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by femto113 14y ago
CC is not appropriate for software licenses. Per their FAQ: http://wiki.creativecommons.org/FAQ#Can_I_use_a_Creative_Com... Can I apply a Creative Commons license to software? We do not recommend it. Creative Commons licenses should not
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by femto113 14y ago
Seems like using Amazon's EC2 to mine Bitcoins could now be profitable, anyone know if this is actually going on? Per this couple year old article ( http://glennfrancismurray.com/cost-defective-mining-with-gpu... ) looks like the break ev
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by femto113 14y ago
My experience over about 20 years of writing software professionally is that I need to tackle one algorithmic problem a year. Probably amounts to a day or two of work, and usually it is a refinement or adaptation of an existing algorithm,
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Definitely a "you did what?" situation but probably still newsworthy since the new search tool makes the user's error easier to exploit and the publicity about the tool will make it more likely that someone will exploit it.
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by femto113 14y ago
Missing from this blog post, but made clear here ( http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2012/05/how-to-choos... ) is that you need to USE TWO DIFFERENT KEYS, one for the cipher, the other for the MAC. This makes it practically impossibl
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by femto113 14y ago
I love my Microsoft keyboard, I use it with my MacBook Pro all day long at work (I do NOT like the standalone Apple keyboards). If they came out with a keyboard cover for the iPad I'd buy one, and I'm willing to bet it would be a huge selle
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by femto113 14y ago
Adding "clear: left;" to the h1's style seems to yield the expected result, perhaps the problem isn't with the floated items but instead with the blocks? Is there some new rule about the default clear behavior?
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Other people are going to look at this page hundreds or thousands of times, often in moments of crisis, so investing in making it easy to read/understand is a no-brainer for positive ROI on time. As for "making it pretty", it's not like th
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by femto113 14y ago
Actually IE has huge leads in South Korea and China, who are among the top internet users. The Microsoft blog post linked above has the root cause here: StatCounter has outsized representation for India and Turkey, both which see heavy Chr
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Poking around by individual country the only large one I found where Chrome leads is India. Anyone have sauce on why Chrome is so popular there? Are they big enough to skew the whole world?