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by bdg 13y ago
Source? Right now that's just reading like a baseless claim and it sounds ridiculous to me that "females" is derogatory. I've never heard of such a claim before in my entire life.
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by bdg 13y ago
This concept is very similar to the "Twitter can predict the stock market" from a long time back: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/10/twitter-crystal-ba... See also, a collection of other related links (helpful if you want to try yo
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by bdg 13y ago
> When you stand on a street corner shouting ‘This guy did it’ with a picture of said guy, how many people do you reach as compared to a similar post on Reddit? Without going too deep into the hole of metaphors, a guy standing on the st
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by bdg 13y ago
> This is exactly why the government feels like they should get involved in regulating the internet, because we aren't taking care of it ourselves. I can already see how a case will be put together next week using the reddit witch hunt
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by bdg 13y ago
It depends. You can look back at a year and say "We had 100% uptime". You can also make an assurance that you have %90 uptime, %99, 99.9, or even %99.99 and beyond which all actually carry a meaning about load balancing, fall over, and redu
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by bdg 13y ago
This is happening for gmail for some accounts, but mine seem to be running. Seems the outage is per user account.
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by bdg 14y ago
Mind you, the iPad's been approved for cockpit use!
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by bdg 14y ago
Most crashes happen due to pilot error, especially connected to the instruments. Something as simple as a bad from the six-pack of a small plane could be bad news (note: these are usually 100% mechanical systems). As a pilot of small aircra
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by bdg 14y ago
Can we not express nearly everything in existence as a formal system?
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by bdg 14y ago
For me, the key bit of learning that unlocked my ability to switch between OO paradigms was actually assembly programming. Having an understanding of how C++ types, strings, structs and finally objects all impacted the stack and memory, the
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by bdg 14y ago
> at this point it seems like they are blaming every outage on a DDoS Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3576964
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by bdg 14y ago
> Who the heck is targeting Github and why? Typically large services are targeted by some some form of cyber-criminal. As an example only, if the Russian Business Network[1]* were attempting to extort money from github they could use a
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by bdg 14y ago
At the least, the HTTP response time overhead might be a reason to use an AI.
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by bdg 14y ago
Can brute force answer from the server quicky: http://en.lichess.org/captcha/0nbdeigw?solution=a1+a2 returns either 1 or 0. The total complexity of this to brute force is 768 possible moves. Most of us here could write a bot to spam their
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by bdg 14y ago
:( The controls aren't the same. I want to make him walk up forever really really slowly.
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by bdg 14y ago
I personally know and have seen the logs from an activist who has CSIS host-names show up in his blog for the past few years. This came after the G8 fiasco in Toronto, where they pulled him in for questioning.
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by bdg 14y ago
This isn't reddit.
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by bdg 14y ago
I found the first few were training me to see the differences, the rest was like playing a matching game.
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by bdg 14y ago
I absolutely detest MLA style citation. It's overly complex and needlessly adds information where it is not readily useful in context.
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by bdg 14y ago
> I will never understand why some people can't get this through their heads. I enjoy working at a place where I don't have to worry about these things because I work with real human beings.
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by bdg 14y ago
Dude... http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4442499
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by bdg 14y ago
That's some good old fashioned geeky fun. It might be nice to see this further entrenched in esoteric geekdom by making it look like a hex dump from a .core file, and less like a standard calendar.
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by bdg 14y ago
I've been using MATE on my newest box. It's a gnome2 fork focused on preserving the old-way of doing things. http://mate-desktop.org/ I've only been using it for 30 hours, but so far it's working quite well and isn't getting in my way.
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by bdg 14y ago
What an obvious mistake he made... that's okay, I fixed it for him. https://github.com/Incognito/CoderDojo-Kata/commit/d6c4163ab...
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by bdg 14y ago
You know we're about to have a bad time when the highly tech savy crowd on HackerNews is left asking "what does this mean?" All over the comments in the thread...
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by bdg 14y ago
Great, now I have something to strike fear into the hearts of new devs who ask me about email validation. I'm not sure I'm comfortable using a regex like this in production. Sure, we can write lots of tests and ensure it performs correctly,
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by bdg 14y ago
If you go into your account options you can close the account in a few short steps.
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by bdg 14y ago
Are you suggesting PayPal isn't rolling out awful policies, or are you simply upset that the status quo here is to embrace Stripe? I'm not sure what your intentions are.
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by bdg 14y ago
I find the recent onslaught of changes in policy to be insulting to myself, and your admittance of how you are undeserving of my business. I'm sad it has come to this. I require this account to be closed. I further require the removal all o
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by bdg 14y ago
For $200 (and that's after 13% taxes in Ontario) I picked up a cheap netbook with an n2600 inside it, which came with a windows license. I installed Arch Linux with LXDE. My system uses about 60MB of ram from console, 90MB of ram when I'm r

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