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by febeling 16y ago
I think Theo de Raadt is right to make the accusation open, because it is quite a serious thing. On the other hand, I know that such an accusation can have a devastating effect on the live of the accused developer. So the principle of _in d
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by febeling 16y ago
In fact, you're right, it doesn't necessarily write a source file. I missed that last time when I looked. But Treetop will still create ruby code, write it into a string and then eval that. I didn't find that approach really elegant.
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by febeling 16y ago
This example uses Treetop. The same variety of parser, PEG (parsing expression grammar), but not code-generating, but dynamically defining ruby code is Citrus. It was really a pleasure to work with. The difference is that you don't need a p
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by febeling 16y ago
I also see the danger of downward pricing pressure, since the mobile AppStore sets a precedence. And then AppStore Mac might increasingly be seen as the only display window for software, without leaving much room for separate framing and ma
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by febeling 16y ago
Magit makes many tasks really easy: pick individual commits from other branches, pick only certains hunks from a file, moving a branch to a remote, taking stash snapshots (leaving and resetting the working directory), and more.
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by febeling 16y ago
That the most probable explanation, I believe. But did you find a real figure somewhere? I couldn't.
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by febeling 16y ago
If you consider the rebuilding of germany after ww2 or the case of japan rising from feudalism to highest level of technology in short time, I don't see why one should be that pessimistic.
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by febeling 16y ago
Plot summary: Indulge in pessimism.
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by febeling 16y ago
Yes, that was what I just meant to google up as well. These maps were made by the venerable Buckminster Fuller. And he explains really nicely, how the Mercator projection was really sufficient when you navigate with ships, and how it even h
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by febeling 16y ago
This is what the Switcher looked like: http://school.anhb.uwa.edu.au/personalpages/kwessen/web/stor...
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by febeling 16y ago
Which languages does it work on? I don't find this information.
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by febeling 17y ago
Once you start to look at the problem, it becomes really hard. It is not only address and phone number formats. The name alone a very hard. American style is given name and family name I guess, and as a German that sounds very convincing. B
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by febeling 17y ago
I don't have a reference to back this up, but I seem to remember that the word piracy was deliberately chosen but the industry to make it sound like a real crime. Copying and sharing were the words used by ordinary users usually.
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by febeling 17y ago
I think the assumption that many important Hadoop applications run in a while(true) loop is a bit naive, exactly because you would expect this kind of build-up on any traffic spikr or performance degradation.
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by febeling 17y ago
This is the moment of commoditisation of computing. I reckon there will be price fixings at a commodities exchanges like the Chicago CBOT in the forseeable future, and standard node classes, provided by various vendors. What will be the con
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by febeling 17y ago
Why have carbon emmissions to be reduced, unless climate warrants it? The question is: of a dollar budget, how much should go into reducing emmissions?, and how much should be spent to cure cancer, bring education to Africa, and so on. Ther
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by febeling 17y ago
But some are blatantly: "I’ve just completed Mike’s Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) amd from 1961 for Keith’s to hide the decline."
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by febeling 17y ago
I understand greed as desire to control, posses or consume, even beyond the point where it does you or your environment any good. And on that account infants are already more differentiated in their behaviour. They pursue only as long as it
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by febeling 17y ago
Well, I have two kids, and my experiences with them don't really support your point. Neither do other infants I know. Infants can be very energetic in pursuit of their desires, but I don't think "greed" describes it properly. Motives which
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by febeling 17y ago
There is this theory which states that there are only three kinds of economic (or societal) systems: family-tribe-base ones, command-base ones, and property-base ones. In the first you will be supported unlimitedly by your family tribe, so
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by febeling 17y ago
Interesting, that "Manager/Owner" is the most stable occupation. And all the other (larger) occupations are coming and going.
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by febeling 17y ago
I wonder when the time will come that someone treats money and this crisis as technical problem and analyses them as such. Reading all these smear pamphlets blaming certain people, institutions, political parties, secret associations, or ev
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by febeling 17y ago
Nice, how this comment and pg's answer illustrate the point of the essay.
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by febeling 17y ago
I think you will learn much faster about parsing if you just read source code. Once you have looked at more then two implementation of the same thing you start to see similarities and differences and pick up the ideas in use.
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by febeling 17y ago
I was interested in Clojure before, but the critisism I found in the two recent posts here on HN make it even more interesting. I feared something substantial might turn up that really defies using it, but to the contrary: if issues listed
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by febeling 17y ago
I find it disappointing to see such an discussion around a Java quirk voted up here. These things are in every Java book since at least 6 years, and Java has not gained in interestingness since. Also, Eclipse tells you that with a warning i
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Erlang Factory (Palo Alto) Talks are up [video](uk.video.yahoo.com)
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by febeling 17y ago
Spam bot generating comments that get voted up? Reaching the right level of sophistication, these spam bots would suddenly turn into quite acceptable members of the community, even if they are completely automated. If readers in general fin
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Ruby Performance Roundup: GC Tuning, MagLev, MacRuby(infoq.com)
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by febeling 18y ago
There is no such thing as "printed cash," that's just another word for government debt. Sometimes with the additional meaning that the debt papers where directly sold to the central bank, instead of going through fixed-rate market. This dir

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