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901.
by cheald 12y ago
Thanks! Despite my complaining, I do use and love LibreOffice. Thanks for all your hard work!
902.
by cheald 12y ago
Filed. https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=88909 It should just be a US-ASCII file, so yeah, UTF-8 works, while UTF-16 obviously wouldn't.
903.
by cheald 12y ago
That did the trick. Flipped it to UTF-8 and it works now. I should have noticed that before, but then, I'm not sure why it's defaulting to UTF-16 for CSVs! I appreciate the UI work, but come on, the simple stuff can't break.
904.
by cheald 12y ago
Where should I file it?
905.
by cheald 12y ago
Windows user here. It's not particularly any prettier, and Calc doesn't open CSVs correctly anymore. So yeah, there's that. http://i.imgur.com/i1YuVXA.png
906.
by cheald 12y ago
We have empirical evidence that competition has an immediate effect on improving the marketplace. Competition is hindered because of regulatory capture. It would seem to follow that competition is the cure, and impediment of regulation boug
907.
by cheald 12y ago
It's almost like mutually-beneficial exchange is the backbone of our economy or something!
908.
by cheald 12y ago
You don't think that the core of the issue is regulatory capture, rather than a failing of "the market"? It takes a lot of money to break into a captured market, which is why it takes a large company to do it. Google entering
909.
by cheald 12y ago
This seems to be a trend. I recently almost purchased another item on Amazon that was well-reviewed, until I checked the 1-star reviews, which mentioned a rebate for a 5-star review. IMO, Amazon should just silently penalize those reviews.
910.
by cheald 12y ago
They aren't remote code execution exploits as best as I can tell. But, it's a short leap from an exploitable root escalation to total compromise of a machine. Until these are patched, any executable you download and run could pote
911.
by cheald 12y ago
Heh, I think that's valid. Though IIRC Project Zero is called that because their mission is specifically to eliminate zero-days - that is, find and disclose them to vendors before the bad guys start using them.
912.
by cheald 12y ago
> vulnerabilities that are publicly-known before a patch is available We already have a term for that, though: "unpatched vulnerabilities". Using the term "zero-day" erroneously communicates to the reader that Google
913.
by cheald 12y ago
Do you have a source for that definition? Because every definition of zero-day I've ever seen has to do with the days it has been known to the vendor. > A zero-day (or zero-hour or day zero) attack or threat is an attack that exploi
914.
by cheald 12y ago
I'm wholly in support of Google here. Apple has a history of letting known vulnerabilities persist for years (ie, http://krebsonsecurity.com/2011/11/apple-took-3-years-to-fix... ) without fixes.
915.
by cheald 12y ago
Tech journalists insisting on calling these "zero-days" (which, to its credit, CNet changed, though Ars and ZDNet are guilty of it) is really kind of irritating. A zero-day is, by definition, an exploit that the vendor has had zer
916.
by cheald 12y ago
I'm going to suggest that it's not even good for prototype work, because it invalidates any claim to clean-room implementation and makes it very easy to cross the line between original work and ripoff.
917.
by cheald 12y ago
The CSS is distributed in the Github repo, ostensibly under an open-source license, which the project maintainer has no right to use, distribute, or relicense. It's about as clear a case of copyright infringement as they come. (And tha
918.
by cheald 12y ago
Well, it shouldn't be too hard for the author to write original 'Just CSS' then.
919.
by cheald 12y ago
"In the meantime, please clone the repository on your local computer so we can have a lot of copies of it." Wow. That's uh. Something.
920.
by cheald 12y ago
Apparently Ars (or at least Mr. Goodin and his editor) don't know what a "0-day" actually is. But hey, it sounds scary and gets traffic, so let's go with it!
921.
by cheald 12y ago
Come on, what a silly stance. Packets from a botnet engaged in a DDOS should be routed at the same priority as all other packets because packet routing is a human right on par with "the right to not be enslaved" and "the righ
922.
by cheald 12y ago
> Assuming the devices all implemented the spec consistently. That's an assumption big enough to drive a truck through. In my experience, every platform needs custom support or hacks to fix little annoyances, problems and incompatib
923.
by cheald 12y ago
Doesn't it seem a little odd to qualify G+ usage by public data numbers? I get that that it's what you have available, but if you used that method you'd probably conclude that Facebook has a fraction of the users they actuall
924.
by cheald 12y ago
Maybe I'm just off-base, but I'd consider all of those off-topic for SO. It's not a programming or programming tools question, it's a "how does Googlebot work?" question. The knowledge would certainly be useful
925.
JRuby 9.0.0.0-pre1 Released(jruby.org)
15 points by cheald 12y ago|3 comments
926.
by cheald 12y ago
Can you provide examples of some of those questions? Usually when I encounter that, it's been closed as a duplicate with a link to the original.
927.
by cheald 12y ago
I was careful to not say "the poor have it just as good as the rich", because I specifically did not mean to say that. The rich certainly have far more power, opportunity, and resources available to them because economics, but I&#
928.
by cheald 12y ago
Doh, yes. `print` rather than `puts` is also acceptable.
929.
by cheald 12y ago
Right, but the trick is the inequality doesn't imply poverty. Wealth isn't a zero-sum game; FatCat having more doesn't necessarily require that SkinnyCat have less, even though the size of the pie slices grows or shrinks; the
930.
by cheald 12y ago
Or, you can write it from within Ruby: open("out.json", "w") {|f| f.puts JSON.dump(showings) }

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