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by colomon 12y ago
It's an SSH server. If dealing with simple cases of more than one statement on the same line is the worst bit of auditing it, it is indeed an easily auditable SSH server. (Not that I would have written either line that way, mind you.
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by colomon 12y ago
youtube-dl -x --audio-format=mp3 ;)
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by colomon 12y ago
I can't help you determine if that page is satire or not, but now you've got this song running through my head: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Lx8c3-djc8
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by colomon 12y ago
1. I'm implemented the quadratic formula in software more than twice over the years, I think. In, you know, real programs I was paid money to write. 2. Have you ever been in a life-or-death situation where anything you learned in cl
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by colomon 12y ago
Also, put it into the terms he'd like to put it into: His failing student has always been good at symbol manipulation, but now that he's gotten to this teacher's more advanced symbol manipulation, he's failing. Suddenly
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by colomon 12y ago
I'd simply guess he'd never heard of it -- it was pretty obscure in the early 1970s. It might have been less accessible to beginners, but Forth was the perfect language for those early microcomputers. I loved programming in it o
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by colomon 13y ago
I'm surprised to hear this too, in the last year or so we've found much more to watch on Prime than on Netflix. Admittedly a lot of that is kid's shows...
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by colomon 13y ago
Huh. I'm quite fond of my Galaxy S3, but I've got to admit that latency is often an issue for me. Perhaps it depends on what apps you've got going in the background?
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by colomon 13y ago
They seem to do well on HN too...
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by colomon 13y ago
Thank you, because I was just imagining painting the bottom of the ship to look like the top, to confuse subs into thinking it had capsized or something.
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by colomon 13y ago
Well, true, no, I would always have loved to have a few more sets. :) But I don't remember it ever being that big a deal; certainly when I had money, I rarely (if ever) spent it on Lego sets. On the other hand, it verges on all-consu
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by colomon 13y ago
I dunno, my five-year-old son has no problem what-so-ever re-purposing those specific elements to be whatever he wants in completely different contexts. If anything, all the newer pieces seem to make Legos much more flexible than they were
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by colomon 13y ago
That's a terrible way to run an RPG, IMO. But it would be an even worse way to write a movie. Give up 3,000+ years of learning about story in exchange for a bunch of random crap. "Yeah, the lead died from a burst appendix just
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by colomon 13y ago
Well, for one thing it uses slang which is probably only vaguely recognizable to the majority of the non-American English-speaking world. And for another thing, it relies on a fact which I (starter on the (American) football team for five
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by colomon 13y ago
But probably mostly not from the bottom quintile, which means this doesn't show up much in income mobility discussions.
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by colomon 13y ago
I tried to do a book report on The Three Musketeers in high school, only to discover the local library had discarded its only copy because no one had checked it out in years. (This was a few years before Amazon and Project Gutenburg, with
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by colomon 13y ago
I almost feel like we should come up with a "How the hell would you test this?" challenge for TDD advocates. At least, my impression is it is mostly naïveté rather than snake oil.
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by colomon 13y ago
I kind of wish I had the time to actually do it right now and see how it works. But here's how I imagine it going: 1) Establish tests for the is-in-set function. You're absolutely right that the most obvious way to do this meani
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by colomon 13y ago
I think I mostly agree with your larger point, but I'm not in love with your examples. The Mandelbrot set does consist of readily verifiable discrete data points, after all. I don't have any problem imagining myself developing
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by colomon 13y ago
Well, I've got to be able to use git on Windows, Mac, and Linux, the last two possibly over SSH. Is there a GUI that would work well in all those environments? Someone just mentioned tig, which might be able to do the job, but I have
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by colomon 13y ago
I was all prepared to be cynical about this, but their big genre diagram both included our household's favorite obscure genre ("nl folk", ie Newfoundland folk) and started off playing a track which was clearly in the genre bu
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by colomon 13y ago
When my university's football team plays a home game, there are usually 110,000 people in attendance. The streak of 100,000+ people for each home game goes back to 1975.
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by colomon 13y ago
The C64 was very clearly Commodore's attempt to use its technology to make an Apple II-style home computer. Oh! I just checked on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_PET#Origins_and_the_e... and here's so
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by colomon 13y ago
I was a C64 kid all the way, but the Apple II was released four or five years earlier than the C64. It very definitely blazed the way for the C64, and arguably deserves the place of honor in the list; I don't think the C64 would hav
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by colomon 13y ago
Sorry, no, that number was completely pulled out of my ass as a slightly more interesting way of saying that failed attempts to use that phrase are distressingly common. "Peaked my interest" and "peeked my interest" both
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by colomon 13y ago
"I speak and (perhaps) write good English because he piqued my interest and taught me to strive because I can always get better." You used "piqued" correctly, that already puts you beyond probably 80% of native-born Engl
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by colomon 13y ago
I believe I remember seeing one of the LCS in the Great Lakes a few years back? It was some weird Navy ship, anyway. Historically, this blew my mind when I learned about it a few years back: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
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by colomon 13y ago
As I understand it, he needed the compression to make the code work at all in the available memory. Since this is a source code distribution, presumably it will be pretty easy to fix in thirty years if the code is still being used. (Presu
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by colomon 13y ago
The one that breaks me is the Clock application on my Android phone is using 20.29 MB of the phone's memory at the moment. What could it possibly be doing to justify that?
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by colomon 13y ago
I do most of my $work programming in C++. (Not out of any great love for the language, mind you.) To give a somewhat extreme example of the sort of stuff I do -- one of my current projects is to try to create a first-class fillet surface t

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