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by huxley 12y ago
The process of creating the grid was called Centuriation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centuriation
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by huxley 12y ago
You'd think that until you look at sales stats and see how few people buy comic books compared to the number that watch the movies: http://www.comichron.com/monthlycomicssales/2014/2014-06.htm...
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by huxley 12y ago
Doesn't sound like ECMAScript 6 is coming out until mid-2015 https://twitter.com/awbjs/status/474662357516689410 http://blog.oio.de/2014/06/13/ecmascript-6-delayed-mid-2015&#x2F
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by huxley 12y ago
Whatever happened to suitably named companies like Apple or Commodore that clearly described what they were selling?
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by huxley 12y ago
If your server does need to maintain time sync with NTP servers, OpenNTPD Portable is generally considered a secure alternative to ntpd
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by huxley 12y ago
I think Django's method is a good one to emulate: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/auth/passwords/ A list of password hashers, on successful login the user is upgraded to the top pa
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by huxley 12y ago
This donation page has some background on how PyPy is proposing to replace the GIL with software transactional memory: http://pypy.org/tmdonate2.html#introduction
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by huxley 12y ago
It's both Mac and iOS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_Data It's not strictly an ORM but more a model-data focused framework that handles the object graph, serialization and persistence.
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by huxley 12y ago
Ted Chiang played around with ancient Near East cosmology to great effect in his story "The Tower of Babylon" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_Babylon_(story)
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by huxley 12y ago
Dominic Giampaolo who did a lot of the work on the BeOS File system has been working for Apple since around 2002: http://www.nobius.org/~dbg/
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by huxley 12y ago
There was a Kickstarter done to build a modern camera lucida, they are still building batches of them (they even have DYI including prescription lucidas): http://neolucida.com (not affiliated, just an art geek)
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by huxley 12y ago
I seem to remember a black hole powered starship being mentioned in a 1978 book edited by Jerry Pournelle called "Black Holes and Other Marvels"
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by huxley 12y ago
Sorry if I was unclear, what I was wondering was whether there might be a practical benefit to adapt the changes that were made in micropython for PyPy3 or if I was misunderstanding the nature of micropython's optimizations.
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by huxley 12y ago
Take it with many grains of salt, he is a Forbes "contributor": http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/top-stories/173743/what-t...
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by huxley 12y ago
To be fair, John Siracusa has been beating that drum for a long time: http://arstechnica.com/apple/2010/06/copland-2010-revisited/
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by huxley 12y ago
As in poop or as in Dan Brown novels?
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by huxley 12y ago
You may have difficulty blocking out an infinite amount of time for the task. And even if somehow you did, that single monkey won't do as they have trouble focusing on a task and tend to die after non-infinite time periods. So unless
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by huxley 12y ago
I wonder how that would stack with PyPy3 or if there are too many changes that wouldn't port over.
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by huxley 12y ago
It comes from NeXTSTEP, text fields were given several emacs compatible keystroke editing commands as part of the key bindings for NSTextField and NSTextView. You can modify the default keybindings and even add more emacs compatible keystro
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by huxley 12y ago
As long as you don't end up like HP and Autonomy: http://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/may/07/shareholders...
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by huxley 12y ago
It was: http://www.holovaty.com/writing/rip-everyblock/
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by huxley 12y ago
If this was the very stupidest thing Apple has ever done--a massive colossal waste of money that needed to be written off--they would still have $183+ billion cash on hand that they could cry into.
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by huxley 12y ago
Large organizations sometimes manage to institutionally forget that they ever had some assets: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/04/12/missing_novell_serve...
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by huxley 12y ago
FYI, it's this Frank Miller: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Miller_(cryptography) Not this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Miller_(comics)
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by huxley 12y ago
No it just means that there is permissions infrastructure not that they intend to make it available. What would show Google working actively would be to modify APIs or provide solid guidelines for developers to ensure that arbitrarily close
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by huxley 12y ago
http://blog.cloudflare.com/killing-rc4 It's to balance the need to protect against BEAST vs RC4 issues. They use an OpenSSL patch that "disables RC4-based cipher suites for connections using TLS v1.1 and above, wh
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by huxley 12y ago
They won't get much stiff competition from Sony: http://www.cnet.com/news/sony-agrees-to-sell-pc-business-rev...
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by huxley 12y ago
I'm not generally a big Disney person but the books on animation theory from them that I've bought are quite enjoyable. There is book that the linked-to animation is based on: The Illusion of Life: Disney Animation by Frank Thomas
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by huxley 13y ago
I can understand Amazon/Comixology's position on this but it takes serious chutzpah to announce that in the same blogpost as: http://comixology.tumblr.com/post/83931330905/important-chan... "We’ve m
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by huxley 13y ago
Performance is only one of many factors in deciding on a language. Here are some other reasons that occur to me (YMMV): * A language that is great for performance might not lend itself equally well to experimentation or initial implementat

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