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by jperras 11y ago
What you've described is known as smurfing, and it is quite illegal: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structuring
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by jperras 11y ago
Stop using web-based admin tools, and learn how to use the CLI interface. I mean this in the best, nicest possible way; we've all been there. But learning how to use the CLI will pay dividends in the short and long run.
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by jperras 12y ago
The article does not address what I consider to be one of the most confusing elements of this story: > as an employee of the association that administered the lottery, he was barred by law from buying lotto tickets or claiming lottery pr
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Ganymede is the exception here, due to the fact that it is the only Jovian moon with it's own magnetosphere.
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by jperras 12y ago
For trees that have few inserts/deletes and a large number of reads (like most threaded comments), I'd probably go with a modified preorder tree traversal (MPTT) implementation. With an MPTT structure you can query the entire tree
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by jperras 12y ago
Without sounding facetious: Am I amble to search (or at least paginate) through all of my own DMs yet?
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A MitM proxy like Charles ( http://www.charlesproxy.com/ ) would be incredible. Debugging SSL issues is always difficult, and it would be great to have the tools all in one place. Also, a shout-out to mitmproxy ( https:/
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by jperras 12y ago
The application of a causally consistent model for hash table operations is brilliant; treating CPUs and memory as a "traditional" distributed system is brilliant. I know I said it twice already, but: brilliant. Reading your disse
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> It's frustrating, as someone who is interested in cooking and is trying to learn, that there are a million and one recipes out there, but very few things that teach first principles. You'll probably love the books by Michael
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pastured != pasteured, in addition to the latter not being an actual word in English.
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For the Python users out there, the wonderful itsdangerous ( http://pythonhosted.org/itsdangerous/ ) library offers the ability to generate JSON Web Signature compliant tokens.
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> Unfortunately, Mailbox FAQ question 'Does Mailbox store my emails on its servers?' => 'Yes, but...' is a deal-breaker for me (sadly). As it is for me. When I think about the sheer quantity of services that I subs
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Bartering for Beers with Approximate Subset Sums(nerderati.com)
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When I took a graduate class in General Relativity under Robert Brandenberger, one of the more unconventional (and brilliant) approaches he took with his students was to introduce the formalism of geometric algebra quite early on, along wit
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There was a post a few years ago that detailed many of the archaic and somewhat obscure requirements that boarding passes must have: http://blog.timoni.org/post/318322031/a-practical-boarding-p... It seems as thou
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by jperras 13y ago
Not that I have a better answer, I believe the phrase "a third of a pizza" is just as confusing.
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If you read the paper, the security they are referring to is most likely that their data model is similar to git, using Merkle trees to ensure the integrity of files and their histories: > Our data model, like that of Git, forms a Merkle
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by jperras 13y ago
There's a nice list of claimed nootropic supplements (legal and illegal, depending on what country you live in) and what benefits (if any) they provide: http://examine.com/supplements/Nootropic/
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by jperras 13y ago
Like most things, it depends on the trade-offs. Who wouldn't want to be a better version of themselves if it can be done safely? I already take several: creatine monohydrate (5g/day), Vitamin D (4,000 IU/day), fish oil (~1000
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by jperras 13y ago
A very small request: A favicon! Useful for discerning which tab is which when they're pinned in Firefox: https://s3.amazonaws.com/nerderati.captures/B5X0V.png
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by jperras 13y ago
Not very surprising once you actually read the article: > The social network boss received $2.28 billion in compensation last year with nearly all of his yearly earnings coming as a result of exercising share options when the company wen
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by jperras 13y ago
It depends on the circumstances, as always. My brother, who is a specialized diesel mechanic and is one of the few people on the planet qualified to operate a seismic vibrator ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seismic_vibr
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by jperras 13y ago
For some reason, I feel as though the people in this thread against text-based protocols have never used telnet to inspect or debug an HTTP request/response. Or used telnet to help develop a client for something like memcached. The eas
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by jperras 13y ago
This is from the realm of mathematical physics, but Noether's Theorem ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noether%27s_theorem ) is quite possibly the most beautiful result that I can think of: Briefly, "Any differen
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by jperras 13y ago
Hi! I'm the author of the blog post that you listed in your article. Glad you found it useful; it surprises me to this day, almost 2 years later, at just how many pageviews it continues to generate. However, I would like to point out t
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by jperras 13y ago
Many thanks for the comments. Seriously :). Our onboarding for Gimme Bar has gone through a few revisions, and we're never really satisfied with it. We basically hinge everything on the video, hoping that people will grok it from there, whi
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by jperras 13y ago
Thanks! I really like what you've done with QuoteRed; it's refreshingly simple and straightforward. I save a ton of quotes/articles all the time, and you've got an interface that lends itself very nicely to this problem.
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I'd just like to mention that https://gimmebar.com allows you to save text snippets in a similar manner, in addition to pretty much any other media type, and doesn't require you to use Facebook for login. Disclaimer: We (Fictive Kin) buil
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by jperras 14y ago
I spent four years studying physics and mathematics, and I only had one professor that used transparent acetate sheets with notes pre-written and examples on them. All my other professors wrote out everything with chalk. Heck, we were exci

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