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by ionfish 17y ago
The #trafigura hashtag on Twitter is going a bit crazy. http://twitter.com/search?q=%23trafigura On the one hand, it's good that news that needs to get out gets out. On the other, I can't help thinking how easy it is to rustle up a lynch
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by ionfish 17y ago
I thought links to sources were preferred over blogs regurgitating them? It would have been just as easy to simply link to the Guardian article [1]. Supposedly this is related to their reporting on the oil company Trafigura's alleged cover-
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by ionfish 17y ago
Because it's none of their damn business. The children in question are not under their care, so they have no reason to pay the matter any heed whatsoever. Ensuring that children are properly cared for while they are absent is the parents' r
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by ionfish 17y ago
_ contains the value of the last expression evaluated in irb. I don't think there's a way to retrieve ones which were evaluated longer ago, although I might be wrong. >> "Expr" => "Expr" >> _ => "Expr"
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by ionfish 17y ago
Provability (that is, being able to be proved by deductive means) is not generally taken to be a requirement for asserting a fact. To prove something is to demonstrate that it could not be otherwise (that it is necessary, given the logic em
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by ionfish 17y ago
Surely these two things aren't exclusive? One could log into one's account on a (Linux|BSD|etc.) installation and find all one's data gone, then read the source code to find out what went wrong. I presume you don't check the complete source
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by ionfish 17y ago
See also: Heist, Bus Scheme. http://github.com/jcoglan/heist http://github.com/technomancy/bus-scheme
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by ionfish 17y ago
I have seen this list of suggestions repeated on different blogs for the last several years, with only minor differences. They are always heavy on security-by-obscurity tactics and light on serious suggestions. This article is even worse th
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by ionfish 17y ago
> If you have read all the other books "completely" Presumably you meant "If you haven't read all the other books", unless you intended to imply that even if one has read all the other books listed, one still isn't ready for Lisp in S
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by ionfish 17y ago
This is fine for university students, but for anyone else, it is deeply frustrating. I don't want to have to email the author of a book merely to obtain solutions to the exercises; after all, the author may have died since they wrote the bo
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by ionfish 17y ago
The abstract is available on the CUFP site [1]. On the Haskell in Industry page [2] of the Haskell wiki, it states that "Facebook uses some Haskell internally for tools. lex-pass [3] is a tool for programmatically manipulating a PHP code ba
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by ionfish 17y ago
The first example, (1..100).map(&'(1/_)+1') can be written in Haskell with sections and composition: map ((+1) . (1/)) [1..100] It's even shorter, if you strip out the whitespace.
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by ionfish 17y ago
Even if you do use .htaccess files, you still shouldn't be showing them to anyone who requests them from your web server!
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by ionfish 17y ago
For your Apache config. # Disallow viewing of .svn and .git directory contents <DirectoryMatch \.(svn|git)> Order allow,deny Deny from all </DirectoryMatch>
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by ionfish 17y ago
I suspect that was prior to the initial launch. The architecture has presumably evolved to the state described in the HS article since then. Edit: yes, Casey says in the Tim Bray interview that "As soon as we could, we got alpha testers in
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by ionfish 17y ago
See also Bluff, a JavaScript port of the Gruff graphing library for Ruby. http://bluff.jcoglan.com/
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by ionfish 17y ago
Results 1 - 10 of about 936 for "java is dead". Changes quite a bit if you quote it, leaving out pages with headlines like "Dozens dead in Java quake." People should think a bit more carefully before referencing numbers like these.
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by ionfish 17y ago
This is practically content free. If there really is a known security hole in WordPress, I for one would like to know what it is, so I can patch my sites. Vague burblings about XSS just don't cut it. After all, it's possible that his site w
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by ionfish 17y ago
Related: the Free the Postcode [1] campaign is a public-sourced database of postcode data. [1] http://www.freethepostcode.org/
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Applied Functional Programming: Part 1(netsuperbrain.com)
1 points by ionfish 17y ago|0 comments
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by ionfish 17y ago
On a Mac you just need to hold down command and click. Opening links in new windows/tabs is something only the user should have control over. Hacker News does it right.
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by ionfish 17y ago
No, it's not. Scott Chacon's surname starts with a C, not an S. http://github.com/schacon http://progit.org/
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by ionfish 17y ago
> [T]he union of the two can read both! Don't you mean the intersection of the two?
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by ionfish 17y ago
Zeldman has written a fair bit more about HTML5 since this article. [1] One of those articles has the title "Loving HTML5", and says "the more I study the direction HTML5 is taking, the better I like it." [2] Along with various other well-k
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by ionfish 17y ago
Original PDF link: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~chak/papers/accelerate.pdf (15MB)
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by ionfish 17y ago
I admit that my tongue was planted rather firmly in my cheek when I made my remarks. However, neither your assertion that "Not everything done on [ sic ] schools is a conspiracy to keep pupils in check" nor the claim that there are more eff
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by ionfish 17y ago
It does have advantages, just not for users. The advantage is providing a way to control pupils: a student's work will not be accepted unless it is written in the correct way. The implicit message is clear: you must conform to our pointless
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by ionfish 17y ago
svn update Not a complex command to run! I hear there are these things called cronjobs too, so you don't even have to run it yourself. Just pick the latest stable branch and svn switch when a new major version comes out.
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Supercompilation for Haskell can make it as fast as C(community.haskell.org)
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by ionfish 17y ago
The WordPress core team don't, to the best of my knowledge. The Debian maintainers may.

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