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by carey 15y ago
What they cut here was JavaFX Script, in favour of a Java API that can be used from any of the JVM languages. As http://java.dzone.com/articles/oracle-discontinue-javafx points out, this makes it more like Apache Pivot.
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by carey 15y ago
It can get rather political, but the general definition of giftedness is to be in the top 5% on a good, standardised test of cognitive ability, such as the WISC or WJ-III. If you were at the top of any representative group of just 20 childr
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by carey 15y ago
In a few cases; gettext recommends autopoint, which depends on git, so it will be installed automatically if someone installs gettext. A few packages depend on gettext that I wouldn't have expected, like blender. This might be a mistake, bu
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by carey 15y ago
That sounds nice, but is there good evidence that this actually happens, or that if it happens that it improves outcomes or quality of life? A bit of time on Google finds http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/cam/green-tea-review , which at l
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by carey 15y ago
While that’s one way to do it, I believe that current JVMs use an index directly to the target object in the Java heap. Since the garbage collector is following all the references anyway, it can eventually update all the old references to p
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by carey 15y ago
By the way, it is possible to have methods and values on the package itself, like math.sin(math.Pi), but that hasn't been done with scala.io. You can also import singleton methods, so if you write import io.Source._ then all the from
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by carey 15y ago
How complicated is virtio ( http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Virtio )? It's designed for guests that know they're virtualised.
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by carey 16y ago
As far as I can tell ( http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2010/08/17/ie9-opacity-an... for example), IE9 in IE9 standards mode supports neither filters nor VML. I hope I’m not too optimistic in thinking that its SVG support should be good
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by carey 16y ago
Fair enough. According to the article, the mother of two children in the original study, who referred a third, was referred to by other media as a “JABS activist”. I shouldn’t have used that term myself.
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by carey 16y ago
tokenadult is probably referring to the BMJ article at http://www.bmj.com/content/342/bmj.c5347.full , which finds that at least four of the children in Wakefield’s study were referred to him by JABS activists.
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by carey 16y ago
This isn't particularly new; here’s an article with more details from August 2008, from Ben Goldacre’s book Bad Science : http://www.badscience.net/2008/08/the-medias-mmr-hoax/ Also worth reading is Roald Dahl’s account of his eldest dau
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by carey 16y ago
Wildcard certificates are available for USD $49.90 from StartSSL ( http://www.startssl.com/?app=40 ), which is rather more expensive than free, but shouldn’t be a hardship.
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The finance world tackles the passive: 0 for 2(languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu)
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by carey 16y ago
In New Zealand English, you should be comparing the pronunciation of R in “red” and “car audio”, to ensure that the R is actually pronounced at all. Some accents don’t even pronounce it in the latter. (There’s a good one for the spelling re
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by carey 16y ago
Just guessing, but in non-rhotic accents like RP and New Zealand English, the R in car is not pronounced unless the following word begins with a vowel. Any other ideas, maybe from an American English speaker?
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by carey 16y ago
From the article, there’s http://www.livestation.com/channels/3-al_jazeera_english_eng... .
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by carey 16y ago
Isn’t this what enabling "block all third-party cookies without exception" in Chrome or disabling "accept third party cookies" in Firefox does?
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by carey 17y ago
You're probably thinking of etckeeper: http://joey.kitenet.net/code/etckeeper/
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by carey 17y ago
The future is hopefully something more secure than client-side hashing, probably SRP, or it’ll be NTLM all over again. It would be nice if web browsers implemented it directly, but until then there are JavaScript libraries like http://serv
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by carey 17y ago
I read somewhere recently (here or proggit?) about libdrizzle, which is a BSD-licensed client library that is compatible with the MySQL network protocol. The developers are quite clear that you can use it with their own GPL 2 database serve
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by carey 17y ago
There is a catch, though; if you have the same file open multiple times, even with different names, then closing one file descriptor will release all locks on that file in the same process, even in different threads. SQLite goes to great
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by carey 17y ago
Which infinity? If you believe in infinite rational numbers, shouldn’t there be a rational number equal to the ratio of a circle’s radius to its circumference? (I don’t believe in God or infinite universes. Standard Model FTW!)
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by carey 17y ago
"REST with JSON" should send the (relative) URL for the next request, not just an ID. Although there's more to it than just that.
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by carey 17y ago
For added poignancy, the author of the poem, Wilfred Owen, was killed one week before the end of the war, and his mother (apocryphally?) received the telegram as the bells rang for the first Armistice Day.
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by carey 17y ago
The awesomeness starts from git init; git add . (or in my case, hg init; hg add). Even if you don't use anything else, this is a big improvement over Subversion.
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by carey 17y ago
Are you sure that (1.0 - time_spent) executes in constant time? Or that sleep() is precise enough?