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by cpr 13y ago
Simplest method (what we do) is to set up OpenDNS Home ( http://www.opendns.com/home-solutions/parental-controls/ ) as your home router's DNS server, which should then propagate to all your machines. It only b
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by cpr 13y ago
Except that elections ultimately don't change the cast of characters that matter, who are either the elites pushing things to their own benefit, or the useful idiots in place as civil servants or military. Elections are all a distracti
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by cpr 13y ago
The WaPo is just a prominent member of what Joe Sobran so elegantly called "the Hive"--people who all think pretty much alike ("enlightened liberalism", in their own minds), know only other members of the Hive, and only
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by cpr 13y ago
Right, forgot to say that: you'd cache the results (like Rosetta translation on the PowerPC or the DEC VAX-to-Alpha binary recompilation) so you'd only take the translation hit once.
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by cpr 13y ago
As someone who worked on operating systems back at Multiflow (late 80's, the first VLIW start-up as a spin-off from Yale research), it struck me recently that something like an LLVM representation of binary code might solve the "c
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by cpr 13y ago
The section on PostScript for printers is quite dated--most printer drivers now rely (at least in the Mac OS world) on the OS's PDF-style rendering, and just ship bits to the printer. PostScript itself (vs PDF) is pretty much a dead le
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by cpr 13y ago
Even the name "Homeland Security" is an abomination. A "homeland" implies some kind of empire where there's a homeland, vs. outlands. The US should not be an empire (as it is today). It needs to return to being a si
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by cpr 13y ago
Don't forget Dave Clark, who at MIT, and is the chief architect of TCP itself.
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The Kook who Knew Too Much(spectator.org)
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by cpr 13y ago
tl;dr: They had a well-known workaround for the known bug involving block variables [apparently not well-enough], so they were focusing on other things. As of right now, they're going drop everything and fix it in RM 2.4.
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by cpr 13y ago
It's probably a coincidence, since they'd have to have started the redesign a while back, but I wonder if we'll start seeing a bunch of "super-sparse" design now that iOS7 is out.
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by cpr 13y ago
The Master of Hestviken , by Sigrid Unset (long forgotten, but she was a Pulitzer-winning author in the 1930's), is probably the best novel I've ever read.
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by cpr 13y ago
Apple made it clear a few years back that any language that compiles to "normal" binaries is fine, after (at first) being completely restrictive about the tools you could use. Their major remaining rule is that you can't build environments
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by cpr 14y ago
As much as I loathe Larry Summers' economics (he's a Goldman grad, after all), I have to defend him against the casual slur implied above. He didn't "make controversial statements about women," he simply asked a question about a fact, which
765.
by cpr 14y ago
Interesting. Looks like they took Clang's excellent error reporting to heart.
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by cpr 14y ago
(Jeremy, are you still working for the NYT and free-lancing, or has your wanderlust finally made you take off for good?) Looks like a great idea. Maybe you could require projects first convert to Literate CoffeeScript to make your job easie
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by cpr 14y ago
Being an Obj-C fan, I'd love to use Ruby, but I just can't stand the hybrid message-passing notation. It's a necessary compromise to fit into Ruby's syntax, perhaps, but why not just go all the way (since it's otherwise not backwards compat
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by cpr 14y ago
Sure, as long as you remember to use EDITOR=emacs visudo ;-)
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by cpr 14y ago
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5167367/how-can-i-make-gi...
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by cpr 14y ago
It's pretty horrible typographically and visually to combine paragraph indentation with extra space-above. Use one or the other. (Personally, I prefer indentation, which also saves vertical space.)
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by cpr 14y ago
Yes, I remember some backhoe incidents, perhaps the same ones. ;-) Funny, IP at the time seemed very clunky and verbose to those of us used to the concision of WANs like the pre-IP ARPAnet host-to-host protocols, and I remember the massive
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by cpr 14y ago
MIT did use it for some years before commercial Ethernet eventually displaced CHAOSnet (I was gone by then), but, yeah, it was a constant struggle to keep it working reliably. People would work in the cable spaces and ding or crimp the coax
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by cpr 14y ago
Boy, I remember the days of thick coax, pre-commercial Ethernet and Ethernet workalikes. For the MIT AI Lab, LCS and EECS departments, we strung the fat coax all the over the campus for CHAOSnet (home-grown MIT equivalent used to connect th
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by cpr 14y ago
I've heard these rumblings for quite a while--haven't done anything with iCloud support myself--, and, yes, we need some details of what's not working. Or maybe the article's implying no one really knows?
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by cpr 14y ago
One of my favorite sayings is "Don't compare the inside of your life to the outside of someone else's life." When people ask me how I am, I usually say "Oh, failing and flailing in all directions. How about you?" I find that disarms people,
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by cpr 14y ago
Yes, the first well in our area (the nationally-known Buell well in the Scio area, about 2 miles from our place) has produced some of the most amazing figures for oil plus wet gas ever seen. Other early wells are also turning in highly enco
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by cpr 14y ago
Generally, there are set-back limits to how close to existing building they're allowed to drill, in your mineral rights lease. We just signed one last year with 750' setback. Luckily, it looks like they're going to drill on some adjacent la
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by cpr 14y ago
Interesting--what part of Ohio? We have some farm land in the Scio area, which is just getting started on the shale gas boom. We had no idea when we bought it 14 years ago what was going to happen...
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by cpr 14y ago
He misses the most obvious problem of all, which is that you can't clean easily in the corners of many sharp-edged flat sinks.
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by cpr 14y ago
The author is overlooking the point that, even with all the military might of the US, if it truly becomes tyrannical and rolls into parts of the country it deems "rebellious," there's a lot of firepower out there (ca. 300M guns) to overcome

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