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by bluesmoon 8y ago
Related is 3 sided chess, which is a little more complicated because it's hard to figure out who wins and when the game is over: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-player_chess
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by bluesmoon 8y ago
This was confusing for me because my grandma used to make pepper water for me when I was a child, and it was nothing like this. It's a kind of spicy soup. Recipe here: http://anglo-indianfood.blogspot.com/2013/06&
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by bluesmoon 9y ago
dup. this same article was posted earlier without the /amp/ suffix and has a higher score.
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by bluesmoon 9y ago
It was covered in second year French when I studied it in India through Alliance Française.
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by bluesmoon 9y ago
You'll also want to track the pageshow and pagehide events (because of PageCache), and note that prerender is now obsolete. Browsers no longer support it and the spec is dead. boomerang has been using PageVisibility for as long as the
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by bluesmoon 9y ago
The jargon file describes the different usage of daemon, demon , and dragon: http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/D/daemon.html as it pertains to computing.
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by bluesmoon 9y ago
webmonkey.com because that's where I learnt a lot of my craft, and TalkCity (which probably still exists) because of the community I discovered when I was going through a rough personal patch, and that community no longer exists.
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by bluesmoon 9y ago
Benny owns the Rival Hotel in Stockholm. They mainly play ABBA music in the lounge. I spoke at the Stockholm webperf meetup a few years ago and the organisers put me up at this hotel (side story about how flying from Munich to Boston via a
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by bluesmoon 9y ago
The exit value is always 0 regardless of what's printed on stderr. If code parses stderr to determine error state instead of looking at the exit code, then it's doing unix wrong.
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by bluesmoon 9y ago
TIL: Chrome thinks these passwords are written in Maltese
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by bluesmoon 9y ago
It's fascinating that even 10 years after many people speaking about the importance of RUM when measuring performance, the majority of articles these days completely ignore the existence of RUM.
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by bluesmoon 9y ago
Just enabled it for one of my packages, but since I still support 0.4, not sure how many PRs I should expect. Update: looks like no applicable deprecations
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by bluesmoon 9y ago
timestamp is stored as a signed value since it can also go backwards from the epoch, so you need 2^31-1
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by bluesmoon 9y ago
Well, there is https://regexcrossword.com/
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by bluesmoon 9y ago
Charles Simonyi is also the person behind the Hungarian Notation of naming variables.
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by bluesmoon 9y ago
Well, everybody knows that in statistics, a sample size of 1 gives you a 0 margin of error ;)
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by bluesmoon 9y ago
> TCP protocol will restart over with single packet when a packet gets lost rather than optimising for throughput. It will back off to an earlier window size. It won't just jump to 1 packet. As of 2010, the default initial window
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by bluesmoon 10y ago
Had to memorize the entire list of Wordstar command sequences for school. We were tested on it in the 9th grade.
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by bluesmoon 10y ago
I wrote this somewhat thorough post about time, date, events, and timezones in response to a stackoverflow question once: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2532729/daylight-saving-t... It covers repeating events,
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by bluesmoon 10y ago
That's nothing. The Buy More in Burbank has a joint CIA/NSA lair hidden beneath it and the Nerd Herd are operatives. There's even this one guy with some kind of Database (possibly NoSQL) installed in his brain.
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by bluesmoon 10y ago
even sed is turing complete. I once did a talk about this at Opensource Bridge: http://tech.bluesmoon.info/2008/09/programming-patterns-in-s...
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by bluesmoon 10y ago
In 1997, I met my former professor of Quantum Mechanics and he said, "I hear you've gone over to the Dark Side". He was referring to the start of my professional software development career. I'd been an amateur developer
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by bluesmoon 10y ago
yahoo groups is still very big. it was big before yahoo acquired it (egroups), remained almost unchanged throughout the years, and is now in maintenance mode, but there are still millions of users who continue to sign up.
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by bluesmoon 10y ago
If only we could convince the millions of yahoo groups users to move their groups elsewhere.
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by bluesmoon 10y ago
Unfortunately it's not that simple. More often than not, someone high up will find someone low whose continued stay in the country is highly dependent on them keeping this job. While I've never had to make such a choice, I can tel
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by bluesmoon 10y ago
The people who do this aren't wilful engineers. Source: I'm a former member of Yahoo's Paranoid team.
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by bluesmoon 10y ago
I hear you. I've lived in both states. I also think it's cool that the Medu Vada is different in Coastal Karnataka (Mangalore/Konkan region), Inner Karnataka, Goa & Tamil Nadu.
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by bluesmoon 10y ago
Sannas are made with Palm Toddy, which MUST be used before 7am (it's collected overnight and ferments quickly).
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by bluesmoon 10y ago
Vade and Vada are different things. Vade is a very Maharashtrian thing (think daal vadi) and looks nothing like either medu vada or aloo bonda (vada pav) Also, if you're in the US, you can get most of these frozen in any medium sized
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by bluesmoon 10y ago
Well, the article covers Uttapam under variations of either dosa or appam, which I kind of agree with. Kothu Paratha is just minced up regular parota, so I would put it in the category of dishes made with breads (though I guess dal dhokli a

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