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by gvb 11y ago
Good, but giving feedback in an unrelated forum that the author probably doesn't read is not useful. The page has a "Leave A Comment" box. Give feedback there.
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by gvb 11y ago
But BitKeeper was created by an old guy (Larry Larry McVoy[1]) who was born in 1962 . Not only that, but BitKeeper is built on top of SCCS[2] which predates RCS (and RCS predates CVS). BitKeeper was a totally new solution to a very old p
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by gvb 11y ago
Apocryphal: http://www.snopes.com/business/genius/where.asp ...but it was told at a MIT commencement address: http://web.mit.edu/president/communications/com99.html
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Pea whistle steganography(windytan.com)
15 points by gvb 11y ago|3 comments
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LIBBROTLI is BROTLI in lib Form(daniel.haxx.se)
3 points by gvb 11y ago|0 comments
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by gvb 11y ago
We have a sailboat on Lake Michigan. That map of Lake Michigan is, for the most part, how we experience it when we do a "sailing adventure" because we are going port-to-port along the coast.
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by gvb 11y ago
IMHO you should pick "c. Commit to Company A." 1. You have made a committment to Company A, honor it. 2. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. Company A has come through for you with an offer. That is big. Company B is &quo
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by gvb 11y ago
Original paper: http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~pb/tubes_final.pdf
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InterTubes: A Study of the US Long-Haul Fiber-Optic Infrastructure [pdf](pages.cs.wisc.edu)
10 points by gvb 11y ago|2 comments
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by gvb 11y ago
Typo, missing a 'f' in 'off': s/right of the bat/right off the bat/
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by gvb 11y ago
There are reliability estimates based on parts. The one I am slightly familiar is a military standard MIL-HDBK-217F https://www.google.com/search?q=+MIL-HDBK-217F&ie=utf-8&oe=u... Doing some searching turns up an on
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by gvb 11y ago
He did "enter a “supergrass” (informer) deal in the U.K." and ratted out everybody. After ratting out everybody (and avoiding extradition to the US), he withdrew from the plea deal and gambled that the UK jury would be sympathet
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HTTP2 Explained in Markdown (ebook)(daniel.haxx.se)
2 points by gvb 11y ago|0 comments
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by gvb 11y ago
Slightly pedantic: "Discovery 1" email indicates that the $loginkey encryption was the weak md5 method until it was changed to bcrypt in a 2012-06-14 commit. As a result, any accounts that were created before 2012-06-24 and that
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by gvb 11y ago
More story: http://web.archive.org/web/20121028034758/http://www.reviewj... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey%27s_Resort_Hotel_bombin...
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by gvb 11y ago
My bad, same conclusion. ;-)
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by gvb 11y ago
I'm pretty sure Krebs is in the game for the publicity, not the reward money. The publicity and "staying relevant" as a security researcher has a lot more value than a nebulous reward that likely will never pay out. Based on
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A chicken sandwich cannot be copyrighted, court rules(arstechnica.com)
2 points by gvb 11y ago|0 comments
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by gvb 11y ago
H&R Block does: http://www.hrblock.com/online-tax-filing/ Disclaimer: I have not used their online version so I don't know how well it works. I have been running their Windows version in a VM the last few year
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Why Beijing’s Troubles Could Get a Lot Worse(barrons.com)
2 points by gvb 11y ago|0 comments
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by gvb 11y ago
N2Y Bi-plane hooks onto the aircraft trapeze of USS Akron (ZRS-4) dirigible: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FIm5qt5JrQ Also (more of a fly-around video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YK_Wu3Jiqv4 Back t
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by gvb 11y ago
Nice web site, I really liked your comments in it. I've been writing this on and off for the past 6 years. Whenever something peaks my interest I write it up. s/peaks/piques/ Ref: http://www.vocabulary.com&#
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by gvb 11y ago
See also "Killing Cortana: How to disable Windows 10's info-hungry digital assistant" http://www.pcworld.com/article/2949759/windows/killing-corta...
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by gvb 11y ago
You have four and a half years before Windows 7 "End of extended support" occurs on January 14, 2020. You might want to transition straight to linux or OSX. Ref: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows&#x2F
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Killing Cortana: How to disable Windows 10's info-hungry digital assistant(pcworld.com)
3 points by gvb 11y ago|0 comments
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by gvb 11y ago
The link referenced in the Wired story is better: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/malaysia/1177... The French island of Reunion is west of Madagascar: https://en.wikipedia.org&#
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by gvb 11y ago
Build? The Youxia doesn’t start producing the cars till 2016 and the first deliveries will be made in 2017. No. Better than Tesla? Of course, all the information listed on their website are just production specs and could change by next
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Crowdsourcing Saves D-Day’s First Airplane(airspacemag.com)
1 points by gvb 11y ago|0 comments
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by gvb 11y ago
Sorry, I deleted my comment about the same time you replied to it. I realized both you and TFA were discusing testing setups, not actual hard drive redundancy setups.
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Here Is Why the Linux 4.2 Kernel Is Messing Up on Some Ubuntu Systems(phoronix.com)
2 points by gvb 11y ago|0 comments

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