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by d4mi3n 13y ago
You're referring to Grandi's Number. Numberphile covered this pretty well on their youtube channel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCu_BNNI5x4
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by d4mi3n 13y ago
You mentioned OLTP. Erlang's Mnesia store comes to mind, but as far as I'm aware it's limited to a 4GB data set. I'm not sure if that qualifies as a main-memory db, but it might be similar.
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by d4mi3n 13y ago
Because those same people are unable to make enough money to feed themselves and their families working multiple part-time/full-time jobs paying these sorts of wages.
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by d4mi3n 13y ago
If you want to go deeper, DOTA was actually originally modeled after a custom game in Starcraft (the first one) called "Aeon of Strife". http://web.archive.org/web/20090624132302/http://www.gotf
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by d4mi3n 13y ago
This was actually a pretty decent read. The author lists a number of common use-cases for Github pull requests and how they can be used in practice.
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by d4mi3n 13y ago
Looking at the "street view", it seems they had some sort of robot on treads taking shots with a camera. Seems reminiscent of some of the mars rovers.
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by d4mi3n 13y ago
I would LOVE to see a detailed breakdown on how an experienced sysadmin would set something like this up. I've cobbled together systems before, but I've found that doing so in a robust way is difficult.
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by d4mi3n 13y ago
This mirrors my own experience with CAH and Apples to Apples: you make plays pm the judge(s) and the words!
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by d4mi3n 13y ago
Here's a fun one, reminds me of some abstract art I've seen: http://www.wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,3,1,0,0,2,3,2...
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Is Sad Music Actually Sad?(youtube.com)
2 points by d4mi3n 13y ago|0 comments
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Is A DOS Attack A Weapon?(youtube.com)
1 points by d4mi3n 13y ago|0 comments
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by d4mi3n 14y ago
If you already know ruby, have you considered using JRuby for this? I wouldn't besmirch anyone trying to pick up a new language, but I am curious to hear if there were any technical reasons for going with something else.
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by d4mi3n 14y ago
The project mentions that this was an intentional design decision. The graph's are written to a canvas element, which means a low memory footprint and the ability to save graphs as images. I believe they'd need to switch over to using SVG e
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by d4mi3n 14y ago
Also worth checking out is `display: box` and the plethora of flexbox related layout properties.
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by d4mi3n 14y ago
Having spent a good year at the 2012 batch at the 500 Startups office, I can safely say that the majority (>60%) of the guys I spoke with there were working off some sort of rails stack.
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by d4mi3n 14y ago
This is my first time hearing about Minix, and the new architecture seems interesting. Are there any other linux distributions that use something similar to Minix's micro-kernel approach, or is this a bit of an oddity?
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Tenderlove on Rails security exploits(tenderlovemaking.com)
20 points by d4mi3n 14y ago|3 comments
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by d4mi3n 14y ago
Generally, effective petitions need to do two things: 1. Put pressure on a specific person or group of people to make a specific change. 2. Bring attention of an issue to a larger audience (i.e.: the press, a congressmen's constituents, etc
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by d4mi3n 14y ago
Sure: making geometric shapes and masks. A varient of diagonal borders is currently used in http://nicolasgallagher.com/pure-css-speech-bubbles/demo/ The trick there is to use the CSS :after pseudo-element to get a triangular shape/mask,
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by d4mi3n 14y ago
Great idea. I meet so many engineers who never took a speech class or simply don't know how to effectively present an idea to a group of more than one or two people.
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by d4mi3n 14y ago
Excellent write up. I'd love to see more libraries outline their core design decisions like this!
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by d4mi3n 14y ago
They have a demo video on their getting started page: http://www.rubymotion.com/getting-started/
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by d4mi3n 14y ago
IIRC it was originally a shared web host. I think they also had a gimmicky lifetime subscription if you pre-paid for a year's worth of service.
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by d4mi3n 14y ago
I imagine the teamster's don't like the idea. Insurance companies and similar businesses may also have a bone to pick with the idea.
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by d4mi3n 14y ago
Our team has had a fair bit of success with a ruby library that generates API docs from our acceptance tests: https://github.com/zipmark/rspec_api_documentation