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How Moire patterns are formed – Melbourne's twilight zone(qedcat.com)
1 points by mjs 13y ago|0 comments
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by mjs 13y ago
Sometimes you can get a solution to a problem by saying saying that after spending a bunch of time attempting to solve it, you've decided that a solution is impossible. The desire to prove you wrong is too much for some to withstand, a
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by mjs 13y ago
Hopefully someone can expand on this answer but broadly it's so that there's an incentive for transactions to be recorded. (And apparently transaction fees can be adjusted up and down, across the entire system, to ensure this happ
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On Primes and Pluto(qedcat.com)
92 points by mjs 13y ago|40 comments
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by mjs 13y ago
For future reference (it's not ready yet): https://www.mailpile.is/ (Features--privacy, encryption--are supposed to satisfy the most discerning HN reader.)
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by mjs 13y ago
Are you sure you mean JIT? That page doesn't mention JIT anywhere, and I can't think how a JIT would be very useful in a font engine. Maybe extremely complicated Unicode combining characters?
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by mjs 13y ago
This seems to run whatever code usually runs when you hit [space] on a filename in a Finder window. (Except that it outputs a bunch of debugging information.) Under what circumstances is that any better or more useful than "open"?
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by mjs 13y ago
(Note that according to that page, the MacBook will only do 30 Hz.)
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by mjs 13y ago
Regarding bug reports: > Guaranteed reply within a day. That seems difficult to achieve--wonder how they're doing that? (Also, why??)
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by mjs 13y ago
Well, there's also the "social and signaling effects" of using something that's non-git, that Eric S. Raymond articulates well: "we cannot afford to make or adhere to choices that further cast the project as crusty,
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by mjs 13y ago
Note that antirez's reply (in the comments) begins with "thanks to Aphyr for spending the time to try stuff, but the model he tried here is not what I proposed..."
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by mjs 13y ago
I've spent around US$15/month with them for over 10 years and have been very happy with their service and (when necessary) support.
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by mjs 13y ago
(FWIW, parent commentator more or less co-founded ZeroMQ with the grand-parent commentator; rumcajz left the project and is now working on http://nanomsg.org/. )
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by mjs 13y ago
How would ZeroVM instances talk to any server with persistent storage (e.g. a key/value store) in a deterministic way? get('top_stories') will change over time.
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by mjs 13y ago
I don't expect a benchmarking app to be throttled by the OS under any circumstances--ideally the benchmarking app would run on the raw hardware, with no second-guessing by the OS about whether it should be throttled because the battery
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by mjs 13y ago
I'm a pinboard.in user, but I actually find the URL scheme annoying, at least compared to delicious. I find it much easier to type http://delicious.com/username/tag than http://pinboard.in/u:userna
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by mjs 13y ago
The countries are: Ireland, Australia, Italy, Austria, Hong Kong, Sweden and Denmark. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-23896896 (This doesn't look to be symmetric, for some reason--if you're a Three custome
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by mjs 13y ago
You need to scan to detect spam, so scanning itself can't be a legal problem. I don't see the issue here. The ads are not even slightly surreptitious, and they don't seem to be linked to your non-email ad profile. (They don&
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by mjs 13y ago
Going from the comment in the config file, "debug" data is only collected if the application crashes. Google Analytics is hooked up by default though, which is unusual. (Actually I'm not sure how that's going to work, s
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by mjs 13y ago
Great comment, thanks. I imagine this is blocked from being appearing higher up on the page by the parent not having more votes than the parent's siblings. (Do votes for a child have an effect on the parent's sort order? A workar
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by mjs 13y ago
The fiddled with the ratings of which "major news-aggregation web site"?
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by mjs 13y ago
There's no technical reason there couldn't be a cloud version of this, but of course it makes absolutely no sense as a cloud service, which make me wonder what's going on here. An exchange of money for a thing usually means t
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by mjs 13y ago
"...but there is something I wish would happen first. An LTS release of an open source compiler." Surprising that this doesn't already exist--Apple and RedHat and Ubuntu, etc. must all maintain what is in effect a LTS version
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by mjs 13y ago
The whole article is a PR team's dream: an article in a prominent paper highlighting both their company's charitable work and efficiency expertise! (But a nice story regardless.)
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by mjs 13y ago
Why announce the publication date in advance? It's not like he needs to disrupt anyone else's futuristic transport plan announcement.
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by mjs 13y ago
Is it dead? The links from https://code.google.com/p/hotwire-shell/ to the "main website" go to http://hotwire-shell.org/ , which has "buy this domain" ads all over it.
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by mjs 13y ago
The best explanation I've found of how it works (slides, PDF): http://cdn.oreillystatic.com/en/assets/1/event/36/How%20Toku...
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by mjs 13y ago
Is ~/.pam_environment that cross platform? I'm trying to use the same config on Linux and OS X.
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by mjs 13y ago
Well, there's the Windows PowerShell: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_PowerShell It's actually got some quite interesting concepts, and is extremely consistent. These tips also convey the approach and how it works: http://technet.m
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by mjs 13y ago
I don't know, but https://github.com/kvs/rubies-fish does work for switching rubies on a .ruby-version file. It works by getting notification when the PWD environment variable changes, which seems like an elegant way of managing this.

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