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by jsmeaton 12y ago
That's really interesting. So if there were multiple "global passive adversaries" then the network would become stronger and stronger? At least until one gives up and removes all their nodes at once.
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by jsmeaton 12y ago
The release notes don't fully cover the story, but the internals of the ORM are getting some major refactoring. Lots of string wrangling code is being pushed down into expression nodes, which should make it a lot easier to build new fe
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by jsmeaton 12y ago
Lets just say that the relationship is purely corrupt. How does that justify not immunising your children and endangering other peoples children? This argument is bogus, and you've helped to clearly demonstrate the quote above at work.
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by jsmeaton 12y ago
From memory StackOverflow itself only runs on 2 web servers. The rest are for various other stackexchange properties. You'll also note that peak CPU is about 20%, so they could probably run everything on 2 or 3 servers at max CPU (bad!
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by jsmeaton 12y ago
Hang on - your data is only 8GB? And only 500MB inside Postgres? That's not even "medium data". That's test data on a developer laptop.
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by jsmeaton 12y ago
I watched The Wire about 3 years ago and I nearly stopped after the first few episodes because it did look 'cheap' or 'old' to me. I'm glad I persisted, it really is brilliant. Definitely watch it in HD if you can.
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by jsmeaton 12y ago
That may have been the reason awhile back, but it's not the case for the vast majority of projects these days. Though the stigma may still be a major cause for lack of traction.
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by jsmeaton 12y ago
Pricing per socket really really frustrates me. I work in an Oracle shop where we're hamstrung by similar pricing.
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by jsmeaton 12y ago
I would guess this is also selection bias. Australians are pretty much the global leaders (per capita) of torrent consumption. Everyone I know, tech savvy or not, downloads torrents. Our TV situation is pretty bad, the cable situation is ex
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by jsmeaton 12y ago
Totally. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8676444 addresses how it could be approached in a safe[r] way.
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by jsmeaton 12y ago
I'm sorry you had a bad experience, but I like seeing this anecdote because I've seen a tonne of "this stuff (probably) works" and not enough of the other side. Psilocybin needs to be tested and studied, and I wouldn&#x2
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by jsmeaton 12y ago
This makes no sense to me. There is no opportunity for "extend" or "extinguish" for either StackOverflow or GitHub. Similarly, if they ended up destroying the various non-microsoft .NET implementations (mono..), it would
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by jsmeaton 12y ago
The topics being moved to stack overflow are "web development with IE" not "IE web users".
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by jsmeaton 12y ago
That's kind of what I found codereview and programmers stackexchanges are more useful for. I've also started drifting towards more and more mailing lists for specific discussions on particular topics, though that can be hit or mis
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by jsmeaton 12y ago
That's really interesting. Perhaps people feel they are getting a better deal if they 'win' (buy) something at $20 that someone else wanted for $19. But if you had of just listed it at $20, then they feel that the seller is j
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by jsmeaton 12y ago
I'm not the author, just found it interesting. I'm sure you could find contact details on the authors site though.
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A classroom experiment in Twitter Bots and creativity(blog.mattwaite.com)
14 points by jsmeaton 12y ago|4 comments
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by jsmeaton 12y ago
> Now I need to learn how to walk the fine line between 'saying no' and 'being old and grumpy' :) That's the difficult part in my experience. I say no a lot . Some people have the impression that I'm lazy
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by jsmeaton 12y ago
(I'm coming from the perspective of having to use Oracle at work - and I'm happy to be corrected if my experiences do not match your wishlist) > Easy sharding, a la Elasticsearch Oracle RAC lets you add nodes to the cluster. He
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by jsmeaton 12y ago
I didn't think I would, but I love Inbox. I really want it for my work Google Apps account. Snoozing stuff is a killer feature. Wiping entire lists is a killer feature. I get maybe 5 marketing emails a day, and a few actionable emails
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by jsmeaton 12y ago
> Often the cause of depression is not chemical imbalance, but an actual issue in the person's life. Not trying to be contrary, but do you have a source?
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by jsmeaton 12y ago
Not knowing anything about VB these days, this video almost looks like satire :P
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by jsmeaton 12y ago
I really really want property change notifications on auto-properties. Having to compare the incoming value against an explicit backing field is the cause of most of my boilerplate code when using WPF.
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by jsmeaton 12y ago
I wish the same thing existed for Chrome, but I've been unable to find anything remotely useful.
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by jsmeaton 12y ago
Rehabilitation is supposed to be one of the purposes, but is that true in many places in the world anymore?
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by jsmeaton 12y ago
I agree that this should be the follow up. But it should not be the only course of action (not that you were suggesting it should be).
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by jsmeaton 12y ago
So leaving potentially compromised packages online while investigating would have been more appropriate? I can see where you're coming from, but what would you have recommended instead? If this was an actual compromise, and they had of
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by jsmeaton 12y ago
Sorry, the "wake word" makes the Echo a little less suspicious in my opinion, but it's still something I'd avoid.
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by jsmeaton 12y ago
But that's not constantly transmitting my voice to the internet without my knowledge unless I'm being specifically targetted . I wouldn't put something like the Echo in my house. Similarly, my Smart TV isn't connected t
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by jsmeaton 12y ago
My vision is fine and I still had trouble with that site, enough that I closed it early. Terrible scrolling and delayed loading ruined that experience.

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