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by dsp1234 11y ago
They were not even aware of it in the first place. I just asked two people around me if they knew what Civil Asset Forfeiture was. Both said no. I then asked them if they had heard about the police confiscating the money from the guy w
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by dsp1234 11y ago
Promoting to a queen would result in a stalemate as the black player would have no legal moves. Promoting to a bishop allows the king to move to the the 8th row, allowing the final checkmate by white
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by dsp1234 11y ago
If I sat down at one of our database consoles and fired off a few queries and saw that hundreds of thousands of dollars had appeared out of nowhere, I'd tell my boss that the database was corrupt. However, for the purposes of Aphyr&#x2
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by dsp1234 11y ago
https://twitter.com/aphyr/status/644828700366647296
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by dsp1234 11y ago
According to this Colorado DOR [0], this report [1] contains the following figures for Fiscal year 2013/2014 for alcohol excise taxes: Spirits: $26,512,197 Wine: $ 5,571,591 Beer: $ 8,784,975 For a grand total of
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by dsp1234 11y ago
Overheard while visiting an office: employee: My computer keeps shutting down randomly. I'll be working on stuff, and it will just fritz and I have to push the power button to get it to turn back on. IT: Oh, it looks like you've
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by dsp1234 11y ago
I recently found out that piwik also uses a login token of the MD5 of the password[0]. So this mistake is still very prevalent. If you want to provide a one-click automatic login to Piwik for your users, you can use the ‘logme’ mechanism,
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by dsp1234 11y ago
There's no way Yahoo could hide a $250 per day fine on the balance sheets, $250 * 365 = $91250 Yahoo's latest quarterly revenue was a little over 1.2 billion dollars[0]. A little over $90k listed under "court fe
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by dsp1234 11y ago
In addition to this, Jörn convinced me that pre-emptive multitasking was possible on the 6502, so in May 2014, I began the arduous task of converting the existing code to run from a bank-switched cartridge, while simultaneously designing t
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by dsp1234 11y ago
In 1980-81, there wasn't even MU* games around. The original MUD1 was "released" in 1980, if you were on the arpanet at the time. The first commercial MUD didn't come around until 1983 with Scepter of Goth[0]. So it
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by dsp1234 11y ago
execCommand[0] has a "paste" option, which pastes the content of the clipboard at the current insertion point. This allows for "reading" of the clipboard. This article doesn't mention "paste" specifically
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by dsp1234 11y ago
The quick bitcoin mining spin-ups, and the initial email from Amazon about the key going public, are (probably) thanks to the github events firehose. https://github.com/hootware/github-firehose-node http://b
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by dsp1234 11y ago
"How can they have so many poor people when the total population of the county was 9,818,605 in 2010 according to Wikipedia?" "The Census Bureau does not produce or publish a total count of the homeless population[0]."
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by dsp1234 11y ago
Note that the commenter mentioned mid-2014. That page first appeared on (or about) July 29th, 2014[1], and at that time only contained 4 names: Metamarkets Netflix LiquidM N3twork So while today Druid may be in use by "numerous large
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by dsp1234 11y ago
This templating language even adds HTML-like attributes! What a mess. <ul> <for each="item in items"> <li>${item}</li> </for> </ul> I ha
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by dsp1234 11y ago
Also I don't think the templating language has anything to do with the nature of blocking vs non-blocking data fetching. The previous commenter was specifically talking about the issue where the client side of an isomorphic applicati
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by dsp1234 11y ago
you have to block all renders until all data fetching is complete. Not if you use a server side templating engine that supports async rendering like MarkoJs [0][1]. [0] - https://marko-progressive-rendering.herokuapp.com/
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by dsp1234 11y ago
IAANAL, but I do deal with these topics from a technical point of view. "look and feel" are generally a part of Trademark law, not Copyright law. More specifically, Trademark law deals with concept of "customer confusion&quo
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by dsp1234 11y ago
This is like the places that make me store my backpack behind the counter while I'm shopping. Yes, I totally get that it's one way to combat theft, but it's also treating me like I might steal something. From a UX perspecti
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by dsp1234 11y ago
Unfortunately, the ambiguity of the English language strikes again. If by "they", you meant the article writer, then the reasons for the downvotes are likely because the article writer explained how that number was achieved. If by
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by dsp1234 11y ago
His conclusion is this: "The lesson? If you live in an area where houses cost more than $300,000, take a close look at the rent prices around the areas you currently drive. Budget your driving costs at at least a dollar per mile (80 ce
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by dsp1234 11y ago
That's a validation of some of the other discussion in the thread. JavaScript gets a 'class' keyword, but it's really just syntactic sugar over prototypical inheritance. So there is some misunderstanding about what it
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by dsp1234 11y ago
I don't know the author's intention specifically, but I generally use a pattern of: 1.) If a value read/write, then it's a property via getters/setters 2.) If a value is computed, then it's a function Specific
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by dsp1234 11y ago
It's the class constructor function. Something like: Function Circle(){} Circle.circlesMade(val) = function circlesMade(val){ this._count = val; }
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by dsp1234 11y ago
I just started the project 2 days ago, and it was installed from the official HHVM repository: sudo apt-get install software-properties-common sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 0x5a16e7281be7a4
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by dsp1234 11y ago
I just started a new Laravel project and decided to try hhvm. Unfortunately, on 3.8.0 it segfaults under load just serving the default Laravel page. It's really unfortunate since I'd love to give hhvm a shot.
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by dsp1234 11y ago
There's no such thing as a legal open relationship. Can you tell me which law an open relationship would be breaking in the state of Oregon?
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by dsp1234 11y ago
Clicking on the profile link: "Co-founder and CTO at Whirlscape, makers of the Minuum keyboard http://minuum.com , xavier@whirlscape.com" I'm not sure that's really "posting anonymously"
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by dsp1234 11y ago
For classic asp you can avoid this when accessing files via the command line by using a extended file path format: notepad \\?\c:\inetpub\wwwroot\com1.asp http://localhost/com1.asp This also has the hilarious result that &q
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by dsp1234 11y ago
This specific posting was mentioned in a couple of comments on a story about memex that was here a few months back. Which may help to provide a little more context. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9403852

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