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by dfranke 18y ago
The "it's got what admins crave" line makes me pretty sure it's intended to be silly.
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by dfranke 18y ago
I wonder if the server runs Debian.
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by dfranke 18y ago
Administrative fiat, I assume. IIRC all courses that offered Gordon Rule credit were part of the statewide curriculum, not invented by an individual professor. In fact, for that reason I had to double-check my schedule to make sure I was
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by dfranke 18y ago
No one is getting flunked for writing 5,999 words. I graduated from the University of Florida. YMMV, but my instructors in Gordon Rule courses were quite diligent/paranoid about making sure students met the word quota. I never heard of
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by dfranke 18y ago
B-trees are basically the only sane option if you ever need to do range queries. Hash tables tend to outperform them a bit on all other operations.
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by dfranke 18y ago
I routinely submitted works less than 80% of the required length and still received A grades. Most instructors are reasonable enough to know that high quality work does not need to meet arbitrary constraints. That works great in cases whe
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by dfranke 18y ago
Hash tables can be used on disk as well.
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by dfranke 18y ago
and if you don't think they're tolerant enough, there's always http://www.themonastery.org/
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by dfranke 18y ago
So why should he be recognized as some "expert"? He doesn't have to be. The argument stands on its own: you can define "God" to be whatever you want, but the definition that you advance approaches tautology.
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by dfranke 18y ago
What's the purpose of 'enter'? You have 00001010 for that.
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by dfranke 18y ago
All Sagan's books touch the nerve-endings of transcendent wonder that religion monopolized in past centuries. My own books have the same aspiration. Consequently I hear myself often described as a deeply religious man. An American student
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by dfranke 18y ago
> It might make sense to think that many such geeks simply find something as simple as a creator an overly simplistic explanation for something so elegant. "Overly simplistic" is nearly the opposite of the problem. We want our first
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by dfranke 18y ago
I think the idea is to discourage using self-posts to preface links with your own commentary rather than just posting a direct link.
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by dfranke 18y ago
I'm calling bollocks on this. It doesn't make any sense that they'd intentionally generate bad instructions rather than erroring out at compile time, and one unsubstantiated claim on a third-party mailing list doesn't make it true.
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by dfranke 18y ago
Looks like PG is right about the mean downmodding.
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by dfranke 18y ago
UIUC is a good suggestion. Undergrad admissions are not especially competitive, but their graduate CS department is one of the top 10 in the country, and that's bound to rub off on motivated undergrads.
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by dfranke 18y ago
And me as well.
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by dfranke 18y ago
RTM, of course: http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=rtm And though it'd be a stretch to call them notable, people I at least heard of before they came here: Colin Perciva (FreeBSD security officer; Putnam winner): http://news.ycombina
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by dfranke 18y ago
It's Mike.
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by dfranke 18y ago
I already posted this in the thread for the first article about this, but since it was already off the front page: none of the Linux distributions have released fixes for this yet, so I rolled my own for etch. http://dfranke.us/rubyfix.tx
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by dfranke 18y ago
Here's a fix for etch, since the security team hasn't released an advisory yet: http://dfranke.us/rubyfix.txt
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by dfranke 18y ago
No, not even close. SPF is not a spam prevention measure. It's just a way of protecting innocent senders from being impersonated by spammers. DKIM does a better job at the same purpose.
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by dfranke 18y ago
I clicked that link expecting it to be http://xkcd.com/435/ , picturing an EE making a similar rant.
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by dfranke 18y ago
My usual response to concerns about competitors is "then we shall hack in the shade".
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by dfranke 18y ago
Agreed. It really worries me that even this crowd by-and-large doesn't have enough of an attention span to cope with Yegge. Does anyone read books any more?
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by dfranke 18y ago
There doesn't seem to have been anything in this meteorite that the Miller-Urey experiement didn't cook up over the space of a couple weeks. So while it's interesting that these chemicals can form in space, I don't think it tells us anythi
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by dfranke 18y ago
Dupe: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=217889
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by dfranke 18y ago
Upmod: "Likely to remember reading this tomorrow" Downmod: Incoherency, trolling, ad hominems, and spam. Also anything factually inaccurate, but only if it is currently +1 or higher.
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by dfranke 18y ago
news.yc is not just a news aggregator. It's also a community, one which is populated by people whose opinions I value more than those on general news aggregators. I might not be reading about Tim Russert's death for the first time, but I m
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by dfranke 18y ago
I don't have a problem with this one. It's mainstream news, but it's mainstream news that's actually relevant to people, as opposed to, say, celebrity gossip. It has no special relevance to hackers, but it's still just as relevant to us a

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