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by fhars 15y ago
Well, I started with slackware (well, actually SuSE when it was still a rebranded slackware, around linux 1.0.8ish), and I don't really want to dive into deep ends for my work machines anymore, I just want them to work and be moderately up
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by fhars 15y ago
Oh my god is that embarrassing. Some meaningless marketing spew, some social network stealth tracking widgets, and not a single link to any meaningful information. After the recent interresting design choices, the unity disaster and now thi
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by fhars 15y ago
That's what you get for trying to trademark everyday words. And haven't they forfeited their trademark by not defending it against http://trac.edgewall.org/timeline?from=2003-08-31&daysba... ? [Edit: added date]
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by fhars 15y ago
Be careful, any code you download from there might be trojaned: http://lwn.net/Articles/369633/ If I recall last years events correctly, they (i.e. Jörg Schilling) were not very open in their resonse, some mails from the time describe the
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by fhars 15y ago
Depending on the browser there is no problem, as in some browsers it is completely impossible to navigate to the next slide at all. When exactly did accessibility and standards conformance become unfashionable round here?
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by fhars 15y ago
That particular sentence does not describe "tracking", it describes "http". Those are just the data every browser sends to a server if it requests a resource hosted there. The sentence you cited is just a description of the behaviour of the
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by fhars 15y ago
Judging from my experiences, several of these studies may be missing a major confounding factor: the complexity of the problem the code solves. All my longest methods are rather stupid output formatting stuff or if/else cascades that handle
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by fhars 15y ago
Sometimes it helps to put a plus in front of every search term, that does at least prevent google from replacing the most specific term of your query with the least specific misspelling. That is especially helpful for programming terms that
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by fhars 15y ago
Your answer is predicated on the premise that all possible contributors to open source projects are comfortable with the habits and processes of a low context culture just like you are. If anything, your example strengthens the argument of
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by fhars 15y ago
Except that, depending on your browser, it is impossible to navigate to the second slide. In opera mini, the slide itself is not clickable, there are no arrows visible, arrow keys are not available, and the "contents?" link points to a trun
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by fhars 15y ago
Also, right folds preserve the structure of the datatype folded over. If you fold right over a list with the empty list as the start value and cons (or (_::_) in scala) as the operation, you get the original list back (i.e. same value, not
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by fhars 15y ago
This is the one feature that Trusted Execution Technology (TXT) does not provide. We really wanted to have something like that for a security type appliance, but it is impossible. The only thing TXT provides is the ability to prove to a t
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by fhars 15y ago
There is this G.B. Shaw quote at the end of chapter 21 of the TeXbook: There is not in existence a page with a rule on it that cannot be instantly and obviously improved by taking the rule out.
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by fhars 15y ago
That is about one task per 50 trillion CPU cycles, you would be hard pressed to write a queue implementation that is to slow for that. Numbered files in a single directory on a synchronously mounted filesystem designed for few large files t
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by fhars 15y ago
And this "it's digital" argument is bogus. The individual bit is either transmittes correctly or not, but the whole stream can have arbirary many bit errors which the receiver can only compensate up to a certain rate. There is usually good
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by fhars 15y ago
A single large spike of stop-loss sales of a commoditiy that happens at the moment the commodity touches its previous three month low during a long downwards trend does not prove anything about the suitability of the commodity as a currency
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by fhars 15y ago
That's why they say that disk is the new tape. Releative to the sequential data rate, disk seeks are almost as expensive as a robot changing a tape reel used to be.
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by fhars 15y ago
You may not realize it, but your little funny quip does actually rely on a deep mathematical equivalence: LINQ is basically syntax for monads, and unix shell programming can be seen as monadic, too: http://okmij.org/ftp/Computation/monadic
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by fhars 15y ago
I fear you don't actually undestand several core concept of special relativity, among these past, present, causality and simultaneity. Of these, only the last one is relative to the reference frame. Temporal ordering of events is absolute f
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by fhars 15y ago
No, those are charged particles interacting with the magnetic field of the earth. Gravity is such a ridiculously weak force that you can safely ignore it in situations like that.
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by fhars 15y ago
There is almost no country in the world where a work by an author that is alive or has died less than seventy years ago can be in the public domain. So releasing code as "public domain" more or less limits the release to the US.
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by fhars 15y ago
That the numbers were not small multiples of large powers of ten.
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by fhars 15y ago
Another stack based language worth learning might be Postscript (even if only to make your coworkers wonder why such a small file takes such a long time to print: http://warp.povusers.org/MandScripts/ps.html or http://www.physics.uq.edu.
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by fhars 15y ago
No other phone has feature parity with my four years old symbian phone. It has a physical Ctrl key for use in putty (sadly, no Meta). But apart fron that, yeah, Nokia can't program their way out of a paper bag.
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by fhars 15y ago
Bing seems to do refer[r]er and/or cookie checking. If I enter the search on www.bing.com or have a cookie from bing, a search for phpbb produces results, if I clear all all bing cookies and enter http://www.bing.com/search?q=phpbb in the
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by fhars 15y ago
Here is another paper that looks promising: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.109.... From the abstract: The multi-armed bandit problem for a gambler is to decide which arm of a K-slot machine to pull to maximize hi
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by fhars 15y ago
The main difference I can see is that the classical view does actually display the contents of the directory, while the "beautiful" view is completely empty. Or is firefox 5.0 too old for HTML 5?
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by fhars 15y ago
One of the reasons for that may of course be that the framework unlike your simple code knows all the edge cases where strings going in one direction or the other need to be escaped to avoid obvious security errors.
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by fhars 15y ago
Then just run your attack on the day of a big algorithm or index update when it will be drowned by the usual "google made my children starve" noise.
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by fhars 15y ago
D'oh, stupid thinko, sorry for the confusion. (And Faraday and Fahrenheit don't even share the same soundex...).

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