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by mjs 17y ago
"Ford’s version of radar prepares the brakes so that all you need to do is touch them to get full braking pressure if the car thinks it’s headed for a collision." That sounds like a really good way to get hit from behind. Does the system t
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by mjs 17y ago
Well, that page says "The Wikipedia Usability Initiative is realized by a grant from the U.S.-based Stanton Foundation." So I'm not entirely sure if this explains it. (Nearly a million dollars seems a lot of money for a redesign + usabili
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by mjs 17y ago
"The foundation also invested $890,000 in a new design for the site ..." Yow! I'm sure that's wrong/misleading in some way, but what does this figure actually include?
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by mjs 17y ago
In what other ways is Android splintering?? This post talks about the sort of splintering I thought everyone was talking about when they talked about splintering: multiple devices, different hardware capabilities, different versions, carrie
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by mjs 17y ago
Contrary to the article, I don't think node.js uses Python at all. (Apart from the build system.)
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by mjs 17y ago
I think the name was meaningful in this case, and that this is true in most cases. I'm not especially interested in a random person's thoughts on Go. I may be interested in their thoughts on Go if their post happens to make it to the top o
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by mjs 17y ago
Interesting. Thanks.
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by mjs 17y ago
Well, is there any real different between a first-class function and a closure that closes over nothing? Is it possible for a language to support closures without first-class functions? How common is it to have first-class functions withou
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by mjs 17y ago
I don't get why there are some many overflow.com sites. It was already hard to figure out which overflow.com to post to, and now it's even harder. The only "solution" is to post to them all. Or aggregate them as overflowoverflow.com as
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by mjs 17y ago
The corresponding PHP bug report: http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=47665 (Closed as "not a bug". Surprise!)
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by mjs 17y ago
What would a RESTful API for a queue resource look like? I'm thinking of something that supports push, pop, shift, unshift, etc. Is there a meaningful difference between: GET /user/1 GET /search?user=1 GET /?method=search&user=1 Is RES
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by mjs 17y ago
They fly much shorter routes. I guess the number you really want to know is the number of staff per passenger kilometer, but the graphic doesn't say... Other flaws: * Misspells Aer Lingus. * Claims low cost airlines have turnarounds of "up
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by mjs 17y ago
I thought about doing this, but Growl running on one system (e.g. desktop) can accept notifications generated by a different system (e.g. server), but unfortunately the client library is Cocoa only, so you can't compile it on your Linux hos
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by mjs 17y ago
Brad Fitzpatrick's http://code.google.com/p/pubsubhubbub/ can be used for this. ("Subscribe" to a RSS/Atom feed, it does the polling for you, and gives you callbacks when new entries happen.)
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by mjs 18y ago
But ... you can still Google for the URL.
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by mjs 18y ago
The conclusion is a pretty good summary, if you don't want to read the whole lot. A big thing that's missing from Parallel DBMSs is fault tolerance, which the paper cops to (but also diminishes): "MR is able to recover from faults in the mi
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by mjs 18y ago
Interesting, it's a botnet! From the FAQ: "How can the prices be so low?" "Plura pays developers to embed lightweight widgets in their desktop applications or websites. These widgets harness the idle and excess bandwidth and computing powe
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by mjs 18y ago
Seconded.