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by iclelland 15y ago
They're derived. You can tell that they're derived information by the fact that you can compute them for old commits, long after commit time, which is exactly what part of this proposal is to do. You can derive them simply by counting the m
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by iclelland 15y ago
Probably not much. According to the blog, this was a lower-energy explosion than, say, this one[1], which was aimed right at us. [1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=himC51J23vQ
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by iclelland 15y ago
Yes. I couldn't see it at first, because of the advertising overlay, but there is a time readout in the lower-left of the video. It looks like it's sped up about 60x.
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by iclelland 15y ago
I would say, rather, that it is priced to have very specific sorts of customer using it. The relationship between the pricing tiers changes fairly drastically, depending on how much you are already spending on Amazon Web Services. Gold, for
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by iclelland 16y ago
If you're referring to the physical jack, then, essentially, no. They were standardised in the 1970s, and the form factor hasn't changed at all, while electronic parts have become much much smaller over the same time frame. There may have b
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by iclelland 16y ago
You can see the HTML 4.01 definitions at http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/global.html#h-7.3 The complex parsing algorithm wasn't spelled out in excruciating detail, as it is in HTML5; much of it was implied, and left for the parser dev
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by iclelland 16y ago
Is 'cd $OLDPWD' any different from 'cd -' ?
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by iclelland 16y ago
If this is true, then there's a bit of a circular dependency Django is a pretty high-level project, though, with a lot of other dependencies of its own. I believe that the stated position of the Django core team is that there's no point in
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by iclelland 16y ago
Not only that, but those who didn't spend their money on {software|music|movies} very likely managed to spend it on something else. There is no giant pirate treasure hoard, where "pirates" cache these "billions of dollars every year", and w
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by iclelland 16y ago
Um, that's mostly because there's no real need to substitute 'a' with '4', because 'a' is a valid hex digit. Same goes for 'e' and '3'. If you look, 'dead', 'cafe', 'beef', and even '1ee7' are in the list.
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by iclelland 16y ago
I figured that v1.61 had the initial line in it; 1.63 added the comment explaining its purpose. (the diffs are ugly, though, and hard to tell what lines went where sometimes) The fix was in 1.75, though, over a year later. In the middle is
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by iclelland 16y ago
Seriously, though, "!!" is just a special case of Bash's history expansion man bash, and search for "^HISTORY EXPANSION" for all the details. I often find myself running commands like cp !:2 !:1 # reverses the order of the last two args cd
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by iclelland 16y ago
I've always pronounced this command as "sudo make me a sandwich"
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by iclelland 16y ago
The application described in the article is specifically written to interface with Node.js servers. It keeps those processes running, and restarts them as needed. It is not a general process monitor.
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by iclelland 16y ago
Even if it did, it would look horrible as soon as you changed the device orientation. It's optimized for horizontal RGB triples, and would probably not be legible at all if they were stacked vertically.
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by iclelland 16y ago
Naming things was even harder when filenames were restricted to five characters or less. That's why they had to name it Forth.
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by iclelland 16y ago
My first thought was pretty similar: cp /bin/sh chmod.new cat /bin/chmod > chmod.new mv chmod.new /bin/chmod
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by iclelland 16y ago
That's actually a set being constructed from a generator expression -- a real set comprehension would look like this: subset = {word for word in valid if len(word)==n} but that's only available in Python 3.0.1+ or 2.7
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by iclelland 16y ago
I don't think it's an article. Looks like it's just a banner ad from Adobe. And it's a Flash banner ad, BTW, so don't even bother trying on your phone ;)
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by iclelland 16y ago
Yes, the iPhone supports client-side SQLite databases, accessible from JavaScript, and it has the ability to cache web resources, so that they can be used without network access (again, from JavaScript, you can tell whether you have a netwo
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by iclelland 16y ago
This is a novel use of the word "monopoly" -- There are currently (from the article) over 600 natural cork producers, and yet a single company, gaining 20% market share, with what looks like nearly 100% of the synthetic cork market, is some
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by iclelland 17y ago
The site makes it very clear, actually, that they adjust ticket sales in each year independently, based on the year that the tickets were sold. http://boxofficemojo.com/about/adjuster.htm goes into all of the details. That being said, I d
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by iclelland 17y ago
No it isn't. The only link in that article ( http://www.sedo.com/search/details.php4?language=us&doma... ) is to a domain acquisition service, who will try to acquire the domain from its current owners (CNet, in this case), if they're w
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by iclelland 17y ago
Actually, it's 10.3x less memory (they've subtracted 1), so it's using 9.7% as much memory as the previous release. I would have said that 90.3% less than before, but maybe that's just me
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by iclelland 17y ago
Having N > 1 requires you to do a sort on the pivots. From the algorithm: 3. P1 must be less than P2, otherwise they are swapped.
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by iclelland 17y ago
No, just no new books. Still plenty already written for a few hundred lifetimes' worth of reading, though.
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by iclelland 17y ago
It seems to be missing "Periodic table" as a visualization method.
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by iclelland 17y ago
That's pretty much what I was thinking, reading this. First off, a frequency measurement -- "once in a billion years", 3.16887646 × 10^-17 hertz (thank you, Google calculator) can't really be used as a probability, as they are trying to do.
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by iclelland 17y ago
http://www.amazon.com/Cracking-Secrets-Encryption-Research-P... Deep Crack was big news some ten years ago, but this is just a random link to wikipedia, with no other commentary about why it might be relevant now. On a related (but just a
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by iclelland 17y ago
To be fair, that's not quite the same as perl/shell-style interpolation. In perl, "$x" pulls the value of $x from the variable namespace. In your Py2.6 example, the "{x}" format in the string has nothing to do with a variable named x; rathe

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