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I like the boy scout principle of "Leave the campground cleaner than you found it." http://www.moserware.com/2008/10/boy-scout-check-ins.html With all the maintainers doing this at the code, database and design level you shouldn't need to
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But there's a difference between "not being published" and not existing. Unpublished information is still available to some group of people, stored on disks etc. It could be accidentally or deliberately released. Given the amount of confide
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Rather than downloading the multi-megabyte video, which requires much more consumption of stuff, I found the PDF version here and read that instead http://www.storyofstuff.com/pdfs/annie_leonard_footnoted_scr... I would have preferred an
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Google tells us there are more than two circular looms in the world http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=%22ci... What is rare about it?
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Yes, I agree that the company running the gambling is selling entertainment. But the word 'bet' is wrong when applied indiscriminately to shares and derivatives. The way nazgulnarsil is using the word 'bet' marks a profound confusion about
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A 'bet' produces no value. It is a fixed pot of money that a middleman may take a cut from before distributing the remainder to the people who have paid into the pot. The pot is static. The participants never get more out than they collecti
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We should probably apply Hanlon's razor "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity." and assume he doesn't understand progressive enhancement http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_Enhancement
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The 'tamper-evident' aspect can be separate from the 'strong' aspect. You could for example put the laptop in a tamper-evident bag. http://alertsecurityproducts.com/js2/eshop/prod_view?id=780
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I liked the photo. Thank you for posting it. I hadn't seen it before.
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It's a good photo, but I would have prefered a link to the original, more informative, page here http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2003/05/22/ Google Images is great for checking this sort of thing http://images.google.com/images?hl=en
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I have got the date for cyclonic separation back to at least 1934 http://www.buellrefinery.com/ but as it says on Wikipedia Dyson has himself said he didn't invent cyclonic separation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyson_(company) "During
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Hoover were found guilty of deliberately copying patented Dyson technology http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1368860/Dyson-cleans-...
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Well yes, I am being silly of course and deliberately taking things to the extreme. I suppose what I am trying to establish is a data point we can all agree is wrong so that those supporting the actions of the CEO have to separate themselve
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This is why I always hit my wife when I don't think she will understand something.
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Good submissions for me are carefully considered and composed. I always proof read mine before submission. I feel it is discourteous to expect 200 people to read something I am unwilling to read twice. I see four obvious mistakes in your po
106.
by by 17y ago
Perhaps a call to dropwhile could be used instead: http://www.erlang.org/doc/man/lists.html
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by by 17y ago
Giggle. It was my little joke that it used to say 'by by'. Maybe I'll have to think of a new username now the adjacent 'by' has gone. It's only an invented username. I know HN likes real names, but I didn't want to be completely public.
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It's a common misconception that programming languages must deal with side-effects. A program can be a pure function if it is a single function that takes parameters when it is run and it returns a set of results when it exits. Interactive
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Only 13.5% of the traffic deaths were pedestrians and bicyclists in this study http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_crash#Common_types_of_colli... whereas the main causes of death are stroke and heart attack http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File
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Why does the first step "Query Friends for all my friends" take 1.5 seconds? I am struggling to understand this. If this simple table of say 100,000,000 rows is indexed on userid and we are only reading and returning say 200 rows for a part
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I have long felt that there is a massive and well funded lobby for curing things, but an impoverished prevention programme. There is no real financial incentive to prevent cancer etc, but lots of money and glory for curing people who have g
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"Screw input validation, love output normalization." to quote larholm from this page http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/86kgp/xss_cross... Input sanitation is not the solution to XSS style problems. The author of the article and
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According to the abstact of the study, which the BBC do not link, http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/content/abstract/ajcn.2009.28041v1 the objective was "We sought to quantitatively assess the differences in reported nutrient content between organi
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So is the X-axis mislabelled? Along the bottom it says "Number of elements being inserted" going from zero on the left to 2,000,000 on the right, but the title says "Time to insert 2,000,000 elements". Something's very wrong somewhere.
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The post appears to me to be a bug report not a "complaint". I feel you have mischaracterised it, these are not the same thing. LLVM stands for Low Level Virtual Machine. http://llvm.org/ As I understand it it provides an abstraction laye
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"Cassandra can write 50GB of data in 0.12 milliseconds ..." These numbers have been taken from p.21 of the linked PDF by the Facebook engineer Avinash Lakshman where it shows this MySQL vs Cassandra comparison: "MySQL > 50GB Data Writes
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I'm impressed by the speed and frugal resources with which they implemented the site and the project has obviously been a huge success, but it is not true that it all had to be completed on that timescale. The release of the MP's expenses h
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It is remarkable how quickly they have managed to redesign the entire operating system to remove the integral IE when an anti-trust ruling is about to hit them. http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=MEMO...
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Sometimes the mutable structures get passed around in the function arguments, so you might do a sequence of tail recursive calls and on each call you pass in the next board state to the same function. I would hope the Erlang Questions maili
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I doubt you would find the immutable aspect in Erlang a problem in practice. I don't know MzScheme, but Erlang has a its own very different philosophy. I suggest Joe's thesis as an interesting read. http://www.sics.se/~joe/thesis/armstrong

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