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by dexen 15y ago
Somebody did from the IP address you seem to be using. Either you are behind a masquerading NAT, or perhaps your ISP rotates IP addresses and somebody else was using your address the other day, or just maybe your WiFi router isn't as secure
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by dexen 15y ago
Your OS does the equivalent of ob_start() on packet network sockets by default. See SO_SNDBUF, TCP_CORK, and TCP_NODELAY option to setsockopt(). If data sent over packet network wasn't bufferend, most of the time partial frames would be sen
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by dexen 15y ago
Funny you should ask that. There's that popular templating framework that is really good at transforming a flat or tree-ish structure of arrays and objects into a flat string. Also has a nice textual persistence format which lets you mix XM
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Best practices of providing passwords to cronjob?
1 points by dexen 15y ago|2 comments
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by dexen 15y ago
The article establishes and uses a brand new metric: SAP's technology must be interesting for develpers because it costs exorbitant amount of money to hire anybody to work on it. SAP is interesting for investors because it pulls in massive
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by dexen 15y ago
Wait, what? According to his figures, SAP makes $1.18bn profit from $12.46bn revenue (about 10% profit margin); Facebook brings in $1bn profit from $4bn revenue (about 25% profit margin), yet SAP is somehow claimed /more/ interesting? By w
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by dexen 15y ago
Unlike most desktop apps, browsers interface user directly with the internet, and it is dangerous out there. For example, theres' case of stealing text from copy/paste buffer http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3314004
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Agnostic Carnivores and Global Warming: Why Enviros Go After Coal and Not Cows(freakonomics.com)
2 points by dexen 15y ago|0 comments
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by dexen 15y ago
How's passwords an unsolved problem for any power-user? There's a ton of password management software out there that does /not/ require you to copy-paste passwords around†. For me, kwallet & ssh public keys all the way. Kwallet makes p
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by dexen 15y ago
Technically doesn't prevent rm -rf /* itself, but still goes long way to prevent a disaster: use a snapshotting filesystem, like NILFS2 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NILFS Some solutions here center on avoiding issuing rm -rf /* interactiv
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by dexen 15y ago
I'm using Acme for web devel. Yields very well to scripting. Together with plumber and a few scripts, it provides pretty much a complete IDE. The ability to simply click on any text to 1) execute it or 2) search for it or 3) copy/paste/repl
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by dexen 15y ago
It may well be relevant -- if the women in question considered their negotiating posision weaker because of possible future maternity leave.
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Linux Mint signs a partnership with DuckDuckGo(blog.linuxmint.com)
137 points by dexen 15y ago|45 comments
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by dexen 15y ago
``If only 50,000 people buy the game then it’s not worth it.'' ``Perhaps it will only take 12 guys three months to port the game to PC'' well there's your problem. 12-peson team can release an entirely new game in three months. D
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by dexen 15y ago
Having explicit dependences on shared libraries in packages was taken straight from playbook of some Department of Redundancy Department. For any dynamically linked ELF binnary, the loader (/lib/ld.so or similar) notifies which libraries ar
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by dexen 15y ago
> On the other hand I cannot imagine reintroducing that concept of 'no limit' easily. Advisory signs suggesting speed for /typical/ car. Adjusted once in a while by local citizens as they know the local road conditions best. The drive
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by dexen 15y ago
The original article states clearly that indeed, law regulating cars had great influence -- but it was law regarding tailpipe emissions. The influence was indirect. > Fortunately for the whales, by the 1970s engines became subject to
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by dexen 15y ago
> Moreover, sure P. S. Landis "saved the whales", but he didn't do it to save the whales, he did it to generate an enormous amount of profit for Mobile Oil, and was paid for it handsomely. OP mentioned that with different intent: in c
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by dexen 15y ago
Let me reverse that question for you: Can you name an ecosystem (as in, natural system) that doesn't have similar flaws? A predator predates on its prey as long as feasible. When prey is overhunted, some of the predator population dies ou
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by dexen 15y ago
$ man bash | wc -l 5351 $ 9 man rc | wc -l 496 You may want to check out the `rc' shell from Plan 9 (carried over from latest UNICes). Simple, elegant. Available for linux via http://swtch.com/plan9port/ Manpage at http://s
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by dexen 15y ago
Tangentially related: the plumber program from UNIX R11^W^W Plan 9 makes programs work together by piping text around. http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/plumb Again, there is more value in the connections than in the individu
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by dexen 15y ago
> There will likely come a point where a touch or gesture interface will be able to tell if your hand or finger is quite literally -hovering- over a touch-enabled element, and will be able to give you context. A Synaptics touchpad can
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by dexen 15y ago
> ...but there's no logical equivalent [to hover] on a touchscreen. There isn't now, but there well could be. Suppose for a moment that you get a good old cursor on iPhone and it follows your fingertip as you move it around the scree
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by dexen 15y ago
That's why some distros roll packages with bugfix patches applied even before upstream maintainers include those in official releases. Even better, if a particular bug is a show-stopper at your organization, you can build fixed package and
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by dexen 15y ago
The article does not mention whether the bugs have been reported and rectified in subsequent releases, either. Since at least some of the bugs found are segfault/data-corruption/wrong-query-results level ones[†], one would assume they'd get
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by dexen 15y ago
The mandatory Google Cache link: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp%... ...cause the article is marked as `deleted' now :-(
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by dexen 15y ago
Some strongly disagree with the `successful' part: http://www.asymco.com/2011/02/11/in-memoriam-microsofts-prev...
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by dexen 15y ago
Pardon the (perhaps very silly) question, but... if you have enough RAM for the ramdisk, isn't that enough RAM to cache all the relevant files anyway? So the file open()/read() would not hit HDD itself time and time again; they'd be served
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by dexen 15y ago
Does that mean US court order got executed in UK, on UK citizen, just like that? Asking because I can't get any company information out of their site, nor from whois data to confirm if that's indeed UK company and/or individual.
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by dexen 15y ago
That's not the answer. DeusEx's question boils down to, ``why does the company claim to serve law-breakers (here: citizens breaking censorship), but as soon as law enforcement knocked on their doors, they gave all the info away''. Which is

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