jackalope

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by jackalope 14y ago
Not sarcastic. The story has some key elements: 1. Right place at the right time (found abandoned baby in subway). 2. Unexpected (wasn't 'in the market' for a baby or considering purchasing/obtaining one in the near future) 3. It's who you
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by jackalope 14y ago
Great article, and it's nice to know there are more choices for package management on the Mac. But, sadly: Install Xcode from the Mac App Store... This is the main reason why I've stopped using OS X and am installing Linux on the Macs I u
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by jackalope 14y ago
I can't think of a better parable for opportunity than this story.
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by jackalope 14y ago
It doesn't. Flashblock is one of the most popular Firefox extensions[1], and variants are available in other browsers. Even though it offers some protection against hidden Flash elements and supercookies, it would still be popular just to p
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by jackalope 14y ago
I think group watching will remain popular, especially among kids, and for that you need a large display. Maybe the trend will be towards screen sharing, where you'd use a tablet or phone to select programming, then switch it to the screen.
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by jackalope 14y ago
I depend on make for recording a workflow history of my projects. There's no point in creating an alias in my ~/.bashrc for an arcane command I'm only going to use once or twice a year to transform, sync or configure a group of files. When
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by jackalope 14y ago
Possible improvements occur to me: 1. If indentation is significant and required, dotted notation should be optional: [foo] [bar] [car] The parser should be able to understand that this results in a foo.bar.car
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by jackalope 14y ago
No. As a society, we became numb to gun violence to the point where the media stopped reporting it on the news. The Newtown shootings reminded us that the problem is real and pervasive enough that it demands a solution. Stories of gun viole
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by jackalope 14y ago
Yes, it's actually pretty easy. First, create a zone file that all of the domains will share. I put mine in /var/named/master/dummy: $TTL 1d @ IN SOA ns1.localdomain. hostmaster.ns1.localdomain. (
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by jackalope 14y ago
Some developers don't appreciate the value of separating data from UI. A UI designer says, "Give me the data and I'll present it." But if they get a mixture of data and UI code, there's a serious problem, requiring a rewrite. If you're luck
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by jackalope 14y ago
I think I'd rephrase that to: The company that's going to put you out of business is using an early version of their own legacy code. It's not always obvious when you should attempt a rewrite from scratch. Having done a few refactorings,
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by jackalope 14y ago
As a user, I'm not sure I'm impressed. On my WP8 phone, I pin a live tile to the home screen exactly where I want it, at the size I want it, and it displays the information I expect to get from it. But Google Now sounds like a live tile kno
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by jackalope 14y ago
Yes! This ridiculous bug is still out there and is why I never use 'ID' when designing my schemas. Seriously, why can't reserved words be designed to be so uncommon, you'll never have a conflict? If I see another 'klass' object in Python or
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by jackalope 14y ago
Unfortunately, Excel can't cope with some of the more modern authentication systems being deployed on the web, so it's no longer as easy as providing a URL that spits out an HTML table, if you have to protect sensitive data behind a login (
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by jackalope 14y ago
This is why I'm continually amazed that Excel is used in business at all. I use a command line program to record my hours and can report the time I've worked on a project to the second. Unfortunately, my Excel-based timesheet sucks at math,
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by jackalope 14y ago
I worked this way for years in the 80s, when my main platform was the Atari ST. I had a whopping 4MB of RAM and would load the OS from a floppy disk into RAM, after which it would create a decent sized RAM drive that I would periodically
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by jackalope 14y ago
It was the most forgiving browser, with a quirks mode that handled broken code like a champ. But Opera was the best browser, and if your code rendered correctly in it, it would probably render correctly everywhere else (except maybe Netsc
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by jackalope 14y ago
While it's possible that their product might have protected them, that angle is merely self-promotional spin. The real reason that this happened is because Bit9 didn't properly secure their assets in the first place. It shouldn't matter i
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by jackalope 14y ago
For selecting a single random row with equal distribution and no need to worry about holes, the following might be simpler: SET @var = (SELECT FLOOR(RAND() * COUNT(id)) from random); PREPARE statement FROM 'SELECT name FROM random
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by jackalope 14y ago
...a crime that’s punishable by up to 5 years in prison and half a million dollars in fines per incident. It's time for some common sense sentencing caps if this is a possibility for merely tampering with an inanimate object. If it can't
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by jackalope 14y ago
When I open an app or browser on my smartphone, I'm usually focusing on a single task, where ads are intrusive and take away precious real estate from an already tiny screen. It's an enormous relief to use an app or site that just does what
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by jackalope 14y ago
An email concerning my most recent transfer to NameCheap included the following line: eNom, Inc. has received a request from [Me] on 22 Jan 2013 to become the new registrar of record. The subject was: Domain Transfer Request for [Domain]
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by jackalope 14y ago
Honest question: How are timestamps different from any other user-supplied data? Is the timeline of events ever recorded using an unsynchronized clock for relative comparison?
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by jackalope 14y ago
On the other hand, hourly-paid remote workers can be a tremendous value, since their pay is limited to the time they actually work and they usually don't receive many benefits.
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by jackalope 14y ago
I viewed three examples simultaneously from the Phosphor gallery at http://www.divergentmedia.com/phosphor/gallery and each one only used about 5% CPU, for 15% total. I closed them and viewed a YouTube HTML5 video (no Flash on this machin
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by jackalope 14y ago
I baked like a lobster once after spending too much time on a boat without any sunscreen. I was extremely concerned about the cancer risk and was surprised to come across this in the wikipedia article on sunburn: ...if sunscreen penetrates
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by jackalope 14y ago
The first tip for setting the cipher suite in Apache httpd is incomplete without: SSLHonorCipherOrder On Without it, the client's preference is used, which may be a slower cipher in your list. You'll want to revise your SSLCipherSu
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by jackalope 14y ago
Didn't Sun start this practice before the Oracle acquisition? Maybe it continues due to a long-term contract that must be honored.
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by jackalope 14y ago
As one commenter points out on that page, this may only be true for plans with a single phone. I have a family plan with 5 phones on it, and I couldn't find a prepaid account with comparable service for the same price.
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by jackalope 14y ago
I took advantage of yesterday's sale to transfer the last of my domains from GoDaddy. Namecheap has a decent website with an intuitive interface for managing domains, pretty good knowledgebase and forum, and nice features like email alerts

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