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by drv 16y ago
I've heard some radio ads render it "triple W", which flows pretty nicely.
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by drv 16y ago
I'm pretty sure PostgreSQL is intended to be pronounced "post-gress-q-l", given its relationship to Ingres ("in-gress").
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by drv 16y ago
Some of these tests seem backwards: "10 years software development experience." is translated as assert candidate.results['started_programming'] <= years_ago(10) That reads like "10 years or less" rather than "10 years or more";
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by drv 16y ago
My wife's Audi A4 had an analog clock, although her new car has digital. I STRONGLY prefer digital. Setting the analog one was always a pain, and it didn't auto adjust for daylight savings time, like the new digital one does. I prefer dig
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Og dreams of kernels(lkml.org)
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by drv 16y ago
I don't see how automatic, silent updates are any better than "phoning home" for key validation. The partial verification system requires constant updates to be any more useful than a verification of the entire key, and if these updates ar
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by drv 16y ago
Not to mention that the attacker's DNS resolver could merely ignore the TTL and bombard your DNS server - if that's the weakest link, why even bother with the rest?
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by drv 16y ago
In my experience, "Fun once, fun always" is the real key to a game that continues to be fun (and therefore keeps players). In a game about shooting virtual guns or driving virtual cars or building virtual cities, those basic actions had be
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by drv 16y ago
Most recent comment on the story, (purporting to be) from Jonathan Heiliger: This story is completely false. Facebook continuously evaluates and helps develop new technologies we believe will improve the performance, efficiency or reliabil
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by drv 16y ago
Somewhat different from the commuter-oriented topic of the article, I've seen attempts by truckers to enforce a similar pattern in construction zones (traffic reduced by one or more lanes) on long stretches of highway: In a situation where
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by drv 16y ago
The question and answers are all missing the key "glue" between the C mkdir() function and the Linux syscall - glibc.
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by drv 16y ago
The point was that only the Linux and Windows ports of VLC have GPU acceleration currently.
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by drv 16y ago
I took a course based on the Java version, and it felt very clunky to me - the sample project code was very verbose and used the Visitor pattern whenever it could possibly be wedged in, making it a bit of a nightmare to understand the flow
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by drv 16y ago
This bit at the end was interesting: [...] any software found to be in violation of Oracle's copyrights "be impounded and destroyed." How does one go about rounding up all the copies of something as ephemeral and easily duplicated as soft
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by drv 16y ago
The claim that "This is the first time a Linux distribution has been extended to also allow use of a non-Linux kernel" is a little odd, given that Gentoo/FreeBSD has been around for several years: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gentoo-alt/b
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by drv 16y ago
A lot of these seem to be just random statements extracted from the camel and llama books, and some of those statements are not even particularly funny or pithy. Just skimming these books and reading the footnotes is probably more amusing t
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by drv 16y ago
It is unclear to me what argument this article is trying to make - the headline makes me think it is about getting early access to computers due to rich parents, and it partly is, but then it dives off on a tangent about gender. (Disclaimer
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by drv 16y ago
That was my thought too - and I'd be curious to see something like SimCity's police station coverage map overlaid on this. It amuses me to imagine the mayor's desk with a selection of these maps, plus a little R/C/I readout.
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by drv 16y ago
These "1975" programming concepts are essentially the same ideas taught in the CS computer architecture course I took (circa 2006). The main focus was on the memory hierarchy of modern computers, which was fine, but there was not much advic