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by jrabone 15y ago
My fear as a pessimistic engineer is that unless there is more regulation of HFT, sooner or later someone big (a bank, an exchange, a country) is going to be financially wiped out by a HFT-gone-bad incident, and the resulting mess will take
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by jrabone 15y ago
I have had some good experiences with pairing where I've learned a lot, but more often feel that I've gone for weeks without ever feeling the flow, the point where all the pieces of system come together for me and I can see end-to-end what
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by jrabone 15y ago
What ... the ... f *? Blindly pushing pair programming is bad enough, but deliberately _trying_ to avoid 'flow' ? That's about the worst idea I've heard from the cult of mediocrity that is 'Agile'. Pairing on everything is a disruptive was
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by jrabone 15y ago
http://blog.joda.org/search?q=jsr-310 provides some interesting backstory to the JSR-310 / Joda Time saga...
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by jrabone 15y ago
Yes and no. It's relatively easy to set up an HTTP proxy (and I can think of several ways it could be made plug-and-play for non-geek parents). However, enforcing the use of the proxy on the client is basically impossible. Mandatory group
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by jrabone 15y ago
I can see what they're trying to do, but they're both unusably horrible on this machine (dual quad Xeon Dell T5500 running Fedora, Chrome 17). The pen / path tool just didn't work for me in Picozu, and the smudge tool in pixlr stutters and
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by jrabone 15y ago
I thought the point of Accurate Stream was to provide the ability to do sample-accurate streaming, along with C2 error detection to know when there was a problem. EAC only does multiple jittered read passes if your drive doesn't support Acc
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by jrabone 15y ago
The example of sparse arrays is not quite "uninitialised memory", more like "stale pointers". I remember implementing Knuth's Algorithm X ( http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/papers/dancing-color... - compressed PS file) for fun, and
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by jrabone 15y ago
And yet ISTR that used to be security best practice, to avoid shoulder surfers from knowing how long your password was.
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by jrabone 15y ago
Am I the only one who read "huge round [ice] monocrystals of a metre or more in diameter and as hard as glass." and immediately thought "ice-9"? [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cats_Cradle ]
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by jrabone 15y ago
What, so it only takes 20 minutes every {TTL_expiry} seconds? How does that help? The cache becomes a pastiche of what the service should have had in the first place - a "GET /starting_tree" handler.
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Fred Goodwin stripped of knighthood(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by jrabone 15y ago|1 comments
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by jrabone 15y ago
Uninspiring. http://clientsfromhell.net/ is (funnier|sadder|closer to the truth)
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by jrabone 15y ago
Cringe. Please use contact cleaner for electronics (Servisol is a good brand). WD40 may well eat plastic & rubber seals (although nitrile rubber, eg. o-rings, should be safe). It's a light oil spray and water displacer. It's not a sub
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by jrabone 15y ago
Link in the article comments to http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2011/09/21/microsoft-dumps-p... is worth reading. Amazing that someone would have the balls to try this, but I suppose there are no penalties for what amounts to abuse of pri
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by jrabone 15y ago
Yeah, I mean, it's not like they had compilers back then. Savages.
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by jrabone 15y ago
Totally agree. Nothing ever really lived up to that early promise of BASIC / 6502 assembler on a BBC micro 30-odd years ago. The elegant simplicity has vanished under a pile of self-inflicted barely functional complexity. For example, web f
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by jrabone 15y ago
Hmm, they are recommended for use in smoke detectors, think they might be slightly more careful about that if there is actually no benefit... Unless the conspiracy theory runs deeper than suspected :-)
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by jrabone 15y ago
Yes, indeed. The marketing point appears to be lower self-discharge rate, but that's going to be pretty boring for a home experimenter to measure (like, 10 year shelf life - what's the shortest meaningful experiment time you can extrapolate
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by jrabone 15y ago
Packaging, markup and logistics are a big factor. Compare the Duracell "Pro" range which only come in bulk to commercial customers with the exact same cell in a different case (the familiar copper-top cell). I'd be interested in seeing if t
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by jrabone 15y ago
Hate to be "that guy", but there's a typo: "Note: Your opinion is important for us to ignore. If you must recieve a reply, donate $500 and try again."
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Amazon Kindles 'go unused' after Christmas(telegraph.co.uk)
1 points by jrabone 15y ago|0 comments
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Programmer Sentenced To Death In Iran For Upload Software(techweekeurope.co.uk)
130 points by jrabone 15y ago|17 comments
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by jrabone 15y ago
Ummm... Inconsistent, much? "NGINX (pronounced “engine X”) is an open-source HTTP Web server that also includes mail services with an Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) and Post Office Protocol (POP) server. NGINX is ready to be used a
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by jrabone 15y ago
What, like the 20-year old telnetd vulnerability was "shallow"? Do not underestimate the opponent. Embedding nasties in seemingly-innocent bits of legislation is what politicians are good at. This was the "brute force" attempt.
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by jrabone 15y ago
I worked there for ~ 7 years until earlier this year, and we were expressly forbidden from doing any sort of A/B testing with prices. Simply not allowed. I think what people are seeing is one or more of: different merchant offerings p
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by jrabone 15y ago
I don't think we'd reinvent or replace all of curses, as it does more than raw terminal handling (e.g. logical windowing). In my mind it's a layer on top of an area of displayed text. Win32 console doesn't implement any of that either. I'm
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by jrabone 15y ago
Thank you, I'm well aware of how Unicode in general and UTF-8 in particular work. While it would be possible to extend Unicode to carry terminal control sequences (or invent yet another standard to do so) my opinion is that having an out-of
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by jrabone 15y ago
What has UTF-8 got to do with anything? I'm talking about 7 bit VT100 escape sequences for single keys (which in turn require millisecond-accurate timing code in e.g. curses to distinguish from just pressing the same keys.) UTF-8 is beautif
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by jrabone 15y ago
What's bizarre about it? Clearly this library isn't the problem. What'd be even better would be a sane console standard that isn't stuck with being backwards compatible with a 7 bit everything-is-a-character protocol. The acoustic coupler i

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