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by daxelrod 15y ago
In the US, at least, it's largely a matter of incentives. By law, consumers are liable for at most $50 if their credit card info is used fraudulently by someone else. Credit card companies validate transactions against statistical models in
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by daxelrod 16y ago
Whoops; for the record, "file" is not written by GNU. It was originally written by Ian Darwin and is currently maintained by Christos Zoulas, see http://www.darwinsys.com/file/
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by daxelrod 16y ago
Here's what I did: First, get the latest version of Xcode that's compatible with your OS. You can find older versions of Xcode by clicking on "Developer Tools" on the right side of this page: http://connect.apple.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/Mem
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by daxelrod 16y ago
I hope I'm not veering too far offtopic, but I've gotten the Homebrew PPC fork working, what problem are you having?
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by daxelrod 16y ago
I'm undecided whether I agree with your thesis, but I definitely disagree with much of your evidence. RSS was primarily a nerd feature in the first place Why is the concept of a bookmark that can tell you when it has updates a nerd featur
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by daxelrod 16y ago
What a fantastic idea! I would love to know more about the discussions you had with miyagawa, and how the design for this evolved. Anything this elegant must have taken a ton of iterations. Oh, and may I have an invite, please?
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by daxelrod 16y ago
I understand that talloc adds complexity, but what large project with multiple collaborators does not already have some memory management policy? C forces you to explicitly communicate who is responsible for allocating and freeing each piec
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by daxelrod 16y ago
This is actually a bit confusing. My guess is that talloc changed its license at some point. The ccan version http://ccan.ozlabs.org/info/talloc.html says it is based upon svn://svnanon.samba.org/samba/branches/SAMBA_4_0/source/lib/talloc
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by daxelrod 16y ago
I don't understand why talloc preclues a different malloc/free implementation. According to the article, talloc is a malloc wrapper. If that's the case, why shouldn't you be able to drop in whatever allocator you want? talloc should still u
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by daxelrod 16y ago
When you find it, could you please confirm whether or not it is peer-reviewed?
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by daxelrod 16y ago
If a developer's reaction to a client-facing defect is "QA didn't catch it", you have cultural problems that firing a QA team probably won't fix. If you don't have a culture of personal responsibility, a finger can always be pointed elsewhe
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by daxelrod 16y ago
Yes. Here's how to set a separate sudo password: Assume your primary user account is called "user". Set up a second account, whose password you want to be your sudo password. Let's call this account "admin". In /etc/sudoers: Defaults:us
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by daxelrod 16y ago
The URL redirects through a doubleclick domain. That's why it's broken for you.
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by daxelrod 16y ago
What do cable providers have anything to do with this? He built his own antenna to receive local channels that are broadcast over the air. These are broadcast specifically so that people with antennas can receive them.
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by daxelrod 16y ago
The permalink for this is http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Christopher_M...
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by daxelrod 16y ago
Latin has that structure. Take a look at Lingua::Romana::Perligata, a Perl module that gives Perl a latin-style grammar: http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Lingua::Romana::Perligata Damian Conway, its author, wrote a paper about it as well:
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by daxelrod 16y ago
The above exactly the kind of exercise we were assigned in my high school's intro CS course. The course was taught by a math teacher. BUT: The school waited until a month before the semester started to tell the math teacher that she'd be te
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by daxelrod 16y ago
I first saw this on Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/fje57 and thought it deserved HN's quality of discussion. The original link is actually http://www.feedbag.com/re/re172_master.html but is much harder to read and
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Larry Wall on religion and Perl culture (1999)(techgnosis.com)
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by daxelrod 16y ago
Wow, thanks so much! BTW, The URL should be http://bit.ly/keynotopia
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by daxelrod 16y ago
The problem is that the meaningful part of the URL is only sent to the server via JavaScript. Your browser doesn't normally send the fragment (the part after the #) when you access a page. That means there's no fallback for when the JavaScr
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by daxelrod 16y ago
I have a clock from one of my former employers that's imprinted with "We survived the 2007 DST change!" The clock is broken.
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by daxelrod 16y ago
I can't stand when people try to collaborate on some document via a huge thread where everyone attaches their own version to their message. Woe be it to the poor soul responsible for merging 5 peoples' parallel edits. We have source control
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by daxelrod 16y ago
In organizations where top-posting is the norm, this also makes it easier for the other person to identify which question they're answering.
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by daxelrod 16y ago
Does gmail not use the In-Reply-To or References headers? Or is its use of them just brittle? (While googling for the names of these headers, I came across http://www.jwz.org/doc/threading.html , which is an excellent guide to the difficu
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by daxelrod 16y ago
Some photographers with more enlightened business models will do a shoot and then give you an agreed-upon subset of the images (2 or 3) with copyright transfer. If you want the others at some point, you can pay an additional fee. This way,
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by daxelrod 16y ago
Assuming you're sjuxax, thank you for the research! I think a lot of us sometimes forget how simple it is to go to the primary sources in cases like this.
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by daxelrod 16y ago
I love that the Cafepress logo on the page 404s.
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by daxelrod 16y ago
Those are Unix manpage section numbers. fseek(3) means fseek in section 3 of the manpages. This can help to differentiate between a command line program and C function of the same name, for example. See http://www.december.com/unix/ref/man
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by daxelrod 16y ago
There are other basic protections built in to attempt to prevent turning on a dime in a bad direction, as decided by the legislative and executive branches. Since the Court has no enforcement powers of their own, an unpopular turn away from

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