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How Certificates Use Digital Signatures(commandlinefanatic.com)
1 points by dodders 12y ago|0 comments
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by dodders 12y ago
Unfortunately, for many applications in my industry, the problem is trying to fit a set of tables into an in-memory graph of objects (either because the data is more easily defined as a set of tables, or because it already exists as one).
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China has 8 cities with bigger bike share systems than all of America(vox.com)
8 points by dodders 12y ago|1 comments
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Bike lanes have sped up car traffic in New York City(vox.com)
139 points by dodders 12y ago|294 comments
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by dodders 12y ago
This article feels overly simplistic (look - bad bankers!) given that it doesn't mention securitization and the lax oversight of the ratings agencies, who should take a significant portion of the culpability.
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What are traffic waves and why do they happen so much? (2013)(blogs.kqed.org)
3 points by dodders 12y ago|0 comments
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Explaining functional programming to 8 year olds (2010)(prog21.dadgum.com)
1 points by dodders 12y ago|0 comments
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The NRA pissed off the wrong nerd genius(thedailybeast.com)
5 points by dodders 12y ago|0 comments
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A real-life Star Wars 3D holographic display that plays video games(extremetech.com)
2 points by dodders 12y ago|1 comments
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9 questions about the Israel-Palestine conflict(vox.com)
3 points by dodders 12y ago|0 comments
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by dodders 12y ago
Most of the developers I work with (including me) already work in this fashion - multiple windows open on the desktop showing (for example) code being edited (usually in an IDE); code open for reference (a 2nd copy of the IDE, or simply not
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by dodders 12y ago
Security, innit.
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by dodders 12y ago
Why does Sweetwater County, Wyoming, population 45k, need 60 assault rifles? Why does any rural police force need any assault rifles?
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by dodders 12y ago
Yes, plenty in NYC.
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by dodders 12y ago
The UK driving test is much more stringent than the NY state test (I can't comment on other states - I believe each state defines their own driving test). The NY test - 10 minutes in the car. I drove around the block; parallel parked,
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by dodders 12y ago
For a good insight into how city police are trained, I recommend reading Cop In The Hood by Peter Moskos. Peter joined the Baltimore Police and describes how they were taught to "own the situation", which in effect means respondin
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The Artist of the Unbreakable Code (2013)(nautil.us)
3 points by dodders 12y ago|0 comments
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When Hackers Fight (2013)(nautil.us)
3 points by dodders 12y ago|0 comments
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by dodders 12y ago
This made the internet for me today.
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by dodders 12y ago
In 2006, Gartner estimated there were still 180 billion lines of COBOL code running in production [1]. I don't believe a significant proportion will have been retired since. Languages never die - they just keep running... [1] http:&#x
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by dodders 12y ago
I worked on AS/400s for 10 years and still consider it the most productive environment I've ever used. Uptime was indeed legendary - our IBM rep told me he knew of an AS/400 running at another site that had been up for over 7
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by dodders 12y ago
Serious question: Why do you click on HN links if you don't have the time to read the article?
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by dodders 12y ago
In my professional life I have rarely (if ever?) seen a language chosen on the basis of it's syntax.
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by dodders 12y ago
Do I have to take this to the pub for my beer too?
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by dodders 12y ago
2 nations, separated by a common egg.
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by dodders 12y ago
No, they are not.
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by dodders 12y ago
I would be more likely to sign up if the site had links to previous newsletters so I could see what I was actually committing to.
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by dodders 12y ago
Any form of government intervention in the markets is out of line with pure capitalism, e.g. farm subsidies; import taxes; bailouts of the auto and finance industries; medicare; medicaid; social security... one could make an argument for Fa
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by dodders 12y ago
Stating that the US military has... "enabled that continent to break its historical cycle of bloodshed and live in relative peace the last half-century" is a huge oversimplification. Undoubtedly the US military is one, if not a m
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by dodders 12y ago
My day job used to involve coding in RPG which still enforced 80 column formatting as of the late 90s, where specific columns have specific meanings and are populated with indicators that represent types and instructions. This is a direct r

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