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by dedward 16y ago
Yup - standard fare for Europe for a long time now... a totally foreign concept in north america. It'e sasier for operators to not have to deal with contracts and billing and just deal with self-service through supermarkets and hole-in-the-
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by dedward 16y ago
Probably not... using the iPhone as a wifi AP is going to drain the battery even faster, and one would imagine there are a lot of people who want an ipad but not an iphone.
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by dedward 16y ago
And conversely, it would take us the amount of energy sufficient to power a toyota prius for an entire century to create a grain of anti-sand, and we'd have to dump enough power to run 100 homes for a year to create a piece the size of an a
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by dedward 16y ago
So.. let the consumer decide, no? The people were free to publish applications anyway. The good ones will rise to the top, the bad ones will fail.
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by dedward 16y ago
I've always found the mac software space to automatically weed out bad UI. The userbase is used to certain behaviours (as generally described in the UI guidelines from apple)- and apps that don't follow that tend to not gain much traction.
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by dedward 16y ago
Neat if you don't know the unix shell and you do know the ruby shell and I guess you work in a strictly ruby environment... but doesn't really make things easier, and many tasks may suffer performance wise when it comes to text processing c
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by dedward 16y ago
Depends on the language, interpreter, vm, processor, and compiler and their relevant individual optimization settings.
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by dedward 16y ago
A lot of people still prefer work with revision control tools from a standard unix command line.... in an 80x25-ish window.....especially when it comes to debugging and investigating things (so we can use all our other nice shell text proce
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by dedward 16y ago
I'm a bit skeptical of the facts - but there's nothing really hard about this - this could easily be built and do exactly what it claims to do.
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by dedward 16y ago
It crosses some layer boundaries too.... having to manually edit (or I guess dynamically generate) wsdl files so that we can add a reverse proxy or load balancer in front of a webservice machine to access it several different ways in .net w
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by dedward 16y ago
I'd never want to go back to 4:3 - but I do miss the higher DPI we had, what, a decade ago ? My 15" 4:3 1600x1200 toshiba was awesome. Give me a modern widescreen laptop with the same (or given it's been a decade, how about even higher) D
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by dedward 16y ago
Interesting - but reading this, this is when you open up a local .swf file - not one loaded over the internet - it would have to be downloaded and then re-opened. The same could be said of any software you download and run - most have even
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by dedward 16y ago
One should normally be careful of any freely available service - they owe you nothing. If you really want to partner with twitter for a cool app, approach them about signing an official agreement or something, no?
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by dedward 16y ago
Looking at some mailserver spam filtering log.... spam levels have dramatically dropped, but they also dramatically rose before that. At this point what I'm looking at is only slightly lower than things were in early december.
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by dedward 16y ago
0mq is a library to make network programming easier, not a new protocol itself. UDP is being used because this is based on setting up a DHT which requires small messages that may or may not get through by nature to begin with - not bulk dat
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by dedward 16y ago
I used to run my own mailservers, but due to lack of time and the wonderfulness of Google Apps, and let google handle my email. So I use my domain, but I use Google on the technical side.
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by dedward 16y ago
raid-1 may or may not get you double read speeds - it depends on how things are set up. ARe you sure the OSX implementation will take advantage of this?
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by dedward 16y ago
Interesting - I've read that the common pronunciation where we use "Ye" pronounced as "Yee" is a mistake - it was always pronounced "The" It's a vestige of how the Thorne transformed over the years - eventually it looked very similar a Y wi
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by dedward 16y ago
The long-s was used in the middle or the beginning of a word. It was not used as the last letter of a word - the last letter would be a standard/short/miniscule s. Per a wikipedia example - ſinfulneſs ("sinfulness")
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by dedward 16y ago
In 2150, roughly 139 years from now, assuming a major release every 2 years, we should be on emacs 93 or therabouts. As long as we still use text entry for programming, we'll still be using emacs.... it will keep up with the times.
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by dedward 16y ago
Not sure I follow.... the fast-write space in a non-TRIM device with GC is just some "extra" blocks (or whatever) that are kept aside and now and then swapped out for other in-use blocks (as far as the drive firmware is concerned - the OS h
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by dedward 16y ago
Curious - how does background GC eliminate the need for TRIM? I know it can use a set of unallocated blocks and clean them and swap them in and out where necessary - but without knowledge of the filesystem structure itself (TRIM) - it's alw
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by dedward 16y ago
An MRI maybe - but a digitized X-ray is much, much higher than that.
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by dedward 16y ago
It helps to keep clear the distinction to "contributing to someone's open source project" and "writing code for an open source project". The code might be open/free, but the maintainer of a given instance/repo is ultimately in charge of at
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by dedward 16y ago
Answer: Re-evaluate what the meaning of "yours" is. This should be obvious to anyone. Once you start selling off ownership of your company to others, it's not just "yours" anymore.
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by dedward 16y ago
Always seemed to be to be a bad practice from a security point of view - you are putting the security of your site in the hands of whoever is hosting the .js This also applies when .js is dynamically included as a type of API call to embed
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by dedward 16y ago
"* Fear of failure is a great motivator. When you quit without having another opportunity already lined up, you have a lot of obvious motivation to find a new job since your income is $0. I've found it easier than lulling myself into compla
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by dedward 16y ago
Find your current bottleneck. Go to static content wherever you can and get it replicated out and hosted somewhere. consider something like HAProxy (well.. haproxy!) in the stack out front to control concurrency to resources that are bottl
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by dedward 16y ago
You have a good point- the point of a contract, and all that legalese, isn't suposed to create a playground where both parties can fight it out, it's supposed to spell out the intentions of both parties as verbosely as possible so everyone
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by dedward 16y ago
not click fraud, but a violation of the TOS of adsense.

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