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by durin42 17y ago
Grandparent's question implies to me he's aware of that, and is wondering how much traffic AdSense drives on top of the DART stuff.
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by durin42 17y ago
Dupe: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1245206
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by durin42 17y ago
That's not always the case. That suggests your friend is going to be working on something secret in some way to me.
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by durin42 17y ago
I've heard it said (and experienced myself) that the hiring system at Google is designed to favor false negatives in order to reduce the risk of false positives. I know of plenty of cases where the first (and sometimes even second) trip thr
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by durin42 17y ago
Bikes aren't always a viable replacement - my parents travel with large (up to 100 pounds) instruments. Also, bikes are frequently a poor idea in inclement weather, making them non-ideal for things like transit to work if you've got a reaso
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by durin42 17y ago
Practically, that's just not workable long term. Ideally, you want to keep using more or less the same library as everyone else, otherwise versioning becomes even more of a nightmare than it already is.
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by durin42 17y ago
I've discussed this at some length with a few of the original Subversion implementors. The short version is that they didn't go back and do a slight rethink when they came up with changeset objects, and that causes part of the problem. The
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Google Annotations Gallery(google-opensource.blogspot.com)
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by durin42 17y ago
In my experience it doesn't take too long to find a pair of patches that commute which actually let you checkout a broken tree state. It's nice in theory, but in practice the DAG properties of the "mainline" DVCSes are very useful so that y
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by durin42 17y ago
Git's branches aren't _branches_ per se. They're movable references to heads, and there's no indication of a commit having been done on a branch once it's merged and the ref deleted. If you want that workflow in Mercurial, use bookmarks. So
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by durin42 17y ago
Many OSS contributors disappear because they're encountering satisfyingly challenging engineering problems as their day job for the first time. It takes a special discipline to actually _use_ 20% time at all (not because of team pressure, j
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by durin42 17y ago
There's a good contingent internally that haven't drunk the kool-aid, Brad's just the most visible externally. It's a reasonably huge effort just to keep the hubris in check internally, and it doesn't always work out.
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by durin42 17y ago
Seriously? I'd much rather get a potential repeated contributor who can follow my style than clean it up without asking him to do it. Double for tests: I frequently can't figure out exactly what the best regression test will be and the cont
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by durin42 17y ago
Sadly, it looks like that gets syndicated through Kodak's website, which isn't kosher for my needs. Sigh.
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by durin42 17y ago
No, we had some unexpected infrastructure problems today.
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Google Code Announces Faster Subversion Servers(googlecode.blogspot.com)
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by durin42 17y ago
Yeah, everything I've found thus far it'd make sense to just get a Fit PC and a small LCD - it'd be nice if there was a small frame like this that was hackable (a la the WRT54g) for a small status display.
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by durin42 17y ago
Anyone know of a frame that works like this that can work without some third-party service for publishing? I'd like to do something like this on information that's under a strict NDA.
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by durin42 17y ago
I think it's safe to say that Sun no longer exists: % curl -I http://www.sun.com/ HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently Server: Sun-Java-System-Web-Server/7.0 Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 02:16:46 GMT P3p: policyref="http://www.sun.com/p3p/S
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Webapp for using a deck of cards for steganography(jerde.net)
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by durin42 17y ago
Really? I don't recall ever having installed flash on any of my Macs in the last couple of years. It was already there, crashyness and all. That's why click2flash exists.
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by durin42 17y ago
Ha! I've visited Mountain View enough to know that it's a ghost town when breakfast is actually being served.
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by durin42 17y ago
I assume you're using histedit, rebase, and/or other tools and not just mq for your hg history munging needs? mq is a great tool, but it's not always the best one. Also, you might find bookmarks useful if you don't use them.
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by durin42 17y ago
Without rooting the phone, how is this trivial?
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by durin42 17y ago
I'd offer up a word of caution though about generator comprehensions. They're much more expensive than list comprehensions in the small cases. In Mercurial, a patch came up to move some listcomps to gencomps, and it was rejected because it
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by durin42 17y ago
It's a conscious decision. After all, why would you reinvent static content serving when Apache, lighttpd, and nginx all have solved this problem extremely well? It's much lower overhead to just let the purpose-built native-code server do t
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by durin42 17y ago
Really? How so? Linguistics is the study of language, but CS at its core is the study of algorithms and theory. A CS prof never coding is more akin to a Physics professor never designing his own bridge. Sure, he technically could if he wa
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by durin42 17y ago
I was assuming he was using the hex digest of the hash. You have to use some kind of ascii armoring, and base64 seemed like one that'd be reasonably safe.
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by durin42 17y ago
After having played with this a little, a couple of nits: I sometimes know the mistake I made, it's minor, and I want to move on, so click the "Don't know" button in frustration. This then registers for the next question, rather than the
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by durin42 17y ago
I like that idea of using some sort of standard hash and password pairing along with the domain to come up with a password that's site-unique. Is that original, or taken from somewhere? Have you considered using base64 or some other encodin

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