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by mprovost 13y ago
With those exceptions it wouldn't have prevented something like this famous example: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/13/nyregion/ringing-finally-s...
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by mprovost 13y ago
Portuguese has more distinct vowel sounds than Spanish, which means that for a Spanish speaker, two distinct words in Portuguese can sound the same. This makes it easier for a Portuguese speaker to understand Spanish, assuming the specific
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by mprovost 13y ago
Just for comparison Weta Digital had 35,000 cores for rendering Avatar.
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by mprovost 13y ago
This is a good read about how jwz coded xscreensaver to be secure and the pitfalls of using GUI toolkits: http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/toolkits.html
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by mprovost 13y ago
I think they meant that once you injure your foot, physical activity is so painful that you stop exercising or walking around and then you put on more weight which makes the injury worse.
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by mprovost 13y ago
None of those configuration management projects really advance the state of the art beyond cfengine which has been around for 20 years. They're still just pushing text files around.
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by mprovost 13y ago
The US govt is attempting to do a similar thing to Kim Dotcom. I assume though that it doesn't go both ways.
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by mprovost 13y ago
Yes but they aren't programmers. Configuring routers using vendor tools and standard protocols is a different thing to SDN where all bets are off. It's going to take a different skill set - some people will make the transition and some won'
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by mprovost 13y ago
The US system is complicated because of deductions. You can still have a progressive (and I would argue more fair) tax system that is very simple. For example here in NZ there are various tax brackets but most people don't ever file a tax r
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by mprovost 13y ago
Theoretically they can ban you from ever entering the US again even with a valid foreign passport. In practise this doesn't seem to happen. But I guess you never know when they'll start enforcing that rule. There are also complicated tax im
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by mprovost 13y ago
Kind of. "Mr Wilfred alleges he is a victim of a CIA conspiracy after he had acted as a whistleblower to expose alleged corruption in the agency." http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&obj...
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by mprovost 13y ago
You get paid for your time by your foreign employer and pay foreign taxes on that income, but the US won't let you deduct that as foreign earned income since you were in the US at the time. Even if you take a holiday to the US you are reduc
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by mprovost 13y ago
SDN and OpenFlow are great if you're a company full of programmers like Facebook and Google are. They approach everything as a software problem. For many (most?) other companies the network is just something that has to work and not a core
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by mprovost 13y ago
I can't find it at the moment but I remember reading a study showing that even with the cost of fixing Y2K issues it was still an economically sound decision to use two digit years given the historical cost of storage. In other words it was
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by mprovost 14y ago
Yes that is true for gigabit. Gigabit ethernet is ethernet in name only. It doesn't resemble the original standard in most meaningful ways. But the name is a brand at this point so whatever the new standard is, it's always called ethernet e
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by mprovost 14y ago
There is nothing mission critical or 'enterprise' about Tesla/Fermi cards. You can crash them and lock up your whole machine. Even if you can reboot the OS the card may not respond and the rebooted OS won't see it, we sometimes have to phys
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by mprovost 14y ago
They could have made the change backwards compatible. Basically by doing something along the lines of designating a part of IPv4 space for use with the new protocol, and then stuffing the extra address into the optional header field. Then i
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by mprovost 14y ago
> IPv6 was the smallest possible change to fix the problem Really? Going from a 32 bit addressing scheme to 33 bits would double the amount of addresses, pushing the problem a way down the track. Sticking to octets for simplicity, going
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by mprovost 14y ago
Paper ballots satisfy both of those properties. What problem are computerised ballots trying to solve? I've seen cost mentioned but haven't seen any evidence that it's cheaper. I imagine that it's mostly about getting the election results f
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by mprovost 14y ago
The specialised chips that are used by routers are CAMs and TCAMs. Basically, associative arrays (hashes or dictionaries as they're called in most scripting languages) implemented in hardware. You can program an FPGA to run as a CAM. Mostly
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NFS V4 turns 10 today(plus.google.com)
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by mprovost 14y ago
100Gbps is the fastest ethernet connection that you can buy (for six figures). So that is always going to be a limitation on the router. They can be aggregated into larger links but I think that is pretty uncommon. The internet is made up
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by mprovost 14y ago
This is one of the problems that the Agile/Scrum methodologies address. The team is a self organising group where each individual commits to a certain amount of work and the team periodically presents their results to management (aka the Pr
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by mprovost 14y ago
I read the typo as "gen[d]er privacy".
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by mprovost 14y ago
Google can do (1) because they crawl the entire web constantly. That's not going to be a trivial feature to add for anyone else. (2) is also probably a side effect of crawling pretty much everything before you ask for it.
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by mprovost 14y ago
A sentence I never though I'd see 10 (or even 5) years ago: "It's compiled to JS, so I expect it to be fast."
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by mprovost 14y ago
I used to run the servers for this site back in 2001 and it was old then. Sad to see that www2 has still survived, that was the result of a migration off some older servers. I'm not surprised that nothing has been cleaned up, we were still
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by mprovost 14y ago
Yes but they were still seeing packets bigger than the MTU of Ethernet (or Sonet or whatever other layer 1/2 tech they're connected to the rest of the net with). It doesn't matter what higher level protocols can handle.
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by mprovost 14y ago
We just hook up a DSL modem to the OOB network or plug it straight into the OOB interface on a core router. You used to do this with actual modems but it's cheap enough to do it with DSL these days, then you're not dependent on any of your
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by mprovost 14y ago
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