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by castell 11y ago
Thanks a lot, it seems simple and useful.
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by castell 11y ago
Outlook 2007+ use MS Word as email layout engine, instead of Trident (Internet Explorer). MS Word "web view" is based on Frontpage (which itself forked of trident) and produces broken HTML 4 output. The HTML email world is stuck w
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by castell 12y ago
> it has been changed significantly since then in almost every respect, both algorithmically and in the concept. Does the about page reflect the "old" or the "new" concept? ( http://acuman.us/about.txt
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by castell 12y ago
As you mentioned, phonetic algorithm like Double Metaphone (stored e.g. in an SQL database) gives you probably better results (if you order the results by its score).
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by castell 12y ago
IBM needs an up-to-date web-scale ontology (Blekko has it) for Watson, it used Freebase (et al) which is closing down on March 31, 2015 (largest open collaborative knowledge base): http://www.freebase.com , http://en.
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by castell 12y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palantir_Technologies ?
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by castell 12y ago
Especially interesting would be a Go or Node.js project that use a caching layer (like Memcached) to scale better than writing directly to a SQL/NoSQL database.
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by castell 12y ago
The first documented version of HTTP was HTTP V0.9 (1991) has only GET: http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/Protocols/HTTP/AsImplemented.html Basic HTTP as defined in 1992 had GET, PUT, HEAD, POST, LINK, TEXTSEARC
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by castell 12y ago
Please add "(2006)" to the headline. I remember there was also a related mailing list post about that issue. Edit: What's the reason for the downvotes?
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by castell 12y ago
Is the code available (e.g. github)?
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by castell 12y ago
* WebSQL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebSQL (works almost everywhere) * For NoSQL, ForerunnerDB sounds interesting. As IndexedDB has a flawed API and slow (using SQLite!) and buggy implementations - without a shim us
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by castell 12y ago
For anyone interested it's called fuzz testing : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzz_testing
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by castell 12y ago
Optional types are great. I think he meant static types like in Java / older C#
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by castell 12y ago
New language? 1995: PHP, Javascript, Java, Ruby
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by castell 12y ago
No rumors, the source are the Greek Labour Ministry and the European Union. Search for "greek pension abuse" on Google: * Greece pulls the plug on pensions for the dead (Apr 25, 2012): http://www.reuters.com/arti
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by castell 12y ago
It's like from the Antitrust (2001) movie.
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by castell 12y ago
Next step, Microsoft announces FX!32 for Win10 ARM. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FX!32 FX!32 is a software emulator program that allows Win32 programs built for the Intel x86 instruction set to execute on DEC Alpha-bas
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by castell 12y ago
Not sure, maybe http://sea-of-memes.com ?
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by castell 12y ago
Thanks for sharing! Great that DigitalOcean has many useful tutorials. The tutorial doesn't touch the "replace" command ( http://docs.ansible.com/replace_module.html ), that seem to be useful to modifying exist
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by castell 12y ago
* free incoming traffic (like Linode) * cheaper outgoing traffic or Slashdot effect 'protection' (and no weird combined quoate) * no fixed plans: let me choose the memory, disk space (SSD and HDD), cores like AWS EC2 but as cheap
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by castell 12y ago
Thanks a lot for the link.
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by castell 12y ago
What about farmers with their noisy gigantic tractors? Are they allowed to use them on Sunday? Or do they usually use them also on Sunday?
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by castell 12y ago
The Lua language and LuaJIT are great. The user base is fragmented (version 4, 5.1 (LuaJIT) vs 5.2), as Lua is usually used as embedded language (alongside C, C++, ...) for video games (World of Warcraft, Far Cry, ...), applications (Adobe
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by castell 12y ago
Some more packages are on the LuaForge list: http://luaforge.net/projects/ (though LuaForge looks outdated) Thanks for curating the list!
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by castell 12y ago
Sadly no. I told my co-worker about the cable and he told me that he had the same issue with a patch-cable too. He had damaged the cable with his office chair rolls and replaced the cable. So probably he stored it away, and I used his old d
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by castell 12y ago
I had the same issue, file transfer from Windows client to a file server. It always stopped if the file was larger than a few MBs. It turned out the ethernet patch cable was damaged (CRC error counting), replacing it solved the issue. Anoth
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by castell 12y ago
It is still there. I wonder if it's a joke from an editor?
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by castell 12y ago
The chapters C/C++ Compatibility (7.6), Sun and Java (7.7), Microsoft and dotNet (7.8) and Retrospective (9) were very informative. It's a history lesson every programmer should read.
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by castell 12y ago
So true. Jon Stokes also wrote the great book "Inside the Machine: An Illustrated Introduction to Microprocessors and Computer Architecture" while he worked at Ars Technica. I have it still in my bookshelf. http://www.