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1141.
by cobbzilla 10y ago
great explanation by the Postgres crew. it makes me wonder, though: if I had a table with 50k rows, updated hundreds of times per second and used in joins throughout the database, is there any way I can just stick that whole table into memc
1142.
by cobbzilla 10y ago
I enjoy tests that generate documentation & examples. restex is a Java library for doing that with Jersey-based REST servers; your integration tests become annotated HTML docs. https://github.com/cobbzilla/restex d
1143.
by cobbzilla 10y ago
I understand that once a rootkit is installed, all bets are off. I was wondering if the syscalls by which the rootkit gets installed will be obfuscated to make them look more like a benign/normal process, and evade detection by a malwa
1144.
by cobbzilla 10y ago
In the ever-escalating arms race: if this detection method gains in popularity, will malware writers will adopt a form of "steganography" in their system calls, sneaking below the radar of these detection schemes?
1145.
by cobbzilla 10y ago
I agree, gravity does create its most beautiful artwork at the cosmic scale.
1146.
by cobbzilla 10y ago
When people say gravity is weak, they usually mean "relative to other forces of nature" Put a small magnet above a paperclip. When the magnet is close enough, the paperclip will jump up and stick to it. At that moment, the magneti
1147.
by cobbzilla 10y ago
yup, there are lots of non-EMF ways to get data off a device. iirc it's easier to transmit data with higher (inaudible) frequencies than lower ones.
1148.
by cobbzilla 10y ago
my admittedly anecdotal experiences working with JSONB in Postgres: coding is generally easy and performance is great, it even plays nice with ORMs like hibernate (with just a bit more work). the downside is the query syntax: for complex q
1149.
by cobbzilla 10y ago
how about "CruiseControl+" or some other marketing riff on CC, since that's basically what it is.
1150.
by cobbzilla 10y ago
the only way I can see around this would be to give every affiliate a unique hostname on the target domain. then the site owner would identify the affiliate using the hostname of the incoming request. next step in the arms race would then b
1151.
by cobbzilla 10y ago
seems like an issue of semantics - he's taking something most of us would just call "human culture" and naming it "AI" - which is an interesting idea, but true artificial intelligence is something that involves some
1152.
by cobbzilla 10y ago
Venezuela has done a fantastic job with price controls and nationalizing industry. Have you heard about how wonderful things are in that country?
1153.
by cobbzilla 10y ago
IIRC, the Higgs field is a scalar field (same field strength at all points of space/time), whereas the other fundamental forces are vector fields (field strength varies with space/time). Is this correct? And if so, does this fact
1154.
by cobbzilla 10y ago
it also helps attract the better salespeople if there are higher tiers of "somewhat unreasonable" payouts for spectacular results. but again, as you said, all targets must be clear & unambiguous. it should be extremely hard to
1155.
by cobbzilla 11y ago
just the online help for now, hit the question icon in the top right. let me know what you'd like to see in a user guide :)
1156.
by cobbzilla 11y ago
I love history on a map! Here's a littler something I've been working on, more focused on human history than natural history: https://alpha3.histori.city/ it's kind of a mashup of Wikipedia + Map + Time Machi
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Google ReCAPTCHA Cracked in New Automated Attack(news.softpedia.com)
7 points by cobbzilla 11y ago|0 comments
1158.
by cobbzilla 11y ago
when Lessig argued Eldred v Ashcroft before the Supreme Court, the argument went something like: the Constitution states that copyrights are to be granted for a "limited time"; if Congress can pass an unlimited number of finite ex
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Time to start owning your chunk of the cloud?(cloudstead.io)
5 points by cobbzilla 12y ago|0 comments
1160.
by cobbzilla 13y ago
I was in NOLA in February and thought this street poet was quite entertaining: http://www.tout.com/m/hitche and his typewriter is older & cooler :) I don't care how more street authors and poets "steal&qu
1161.
by cobbzilla 13y ago
this is super cool. curious where to submit bug reports? for the heck of it I put in a long ffmpeg command; it detected the "-i" argument twice and the lines look a bit crazy. here's the line to reproduce the error: ffmpeg -i
1162.
by cobbzilla 13y ago
TLDR: we made nearly every rookie mistake in the book. “A ‘build it and they will come’ mentality has taken over the startup space." I don't want to sound patronizing (but I will anyway). "Has taken" is the wrong verb te
1163.
by cobbzilla 13y ago
You make a VERY big "if" in your first sentence, one that (admittedly anecdotally) I've very rarely seen hold true in tech companies. Much more often, the MVP becomes the product, and all those shortcuts and poor design decisions come back