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by mjhoy 13y ago
I have a power strip to which the wireless router and modem are connected that can be turned off and off by remote control. Click !
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by mjhoy 13y ago
> Eckert, protesting all the while, says he asked to make a phone call but was told that he had no right to do so because he hadn’t actually been arrested. Had to read that a few times to make sure. What were his rights at that moment?
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by mjhoy 13y ago
Silly, but made me think: what words are the most slogan-like in my life? We build peanut butter. fatwood is fully of joy! Couldn't think of much.
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by mjhoy 13y ago
> Her central thesis, that Yale is focused on image, frankly doesn't sound like anything the university is really worried about. Perhaps. Or perhaps some "savvy", New-York-Times-minding administrator somewhere made a bet -
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by mjhoy 13y ago
This was a nice read, thanks. I always find it useful to remember this when sitting down to write: the word "essay" comes from the French, meaning "to attempt." Montaigne used it to mean, he was making an attempt to pu
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by mjhoy 13y ago
Wow. Love it. Love the visual history. It feels quite snappy. The UI aesthetics are great. You've got most the pen tool features I used in Illustrator, and managed to do it without having multiple kinds of arrows to keep track of, whic
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by mjhoy 13y ago
I don't know the specifics of that story, or whether they actually have built the factor of 5X into their system, but note that some "price-gouging" is simply built into the system of supply and demand. If drivers are more
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by mjhoy 13y ago
Have faith in patience. Good things will come. Stick with what inspires you. What I took from university, I took from two excellent professors out of dozens -- they are who matter (and I did not study CS). Don't grasp for "getting
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by mjhoy 13y ago
The article pages are somewhat responsive, while the index pages are not. I think that's a nice balance. I've always found responsive designs jarring when multiple columns collapse.
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Our DNA, Our Selves(marginalrevolution.com)
5 points by mjhoy 13y ago|0 comments
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by mjhoy 13y ago
I think that if you send a letter to say, Washington St., Boston MA, (of which there are several) you'd better have the correct zip code.
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Meet the 'Refrigerator Ladies' Who Programmed the ENIAC(mentalfloss.com)
2 points by mjhoy 13y ago|1 comments
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by mjhoy 13y ago
Anyone giving a technical talk, take note. SPJ does such a fantastic job. Perhaps it helped in this particular case, too, that he didn't write the library, but is explaining it as a user who only just learned how it worked.
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by mjhoy 13y ago
The experiment on pregnant mothers in Tennessee is just awful. One article cited [1] reads: > During the 1940s, 800 pregnant women, the poor patrons of a pre-natal clinic at Vanderbilt University, were given a "cocktail" includ
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by mjhoy 13y ago
> newest, coolest language I'm sure you meant "newest and/or coolest", or "recently become coolest", but it's worth noting that Haskell is about as old as Python, and OCaml is not much younger.
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by mjhoy 13y ago
> How else would you do it? Taking your question generally, I was curious to see what it might look like as a parser, since I find that regex a little hard to read. Here's an implementation with Haskell's parsec: https:/&
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by mjhoy 13y ago
Ah! You're right. Confusing. Also confusing that "false"[[1]] works.
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by mjhoy 13y ago
Try it letter by letter. For instance, to get the string "a": (![]+[])[+[[+!+[]]]] Take the first part, `(![]+[])`. `![]` evaluates to `false`. Then `+[]` coerces false into a string, so the expression is `"false&quo
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by mjhoy 13y ago
I agree with this, and would add that if you go this route, make one of the first papers you read "How to Read a Paper"[1] by Keshav. [1]: http://ccr.sigcomm.org/online/files/p83-keshavA.pdf
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by mjhoy 13y ago
Absolutely. I'm glad you wrote it, seems like an unexpected way to approach the subject, and I can see where e.g. this comment[1] comes from. But I think it's quite valuable and inspires me (lacking any CS degree) to pursue furthe
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by mjhoy 13y ago
I just picked up Understanding Computation and, having made it through the first two chapters at this point, heartily recommend it. If anyone wants to have a little reading group, I'd be interested. http://shop.oreilly.com
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by mjhoy 13y ago
The title at r/programming, by contrast, is > New GPU computing ebook and library. Design methodologies, algorithms, tuning, the works.
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by mjhoy 13y ago
Is that true? I might be wrong about this, but I think ActiveRecord checks for uniqueness (and other constraints) in application code, generating an extra database query if needed. If you _actually_ violate the unique index, a PGError is ra
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by mjhoy 14y ago
Of course, I agree with you that the goal should not be to add sensitive information to session cookies. But if it's possible to encrypt, and it might provide an attacker with information, why not? I'm interested in the trade-offs. Here's t
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by mjhoy 14y ago
It isn’t just storing secret data that’s a potential problem: ...even if a user’s session does not contain sensitive data, it can still create risk. By decoding the session data, an attacker can gain useful information about the internals
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by mjhoy 14y ago
Also, if everyone were to try to buy firetrucks, the price goes up — and makes me wonder how supply and demand fits in with the categorical imperative (if at all).
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by mjhoy 14y ago
See also one of my favorites, Feynman's "Ode on a Flower": https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=... It only adds... I don't understand how it subtracts.
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by mjhoy 14y ago
Except that placeholder != label, semantically. The spec says: The placeholder attribute should not be used as an alternative to a label. For a longer hint or other advisory text, the title attribute is more appropriate. http://ww
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by mjhoy 14y ago
Quick & dirty find (for Rails apps 3.0.x) find ~/rails -name 'Gemfile' -exec grep -E "rails', '3.0" {} \; -print
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by mjhoy 14y ago
Seems that there was, at most, a (somewhat snarky) suggestion that the diversity of the conference could be improved. You can agree with that or not. The fact that someone voicing concerns caused the whole thing to be called off indicates t

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