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Introducing the Grand C++ Error Explosion Competition(tgceec.tumblr.com)
12 points by gioele 13y ago|3 comments
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by gioele 13y ago
> The way you fix monitor glare is by not working with a bright light at your back, not by fucking up the screen. Some people live in places where they have these things called windows...
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by gioele 13y ago
> When you go offline, that equation changes. You have to be active. Since you can’t input, you output. If you don’t do something, nothing happens. > So turn AirPort off. Or go to a coffeeshop without wifi. Resist the siren song of be
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by gioele 13y ago
Who maintains the open source code? What if a source change is accepted and Cisco does not want to release binaries based on that code? What if the code contains a security issue that is exploitable, but only in remote cases and the maintai
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by gioele 13y ago
Ah, the irony. It is funny to see these proposals coming out of Germany, the biggest proponent, together with France, for a EU-wide data exchange and wiretapping program codified in Schengen as article 40 [1] and SIS (Schengen Information S
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by gioele 13y ago
> Game mechanics aren't protected by anything I fear the US case law does not agree with this statement. (And we are talking about US in this specific case.) It would be quite easy to describe game mechanics as the game counterpart
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by gioele 13y ago
> This is such nonsense, I don't even know where to begin. This was already the case in the US and there is no government mandate for it to be that way. History please. The USB-socket-in-the-phone standard for recharging phones star
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by gioele 13y ago
Please, I did not wrote that I never experienced happiness, neither that it is illusory. I am just playing devil's advocate here, the comment started with a "What if". The reply from ordinary got my intent right: maybe it is
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by gioele 13y ago
What if that characterization is right? Sad but right? Let's suppose that you feelings are summed up by a score, happiness is just score 0 and normality being between 0 and a very small negative interval; also suppose that you cannot g
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by gioele 13y ago
Quite outdated, pre-googlecode: 2006. From http://goog-ajaxslt.sourceforge.net/README BROWSER COMPATIBILITY The library works in these browsers: - Firefox/1.0 - Internet Explorer/6.0
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by gioele 13y ago
What about documents that can have multiple interpretations? Where do I zoom to edit and HTML file as a set of tags? Where do I zoom to edit it inside a WYSIWYG editor? Where do I zoom to see it in a browser?
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by gioele 13y ago
Indeed my point was that Github itself is not open source but uses open source technologies (git and various bots) and methodologies (distributed team, lazy coordination, it ships when it is ready). Have a look at http://zachholm
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by gioele 13y ago
What I have noticed is that once smart people are exposed to open source programming they have big problems going back to the modus operandi of closed source. A good middle-ground seems to be doing like github: you keep working on your clos
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by gioele 13y ago
CLI is for dealing with an application or system through its command line: "apt-get install foo" TUI are usually curses-based interfaces that live in the terminal and have menu, windows and sometime support for interacting with th
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by gioele 13y ago
I prefer hearing about _the reasons_ why something new is not appreciated rather than the usual "the older was better". The poster of the complaint didn't really want to go back to the old My Yahoo. What they want is a new My
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by gioele 13y ago
> above-average internet usage I doubt that internet usage is any longer a measure of how "nerdy" a person is. There are teenagers, especially girls, constantly using internet-based services from their cell phones to communicat
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by gioele 13y ago
With the current licence (CDDL) it is not going to be included in the repositories of main distros anyway.
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by gioele 13y ago
Beware of the key size limitations of OpenPGP smartcards: most of them can only handle 2048-bit RSA keys, a size that is now considered not safe for new RSA keys.
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Calendar and Contact data with free software in the Smartphone era(danielpocock.com)
6 points by gioele 13y ago|0 comments
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Want to fix law? Legislative Data Challenge by the Library of Congress(blogs.loc.gov)
1 points by gioele 13y ago|0 comments
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by gioele 13y ago
The problem with being "too honest" about your work is that you would be the only one doing it. When you read a "scientific" paper, you read it expecting it to be a sweetened account of the reality. The test have obvious
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by gioele 13y ago
> Maybe we can copy-paste without requiring the original program to stay open. Probably no, we will not be able to copy and paste without requiring the original program to stay open. If you think of plain text, yes, that can work. But wh
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by gioele 13y ago
> I hope in one day, users can write hypertext freely, as easy as make an edit on contentEditable, the user input & interactions could become parsable data, and the developer's layout/css tweaking and js debugging could be
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by gioele 13y ago
> Maybe we should be finding a way to make no one personally responsible for failures. But this sounds counter-intuitive, as personal responsibility is acknowledged as an effective mechanism to make people do their work right. I think th
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by gioele 13y ago
Follow-up posts with more details about the LFSR used to store the all the details of the jungle in 31 bytes: http://samiam.org/blog/20130608.html
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A 4096-byte jungle(samiam.org)
2 points by gioele 13y ago|1 comments
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by gioele 13y ago
From a software point of view, this is what I like to most about GitHub: using the README.md visualization as your web site. Before GitHub and README.md, when you published your source code you also had to create a small website, just to le
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by gioele 13y ago
issuer = miner You bitcoins are accepted because they are recognized by others to be part of a block originally mined by someone. Really not that different from how money is "printed" by central banks these days (somebody presses
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by gioele 13y ago
In encryption there is no "good": it is either "perfectly working" or "fundamentally compromised". If there is only a small flaw in an encryption system, be assured that it will be exploited to break down the w
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by gioele 13y ago
Bitcoin fulfils easily the definition of "electronic money" found in the European directive 2009/110/EC, art. 2 def. 1: > 2. "electronic money" means electronically, including magnetically, stored monetary v

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