saying "ssh to remote and run screen" was something new. It does provide some useful hints on .screenrc setup and while running a script to connect to the remote s
848.
by bcl 17y ago
That would drastically increase the cost of baby monitors. Right now they use very simple analog RF techniques. Switching to 802.11 would increase the design complexity and cost.
849.
by bcl 17y ago
Not all baby monitors are at fault for WiFi interference. In the US you can look up the product's FCCID in the FCC database and it will tell you what frequency it uses. http://www.fcc.gov/oet/ea/fccid/ I'm not sure if the UK has a similar
850.
by bcl 17y ago
dupe
851.
by bcl 17y ago
I agree with alexkearns. Having been in both positions I would have to say that you are going to build a better team by letting them communicate with each other. IM, IRC and email are excellent tools for this, allowing you to easily decide
852.
by bcl 18y ago
Dupe - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=589555
853.
by bcl 18y ago
How badly does it effect your battery level? I think that is the deciding factor in a number of the restrictions from Apple.
854.
by bcl 18y ago
This kind of beginner mistake makes you wonder how 'hacker safe' their system really is. You can bet that they will be improving their security soon -- making bold claims about security is one way to guarantee lots of free pen testing.
855.
by bcl 18y ago
That is not a certainty. According to the NRC report on 3-mile Island (which I think is the worst in US history) the release was about 1 millirem. For comparison a x-ray is 6 millirem and normal background radiation is 100-125. Western reac
856.
by bcl 18y ago
It sounds to me like they need to adopt an open source model of operation. That may not be possible with the current funding system so someone would need to figure out a better way to distribute funding. Wouldn't it be better for them to be
857.
by bcl 18y ago
Nuclear power is a solved engineering problem. France has been doing it for years. Here in the US the problem is so called 'green' activists who don't (or won't) understand the basic laws of physics.
858.
by bcl 18y ago
I just can't get used to using GUI SCM clients on OSX. I tried to use ZigVersion for svn but just couldn't integrate it into my workflow -- I'm too used to using the command line for svn, git and hg. It does look nice though.
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by bcl 18y ago
I see no reason to be overly concerned. Its mortality rate is low (according to WHO figures, not the crap the media is publishing) and the infection level is still low. All Pandemic means is that it is now present in multiple countries. Som
860.
by bcl 18y ago
Some of these techniques are still very useful. For example when developing for embedded systems you don't have the luxury of infinite cpu cycles and ram, you need to understand the algorithms you are using, implement your own, and be able
861.
by bcl 18y ago
Garbage collection, like any other feature, is a tradeoff. For me the benefits of using a GC language like Python or Ruby far outweigh the edge cases where things go wonky. I certainly wouldn't reject a language just because it uses GC.
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Monty Widenius talks about MariaDB, MySQL, Sun and Black Vodka(ustream.tv)
1 points by bcl 18y ago|0 comments
863.
by bcl 18y ago
It really depends on the application. If it is in a niche with little competition the users are going to be less interested in eye-candy. But if it has a number of competitors on the same platform the one that doesn't 'conform' is going to
864.
by bcl 18y ago
screen is persistent over dropped connections. Lets say you are doing some long running operations on a remote server and your connection drops. With screen you can log back in and run 'screen -r' to resume the session.
865.
by bcl 18y ago
Good list of tools. All of those usually show up on any Linux developer's list of what's in their toolbox.
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by bcl 18y ago
Darn. Its not available in safaribooks.com yet either. It looks interesting, but I'd like to get a look at it before buying.
867.
by bcl 18y ago
Well, there is no way to confirm if the post is really true. Put it sure is funny as hell. Advice to mike, read up on a little project called Gnu Privacy Guard.
868.
by bcl 18y ago
Nice little introduction! I wish I had read something like that when I first started with Python.
869.
by bcl 18y ago
"They moved me to the basement"
870.
by bcl 18y ago
Exactly. You can't have one without the other. Twitter, Facebook, etc. are eventually going to realize this.

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