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by mjs 15y ago
So there are now three Perl runtimes/compilers/interpreters--Rakudo (+ Parrot VM), Niecza (CLR), Perlito (?)--none of which yet implements the full Perl 6 spec? (Which itself is not yet complete, although "2011 was a rather quiet year in t
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by mjs 15y ago
Anything specific? I haven't noticed noticed anything very much amiss with Sublime. (It's as native feeling as Chrome, say, or indeed TextMate.)
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by mjs 15y ago
Interesting, another use of a SQL-like language as the query language for a data store that's definitely not an SQL database. (YQL is another example.) I really don't understand why ORMs always seem to want to create their an object-base
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by mjs 15y ago
Ah, looks like this is the library Subbu Allamaraju refers to at http://www.subbu.org/blog/2011/11/apis-are-a-pain--the aim of ql.io is to alleviate the challenges of "aggregation, parallelization, and orchestration of forks and joins."
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by mjs 15y ago
I tried the "request assistance" button in Apple's Covent Garden store a month or two ago, and it didn't work. No-one came, and when I asked a real person about this, he said they were aware someone needed help, but the system isn't able t
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by mjs 15y ago
Is there a ticket to follow to track this regression?
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by mjs 15y ago
This is wonderful, in so many different ways. I've read quite a bit of the FSF material--which is invariably specific, clear and verbose--and it's interesting to read material in the same style, but about a completely different topic. For e
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by mjs 15y ago
... in the USA. But yes, seems unlikely.
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by mjs 15y ago
From my reading of that link, in Rails it's not the CSRF token itself that's stored in the cookie, it's the secret used to verify the token. If Facebook is doing the same thing, there would be no need to store the secret after the user has
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by mjs 15y ago
"The other 'a' cookie, a_xs, is now also deleted on logout. a_xs is used to prevent cross-site request forgery." Does anyone know how this cookie is used to prevent CSRF?
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by mjs 15y ago
What do you use for ctags? https://github.com/SublimeText/CTags ?
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by mjs 15y ago
"There is a risk that Accumulo will be criticized for not providing adequate security. The access labels in Accumulo do not in themselves provide a complete security solution, but are a mechanism for labeling each piece of data with the aut
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by mjs 15y ago
"Isiklarius is equipped with a system developed in our studio that detects visually impaired and handicapped pedestrians." How does that work??
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by mjs 15y ago
It's been out for a while, and although it's really promising, a large number of obvious features are completely missing. For example there's no RSS feeds of a user's activity and there's no "per-book" pages (it'd be nice if you could poin
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by mjs 15y ago
I guess this is also illustrates the difference between studying French at university, and studying it at Alliance française--or studying computer science at university, versus programming at a trade/vocational school.
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by mjs 15y ago
As in, you didn't get to execute code on a computer at all?? That seems kinda odd--I think a large part of the pleasure of programming, for most people, is seeing your code actually do something. I think Logo was captivating because mad
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by mjs 15y ago
This is kinda off the point, but I'm surprised at the spelling and punctuation mistakes in that mail--generally high-profile hackers have excellent written English. i.e. "but their isn't", "Do we need module's at all?", "do suggest alternat
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by mjs 15y ago
Good question. Is there an AWS limitation in there somewhere?
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by mjs 15y ago
Agreed, webOS suffers from some small-ish fit and finish problems, and much larger marketing and (lack of) application problems. webOS 1.0 did do a lot of wacky/strange things that were annoying, though not bad enough for the phone to be us
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by mjs 15y ago
Arrays do seem to be the way to make Chrome happy, although unfortunately they're slower for everything else: http://jsperf.com/backreference-copy I don't see why you say an array is a more appropriate datastructure for the algorithm, tho
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by mjs 15y ago
splice() might be able to help out, though how much depends on whether the copying really needs to overlap or not. There's some benchmarks at: http://jsperf.com/backreference-copy I couldn't actually get Safari to complete; FF 4.01 is fa
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by mjs 15y ago
http://www.reddit.com/r/node/comments/h1m2o/i_am_ryan_dahl_c... Q: What are your favourite tech sites? (hacker news, /r/programming, etc.) A: hacker news
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by mjs 15y ago
I find the description of which image to choose confusing. You need the a 64-bit image to handle processes over 4GB, right? Why is the x86 version recommended for "most machines with Intel/AMD/etc type processors and almost all computers
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by mjs 16y ago
I more or less understand the reasons, but I do think it unfortunate and weird that the companies offering cloud services price them on some combination of RAM, disk space and bandwidth--CPU performance doesn't really figure, except occasio
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by mjs 16y ago
The choice of topics, really. This was for (I think) an entrance exam, and so the only topic I think even vaguely suitable to write about without forewarning is "English country life in the 18th century." The Battle of Blenheim and the ch
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by mjs 16y ago
I found some Cambridge exam papers from 1899 a while back. I don't have scans, but there's a few of the more interesting/mysterious questions at: http://beebo.org/lately/2001-07-10_cambridge.html I quite like the 2.5 hour "English Essay"
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by mjs 16y ago
Agreed. Video or I say it doesn't rotate!
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by mjs 16y ago
I find it interesting that Linus seems to have originally come across this particular bug report as a user; he, too, was having a problem with Flash player: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=638477#c8 "I see this as well. Sounds
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by mjs 16y ago
Ha, it gets better: the web server "was partially funded by the DARPA Composable High Assurance Trusted Systems program." http://www.okws.org/doku.php?id=okws:sponsorship
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by mjs 16y ago
Yeah, that's nicer if bar() can be defined at the same "level" as foo() but if it makes more sense to move it somewhere else the closed-over variables need to be passed.

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