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by mooism2 13y ago
Yes, you can read Computer Science books by yourself. Ask a more specific question: you will be more likely to get a useful answer.
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by mooism2 13y ago
Who is saving copies of our encrypted data that is not already able to decrypt it? The power of quantum computers to break existing cryptographic algorithms is greatly exaggerated in the popular imagination. e.g. a quantum computer would n
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by mooism2 13y ago
What do you mean by “tmux is sudo safe”?
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by mooism2 13y ago
screen -d -R will reconnect to your screen session if it exists, or start a new one if it doesn't. People not yet proficient with screen should learn tmux instead.
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by mooism2 13y ago
His first proposal, that WordPress installs should update themselves, makes sense. His second proposal, that WordPress should show users a click-through warning when installing themes and plugins, doesn't make sense. The experience from e.g
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by mooism2 13y ago
Everyone's switched to TalkTalk?
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by mooism2 13y ago
When you say “faster” you mean “more frequently” or “more often”.
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by mooism2 13y ago
If you ask spdycheck.org to check a site that doesn't support spdy, and customise that site's Server header to include arbitrary html, spdycheck.org will include that header, verbatim and unescaped, in the page it presents to you (or anyo
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by mooism2 13y ago
So you add an extra radio button at the bottom of the form, with an <input type=text> instead of a <label>. You will want some javascript to select the bottom radio button when the text control receives focus. Then on the ba
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by mooism2 13y ago
Would you know how to do this if poll respondents weren't allowed to add their own answers?
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by mooism2 13y ago
What are you having trouble with? The html? The backend? Something else?
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by mooism2 13y ago
That's not a rain tax: that's a flood tax. But a good example of framing the debate.
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by mooism2 13y ago
I remember stories like this from previous Windows releases. The narrative goes something like this: 1. Geek decides to install/upgrade to newest version of Windows for some reason. 2. Geek encounters many technical roadbumps in doing so.
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by mooism2 13y ago
Answering my own question: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key#Alternate_ways_...
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by mooism2 13y ago
Follow-up question: Linux gets frozen and you don't have physical access, what do you do?
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by mooism2 13y ago
Sorry, I mean: what does “GCC” stand for? It is jargon not defined in the post.
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by mooism2 13y ago
“GCC”?
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by mooism2 13y ago
What's different about the EU flavour? There's nothing obviously different about the cookie options.
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by mooism2 13y ago
Redirects to welcome page.
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Not to mention that buying cash with a credit card attracts higher interest charges from the credit card issuer.
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by mooism2 13y ago
Calendars could be better integrated with todo lists. An event on a calendar is just a todo item that has to occur at a certain time on a certain date, instead of by a certain date.
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by mooism2 13y ago
I don't think it can be fairly described as a better Markdown. One of the design requirements for Markdown was that it wouldn't look out of place as a plain text e-mail or usenet posting. This would stick out like a sore thumb. That's not t
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by mooism2 13y ago
I would hesitate to generalise from the behaviour of students to make sweeping statements about the behaviour of large companies run by groups of atypical individuals.
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by mooism2 13y ago
http://www.janusvm.com/chromium_vm/ was the sort of thing I thought you were describing, until you said you wanted that “in reverse”. I have no idea what you mean.
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by mooism2 13y ago
Nobody can help you unless you say what your problem is. Be specific and succinct.
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by mooism2 14y ago
A maze of twisty features, all different. It doesn't seem designed so much as thrown together based on what seemed a good idea at the time (a criticism that is certainly not unique to C++).
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by mooism2 14y ago
The title is the most important bit. It is, as you note, the only bit people who don't read the article will read. (And as it happens, I did read it, but don't let that stop you from jumping to conclusions.) That includes people who don't c
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by mooism2 14y ago
That's not what the article title says.
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by mooism2 14y ago
No, it turns out that hiring someone because of their gender is discriminatory. Disqualifying all male candidates due to their gender is discriminatory, just as disqualifying all female candidates due to their gender is discriminatory.
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by mooism2 14y ago
TIL: U+0336.

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