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by jxcl 10y ago
I like the idea that if you took both necklaces and shuffled them around in a way that neither you nor the shopkeeper knew which was which and then gave them both back to him, you would have essentially robbed him without taking anything fr
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by jxcl 10y ago
This makes sense if you tell them that you know the password and refuse to give it, but what if you claim not to remember the password? Or claim never to have known it? What burden of proof is required then in order to be held in contempt?
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by jxcl 10y ago
Will StartSSL suffer any negative consequences of this? They've presumably issued certificates they shouldn't have. What happens to them?
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by jxcl 10y ago
And it's totally understandable in day-to-day conversation if somebody gets it wrong. But if you're making a marketing video, maybe check that you're pronouncing the words correctly?
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by jxcl 10y ago
I have never heard someone pronounce nginx "n-jinks" before like they did in their video. It's a minor thing, but it hurts their credibility in my eyes.
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by jxcl 10y ago
I've read stories like this too: http://www.theguardian.com/money/2016/mar/18/banned-by-amazo...
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by jxcl 10y ago
I also love the "Reasons to use SQL": > If your business is not experiencing massive growth that would require more servers and you’re only working with data that’s consistent, then there may be no reason to use a system design
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by jxcl 10y ago
It depends. It's useful to be able to contain quotes in other quotes without escaping them. i.e. '"hello there"' or "it's nice to see you" Also, on many projects I've worked on, single quotes wer
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by jxcl 11y ago
If your users aren't paying you, who is?
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by jxcl 11y ago
It would seem that he did not allow himself proper nouns: > I found myself wishing that Munroe had allowed himself a few more terms—“Mars” instead of “red world,” or “helium” instead of “funny voice air.”
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by jxcl 11y ago
> This does not mean these titles can be redistributed, only that they can be modified for the sake of preservation. But once the copyright expires on the disks, they may then be redistributed?
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by jxcl 11y ago
Software Engineers (to work in Python and Django) Fusionbox - Denver, Colorado Job Description At Fusionbox, the engineers work on tasks that span from server provisioning and system administration to server-side development to JavaScript f
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by jxcl 11y ago
These are fantastic. I want to get them printed and hang them up on my wall.
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by jxcl 11y ago
> Administration officials said later that they had to start the lengthy procedure of winding down the counter-terrorism program in anticipation of Congress failing to act. I find this sentence construction grating. They didn't fail
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by jxcl 12y ago
How often were you successful in negotiating to work for hire?
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by jxcl 12y ago
Are there any proximity-based apps that don't require Facebook? I'm interested in trying something like this out, but I don't use Facebook for various reasons.
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by jxcl 12y ago
That makes sense intuitively, but you can't approach cryptography intuitively. There are many cases where the intuitive answer is "well, the worst case is that it's just as good as without our custom wrapper... so let's
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by jxcl 12y ago
Yep. Pretty much any measurement you make in the real world is actually going to be irrational. We just round them to the closest significant figure we have. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Swm8tTLWirU I'm also interes
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by jxcl 12y ago
I am not an astrophysicist, but my understanding is that melting the ice would cause it to escape into space for at least two reasons: 1) Mars' core has cooled significantly, and it no longer has a powerful magnetic field to protect it
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by jxcl 12y ago
People are downvoting you, but I totally agree. Stop requiring javascript to let me read text: literally the first thing ever put on the world wide web. Fancy your page up with javascript if you must, but let me choose to consume the text h
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by jxcl 12y ago
You have either a very slow server or a very bad bcrypt implementation. Running bcrypt in python on my 5 year old server has these results: >>> timeit.timeit("bcrypt.hashpw('this is a password', bcrypt.gensalt(11))&q
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by jxcl 12y ago
Paradox Interactive also published Crusader Kings 2, which came out in 2012, and its latest free update was Feb. 16. They support their games for a long time.
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by jxcl 12y ago
Sorry buddy, that goes all the way back to Watergategate. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vB9JgxhXW5w
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by jxcl 12y ago
Neither is a dwarf's ability to build things. They're both abilities and not personality traits.
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by jxcl 12y ago
If you apply the same qualifiers to a mermaid race it sounds just as ridiculous.
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by jxcl 12y ago
> Dwarves are good at building things not because of some essential genetic racial qualities, but because they are raised in a culture that values building and passes on a certain set of traditional practices around it. Really? Let'