jbert

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by jbert 16y ago
Do you have full control over the clients which make requests (e.g. it's only AJAX or 3rd party clients written to your api spec - i.e. not browsers making raw requests against some of your urls?) I backed away from using content-negotiatio
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by jbert 16y ago
> Essentially the core protocol is a gossip overlay. Is this a broadly similar idea to NNTP 'flood fill', where once you have a peer (discovered in some way), you exchange articles (or in this case torrents) you each have - so they pro
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by jbert 16y ago
> that same modified DNA combines with DNA from the other parent to form the DNA for the child. Sure, but only cell#1 has the actual molecules from the parents. Cell division requires that the DNA be replicated. What surprises me is tha
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by jbert 16y ago
Basically, some life events lead to inheritable changes. The mechanism is apparently methylation (or other similar changes) to the DNA. Why this is inheritable I do not understand. One rather relevant example from a recent new scientist tha
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by jbert 16y ago
You could make it fit your worldview by: - defining anyone who likes adventure as "not sane" in your book - including "risk of regret over having had an unadventurous life" into your risk calculation - just run an analogy with casinos, wher
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by jbert 16y ago
Marketing. (Which makes it not "unknown").
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by jbert 16y ago
...you're either the product being sold or you're enjoying a publically provided service whose costs are met by the taxpaying base.
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by jbert 16y ago
That's tunable again tho. Not all front pages need some new mixed in - you can adjust both the amount of new and the proportion of 'contaminated' front pages.
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by jbert 16y ago
Well, the idea would be that the casual viewer couldn't distinguish the 'new' from the front page and so would treat them the same. Otherwise people will ignore new as they do now. (Point score could be left off of the front page to help th
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by jbert 16y ago
Why not simply mix some 'new' randomly into the front page at some ratio? If one or two of the stories in the front page were (different) new stories for each visitor, you'd solve the "front page or bust" problem. You'd sacrifice a bit of "
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by jbert 16y ago
Push email dates to 4.0BSD (or so the man page for 'biff' tells me): http://www.unix.com/man-page/freebsd/1/biff/
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by jbert 16y ago
The honest suffer when everyone lies, true. That can be fixed by raising the cost of lying, rather than accepting it as the norm with consequences. Humans have a tool for this, it's called reputation. The more we accept, say, that all polit
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by jbert 16y ago
The DNA idea is great. You'd need a long "this is a message" intro, say a long ATATATATAT repeating sequence (much too long to occur by chance). As you say, you can use forward error correction to preserve the data. The hard part is describ
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by jbert 16y ago
Cool. I think a well-defined algorithm for defining a flagged character is important, to get cross-platform/application support and to validate the algo. (Any bug in the algo is a possible security hole, moreso if people become to trust tha
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by jbert 16y ago
So...what do we do about it? How about a standard algorithm/mapping table for grouping unicode chars to known languages and flagging when a unicode string pulls chars from more than one language? (possibly only flagging if a change occurs w
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by jbert 16y ago
Python, perl and ruby are roughly the same language. The differences between them are primarily cultural, rather than technical. I suspect the reason perl flourished here was a combination of luck and the cultural fit. Culture here includes
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by jbert 16y ago
Achievement comes from continually building something, not repeatedly starting new projects.
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by jbert 16y ago
From a performance point of view, the only difference between blocking and non-blocking I/O is the overall amount of state you need to find when an i/o is ready to complete (and how it is laid out in memory). For blocking I/O, the O/S needs
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by jbert 16y ago
Yes, thanks. That was very interesting. It also made me wonder. Looking at the UK, the largest proportion of debt was 'financial', which I assume is debt owned by businesses operating in the financial sector. If so, is this even a bad thing
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by jbert 16y ago
Because you're not descended from creatures who migrated sufficiently often or far for this to be a significant advantage in their reproductive efficiency.
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by jbert 16y ago
> I don't think 'style' should be the deciding factor in something like this unless the difference in style translates in to 'readable' versus 'unreadable' Not a deciding factor, but there's a lot of subtle info in a whole code sample.
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by jbert 16y ago
It's obviously not statically typed, but Perl has dynamic scoping (and that was the preferred way to have a local variable in perl4, before lexically scoped vars were introduced in perl5). Whether perl is part of the lisp community is anoth
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by jbert 16y ago
Or for any scripting language, use you can use strace. e.g. to find CGI.pm in perl: $ strace -e open perl -MCGI -e exit 2>&1 > /dev/null | grep CGI.pm | sed -e 's/",. $//' -e 's/^. "//' /usr/share/perl/5.10/CGI.pm Linux specifi
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by jbert 17y ago
<plug>If you save your docs on humyo you can edit them in Zoho.</plug>
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by jbert 17y ago
That's inspired. I guess the insight it that valgrind is basically retrofitting a type system over the raw memory accesses. I wonder if a similar approach could be used to check that certain classes of program input are all processed in a c
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by jbert 17y ago
Some possibilities: Some are lost (you need to print money to replace torn/lost bills). Some people join the group without new scrip being added (money supply needs to grow with population). Some people de-facto left the group (kids grew up
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by jbert 17y ago
And could be (partially) negated by requiring western suppliers to demonstrate some kind of parity in their supply chain.
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by jbert 17y ago
Yes, but while it's easy to see that, in spirit emailing an mp3 to a friend (and deleting mine)is "giving my copy", note that it looks a lot like "making a new copy". That's why I think the distinction is quite important for digital media
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by jbert 17y ago
> Back then the computer booted into a BASIC interpreter, but there is no modern system that does something similar. javascript+canvas. It's there, the missing piece is probably the text editor + run instructions.
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by jbert 17y ago
It's not obvious that redistribution is against copyright, e.g. see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine It seems to me (from First Sale Doctrine) that copyright protects against increasing the number of copies, not passing co

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