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Is Internet Voting Safe? Vote Here(wired.com)
2 points by blogimus 17y ago|1 comments
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by blogimus 17y ago
I frequently need to create datestamped archives. Here is a one-line example, given two parameters. $1 is the archive name prefix and $2 is the directory to archive. tar -cvzf ${1}-$(date +%Y%m%d-%H%M).tar.gz $2 Note, if $2 contains
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by blogimus 17y ago
I'll add a third: The storyteller. This teacher is more interested in off topic discussions and spinning yarns than teaching or discussing the topic. Results being he (or she) does not spend enough time actually teaching and engaging the st
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The Next Frontier: Decoding the Internet's Raw Data(washingtonpost.com)
3 points by blogimus 17y ago|0 comments
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by blogimus 17y ago
Title is incomplete. It's "Understanding Engineers: Feasibility." I do like how he framed out the difficulty of problems into categories.
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The 31-Year-Old in Charge of Dismantling G.M. (nytimes.com)
50 points by blogimus 17y ago|41 comments
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by blogimus 17y ago
Oh, I'm sure these products, just like laundry soap , in the superlative war of marketing (see link below), will come up with something to one-up "the ultimate" inbox experience. Why stop at the inbox? The inbox is so... limiting. Who wants
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by blogimus 17y ago
It appears to be fixed. Now shows Results 1 - 10 for "djangopony" "no article results." 1-10 of no results ? Hmm.
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by blogimus 17y ago
Searching for something not in their database seems to break their search. http://navify.com/search?q=djangopony Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'Exception' with message 'Query failed: unknown local index 'article' in search request' requ
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Soccerbots learn how to fall gracefully(newscientist.com)
4 points by blogimus 17y ago|0 comments
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Agents which haggle and resolve conflict(ecs.soton.ac.uk)
1 points by blogimus 17y ago|0 comments
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by blogimus 17y ago
I disagree. That is irresponsible advice. The best way to avoid the shackles of debt is to be financially responsible. A good credit score is very important for more than just a good interest rate on your credit card. Your FICO score affect
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The Next Best Thing to You(nsf.gov)
1 points by blogimus 17y ago|0 comments
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by blogimus 17y ago
I agree. If you buy a fixer-upper house, you have an opportunity to get your fill of demolition work and wood chopping through sweat equity. I swear our house helps keeps me in shape. [Edit] : From my home improvement work, I started practi
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by blogimus 17y ago
The OpenSSH security page has more useful information and a link to the advisory (posted last November). http://www.openssh.com/security.html Would have been nice for the zdnet article to provide a link to it.
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by blogimus 17y ago
No libraries of congress per fortnight (yet), but it does recogize Smoot. Here's Smoots per fornight in cubits per leap year http://www65.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=smoots+per+fortnight+...
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A Blueprint to Stop Browser Attacks(technologyreview.com)
2 points by blogimus 17y ago|0 comments
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by blogimus 17y ago
One of the things I do is run who, uptime, and free when I first log in to our development server. I'll repeat that periodically through the day. I ps aux if uptime shows any significant activity.
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by blogimus 17y ago
Our household shares one mobile phone between two adults. How does that fit into the 84% baseline? As far as services, I checked GMail and other. I use VPS to host my web apps, so I pay for that. I pay for the ACM digital library, as I see
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by blogimus 17y ago
The whir and clank is not encouraging. I'd leave it alone and take to an expert if the data is (are) that important. At work, the IT guys have had to send drives out to be recovered (mostly from remote workers who don't have the best backup
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Acquine: Aesthetic Quality Inference Engine(acquine.alipr.com)
8 points by blogimus 17y ago|1 comments
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The Next Age of Discovery: New finds while digitizing ancient texts (online.wsj.com)
4 points by blogimus 17y ago|0 comments
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A Lockbox Built from DNA(technologyreview.com)
2 points by blogimus 17y ago|0 comments
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by blogimus 17y ago
I agree that the sales cycle is long, but that could only be the start of bigger problems. From what I've seen in the news and discussions on e-learning, the biggest problem facing startups is being sued by blackboard http://www.pbs.org/te
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by blogimus 17y ago
Hmm, no mention of Erlang. I'll add one. 1986 - Inspired by Prolog, Joe Armstrong designs a massively scalable messaging system that allows computers to SMS each other and has the attention span of a teenager. He calls it Erlang.
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by blogimus 17y ago
At work, I try to remember to stand up and stretch periodically. Drinking a lot of water forces me to get up out my chair regularly and go for a short walk down the hall. When not at work, I try to take care of my back by wearing a back bra
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by blogimus 17y ago
Thanks for the comments. One of the things that I find a pain about Rails but also an opportunity is that the framework is such a fast moving target that documentation grows stale quickly, presenting an opportunity to write newer fresher in
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by blogimus 17y ago
"I can’t seem to get anything done in Rails because before I can work with it I have to understand it." That's about how I feel now. I'm a relative newbie to Ruby and really like the language, even while aware of its warts and headaches as
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by blogimus 17y ago
The fonts are listed in alphabetical order. But still, as stated in the article: "It can be a little difficult to distinguish between uppercase i / lowercase L and nested single/double quotes but that can be said of many proportional fonts.
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Debugging Ajax in Production(cacm.acm.org)
2 points by blogimus 17y ago|0 comments

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