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by burke 12y ago
This was the strategy right from the start, as far as I read: Step 1: simplify as much as possible, while only retaining OpenBSD compatibility to keep things easy. Step 2: reintroduce portability to a more conservative set of OSes than Open
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by burke 12y ago
> hadoop is a big data system for counting words
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by burke 13y ago
It's like a modern-day "no true scotsman": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman
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by burke 13y ago
I think it's safe to say that'll be 2.0, 3.0, or never -- not a point release.
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by burke 13y ago
Google makes a ton of sense: It will be a major competitive advantage for its Maps product. Facebook makes no sense whatsoever.
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by burke 13y ago
It's an extremely convenient metric. L/100km is roughly equivalent to L/h at highway speeds, and you can figure Litres to destination when you see a road sign by multiplying L/100km by the hundreds place. With gas statio
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by burke 13y ago
We're using Kafka at Shopify and we're pretty satisfied with it. We wrote a client library for Go: https://github.com/Shopify/sarama
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by burke 13y ago
I find it really odd how they emphasize how this release is about stability and refinement, then go on to talk about how they're abstracting over LXC and developing their own bindings as -- not a replacement -- a configurable default.
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by burke 13y ago
If you send them an email demanding your account be canceled, CC companies will usually let you use that to dispute further charges until your account is actually canceled.
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by burke 13y ago
"Wolves" is a new term to me and I'm having a hard time googling for more reading. Can someone give me a link?
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by burke 13y ago
Pretty much any organism that manages to develop the intelligence to build a starship will have a long history of evolution. Their mindset will presumably be guided by ancient evolutionary pressures. For us humans, we're partially moti
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by burke 13y ago
This is essentially the problem with all government agencies. They're never motivated by efficiency, but rather by justifying as large a budget as possible. If your hypothetical heroku scenario were a government project, they'd be
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by burke 13y ago
Order for 196: ^[a-i]*[l-z]*$
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by burke 13y ago
I have also used goto a few times in Go. There are occasions where it makes the code more obvious than the alternatives. A lot of people cargo-cult Dijkstra's hate on goto. It does have its uses as long as you're very selective ab
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by burke 13y ago
> I do not believe that their information-gathering powers should be curtailed. Such restriction would not only hinder the Agency’s ability to gather intelligence, but also impede its ability to wage cyberwarfare. Yes. That is the point.
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by burke 13y ago
Actually, it does: http://cl.ly/image/2Z2U080T0L2A
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by burke 13y ago
> I am very wary of appeals to "nature" and "natural" I think it's an important distinction to be made here that melatonin is something you already produce at certain times of day (maybe not the desired time), an
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by burke 13y ago
Two things: 1) The Canadian library initially couldn't hold a candle to the USA library. I've found this hasn't been true for about a year -- most things I've wanted to watch recently have been on both. 2) VPN proxies ar
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by burke 13y ago
Rwanda, Lesotho, Burundi and Swaziland are also four of the five smallest countries in Africa (excluding the little island nations). It's a whole lot easier to get 30,000 km^2 to agree (Burundi) than 75,000,000 km^2 (DR Congo).
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by burke 13y ago
Yup. I was actually really excited to try this, but was not okay with the permissions it requires for said social networks.
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by burke 13y ago
The name is absolutely horrible. And they shouldn't just re-use the RSS logo, even at this stage.
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by burke 13y ago
Fascinating, thanks.
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by burke 13y ago
I doubt it. As far as I understand it, NASA's research centers around the possibility of deforming spacetime to cause an object to fall through space (sorta). Deforming spacetime wouldn't really put components closer together, or
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by burke 13y ago
For anyone curious why this doesn't translate into a 427GHz computer, light can travel about 1.4mm in one cycle at 427GHz, meaning that all synchronized components would have to be located within 1.4mm of each other. The bottleneck for
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by burke 13y ago
> "software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster." I used to think this was true. For me, the perceived inflection point where perceived speed of software started improving was somewhere around 2008. Th
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by burke 13y ago
As a hypothetical, imagine the NSA has unlimited ability to spy on the entire internet, and has cracked every crypto algorithm known to man, and that these documents shouldn't be known to the NSA. Sneakernet becomes the only viable opt
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by burke 13y ago
Yes. After 2 weeks, I didn't feel handicapped. After 4 weeks I could type as fast as before (75-80wpm). Now, about 6 months later, I can type 95wpm on a good day.
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by burke 13y ago
I was never sure which side of this argument I came down on, and then I switched to a Kinesis Advantage keyboard. I had to slow down my typing for a couple weeks to get the finger positions right. The whole time, I felt like I was coding wi
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by burke 13y ago
Brainwave tech doesn't really get that kind of bandwidth without implants (and even then, interpreting the signals usefully is decades out). The skull is an unfortunately effective faraday cage, and it makes it impossible to get approp
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by burke 13y ago
This is a really great way to get their PayPal account frozen for sure. Abnormally high rates of Visa gift cards will absolutely trip all the fraud alarms.

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