bdonlan

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by bdonlan 17y ago
The point is with centralized systems, only committers can do things such as branching or preparing commits. With a DVCS, everyone gets the same tools, so the rights granted by having the patch accepted are simply having it merged, nothing
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by bdonlan 17y ago
It's worth noting that on modern OSes, the OS will forcibly zero out memory when it's allocated from the OS, so if you're allocating a really large sparse set (large enough to not come from existing free heap RAM), and don't intend to clear
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by bdonlan 17y ago
No, they're not dropped, as that would violate attribution requirements. They are, however, compacted and compressed to take less space (at the expense of more CPU to access, but the typical user won't notice this)
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by bdonlan 17y ago
Actually, sometimes protons _do_ carry the current in a circuit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton_conductor
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by bdonlan 17y ago
> I'm not sure I get the complaint. It's Apple's operating system, it's never been free software, and clearly they're going to exert some control over what apps get installed. That's clearly within Apple's power and rights to do, and it
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by bdonlan 17y ago
Yes, the story was a winner of Reader's Digest's "First Person" story award - for unique, _true_ personal experiences. See page 214 of the Nov 1955 edition of Reader's Digest for more details.
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by bdonlan 17y ago
They've _been_ routed like that forever. That's why people have been using them - because it doesn't do any harm (the data gets dropped at the first BGP-aware router). The issue is we can't _start_ using them now.
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by bdonlan 17y ago
The login form always uses HTTPS.
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by bdonlan 17y ago
Actually, akamai hosts their CDN nodes right at ISPs already - though this is mostly to serve customers on that very ISP without paying for backbone bandwidth. So in a way we already have this distributed CDN...
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by bdonlan 17y ago
There's also the option of having a proper terminal emulator in the browser rather than just a REPL. Ajaxterm or anyterm, for example.
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by bdonlan 17y ago
I'm sure DMA happens between the controller and host - there's no way they could achieve those speeds with PIO. And DMA has nothing to do with pipelining - the controller could easily be programmed with a list of buffers in which to place U
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by bdonlan 17y ago
I don't know about you, but my community bank offers automatic refunds for ATM fees from third-party ATMs.
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by bdonlan 17y ago
Google may not be able to take action against him, but they can certainly revoke his API key.
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by bdonlan 17y ago
The problem is when the execs start feeling like they will never be caught - or worse, when they start tricking themselves into thinking that what they're doing isn't fraud. Sure, they'll be caught eventually and punished, but the damage is
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by bdonlan 17y ago
http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap2.html#204 "A transfer of copyright ownership, other than by operation of law, is not valid unless an instrument of conveyance, or a note or memorandum of the transfer, is in writing and signed by th
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by bdonlan 17y ago
83, across three windows in two browsers (chrome + firefox). I should probably cut them down a bit...
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by bdonlan 17y ago
It's uploading the same log file every 30 seconds to my S3 bucket, so I suspect they're still working out the kinks :) That said, the documentation on the datafeed stuff is annoyingly sparse - the format is reasonably self-documenting, but
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by bdonlan 17y ago
The instance always runs at market rate. You set a _maximum_ price but are charged less than that if the market rate is lower. So there's no sense in doing such a reactive system when amazon does it for you.
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by bdonlan 17y ago
Sounds like there may be routing trouble between your ISP and the Linode datacenter (unless you're getting a _lot_ of reports from users). During the downtime, get a traceroute to your server and report it in a ticket. You might also want t