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by julian37 16y ago
Of course! I actually do always use double-ampersand for chaining commands in bash, not sure what made me use a semicolon in that example. Thanks for the correction, a small but important distinction.
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by julian37 16y ago
Yet another time saver: if you need to execute only a single command in another directory, use: (cd /path; command) This will cd to /path, run command, but return you to your original working directory. This works because the parens
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'Anti-laser' built for first time(newscientist.com)
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Interactive and intelligent food packaging (Video)(butterscotch.com)
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by julian37 16y ago
Moral: process isolation does not mean better user experience. No, the moral is that process isolation isn't a magic bullet that somehow prevents all types of browser crashes. But that doesn't mean it's not a useful technique for r
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by julian37 16y ago
Don't these people have ANYTHING to do?
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by julian37 16y ago
... which is a dupe of this one: http://slashdot.org/story/11/01/26/1611226/100-P2P-Users-Upl...
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by julian37 16y ago
This can be a lot shorter using Google Guava [1]: Collections2.filter( Lists.newArrayList(1, 2, 3, 4), new Predicate<Integer>() { public boolean apply(Integer i) {
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by julian37 16y ago
Reminiscent of the 2001 SlugBot: "A prototype robot capable of hunting down over 100 slugs an hour and using their rotting bodies to generate electricity" http://www.ias.uwe.ac.uk/Robots/slugbot.htm http://www.wired.com/gadgets/miscellan
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by julian37 16y ago
I really want that to be true, I want the Internet to be a level playing field where Facebook is just another company; where "Facebook URLs" are a short-lived fad that people will crack jokes about in a few years time. And chances are tha
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by julian37 16y ago
The following page (indirectly linked to from the Wikipedia page) has more in-depth information: http://www.st.cs.uni-saarland.de/dd/
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Senator Wyden Asks WTF Is Up With Homeland Security Domain Seizures(techdirt.com)
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Mozilla Labs Retires Prism Project in favor of Chromeless(webmonkey.com)
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Murdoch’s News Corp. Launches The Daily for Apple’s iPad(wired.com)
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by julian37 16y ago
tsenart, you submitted the same thing two days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2146944 At the very least you could link to the previous discussion, no?
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by julian37 16y ago
Not to diminish Tesla's genius, but doesn't this read more like he predicted the hand-held radio instead of the mobile phone? "The song of a great singer [...] may thus be delivered to an audience all over the world" sounds like radio to me
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by julian37 16y ago
32-bit operating systems do have a hard limit of 4GB of RAM but that's per process. See PAE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_Address_Extension
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by julian37 16y ago
Same here, good to know I'm not the only one who feels attracted to the house! Is it the lack of a kitchen that keeps you from working out there (assuming that you don't have one) or the lack of company? To me it is a bit of both.
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by julian37 16y ago
Err... they posted a $2.5b net profit for the last quarter alone. That will buy them one 767 every week.
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by julian37 16y ago
Huh, why would that be? Drawing a round corner is in fact more complex than drawing a square one, but surely for a few dozen rounded corners the number of additional CPU cycles spent pales in comparison to things like anti-aliased font ren
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by julian37 16y ago
Surely it would be cached based on the image URL though, not based on the page URL, and different images could use different URLs. I still don't see how this would pose a problem.
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by julian37 16y ago
If you use Priority Inbox it will show you the number of unread messages in that, not in your normal inbox. http://mail.google.com/mail/help/priority-inbox.html
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by julian37 16y ago
Appears to be based on this code: http://snipplr.com/view/29188/ EDIT: actually, it might or might not be based on it, but that code shows how to implement dynamic favicons, at least for Google Chrome. Another edit: MikeCapone observed in
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New in Gmail Labs: Unread message icon(gmailblog.blogspot.com)
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Apple taps Navy techie for global security head(news.cnet.com)
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by julian37 16y ago
This has become a bit simpler with Java 7: http://weblogs.java.net/blog/forax/archive/2009/08/27/diamon... EDIT: link to better article
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by julian37 16y ago
Have you considered using a "trampoline" function like this? http://paulbutler.org/archives/tail-recursion-in-python/
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by julian37 16y ago
Hi, thanks -- this looks great! Does it support tail recursion (in constant space)?
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Apple's next Magic Mouse could include a multi-touch display(appleinsider.com)
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by julian37 16y ago
The reason for "nnCoection" headers is explained in the replies to this bug report: https://forums.aws.amazon.com/message.jspa?messageID=81954

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