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by eCa 12y ago
Not sure if it helps against this vulnerability, but using Git::Wrapper [1] makes for much nicer code than backticks. [1] https://metacpan.org/pod/Git::Wrapper
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by eCa 12y ago
Thanks! It's easy to see a ten year old non-native English speaker make that mistake..
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by eCa 12y ago
Yes.. and there was a very similar command (,8,0 maybe?) that instead formatted the disk. In my case, the disk contained several of my first programs. Several years later, not having learned my lesson, I tried out the fdisk command on my wi
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by eCa 12y ago
Yes, I'm not saying it's a bad thing. It does imho put a lot more pressure on the language developers than a cd'd web app, with regards to backwards compatibility and such. (With ~10 releases a year there's bound to be
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by eCa 12y ago
I haven't looked at Rust, but it seems from the outside that releasing a stable version of a language every six weeks is very aggresive?
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by eCa 12y ago
They have an uphill battle, SEO-wise. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=dslr
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by eCa 12y ago
I agree with kubiiii. Since a rewrite is in the card (hopefully) there is something wrong with the entire system. * Identify where the applications interact with each other. * Identify the most problematic applications. * Rewrite those (sta
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by eCa 12y ago
I have heard, through a friend of a librarian, that people actually microwaves books to kill bugs.
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by eCa 12y ago
Apart from the problems of holding referendums while occupied, the referendum itself was not legal under neither Ukrainian nor Crimean law [1]. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimean_status_referendum,_2014...
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by eCa 12y ago
The problem with reclining airline seats is that the "point of reclination" is too far down, which leads to the person behind losing valuable space. As someone who is a fair bit above average length, it is more or less impossible
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by eCa 12y ago
Yes, I've been following Arctic Sea Ice News[1] for so long I atomatically read "arctic" as "artic sea". (And many people seem to think that the arctic sea ice melting will contribute as much as the landbased ice to
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by eCa 12y ago
While it definitely will have bad consequenses, the melting of the arctic ice will not directly lead to rising sea levels (since it is floating).
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by eCa 12y ago
As an outsider, baseball appears to be a very rigid game. (Not sure if rigid is the right word.) What I mean is that almost everything that can happen on the field is possible to keep track of statistically, that is, everything happens with
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Axis2 to Mojolicious Modernization (Java-Perl)(richelberger.com)
2 points by eCa 12y ago|0 comments
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by eCa 12y ago
It's $25 per session ... Their math is $25 * 8 dogs * 2 times daily * 240 days a year. That's how "up to eight dogs" turns into "eight dogs every day, every time".
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by eCa 12y ago
French Guiana is both a region and a departement of France, and as such is part of the EU [1]. It is basically just as much France as Île-de-France [2]. As a fun fact, France is about to get its first land connection to Brazil [3]. [1]
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by eCa 12y ago
Yes. Second sentence in the OP: "Being a part of salesforce.com [...]"
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by eCa 12y ago
The graph in the article is really bad. The heading says "Reported rape offenses per capita" while the vertical axis says "Rape offenses per capita". Two things: * Those are not the same thing. * 40 rapes per capita? (
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These fake brick crosswalks may be better than the real thing(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by eCa 12y ago|0 comments
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by eCa 12y ago
Hecto[1] would have been a better choice for a prefix. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hecto-
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Earin – The Worlds Smallest Wireless Earbuds(kickstarter.com)
6 points by eCa 12y ago|0 comments
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by eCa 12y ago
Spoiler: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1FbrYCCBgI
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by eCa 12y ago
An aside: When storing large quantities of things like this my personal preference is to split the id from the end. I was once i charge of a large number of images of book jackets named by the books' isbn. At least in that population (
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by eCa 12y ago
Consider though: To my mother, Ayn Rand, and God [1] Is the writer's mother Ayn Rand? [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_comma#Creating_ambiguity
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by eCa 12y ago
A somewhat clearer way (imho) is /(\d)\D*$/ since it anchors to the end of the string.
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by eCa 12y ago
Which leads to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onomatopoeia and more specifically (though spit is missing): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-linguistic_onomatopoeias
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by eCa 12y ago
It's pretty arid [1]. The rainiest month in Ashgabat (the Turkmenistan capital) is February, with 40 mm (less than two inches). [1] https://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.252611,58.439389&q=loc:40...
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by eCa 12y ago
Perl 5.20.0 represents approximately 12 months of development since Perl 5.18.0 and contains approximately 470,000 lines of changes across 2,900 files from 124 authors. Thank you all.
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by eCa 12y ago
The nearly 300 metres high Citigroup Center[1] in New York had a change during construction: original design for the "chevron" load braces used welded joints. But during construction, to save labor and material cost
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by eCa 12y ago
Speaking of airports, the opening of Heathrow Terminal 5[1] was not without problems.. On the day of opening it quickly became apparent that the new terminal was not operating smoothly, and British Airways cancelled 34 flights and

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