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by cooper12 11y ago
A bit late but I took the April 7,2012 version [0] of the page and the recent version [1] from the internet archive and made a diff [2] using `wdiff` after converting the html to text and cleaning up the pages a bit. The diff doesn't l
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by cooper12 11y ago
Well "fork over" comes from the system call fork() which creates a new process. "Shell out" as explained by the author means to run an external shell command, which has been implemented in some languages by forking a she
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by cooper12 11y ago
And some people might see that as a disadvantage, but personally I think it's a good thing that shelling out requires some setup (using `shlex` to parse a command string into an escaped list for example) and using a library rather than
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by cooper12 12y ago
Slightly off topic but: I actually did bail out when I saw the math warning. I had enough of math and infinities in college and just am not curious right now. Still, I think it's very interesting how he tailored his blog post to two au
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by cooper12 12y ago
I'm sure you all know the phrase "with enough eyes, all bugs are shallow". The same could be applied to Wikipedia and helps explain how the author slipped through: People only contribute to things that are in their sight. The
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by cooper12 12y ago
Why don't we just pass around the IP address for cases like these? All it would take is a pastebin link with simple instructions to copy and paste the IP in. While yeah, most people will be scared by a big string of numbers at first, i
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by cooper12 12y ago
Yes, I'm not disagreeing that we're making huge progress. My main argument was that it's only going to advance up to a certain point. For one thing, computing power is reaching it's limits. Many consider Moore's law
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by cooper12 12y ago
I think people are looking at this too drastically. Machines can only replace humans up to a certain point. They're ideal for easily quantifiable and scripted tasks, but past that there needs to be human contact and judgement involved.
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by cooper12 12y ago
Ah, I see. Thanks for the explanation. That does make sense. And of course. I was just digressing. Your original point still stands.
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by cooper12 12y ago
Off-topic: Strangely enough, it reported the same size for the MP4, but downloading it [0] shows that it's 1.1 MB. Inspecting it with `mediainfo` shows that it was encoded with the Baseline Profile, so that might explain the counterint
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by cooper12 12y ago
I think this is actually a mixed issue; reuse/remixing of content is essential to culture, especially an internet one. However, the attribution issue is a huge issue in its own right, and IMO a cultural one. Would we care if someone st
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by cooper12 12y ago
Please don't stereotype groups of people, regardless of how consistent your observations of them have been. It's pretty damning to a group to automatically assign them to autism or asperger's syndrome, both of which are medic
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by cooper12 12y ago
The interesting part about Watchmen is that DC duped Moore out of the rights to the comics (and later made some pretty bad prequel comics), which deteriorated their relationship. You still hear him talk about it in interviews today. If I&#x
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by cooper12 12y ago
While more open discussion on the often taboo and reduced to euphemisms topic of death definitely needs to happen, I'm not sure that your attitude is the most sensitive to the matter. I think it's a bit haughty to tell people they
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by cooper12 12y ago
Hmm I didn't think about that. I guess that's a genuine option for popular applications. Personally, for some unpopular applications I've tried to compile, I just gave up if the standard `./configure && make` did
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by cooper12 12y ago
You underestimate the difficulty of compiling from source for the layman. OSX and Windows do not come with compilers out of the box. The user would have to install them and the proper environment for them first. (cygwin, etc...) Then they&#
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by cooper12 12y ago
I'm sorry but I find these arguments to be a load of bull. Why are we using behavior as an argument against wearing helmets? >making people wear helmets will make less people bike Why not increase bike advocacy instead? Participatio
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by cooper12 12y ago
> why are we not advocating for people being mandated to wear them while in an automobile as well as on bicycles. While I don't know how effective they are, cars already have a safety system: airbags. Cars are also built to rigorous
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by cooper12 12y ago
I don't think it would be possible to use curl for mega because it has to locally decrypt the stream first. I do remember using a (now deprecated) python library that wrapped the mega api [0] a while ago, so that might interest you if
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by cooper12 12y ago
What always bugged me is that curl doesn't follow redirects by default. Instead you have to pass it the -L option. curl always made more sense to me as a programmer's tool. It seems to be made for those who want a tool that you ha
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by cooper12 12y ago
wget won't overwrite files by default. Instead it will append .1 to the filename and so forth. You'd have to use the -c/--continue option.
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by cooper12 12y ago
I think that was a joke. Judging from the rearview mirror video, the venue was pretty small. The event was also hosted by a graduate program at NYU, which in it's inception only had 20 members. While I'm sure NYC has a spare 100,0
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by cooper12 12y ago
These are intentionally useless ;).
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by cooper12 12y ago
They also let users take their data out of their services and have been making good strides in that regard with Google takeout.
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by cooper12 12y ago
Just because it doesn't look like what you'd expect a game to look like, doesn't mean it's bad. It has clearly defined shapes, a consistent design, and flat colors (as opposed to ugly textures IMO). I think it looks wond
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by cooper12 12y ago
Why? Why not just let this be an educational and fun game? Why ruin the spirit of it by turning it into an opportunity for something to exploit (yes, I know, that word has very negative connotations) for profit?
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by cooper12 12y ago
Wow that sure would be insidious and hard to notice. I guess at the end of the day it comes down to whether you trust the site enough and what they could stand to gain from it.
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by cooper12 12y ago
While it's true that they might have the incentive to do this because of affiliate fees, they'd need access to the particular site's price-steering specifics, which I doubt they'd give out due to competitive reasons. (Fo
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by cooper12 12y ago
It's also strange that he didn't use scraping since he knew it in the first place (Although I acknowledge that for some people time saved > money) and had to use it later anyway.
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by cooper12 12y ago
That sounds as if it would be better suited for a graphic, or at least an overlay of a graphic.

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