konad

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by konad 16y ago
While I agree with the premise and have often tried to discuss the need to look at the distribution of leisure that the technological revolution has brought upon us, the comparison to the horse is apt because : > Best case: IT departmen
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by konad 16y ago
I'm trying to elicit a wry smile from those who understand but those comments describe the OP. It's a cute trick, useful in shell scripts but not serious code where readability should trump cute & terse. When I clicked the title I too
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by konad 16y ago
Be careful who you trust http://mobiputing.com/tag/jackeey-wallpaper/ Update 2: Google temporarily banned the developer’s apps, but has since decided that they’re safe. You can now download them from the Android Market again. But the bigg
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by konad 16y ago
With mod-rewrite the first part of the URI component can get passed as a a parameter to whatever comes next. The alternative is to split the hostname parameter. That doesn't sound like a big deal but here's a convoluted example. http://joh
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by konad 16y ago
[citation needed]
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by konad 16y ago
People - please stop using FTP
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by konad 16y ago
Just ask Al Gore Here he is preserving the earth's precious resources : http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1622338_136300...
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by konad 16y ago
// I don't like the keyword "if" so I'm hiding it with && and || because I haven't thought deep enough about a better way of structuring my code // TODO think harder
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by konad 16y ago
Eventually you will learn to stop doing this.
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by konad 16y ago
* Your SSL certificate will be considerably more expensive for a wildcard * URI components have a wider scope of acceptable characters than domains, plus uri escaping e.g. spaces with a %20 * subdomains can be traffic shaped / cluster manag
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by konad 16y ago
I hate to tell you this but mainstream media covers everything badly.
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by konad 16y ago
In what way is any of this novel or innovative in ways that normal practitioners in the field couldn't think of ? My Everytrail.com account does plenty of this, ok it doesn't have a cadence sensor but that's only a bluetooth device away.
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by konad 16y ago
Wtf!! By applying the "AJAX makes it non-free" logic, every HTTP request is non-free. I mean, I don't release my httpd.conf so everything server side is a secret - i.e. mod-rewrite rules. If you value freedom of your devices you'd be bett
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by konad 16y ago
> "Hacker" comes from the verb "to hack", which is an expression that originated in the 50's of the previous century on the MIT and means solving a technical problem in an unique way. bzzt, wrong. It originally means riding a horse arou
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by konad 16y ago
Sadly no relation to Judge Judith Scheindlin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shira_Scheindlin Westinghouse should have read : Judge Judy's "Win or Lose by How You Choose" All they had to do was print a line in the manual and offer a download
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by konad 16y ago
Ah, the usual gigabit / gibabyte confusion! Your mission is to decide which is what.
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by konad 16y ago
Still doesn't explain self awareness in magpies http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_test
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by konad 16y ago
It means the person listening to Bruce had absolutely no idea what he was saying so when s/he paraphrased it, they just took words out.
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by konad 16y ago
Rather than mod you down : 64bit servers is where it was at. All those AMD64s in the data centre with >4Gbs RAM XP64 was crippled by bad drivers.
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by konad 16y ago
exact phrase http://search.twitter.com/search?q=+%22I+am+so+bored%22
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by konad 16y ago
I read of a similar scheme. Whenever you think you have N copies of data you should consider you have N-1. Here's why : Your work is on your computer and thumbdrive, one dies. Now you have only 1 copy with no backup.
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by konad 16y ago
And the Plan9 compilers, the OpenSD team wanted to lose GCC and were considering the plan9 toolchain. Turning Plan 9 from open source into Free had plenty of teething troubles, getting the lawyers from Bell-Labs then Lucent then Lucent-Alca
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by konad 16y ago
Slightly unfair to Microsoft. Anyone who relies on Windows for anything important wants firing and banning from being involved in data acquisition ever again. It even tells you in the EULA.
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by konad 16y ago
To be fair, Rob's (like most of the Unix room) always disliked Java and C++. Bjarne was their colleague for a time. In this discussion on Java in 2004 http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.plan9/browse_thread/t... object-oriented design
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by konad 16y ago
Saoret.One explored Markov chains and Bach http://www.caerwyn.com/ipn/2007/04/lab-77-unexpected-markov.... as part of his Inferno Programmer's Notebook http://code.google.com/p/inferno-lab/wiki/Index