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"The algorithm uses language-specific patterns in order to decide the preferred position for hyphenation. The engine then selects line breaks so as to make paragraphs look as good as possible." Proper typsetting will check for lakes and riv
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"... the language makes almost no difference in actual productivity, it's just personal preference." If that were true how can we explain the results in this paper http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/~trinder/papers/ICFP2007.pdf which compared writi
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I expect you know this, but I'll state the obvious because it is important. The search engine you want to like your site is Google. The others do not matter. Google tells you what they like here http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin
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Maybe the words 'output normalisation' are the point of confusion. I am using them as in this thread http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/86kgp/xss_cross... which is the context of my quote of larholm above and is a discussion abo
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You are quite right, you do need to white-list the valid inputs for reasons other than SQL injection. I did not explain very clearly. What I was trying to say was that output normalisation will prevent SQL injection attacks. I am considerin
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Ah, I am classifying a SQL statement as an output that is sent from the program to the database. Anything you put in the SQL will have to be normalised. For example, you might have a name in the database. What if someone is called O'Beirne?
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"Screw input validation, love output normalization." http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=785549
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This is a informative article about the case http://www.cleveland.com/world/index.ssf/2010/02/three_googl...
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The rim squashing problem can be solved by having a point of contact immediately above where the rim touches the ground as in the Peugeot concept bicycle [1] linked from the Reddit page [2]. You can then have a light-weight rim. [1] http:/
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Yes, they're terrible at URLs too. Here's another case of something similar to your problem back in 2006. http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2006/03/10/banks-dont-hel...
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Much as I'm in favour of people understanding the structure of URLs, the article is wrong suggest this is the best way to prevent bank phishing. The correct advice is to bookmark your bank login URL, if your bank is competent this should be
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Some small observations : In Firefox 3.0 (Javascript off) the drop-down menus do not sit next to their labels properly. Perhaps if you get it to pass W3C validation http://validator.w3.org/ it will look better. It would be nice to browse
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The same message is here in early December http://lists.eclug.net/pipermail/eclug/2009-December/008208.... This suggests it was copy-and-pasted either inside or outside AMEX.
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C programmers often use the free GCC (GNU compiler collection) to compile their programs. clang is a new open source C compiler that may be better for some people because it has a different licence, will be faster in certain circumstances a
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Most of the information people give to Google is not encrypted when it passes across the internet so this would be relevant to revealing people's Google searches : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSA_warrantless_surveillance_co...
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I would like you to consider Fatwa 87671 which says "Swearing is considered a debauchery and an immoral act". http://www.islamweb.net/ver2/Fatwa/ShowFatwa.php?lang=E&... Is there an Islamic counter-argument to this position which you
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To add some numbers to that, PCC appears to be about 20,000 lines of code [1] and LLVM+clang together about 550,000 lines [2]. I can't immediately find a figure for GCC, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was significantly more than LLVM+cla
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In the case of Tomato Garden they reported Hong Lei to the authorities who arrested and imprisoned him for three and a half years along with lesser sentences for his associates. But it seems to hinge on whether the theft has made any money.
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Transposed to programming I'll take this as saying "Don't use other people's libraries, write your own, because you will understand them properly and they will integrate better with your programs."
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Yes, I probably should have been less blunt. I was partly thinking about this article http://www.computorney.com/anonarticle.htm which concludes that "anonymity in cyberspace is a fundamental underpinning of democracy" In 1995 the Supre
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Maybe this would be a good starting point: https://www.ixquick.com/eng/protect-privacy.html They claim to be "The only search engine that does not record your IP address."
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Democracy depends on hidden votes and freedom of speech depends on anonymity. Your statement therefore suggests you are opposed to both democracy and freedom of speech.
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The Wayback Machine tells us it wasn't there in July 2008 http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://ycombinator.com/newsguid...
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It's explained better on the Wikipedia page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Native_Client It seems to be sandboxed, whereas ActiveX is a security nightmare.
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"people are capable of deluding themselves in to having the ability to hear things that aren't there". I agree totally. I was assuming a mechanistic way of testing for sound similarity attached to the microphone that would give an objective
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Doesn't work for me. You have assumed no loss of sound in the recording and playback process. There is a great deal of difference between a live instrument and a recording. What's needed is a mechanistic ability to distinguish the important
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I was composing this while limmeau replied, so some overlap. We would initially need to calibrate the mechanism and microphones against expert violin players to ensure they pick up all the same nuances of sound. This is because experts hear
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You might find this produced a positive result. However, a negative result wouldn't necessarily disprove the theory because violins may appear simple, but they are acoustically very complex. Take for example the Chladni patterns for violin
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Examiner.com seems to be owned by Clarity Digital Group who are in turn owned by the Anschutz Company. The primary business of the Anschutz Company appears to be "Support Activities for Oil and Gas Operations". http://dnb.powerprofiles.com
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Yes I agree if your 'immovable thing', for example the problem that would need a risky fix that nobody fully understands, can remain without much impact for the rest of the application's life. Sometimes I find I can move towards fixing some

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