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by mef 14y ago
From https://signup.netflix.com/openconnect/software : Operating System For the operating system, we use FreeBSD version 9.0. This was selected for its balance of stability and features, a strong development community and staff expertise.
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Diet Glasses fool wearers into eating less(news.com.au)
1 points by mef 14y ago|0 comments
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by mef 14y ago
Thanks for your reply. That was my deleted post up there, I worked out a table like yours and realized your point shortly after posting.
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Exposing young girls to STEM: Roominate Kickstarter(kickstarter.com)
4 points by mef 14y ago|2 comments
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The Story of the First-and-Ten Line(todaysengineer.org)
3 points by mef 14y ago|0 comments
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by mef 14y ago
Pretty cool. I probably wouldn't use this unless I was given enough information to feel that I had a good idea what each option was going to do -- either some code or a short description. e.g. "Cleanup - Removes some default Rails files tha
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by mef 14y ago
Probably makes more sense to use inflation instead of ROC for purposes of putting the cost of the tickets into the perspective of 2012.
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by mef 14y ago
For the curious, the estimated $350,000 each paid for their pass + companion pass roughly works out to $913,500 in 2012 dollars, if they purchased in 1981. Most of the travelers mentioned probably purchased theirs later in the 80s, but befo
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by mef 14y ago
I believe he meant reproduction in the technical sense, which is different than ramping up widespread use of a social product.
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The 90-9-1 Principle(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by mef 14y ago|1 comments
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Current Status of the Browser Wars(royal.pingdom.com)
1 points by mef 14y ago|0 comments
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Functional programmers are smug jerks(sdtimes.com)
1 points by mef 15y ago|1 comments
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by mef 15y ago
I read the headline and hoped that they had come up with a way to create new repos from the command line. That being said, this is a great improvement, especially with the templates.
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RegExr Interactive Regular Expressions(gskinner.com)
1 points by mef 15y ago|0 comments
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by mef 15y ago
Thanks for this great article. Both this article and Effective A/B Testing ( http://elem.com/~btilly/effective-ab-testing/ slide 51) say changing the proportions mid-test is bad. Can anyone elaborate on why this might be? For example, if I
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by mef 15y ago
That mitigates demand fluctuations, but does not mitigate a short feedback loop for changes or problems.
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by mef 15y ago
Reminds one of another TV based interface... http://www.tsgmoc.com/NintendoWii/Images/WiiHome.jpg
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by mef 15y ago
Response from Agilebits (publisher of 1Password) to this paper: http://blog.agilebits.com/2012/03/16/strong-security-require...
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by mef 15y ago
Site seems to be down. Google cache http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?sourceid=chrome...
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by mef 15y ago
If you don't feel or understand the sadness others express in regards to this announcement, pretend it's hundreds of years in the future and you hear that Wikipedia is finally shutting down, having become an irrelevant artifact of the past.
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by mef 15y ago
Different approaches, different bugs. The seconds from UTC approach results in 1 month from Aug 31st being Sep 1st, and 1 month from Jan 31 being Mar 3rd. I much prefer spelling out plainly the intention.
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by mef 15y ago
The best approach is to treat Feb 29 as a non-day for purposes of adding months and years to a date, for example in Ruby: > t = Time.parse("feb 29, 2012") => 2012-02-29 00:00:00 -0500 > t + 1.year => 2013-02-28
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California all-you-can-fly airline startup subscription "less than $1000/m"(surftheskies.com)
13 points by mef 15y ago|0 comments
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by mef 15y ago
I enjoyed the ad for wysihtml5 in the console on pages that use it. "Heya! This page is using wysihtml5 for rich text editing. Check out https://github.com/xing/wysihtml5 First time I've seen that, but makes sense for an OSS project to pr
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by mef 15y ago
Presumably Github is currently auditing their db for keys added to organizations by users who are not admins of those organizations.
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by mef 15y ago
Incidentally, does anyone know why the wheels of a 'bricked' car would be locked up, preventing towing?
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Practical Aspects of Crawling The Web [pdf](pinboard.in)
1 points by mef 15y ago|0 comments
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Obama Unveils Online Privacy Plan(politico.com)
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Chinese Hackers Suspected in 10 year Nortel Breach(online.wsj.com)
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by mef 15y ago
Technology to enhance democracy through easier organization and participation.

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