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by mjs 13y ago
I've "skipped" zsh--I tried it a few times, but it didn't seem enough better than bash for it to be worth learning, converting all my scripts, and so on. fish does seem worth the effort, and in fact many of my bash scripts and configuratio
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by mjs 13y ago
Interestingly they claim that the moving images are "an H.264 MPEG-4 Video Stream that is rendered in your browser in a variety of ways" http://nucaptcha.com/features/security-features but they're not--it's just an animated GIF! The one o
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by mjs 13y ago
I'm guessing the OP means: given the high stakes (environmental, financial, moral, and so on), why aren't governments more involved in this research? (They're already regulating and subsidising farming in pretty much every country of the w
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by mjs 13y ago
Glad this is getting closer! Aside from the moral issues, running sunlight, water and feed through a cow is such an inefficient and inelegant way of producing meat...
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by mjs 13y ago
We've tried using checklists a bit for code review, and hit the problem that our checklists would be pretty much guaranteed to have at least one item that was arguably inapplicable to the changeset. So you'd have some changeset that was ve
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by mjs 13y ago
There's a nice list of checklists at http://www.projectcheck.org/checklists.html including a "checklist for checklists" (!) http://www.projectcheck.org/checklist-for-checklists.html Great article on the use of checklists in hospitals, b
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by mjs 13y ago
Well ... I think it's actually pretty good bug reporting habit. Was it text/plain or unstyled text/html? Was the body an error message but a styled header and footer present? You might want to copy and paste the text as well, to aid future
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by mjs 13y ago
3/31/2013 is the backup they're reverting to, not when they got hacked though, right? (The email refers to "downtime over the last week", so I guess the hack happened around 6th April or later.
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by mjs 14y ago
Yes please! I'd like to subscribe.
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by mjs 14y ago
Interesting, this is the first technology blog-like site I've seen that does not have an RSS feed...
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by mjs 14y ago
These three things require wildly different levels of ability: incorrectly using a t-test (e.g. using it in the wrong circumstances), correctly using a t-test, inventing the t-test. I think Wilson is saying that whilst scientists need to be
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by mjs 14y ago
There's an intriguing exercise in Paul Heyne's "The Economic Way of Thinking" that asks, as a thought experiment, what would happen if a helicopter simply dropped cash on groups of people that needed it--the thinking being that if people ha
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by mjs 14y ago
Are they really shutting down the CalDAV interface to Google Calendar? (I'm not sure what the "API" bit means, or the "whitelisted".) As of now, CalDAV is Google's recommended way for syncing with iOS devices http://support.google.com/cale
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by mjs 14y ago
Seems like the Chrome App can access: * Your data on all websites * Your tabs and browsing activity I'm not very comfortable with that. It also seems very unnecessary for an RSS reader.
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by mjs 14y ago
What is real and what is simulated in war games such as this? It apparently cost US$250m, so you'd think some of it would be real but for example were real motorcycle messengers used to transmit messages to real front-line troops? Were sh
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by mjs 14y ago
Thanks. Is there any significant performance difference? (I'm wondering if it makes sense to roll my own "proxy" converting read()s to emit()s.)
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by mjs 14y ago
So a readable stream is an EventEmitter, but it's not recommended that you actually listen for 'data' events? (Instead you're supposed to call read()?) That seems ... counterintuitive. Anyone know what you're supposed to do if you have co
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by mjs 14y ago
But you basically can't do anything with a credit card number anyway--there doesn't seem to be much point breaking a long number into 10+ shorter numbers with different security requirements if you need all of the numbers all the time to do
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by mjs 14y ago
Even if the different fields have different security requirements, that doesn't seem to be a good reason to require them to be entered separately. I don't really care if someone mandates that digits 1-4 can be sent via email, digits 5-10
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by mjs 14y ago
I don't understand why, instead of adding extra fields to collect more information, the banks and credit card companies instead just added more digits to the original fields. So instead of a separate field for the security code, why not ju
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by mjs 14y ago
The description on the UK Apple Store says that it "mirrors exactly what you see on your device", so that needs adjustment, at least. http://store.apple.com/uk/product/MD826ZM/A/lightning-digita...
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by mjs 14y ago
All that setup and no "very very frightening" joke?!
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by mjs 14y ago
Huh, I wonder what the crouton developer was talking about then. No encrypted disk? (I don't have Chrome OS, I was just guessing what the crouton README might mean.)
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by mjs 14y ago
To run crouton you need to put your machine into developer mode though, which could mean that all bets are off. (e.g. if you power it off, it comes back up without requiring a password, since this is annoying/unnecessary if you're actually
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by mjs 14y ago
Looks like this is crouton: https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton "Anyone who wants to run straight Linux on their Chromium OS device, and doesn't care about physical security. You're also better off having some knowledge of Linux tools an
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by mjs 14y ago
This is very superficial of me but ... are there any screenshots of Textadept anywhere?
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by mjs 14y ago
I actually have no idea why the hal people aren't writing hal specifications for existing services right now--it's not quite as nice as "native" support, but the format supports it, and it would be useful to see what a hal version of the Tw
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by mjs 14y ago
Ugh, it's being edited constantly too! Someone just removed the "Hello" from the first line, which was part of what made it great...
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by mjs 14y ago
What version are you using? HHVM (with JIT) is the successor to HPHPc (the version that has the C++ intermediate stage), and is faster. See http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10150415177928920
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by mjs 14y ago
This is an argument that there's no discrimination in tech? Or less discrimination than in other industries?

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