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by gxti 16y ago
If a "license file" is acceptable, this works great -- you can use a human-readable text file describing the license (expiration, features, etc.) and sign it inline with PGP. I've seen Citrix XenServer use this approach, for example. Howeve
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by gxti 16y ago
I've often considered open source voting software and hardware as a possible startup idea, but frankly I don't have the balls to go through with it. I'm not an entrepreneur, and it is a legal minefield besides, so I stay away. Still, I have
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by gxti 16y ago
I've never thought of it as a market failure and certainly never framed the holy war as ultimately signaling economics beliefs. It's just a marginally lower local optima with a gargantuan switching cost. The benefits of having a standard la
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by gxti 16y ago
Odd, I must be the only person on the planet who actually likes JIRA. Probably because my point of reference is Bugzilla.
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by gxti 16y ago
It would have to be pretty damn buggy and underdeveloped to lose to Flash in that department. Until just now I wasn't aware there even was a Linux plugin.
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by gxti 16y ago
Why do you think that?
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by gxti 16y ago
If the voting on your post is any indication, HNers are also eager to demonstrate their willingness to self-deprecate, even in total anonymity. Reddit also has this to a very high degree, but samples are rarer on HN so it is difficult to co
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by gxti 16y ago
Stackoverflow does exactly that. They have big buttons for all the major identity providers, including Google, Facebook, etc. and a text field at the bottom for manual openid login.
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by gxti 16y ago
"It was a labor of love for no external gain" Actually it was a commission, although he made one for himself as well.
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by gxti 16y ago
The author also complained about free designs: "not merely because designs are being “shared” (read “pirated”), but because people are downloading free charts rather than paying for a designer’s work." At least, that's how I read it.
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by gxti 16y ago
I've been running it for two months and haven't had a single Oops yet. That said, it is an experimental filesystem and you should be prepared to restore everything from (non-btrfs) backup. The btrfs code in 2.6.35 finally fixes something th
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by gxti 16y ago
I haven't worked with mainframes, and I frequently chortle every time someone mentions one even though deep down I know the article is right. But still, lack of experience has never stopped me from making stuff up before, so: I imagine that
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by gxti 16y ago
It doesn't make a copy. It creates a special object (which you don't see unless you're digging in the internals) called a "cell" which holds a reference to the object for as long as the function exists. To see for yourself, look at `somefun
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by gxti 16y ago
MSSQL supports it because it was inherited from Sybase. SQLite also supports it as well. You're right that it's a feature, but frankly I can't live without it -- there's no way to write safe schema migrations!
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by gxti 16y ago
If I'm not mistaken, there are quite a few futures-backed ETFs that roll continuously -- VXX perhaps? So it's not like it's not possible. It's baffling to me that fund managers are either oblivious to how much they're moving the market, or
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by gxti 16y ago
You can do that in vanilla Firefox 3.6 and I'm pretty sure it's worked since at least 2.x
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by gxti 16y ago
discover.com -- there's a "log in" link at the top that takes you to a secure page, though.
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by gxti 16y ago
You're technically correct (the best kind of correct!) -- it's not inserting NULL. But it is inserting a value it pulled out of its ass, which I posit is actually worse. For text types it uses the empty string, for numbers it uses 0, etc. I
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by gxti 16y ago
There can be only one because it exists solely to be the "last updated" field. There's no point in having more than one. In MySQL, it simply only updates the first -- so you get a sometimes magic field.
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by gxti 16y ago
The post is from 2008, and this seems to be the follow-up: http://www.valuedlessons.com/2008/02/pysec-monadic-combinato...
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by gxti 16y ago
Lower tier FX brokers pretty much are bucket shops. See here for an explanation of some of the things that bad shops do: http://nondealingdesk.blogspot.com/2006/04/non-dealing-desk-...
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by gxti 16y ago
As long as it doesn't end in -ly or -ing, I'm pretty much happy.
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by gxti 16y ago
Prediction markets. They're like an elaborate, worldwide bet. Shame they're not government-sanctioned; a world with ubiquitous prediction markets would be interesting indeed. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prediction_market
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by gxti 16y ago
It's a sliding scale. For example, compare to the audiophile cult ^W community. Most people don't know what good headphones are until they put on their first pair, but then they do there is no going back to the old, muddy $10 pair from Ta
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by gxti 16y ago
One does indeed get sludge using a blade grinder, but it's not nearly as unpleasant an experience if the coffee is good. That said, Kitchenaid makes a great burr grinder for drip or press use. Low-end burr grinders are also pretty cheap. Th
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by gxti 16y ago
Thanks for the reply. Models may have fundamental value, but wisdom on model valuations is a little sparse at this point in history. Same for people in general -- there just aren't more than a few people (and I'm giving a benefit of a doubt
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by gxti 16y ago
It's not just "nobody knows" -- it's "there isn't a reason". Big difference. It is impossible to reason about what intrinsic values cause one model to be more highly touted than another because there aren't any. The value ascribed is entire
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by gxti 16y ago
Not exactly -- the reactor did shut down "safely", just not fast enough to avoid a steam explosion. Chernobyl was dangerous because it had a positive "void coefficient": the more the coolant boils, the more reactive the core becomes. It's e
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by gxti 16y ago
Lest you become a crazy cat lady. I like this metaphor.
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by gxti 16y ago
For what it's worth, the "caching" is critical for cross compiles because you can't test for functionality using binaries that don't run on your system. But that's not really caching -- that's preconfiguration. I don't see much point in act

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