jpollock

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by jpollock 11y ago
I can see it now, an open plan office, 100 developers with noise cancelling headphones on, yelling at their computers because they can't tell how loud they are.
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by jpollock 11y ago
You're not supposed to eval the strings, that way leads to xss. Since you're supposed to parse it no matter what, there's no difference between JSON and any other format.
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by jpollock 11y ago
That was "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo", which was full of paid product placements.
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by jpollock 11y ago
The big tech companies already support legal intercept for content traversing their networks.
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by jpollock 11y ago
Well, yes, in this situation random guessing would be very likely to provide an immediate check on the solution. (1x, 2x, 4x), as indicated in the video below, is not sufficient. It represents a subset of the values that are valid. Think o
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by jpollock 11y ago
libreadline.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libreadline.so.6 (0x00007ff182e5d000) libreadline is GPL'ed, not LGPLed, Kerf is therefore in violation. https://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/php/chet&#
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by jpollock 11y ago
Most organisations I've worked for were scaled N+1 for day-to-day reliability with 2N for disaster recovery. This meant that the total servers required were 2(N+1). You get even more idle servers when you consider that they were scal
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by jpollock 11y ago
It seems to be coming up. http://www.hklaw.com/digitaltechblog/The-UCC-and-Software-Co... It looks like it ends up being decided on whether or not the software is a good (covered by a warranty) or a service.
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by jpollock 11y ago
Libraries in Paris seem to have pretty good hours: http://bibliotheques.equipement.paris.fr/tousleshoraires 12-7PM Saturdays, 10AM-5PM, 10AM-6PM. I seem to remember that as being the same as commercial hours?
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by jpollock 11y ago
There is a difference between a taxpayer and a citizen. Taxpayers includes people who are non-citizens, and even non-resident.
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by jpollock 11y ago
Typically adults accept responsibility for their reproductive decisions.
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by jpollock 11y ago
strndup is not a replacement for strncpy, it allocates memory, whereas strncpy takes an existing buffer. In-place memory usage is very important for preparing anything of a fixed size (structs) to be written out to disk or the network.
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by jpollock 11y ago
Transferring balances between accounts is hard. If you have any sort of sharding, all of a sudden you don't get transaction safety in the transfer. You can have sharding for many reasons, such as different vendors, different location
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by jpollock 11y ago
I never said that change wasn't coming. I said drivers would remain. There are still pilots. High quality auto-pilots have been around for at least 20 years in airbus. Planes capable of flying and landing for longer than that (takeo
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by jpollock 11y ago
No, they won't anymore than an autopilot that can take off, fly and land has gotten rid of pilots.
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by jpollock 11y ago
The goal of those sections of the agreement are to force governments to treat foreign investment the same as if it had arrived from a resident. The intent is to stop things like what happens in South America, where they look around, see an
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by jpollock 11y ago
I've only ever had violent and threatening interactions with unions. Why would I ever want to join one? I've had friends beaten, others threatened. They've consistently threatened other friends with forced membership. No th
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by jpollock 12y ago
Why is it wrong to bomb civilians? It doesn't seem to "break the will of the enemy", but what makes it "wrong"? Don't the citizens have at least a little bit of responsibility for the actions of the government
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by jpollock 12y ago
Given the population size, 2330 individuals isn't a very large percentage. A quick search indicates that there are ~107,000 architects in the US[1][2], and there are ~272,000 civil engineers[3] in the US. So, 2330 signatories is <
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by jpollock 12y ago
I've got some different take-a-ways. First, time-to-discovery is different from the shallowness of the bug. Increasing the number of eyeballs looking at the code increases the likelihood that: a) someone will encounter the proble
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by jpollock 12y ago
You try to fit the marks to a normal distribution. It assumes that all classes/courses have the same distribution, with the same midpoint and that the only variation is that the test was too easy. So, (simplistically) if the expected
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by jpollock 12y ago
Cooking is a very different problem to providing a light source, and providing heat via electricity is very inefficient. From what I remember, there have been several attempts to provide people in those areas with efficient stoves, but they
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by jpollock 12y ago
Actually, for New Zealand, there are huge benefits in terms of market access for their primary industries (milk and meat). Add to that the indirect benefits that the movie industry brings to the tourism industry (yep, they measured it), and
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by jpollock 12y ago
We just had an article about how countries were creating land. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8940235
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by jpollock 12y ago
That's easy to work around, just set the total price to the maximum for all possible rates. It does mean that you're pocketing more revenue from countries with lower sales tax rates, but makes it simpler to manage in the front en
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by jpollock 12y ago
So, just about anyone in West with a secure retirement and a house.
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by jpollock 12y ago
There used to be hardware rental and line maintenance charges in fixed line phone networks. There still are in cable networks. It's just another source of revenue, and it doesn't encourage software updates.
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by jpollock 12y ago
I think you're doing the holiday a disservice. I recommend attending one of the services. One of my most memorable experiences growing up was attending a Remembrance Day ceremony at one of the military cemeteries. There is nothing li
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by jpollock 12y ago
I think you're doing the holiday a disservice. I recommend attending one of the services. One of my most memorable experiences growing up was attending a Remembrance Day ceremony at one of the military cemeteries. There is nothing li
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by jpollock 12y ago
They charge a lot of money for real-time telemetry from a plane. This charge can frequently represent the entire profit for a flight for smaller carriers, so they don't elect to purchase it.

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