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by gcv 14y ago
If I understand the idea correctly, using a different key pair for every transaction should help mask user histories. Not sure if this is easy in practice.
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Marc Andreessen, Tim Berners-Lee Receive Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering(techcrunch.com)
1 points by gcv 14y ago|0 comments
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Emacs 24.3 released(groups.google.com)
5 points by gcv 14y ago|0 comments
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by gcv 14y ago
His son Christopher served in the Royal Air Force in the early 1940s. It also seems unlikely JRRT would overlook the importance of air power as the Luftwaffe bombed the British Isles while he worked on the books during the war.
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by gcv 14y ago
Learn to use your shell's globbing features instead of overusing find. In zsh, you can do 'print -l /*.(c|cc|h|hh)' for example (I'm sure bash has an equivalent).
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by gcv 14y ago
Replying to my own post, in case someone stumbles on this while searching: ICU. It's rather baroque, but seems to do the right thing. I recommend writing a C++11 wrapper for it (I might actually release this at some point in the future).
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by gcv 14y ago
Some valid points, some outdated ones. I have found C++11 surprisingly enjoyable. Real lambdas, templates, and unique_ptr/shared_ptr have let me write exceedingly Lispy and highly-readable code. With great performance characteristics. Minim
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by gcv 14y ago
While we're on this subject, does anyone know of a decent C or C++ date-time library? Something like Joda Time. I know Boost has a couple of options but they look a bit less capable.
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by gcv 14y ago
Writers are not merely new scribes. Writers are people who use the written word for some specific purpose. Very coarsely, I claim that novelists are storytellers, poets are artists (who use words as the medium, like sculptors use marble or
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by gcv 14y ago
Ah yes, the tragedy of studying computing to the exclusion of everything else. Graduates with computer science degrees have an in-depth understanding of... text editors. And maybe compilers, databases, and operating systems — all items of z
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Chinese Army Unit Is Seen as Tied to Hacking Against U.S.(nytimes.com)
198 points by gcv 14y ago|109 comments
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by gcv 14y ago
> 90% of driving is commuting, it is decidedly not long-range trips. Would you buy a second vehicle to accommodate your needs for the remaining 10% of your driving?
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by gcv 14y ago
When I want to make something unique and truly useful, I'd like to get to it. I want to waste as little time as possible on boilerplate and infrastructure.
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by gcv 14y ago
If both of you have Apple devices, I highly recommend FaceTime. In my experience, it has better video quality than Skype.
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by gcv 14y ago
Please do! I'd be especially interested in some of the ones you mentioned: Geordie and Brummie. Also, some of the harder-to-understand ones. I can understand Yorkshire pretty well, but maybe some others would give me trouble.
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by gcv 14y ago
Nice job, guys. http://www.lolbrary.com/post/35279/gamer-girls/ headdesk
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by gcv 14y ago
Does this apply to a Delaware corporation which happens to have offices ("do business") in California?
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by gcv 14y ago
In the past, when I worked on a C++98 project, I would have disagreed with you for one simple reason: template debugging sucks. gdb did not provide good template information (but may have improved in the last few years, I have not checked i
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by gcv 14y ago
Since you're smart enough to ask the question, then the answer is yes, you do. At 19, if all you've ever done is "IT" — maintaining servers and databases — then you need to broaden your perception of the world. A good college will help make
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by gcv 14y ago
At least in the Bay Area, that sounds like a boon for City CarShare.
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by gcv 14y ago
So we'd have to rename the quarter-pounder with cheese to royale with cheese?
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by gcv 14y ago
The Daily Kos (of all places!) published a wonderful defense of the Second Amendment. Regardless of its application to the Internet. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/07/04/881431/-Why-liberal...
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by gcv 14y ago
Judging by the sheer difficulty normal people experience with iCloud and App Store logins when they use iOS devices, Apple should try to figure out a way to have zero passwords. Its support must get a ridiculous number of calls from people
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by gcv 14y ago
Let me ask a related and unpopular question: what purpose does marriage serve in today's world? For people with religious convictions, I understand: your god(s) hate you if you have relationships not sanctioned by your religious authorities
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by gcv 14y ago
Sir, you owe me a new keyboard.
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by gcv 14y ago
No problems on my system, but I make a point of backing up everything sensitive to an external hard drive occasionally, and using Arq to do hourly backups to S3.
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by gcv 14y ago
No equivalent of the Sixth Amendment in Sweden, then?
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Powers of Ten (short film, 1977)(youtu.be)
2 points by gcv 14y ago|0 comments
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by gcv 14y ago
Just curious: doesn't anyone still get emails which are more social and thinking in nature, and not tasks? Like (gasp) paper letters? Has everyone moved to Facebook messages for this purpose?
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Emacs 24.2 released(groups.google.com)
2 points by gcv 14y ago|0 comments

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