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by inklesspen 15y ago
Switch to a credit union, then. If your profile info is accurate, you live in a region served by the SF Fire Credit Union ( http://www.sffirecu.org/ ). I switched to them a few years ago and it's been a great experience. Save yourself that
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by inklesspen 15y ago
Scrivener is really tuned for slicing and dicing prose. You _could_ use it for code, just as you _could_ use MS Word as your IDE. But it would probably be a bad idea.
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by inklesspen 15y ago
Why mbox instead of, say, Maildir? The irreversible mangling mbox requires makes me reluctant to use it as an archive format.
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by inklesspen 15y ago
jQuery can be cached.
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by inklesspen 15y ago
My apologies. I considered doing so, but I thought "More on Software Patents" might not be a sufficiently informative title.
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Ignore the code: More on Software Patents(ignorethecode.net)
30 points by inklesspen 15y ago|8 comments
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by inklesspen 15y ago
Galaxies are not spaceships. Just because the natural expansion of the universe affects galaxies (and everything else) doesn't mean it's possible to artificially expand and contract the universe.
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by inklesspen 15y ago
Galaxies are not actually moving faster than light. The distance between them is growing at a rate that would suggest FTL speeds because the universe is expanding.
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by inklesspen 15y ago
http://xkcd.com/538/
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by inklesspen 15y ago
It's actually an extension of DJB's netstrings. Hence the name.
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by inklesspen 15y ago
"The job is a contract job". That's why; you'll be an employee of TekSystems, not Apple. You won't be getting Apple benefits or compensation. On the other hand, you can still put Apple on your resume, so it's not all bad.
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by inklesspen 16y ago
Lying to a judge is not typically a good strategy. SCEA likely has more details about who blickmaniac is; they just haven't disclosed them yet.
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by inklesspen 16y ago
Looks like two seasons a year, spring and fall.
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by inklesspen 16y ago
Yeah, the important part is in the header just before that response. "Puffing." This refers to "puffery", a common advertising/marketing term. For example, the owner of a hamburger restaurant is permitted to claim he serves "the best hambur
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by inklesspen 16y ago
There's a maximum limit.
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by inklesspen 16y ago
That's the case for every hash function. If it's a good hash function, the outputs will be evenly distributed across the entire 256 bit space, which comes out to 2^256 possible outputs. I don't think this is a problem; bcrypt has a much sma
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by inklesspen 16y ago
1. I worry I might have a bug that returns the proper output for some inputs, but improper output for other inputs. 2. Cryptographically strong random numbers isn't strictly required for a bcrypt salt, I guess. But if I'm building something
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by inklesspen 16y ago
Okay, but in the more general case, where something literally does not exist for a particular platform/language and my choices are "write it myself" or "don't use that platform/language", is there any way to feel confident that a choice to
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by inklesspen 16y ago
What should you do if you can't avoid writing crypto code? I found myself in this situation when I tried to find a bcrypt implementation for Common Lisp. There wasn't one. Folks in #lisp suggested I adapt the blowfish implementation in Iron
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by inklesspen 16y ago
There is a large chance B offers to sell the ticket for less than $100 -- that is, he decides not to fly, and either forfeits his ticket or accepts a voucher for less than what he paid. That's the whole reason they overbook in the first pla
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by inklesspen 16y ago
iTunes sells AAC music files: music that you can listen to on any device that supports AAC, which is a part of the MPEG-4 standard (just like MP3 is a part of the MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 standards). This AAC music used to be sold with Apple DRM o
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by inklesspen 16y ago
The Kindle can already read DRM-free Mobipocket and PDF ebooks.
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by inklesspen 16y ago
You'll find all that data in JSON format at http://jtools.smartmoney.com/middleware/datamap?src=marketda... (which is the url that this page hits). Go ahead and explore that; I think you'll have fun there.
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Wil Shipley's Q&A with TSA Chairman John Pistole(blog.wilshipley.com)
5 points by inklesspen 16y ago|0 comments
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Tiger-Stone: Automatic Paving Machine(core.form-ula.com)
9 points by inklesspen 16y ago|1 comments
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by inklesspen 16y ago
I actually built a feed-builder: http://ffnetupdates.inklesspen.com/ Sign up (no email or password, just a UUID), track as many authors or stories as you like in one Atom feed. It will let you know when wordcount changes even if there's n
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ILuaBox: Lua interpreter on the iPad(mobileappsystems.com)
1 points by inklesspen 16y ago|0 comments
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by inklesspen 16y ago
Short, but potentially interesting. I hope he follows up.
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by inklesspen 16y ago
The UAE has massive human rights issues regarding non-citizen employees. In particular, female domestic servants of foreign origin are likely to be abused. Kuwait bans women from working after 8 pm. True, France has had some steps backwards
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by inklesspen 16y ago
"If there are too much nodes down from the point of view of a single node it will reply to the client with a cluster error." This sacrifices availability. Remember, the cluster doesn't include only the servers; it also includes the clients,

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