justin_

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Perl, the first postmodern computer language (1999)(wall.org)
1 points by justin_ 11y ago|0 comments
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by justin_ 11y ago
"With a million cores we only get to about 1% of the scale of the human brain" Interesting. So in terms of raw computing power, the totality of computers out there is much more powerful than a brain. I wonder when we first passed
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by justin_ 11y ago
I'll be pretty upset if the addons that let you modify the Firefox UI via XUL have to go away. Tree-style tabs[1] for example is one of the major extensions keeping me with FF. There's really no alternative for Chrome since they c
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by justin_ 11y ago
DDG's !bang searches convinced me to use it as my default search. Being able to search various sites from the address bar is really useful. And if their results are ever poor, I can always get to Google with just a !g. I know you coul
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256b.htm Competition (2002)(wildmag.de)
53 points by justin_ 11y ago|8 comments
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by justin_ 11y ago
Here's a 256b web compo from 2002 (!) http://wildmag.de/compo/ A lot of the stuff looks almost trivial compared to what we do today. (And unfortunately a lot of these won't work anymore)
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by justin_ 11y ago
You've probably already seen this, but the Wikipedia article on the subject isn't a bad introduction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_programming_languag... It gives a great overview of the different
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Some AI Koans(catb.org)
1 points by justin_ 11y ago|0 comments
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by justin_ 11y ago
I _wish_ OSX had it. I often work inside of SMB shares and they go out of sync sometimes.
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by justin_ 12y ago
As a person who wasn't even born at the time USENET was popular, I've found this service very interesting. I was quite surprised when I found one of my current college professors posting in net.jokes! If you like this website, you
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by justin_ 12y ago
> I am interested in how the databases that 'whois' queries are populated As rid mentioned in his comment, this information comes from RIRs, who assign IP ranges to companies and other groups that request them. The WHOIS databa
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by justin_ 12y ago
Some general info about IP at the global scale: IP addresses are assigned by regional internet registries[1] (RIR) like ARIN (for North America) and APNIC (for Asia-Pacific regions). Addresses are assigned in blocks like the /22 mentio
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by justin_ 12y ago
You can, and that's a great way to try it out. Tails recommends against using it in a VM for serious purposes though, since at that point it's only as secure as your host OS. If your host was comprised then Tails in a VM might not
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by justin_ 12y ago
From what I read in the paper, it sounds like you _don't_ get paid for providing the data. You get paid for proving you have it when mining a block. Distributing your storage across multiples nodes would simply make it easier to "
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by justin_ 12y ago
As long as a node you control has the data and can retrieve the file, I don't think there's a problem. If you could proxy the "proof of retrieval" than you could surely proxy the retrieval itself. Pooling resources shoul
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by justin_ 12y ago
Unfortunately there's no guarantee that the files will stay around forever. While cheap and useful, I don't think it will be "robust". Freenet offers P2P file sharing as well, but much like this project there's no g
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by justin_ 12y ago
Same. What up with that?
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The Art of Unix Usability (2004)(catb.org)
2 points by justin_ 12y ago|0 comments
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by justin_ 12y ago
I think I found it. Is this it? http://forms.brace.io/ I found this with a Google search for "email form without backend site:news.ycombinator.com"
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64-bit Chrome is faster, more stable, and more secure(arstechnica.com)
3 points by justin_ 12y ago|0 comments
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by justin_ 13y ago
The developer made some interesting posts about how the emulator will work on his blog a couple years back: http://www.noxa.org/blog/
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The Obfuscated V contest (2004)(graphics.stanford.edu)
1 points by justin_ 13y ago|0 comments
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by justin_ 13y ago
A snapchat-like board could be fun. A board where each image can only be viewed by each user once and only for a short amount of time.
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by justin_ 13y ago
Speaking of "scalable code", there is another interesting obfuscated piece of code that can scale itself. akari.c[1] is an obfuscated ASCII art downsampler. The neat thing is that the program itself is ASCII art, and downscaling t
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by justin_ 13y ago
Same. Happens in Firefox but not Chrome.
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by justin_ 13y ago
I made a python script for this purpose a while back. Supports brute force and dictionaries. https://github.com/process/Twitter-Name-Finder
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by justin_ 14y ago
50% sounds pretty bad. How long did they last? Were you able to recover your data from them?
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by justin_ 14y ago
Firefox SHOULD be showing the GNU logo. For some reason, when a color profile is included in the image, Firefox ignores the gamma correction information. Or at least, that's what seems to be happening. Viewing the original image in Chrome s
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by justin_ 14y ago
Using Photoshop I tried to make my own image like this. http://i.imgur.com/36EgeOF.png It's a mix of Tux and the GNU logo. The strange thing is that Firefox shows Tux, and Chrome shows the GNU logo. Very strange considering both Firefox a
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by justin_ 14y ago
Very appropriate in choosing bubbles to represent bitcoins :)

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