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by dpifke 17y ago
Previous iteration of this was discussed here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=360555
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Jacob Appelbaum & Donald Knuth Demonstrate The Recursive Homeboys Principle(laughingsquid.com)
8 points by dpifke 17y ago|1 comments
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by dpifke 17y ago
Equally or more valuable than trying and sit down to read the kernel source is to follow the patches and discussions thereof on the linux-kernel mailing list: http://lkml.org/ I've found that doing so a) improves my knowledge of what's go
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by dpifke 17y ago
Anyone else think of the final scene in Real Genius when watching this video?
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by dpifke 17y ago
I'd be curious if matching 128 bit words is slower or more painful than variable-length string comparisons in any RDBMS. I would bet not. Plus, you can't do CIDR operations on strings, making it a pain to i.e. match all addresses within a
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by dpifke 17y ago
Python has socket.inet_pton, which also supports IPv6: http://docs.python.org/library/socket.html#socket.inet_pton Edit: Ooh, and Py3k has the ipaddr module: http://docs.python.org/dev/py3k/library/ipaddr.html
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by dpifke 17y ago
"The only valid objection I see is that there needs to be some process to protect the privacy of the people involved in the case." There already is: you can file documents under seal or in redacted form. Most courts require you to do so
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by dpifke 17y ago
One thing that works in Wave's favor is that waves are stored on the server that sent them, not the server that received them. This means that when a server (or user on a server) is disconnected for spamming, the waves they originated
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by dpifke 17y ago
Last year I was in a similar boat; after getting no response from the domain owner via email and postal mail (the phone number was either out-of-date or bogus), I enlisted the help of a domain brokerage service (Sedo). The way it works is y
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Artist Who Made $30k On Webcasts Is Not Afraid To Take Your Money(blog.amandapalmer.net)
5 points by dpifke 17y ago|0 comments
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by dpifke 17y ago
I spent a not-insignificant amount of time a few years back writing poker bots. It's one of those projects that's really easy to do, but really difficult to do well. It didn't help that I dove right into coding without the benefit of havi
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by dpifke 17y ago
I challenge you to find a place 50 miles outside of the center of any major metropolitan area that lives up to your transit expectations. If you travel the equivalent of San Francisco-San Jose from Portland, you'd be in Salem and would b
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by dpifke 17y ago
Oregon has no sales tax, and as such its income and property taxes are much higher than many states. This is especially true in Multnomah County (where Portland is located), due to county income and business taxes on top of state. See, i.
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by dpifke 17y ago
Best quote ever: "We completely understand the public’s concern about futuristic robots feeding on the human population, but that is not our mission," stated Harry Schoell, Cyclone’s CEO
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by dpifke 17y ago
When I was a young sysadmin at an ISP in the mid-nineties, we had a shell server that would be exploited fairly regularly. This was in the days before automated updates, when the standard Sun delivery method for patches was a mailed CD-ROM
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by dpifke 17y ago
Not knowing more about Evony's business model, I think this is likely an example of optimizing for the wrong metric - in this case clicks versus conversions. The creator of the last ad is probably thrilled that it's "performing" better tha
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by dpifke 17y ago
Google Web Toolkit does this; I'm sure other web development frameworks do as well. A quick search for a standalone utility revealed: http://spritegen.website-performance.org/ .
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by dpifke 17y ago
Anyone know what SQLStream (the software Mozilla is using for the stats page) costs? Their web site doesn't say and it looks very "enterprise-y" so I'm guessing lots.
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by dpifke 17y ago
Do you think this paper held up to "rigid peer review"?
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by dpifke 17y ago
Is the barrier actually high? Besides the obvious cost of acquiring multi-million dollar jetliners (which, if bought new, typically have to be ordered 5-10 years in advance of delivery) and signing leases for gate space and hiring ground
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by dpifke 17y ago
More raw data to the cockpit is unlikely to help. Pilots have a lot of things going on and varying levels of weather knowledge and experience (even professional pilots - weather is but one thing you train on). A professional meteorologist
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by dpifke 17y ago
This would work a lot better if the mouse pointer was hidden when not in motion. The problem I had with it was when I moved my mouse to read the text underneath the pointer, I would occasionally leave the target area and have it disappear o
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by dpifke 17y ago
The idea of forcing people to take the stairs to fight obesity is currently a running experiment at the new San Francisco Federal Building. Results are mixed, see i.e. http://www.beyondchron.org/news/index.php?itemid=5428 From the article
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by dpifke 17y ago
Using database OIDs as publicly accessible identifiers is a neat idea, one I haven't tried. Looking at the Postgres docs ( http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/static/datatype-oid.html ) they discourage the use of OIDs, going so far as to say
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by dpifke 17y ago
You could, but then you need to implement collision avoidance when creating new records. Database sequences are guaranteed to be unique.
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by dpifke 17y ago
The solution proposed by this article (using MD5 hashes instead of numeric identifiers for primary keys) omits the point that strings are way more expensive to look up than integers. You're creating a bunch of extra work for the database o
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by dpifke 17y ago
http://twitter.com/garyvee/status/1854968425
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by dpifke 17y ago
I don't see that as exclusionary; I read it as intending to exclude professional corporations, i.e. where you bill for time (performance of services) as opposed to charging for a product . I imagine if they didn't exclude such, you'd hav
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by dpifke 17y ago
http://gawker.com/354814/its-like-yelp-but-for-hookers
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by dpifke 17y ago
I smoked for about two weeks during high school, after a friend of mine sold me that bumming a smoke was a great way to talk to girls. The smoking itself didn't do that much for me, so I pretty quickly gave it up.

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