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by ceautery 13y ago
What's Finnish for "horde of stalkers because I'm female and write about tech"?
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by ceautery 13y ago
Miss.
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From the javascript: var bugRiddenCrashPronePieceOfJunk= (navigator.userAgent.indexOf('MSIE 5')!==-1 && navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Mac')!==-1) I don't necessarily disagree with the sentiment, but I don't think FBI should disparage
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by ceautery 14y ago
>>novels I'd ever cracked were Moby-Dick and Frankenstein—both sold to me by a crafty high school teacher as gripping tales of adventure, which they weren't. Oh, I wish you hadn't said that, you unclean cad! Other than that, this ar
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by ceautery 14y ago
OCR with Perl is pretty old. People who frequent perlmonks get a kick out of trying to implement their own home-brew reader. For instance: http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=124732
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by ceautery 14y ago
I have no evidence for this, but my guess is your group's name (Symfony2) fails a heuristics challenge, and was disabled by a bot. Perhaps other groups with variants on "phony" or ending with a number have been used for ill purpose by other
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by ceautery 14y ago
> So you blame Perl for programmers making poor choices in how they parse their data? That wasn't a poor choice. I didn't propose "si.+?nk" as a general rule, and I would have used another method if there had been conflicting tags in th
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by ceautery 14y ago
In my production environment, it has the advantage of being installed as part of our default Unix build. Most of our devs use tools like Weblogic, webMethods, Informatica, etc., and a few of us old fogeys are still around supporting Korn sh
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by ceautery 14y ago
You bet! As far as I know, you're the first person to read it.
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by ceautery 14y ago
I want to hack your software such that it always returns null. And then write software that identifies better distribution methods of food and water to famine and drought-stricken areas. Or maybe find the best areas to reseed of those that
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by ceautery 14y ago
It's still difficult to beat perl in a production Unix environment to fix a hot issue, especially if you know your way around regular expressions. When I hear comments like "now you have two problems", or "it's harder to read than to write"
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by ceautery 14y ago
I like the use of "duck test" in this. Just like the notorious Interplay manager decreed for the queen animations in Battle Chess... we should get rid of the duck.
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by ceautery 14y ago
I noticed a striking lack of snark in this link and the prior announcement of Blink. Either these are pros who are working in good faith toward their respective ecosystems, or there's bad blood and vitriol all around that goes deep enough t
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by ceautery 14y ago
What a bunch of jackasses. Sometimes I think the only difference between Oracle and SCO is scale.
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by ceautery 14y ago
Brian appears to be a hacker of sorts, judging from the rest of his blog and his "uncommon.cc" site. He writes beautifully, and suffered a tragedy with grace. As hackers, we could learn from his example. That's how it's hacker news. Now shu
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by ceautery 14y ago
So, last night I found myself at the hospital at 10:30pm, taking my 8 year old in who was having trouble breathing, and had a 102.6 temperature. Meanwhile, my brother-in-law had one of his teeth break and needed someone to watch his infant
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by ceautery 14y ago
I thought the point of language like that was tasking on the part of the non-developer, as in inflating someone's ego enough to get them to work for you. Or to use a more salacious comparison, pimping. In my youth it wasn't "rock star", tho
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by ceautery 14y ago
The interchange fees Visa/MC charge vary with what information is collected. The minimum required info is assumed to be at a higher risk of fraud, so the fee passed to the merchant is more. Sure, some optimization can be done to make online
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by ceautery 14y ago
Pretty nice looking, although it took me a minute to grok the controls. I was searching for a volume control on the bottom when the first song was playing, and then I noticed the tiny youtube window. Why youtube if most of the videos are ju
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by ceautery 14y ago
Unless you clear your cache, in which case, in addition to being more secure, Chrome is faster.
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by ceautery 14y ago
Does FB have the problem, or does American culture? The FB organization sets policies that seem to prohibit this type of thing. The people tasked with enforcing the rules, however, are another story. They are fully in bed with the patriarch
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by ceautery 14y ago
That article was one big euphemism, and I am no closer to knowing what a "Kill Chain" is or how it could stop an attack than I was 30 minutes ago.
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by ceautery 14y ago
Am I the only one that was reminded of The Last Starfighter?
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by ceautery 14y ago
I think promoting this should have waited until the section on Natural Language Processing said more than "stub".
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by ceautery 14y ago
Is that an official Google page on how to do this, or a demo you put together that Google may nix shortly? I ask mainly because a DS_Store file is visible in the directory, which strikes me as not a typical Google thing. Do they even use Ma
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Do any 529 plan providers have a good API?
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That popsicle sounds pretty damned good.
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by ceautery 14y ago
Nonsense. "A Book of Five Rings" is the strategy book for the pure pragmatist. "Art of War" is for sounding cool at parties.
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by ceautery 14y ago
It was pretty clear they made a profit from reading the top paragraph saying $3 per unit was the total cost, and the first block of numbers said they averaged $3.89 in payments. So, that's $0.89 x 85,000 profit. I figured the rest was a sto
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by ceautery 14y ago
I occasionally suffer from depression, usually in the winter with low light levels, and usually not debilitating. Some people are easier to talk to about this than others, and it's difficult for me to be honest about how I feel with people

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