jdaley

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Xerox Alto Restoration Part 6: first bad chip [video](youtube.com)
2 points by jdaley 10y ago|0 comments
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by jdaley 11y ago
We eventually tracked this down to some of the stabilisation algorithms – they work fine within the intended time frames, but there's an inefficiency in them that gets worse the longer the wormhole is open and eventually they can&#x27
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by jdaley 11y ago
What are the differences in implementation of the languages that cause some to show a rounding error and others not?
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Customs officer confiscates passenger's phone and then uses it to secretly text(smh.com.au)
36 points by jdaley 11y ago|4 comments
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by jdaley 13y ago
Do you find that the message broker makes that implementation easier/better than just using a database table to store the incoming messages until they can be processed? I've worked on enterprise products, off-the-shelf and in-hous
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by jdaley 13y ago
Forfty percent of all people know that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1j2Duy_xzEA
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This 'busy-bragging' epidemic must be stopped(theguardian.com)
2 points by jdaley 13y ago|0 comments
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by jdaley 13y ago
Although it's quite a bit older than re-linq, I'll throw a recommendation in for IQToolkit: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mattwar/archive/2008/11/18/linq-link... I used it to build a LINQ p
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by jdaley 13y ago
Internet Explorer doesn't automatically update because every company disables the automatic updates. Developing for Internet Explorer 8 is my present-day reality too, but if IT departments were instead mandating Firefox 3.0 or Chrome 1
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by jdaley 13y ago
I don't get it. His first example is that since the string replace method takes a callback as its second argument, you can use it to run code. So if you happen to find an app that injects unescaped user input into Javascript, you could
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by jdaley 13y ago
Why is it such a huge revelation that advertising is created to benefit a business? You've got a beautifully produced and captivating video, which makes no secret about advertising something. People enjoy it and engage with it, but the
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by jdaley 13y ago
I set my time zone to +10:00 in settings, and now my web site is "up since -9 hrs, -40 mins". Other than minor things it's working well so far.
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by jdaley 13y ago
To help others decode the acronyms, and to explain the situation... In 2009, the Australian Labor Party, in power as the federal government of Australia, initiated construction of Australia's National Broadband Network (NBN). The netwo
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by jdaley 13y ago
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak has weighed in: "The insolent and impudent act by the young couple who insulted Islam showed that freedom of expression and irresponsible opinion can jeopardise the community" Yet the Malaysian
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by jdaley 13y ago
@githubstatus: Working with our upstream providers to mitigate a rather large DDoS at the moment.
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by jdaley 13y ago
If a passerby hears you say "cypher mode A Y R cypher mode" to unlock your computer, they might not figure out that your password is CAT, but they will figure out that "cypher mode A Y R cypher mode" unlocks the computer
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by jdaley 13y ago
If I put my credit card number into a site and the next page said "actually this isn't real, and we promise we didn't save your card number", my next step would be to call my bank and cancel the card.
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by jdaley 13y ago
Everyone should keep this in mind. I find the Nigerian scammer-scammer stories entertaining because of the vigilantism, but it's perverse entertainment knowing that many of the scammers are driven to it by desperation. Likewise, I got a kic
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by jdaley 14y ago
Sure, but don't just steal the Shields Up content! Your description of port scans has been copy-pasted from Shields Up. Your disclaimer text is identical except that "Shields Up" is replaced by "CheckMyRouter"...
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by jdaley 14y ago
> Can any one read this blackboard? The first two sentences are too blurry for me. I think the third (left-most) sentence is: ○ 授業と休み時間の区別をしよう "Let's distinguish between class time and break time."