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by dbpatterson 13y ago
And be _insanely_ slow (not just the normal, python is slow comment - there are fast web servers in python; SimpleHTTPServer is not).
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by dbpatterson 13y ago
Unless you really know what you're doing, just use a relational database. Opinions differ, but Postgresql is a pretty safe bet.
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by dbpatterson 13y ago
But that's exactly what the author is advocating - exploring the process that the teenager came up with! There was no mention of quicksort, mergesort, bubblesort, etc - just that once you start trying to understand how to do something
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by dbpatterson 13y ago
I know funny comments are frowned upon, and comments about funny comments are even more frowned upon, but this made me laugh - perhaps because it is such a ridiculous but apt description. Bravo!
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by dbpatterson 13y ago
What's funny about this discussion is that many states in the US have laws for this very purpose - known as Adverse Possession. If you occupy a piece of land unchallenged for a period of time (often long, like 10+ years), it becomes yo
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by dbpatterson 13y ago
Not sure if I agree with OP, but this language/framework makes most common web vulnerabilities impossible: http://impredicative.com/ur/
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by dbpatterson 13y ago
Seems possible. When you type in your address, it sends a request to https://mail.google.com/mail?gxlu=YOUREMAIL&zx=TIMESTAMP The response is empty, at least in my browser, so unless that is only true sometimes, the onl
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by dbpatterson 13y ago
Funny, the US seems perfectly willing to ignore the UN when it wants to (for example, environmental agreements). Not sure why this would necessarily be any different.
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by dbpatterson 13y ago
I would be fine with them keeping the touch screen (so they don't need a physical keyboard, navigation buttons, etc), but I can't for the life of me figure out why they removed the page turning buttons. This feels like a basic UI
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by dbpatterson 13y ago
Errm. How do you get everyone to start using a different email address in 3 minutes? This has been their brilliant (and awful - I don't use gmail, and _hate_ this) move - to get people to use an address@gmail.com, so there is no way yo
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by dbpatterson 13y ago
That's correct. There is a preferred indentation (enforced by the emacs mode and our online editor built on CodeMirror), but whitespace is only needed to separate things - the actual amount of whitespace never matters. So, for example,
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by dbpatterson 13y ago
That's correct - 173 is definitely not an intro course. But, we also are teaching an intro course with it: http://cs.brown.edu/courses/csci0190/2013/software.html
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by dbpatterson 13y ago
Err... because Google's spam filter is letting the message in? Seriously, it is a spam message, delivered to Google, and Google put it in the inbox instead of the spam filter. I don't know how much more clear cut it could be.
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by dbpatterson 13y ago
And of course... https://github.com/magnars/multiple-cursors.el for emacs folks (I use it every day...)
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by dbpatterson 13y ago
Probably because programming languages require a precision that natural languages do not have, so you end up having english words that only mean a certain form of their meaning, and completely broken grammar (and/or near impossible to
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by dbpatterson 13y ago
It only makes sense if you were going to (hypothetically) do something with the pesos. Let's say you bought 100 pesos worth of bananas when you hopped in the cab. Then, when you got out, before you paid, you sold the bananas. Because o
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by dbpatterson 13y ago
Universal health care has _nothing_ to do with treating all people alike. It just means treating them all.
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by dbpatterson 13y ago
The best notebooks I've found yet I stumbled upon in stationary stores in Greece. They are A5, 50 sheets, with flexible covers and small grids. And cost ~1.5 euro each (I bought 10 of them). They are school notebooks, similar to the co
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by dbpatterson 13y ago
If you use any decent known hashing algorithm, the probability of collision is astronomically small.
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by dbpatterson 13y ago
Browsers just need to actually get on the security bandwagon and build support for public key crypotagraphy into an api. Then you could generate keys, export them to back them up / use them on different machines, and these solutions wo
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by dbpatterson 13y ago
I think if you'd had that before, I never would have left (and I think many other people would be happy with that).
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by dbpatterson 13y ago
Debian decided to use exim4 by default, so I figured that it would be better supported / documented. Which for the most part was true. There is no reason why postfix+dovecot couldn't work equally well - I was familiar with none, s
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by dbpatterson 13y ago
OP here. Fastmail had 4 out of my required 5 features. I used it for a while. I'm still a paying customer (I paid for a bunch of years). Tags were a deal breaker. It's just not sufficient for how I want to organize things.
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by dbpatterson 13y ago
Having a low GPA does not indicate that the person spends their time "frittering away on self entertainment via music or finger painting" - it might mean that they don't waste their time on things that aren't valuable, and focus intensely o
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by dbpatterson 13y ago
Some wilderness rescue services have an interesting take on it. If what you were doing was really stupid (like, hiking up and skiing a mountain in the middle of the night, during a storm), they bill you, but if you really just got screwed (
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by dbpatterson 13y ago
Not being able to upload 10GB in months is a pretty slow residential cable connection. So presumably find somewhere with a faster one (like an internet cafe, library, etc). It shouldn't be hard to find a place with a free connection that'll
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by dbpatterson 13y ago
The parent was saying that the onion address could be changed. Did you even read what they wrote? [edit] because the original poster deleted their post, it said something like: that's pointless, because tor ensures that communication is sec
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by dbpatterson 13y ago
It's also a bald-faced lie. If it removes the content, then there is no way for it to come back.
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by dbpatterson 14y ago
and certainly not for "terrorism"

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