limmeau

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   by limmeau 16y ago

   Git hooks aside (MacOS's "say" command can also help here), I like the way Brandon's picture pops out from under the article. It is one of those pieces that's so fun to use that I end up using it a few times extra, like the cup holder in my
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   by limmeau 16y ago

   In brief: Dell makes workstations, which can be bought.
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   by limmeau 16y ago

   Thank you!
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   by limmeau 16y ago

   Great to see that feature... I only played with CouchDB in 0.7-days before shows and lists, and found it too everything-is-public for my needs. Let's suppose I want to build a centralized messaging application where users send each other pr
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   by limmeau 16y ago

   emacsclient helps with that style of work. It sends the editing job to the running emacs.
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   by limmeau 16y ago

   Depends on the business. I wouldn't outsource, say, my bookkeeping to a startup web company whose servers I notice to be unreachable for a longer amount of time.
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   by limmeau 16y ago

   I use Webfaction for my small stuff (and have no big stuff). You get a SSH account on a Linux server and can run any web server program behind their reverse proxy, as long as it fits into your plan's memory limit. http://www.webfaction.com
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   by limmeau 16y ago

   Software Engineering Radio, http://www.se-radio.net/ (English, sometimes with a German accent). Chaosradio Express, http://chaosradio.ccc.de/ (in German with a German accent). Two-hour interviews on mostly technological topics.
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   by limmeau 16y ago

   Vim also runs in M-x term. No need to quit Emacs for that.
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    by limmeau 16y ago

    In my Emacs 23 default configuration, the functionality for editing code and comments side-by-side in separate buffers is on the F2 key, whereas replace-regexp doesn't have a key of its own. Guess which one I use more. Sometimes I wish for
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    by limmeau 16y ago

    As for the plausibility of the decoy, how do you interpret the output of the Python interpreter in the great-grandparent comment? If I had to build a compile-and-run sandbox, I'd also look into SELinux or AppArmor. However, blocking reads t
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    by limmeau 16y ago

    The Python example in parent printed an /etc/passwd full of nobody-accounts. From my error message, I only know that the first line in the compilation environment is a nobody-account. In all /etc/passwds I remember having dealt with (mostly
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    by limmeau 16y ago

    You'd save the time needed to switch between environments if you want to examine the candidate in different languages.
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    by limmeau 16y ago

    For a compacting GC, you'd have to hunt down a complete set of references from running programs written in unknown languages, with strange errors if the set is underapproximated even once. I'd rather have reference counting.
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    by limmeau 16y ago

    They also guard their compilation environment (I think) http://ideone.com/icJVj
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    by limmeau 16y ago

    They run a C++ compiler on user-supplied code. That should dominate context-switching overhead.
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    by limmeau 16y ago

    There is a difference between "academic stuff should be discussed on academic sites only" and "government stuff should be discussed on government sites only": unlike government sites, everyone can open an academic site (if we define "academ
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    by limmeau 16y ago

    The interface between a superclass and its subclasses is just another interface (or rather say, a pair of interfaces: sub-calls-super and super-calls-sub). However, many if not most superclass-subclass interfaces are not designed and docume
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    by limmeau 16y ago

    There is a difference between a library author thinking his users are too stupid and a library author reserving the right to replace his tree-map-with-cached-most-recently-accessed-element with a hashmap in the next version.
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    by limmeau 16y ago

    For comparison, symmetric coroutines in Haskell: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/Coroutine
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    by limmeau 16y ago

    Think of a monad as a programmable semi-colon (who coined that term again?). Then you can build a monad for error-handling, backtracking, continuations, or whatever control-flow primitive you need. You probably wouldn't use the IO (to seque
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    by limmeau 16y ago

    So the site is already generating random dialogue from the Futurama scripts. I wonder if it can be extended to preserve the dialogue structure and generate random discussion threads to fill forums with. Then again, that may already be in us
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    by limmeau 16y ago

    Thanks. That was what I was looking for in the article.
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    by limmeau 16y ago

    So they simply bet on sports results after thoroughly researching the odds? Where is the hedging in that?
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    by limmeau 16y ago

    Or tell your mail program to buffer mails on drive E: ?
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    by limmeau 16y ago

    And unlike chess Elo rankings, where a 2006 Kramnik is mostly the same player (except for experience) as a 2010 Kramnik, football teams are continuously restaffed.
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    by limmeau 16y ago

    Detailed sushi bar reviews, for example. Google will hopefully not try to reproduce all the reviews on the search page (copyright, lack of space).
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    by limmeau 16y ago

    Since the website already uses some javascript API to integrate google maps, I suppose the API could be extended to include information about what the little yellow blobs mean, which Google could then index appropriately. The map in the sea
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    by limmeau 16y ago

    Any special kind? Wikipedia doesn't tell me much, and from the map it looks like it could just be a high-crime corner of Miami which has the misfortune of being a town of its own.
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    by limmeau 16y ago

    Never heard of Opa-Locka. What's so dangerous about it?