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721.
by mprovost 14y ago
Drake was just released, it's a make replacement specifically for data processing and seems to have some nice features. http://blog.factual.com/introducing-drake-a-kind-of-make-for...
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by mprovost 14y ago
I meant like a 123 (or even Visicalc) clone that would run in a terminal. It seems like such a basic thing that has existed on PCs for so long (in fact even predates the IBM PC) so why did it have to wait for Staroffice/Sun to make a GUI ve
723.
by mprovost 14y ago
I've always been a bit perplexed that there isn't a spreadsheet as good as 123 (ie, 1980s technology) as a standard part of Linux distributions. There is a massive blind spot in the open source world around spreadsheets. As far as I can tel
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by mprovost 14y ago
Is this even legal? Aren't the frequencies used by wi-fi explicitly set up to be unregulated by the FCC? Can a private company force you to turn off a device legally operating on those frequencies?
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by mprovost 14y ago
Programmers have entourages now?
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by mprovost 14y ago
Ebert commented in his review that the film was unique in that it just showed OSX and standard programs like mail.app and iphoto instead of having everything be obviously faked. I like that approach but for whatever reason it is pretty rare
727.
by mprovost 14y ago
Anycast isn't an IPv6 feature, it works perfectly well with IPv4. It's just routing.
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by mprovost 14y ago
The "core working hours" at any startup that I've worked at have been 40 hours or close to it. The expectation is that you work more than that, so sure you can leave "early" but that's based on a pretty high amount of hours you're going to
729.
by mprovost 14y ago
At least one study has shown that younger listeners prefer the 'sizzle' sound of MP3s over higher quality recordings, presumably because it's what they're used to. http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/03/the-sizzling-sound-of-music...
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by mprovost 14y ago
This is why wind and solar are good partners with hydro. They're more unreliable due to weather but if you have the wind or sun available to generate more power than you need, you can use the excess power to pump water uphill into a hydro l
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by mprovost 14y ago
That's only true for open source implementations (if you can call ZFS that, the only really decent implementation is still locked up inside Oracle). Netapp's WAFL (which ZFS copied) is the original implementation of a RAID system that is re
732.
by mprovost 14y ago
Hard drives are pretty resilient to high temperatures. Google did a reliability analysis of thousands of hard drives and found: "Overall our experiments can conﬁrm previously reported temperature effects only for the high end of our tempera
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by mprovost 14y ago
Routed networks tend to fail closed where switched networks tend to fail open. That usually seems to be the problem with layer two failures, they can easily spread traffic everywhere and it takes a while for things to calm down, in the mean
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by mprovost 14y ago
There's (almost) nothing worse than stumbling across a project written by a bored developer and then having to support it. Instead of a perl script and some SQL, it will use some smattering of the techs that you mention above. Often not for
735.
by mprovost 14y ago
Vi traditionally has the same behavior, vim recognises one space but in some vi compatible modes requires two.
736.
by mprovost 14y ago
Steve Jobs and Woz got their start selling Blue Boxes that let you illegally make free phone calls. They just never got caught.
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by mprovost 14y ago
Here? http://www.adobe.com/misc/trade.html#section-4
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by mprovost 14y ago
In the early 90s I did a high school science project at a research lab that was working on a smart elevator project for Otis. Everyone had a NeXT workstation and a Symbolics LISP machine. And they wore ties. It's hard to imagine getting a j
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by mprovost 14y ago
> Sarov has been the site of a big Russian Orthodox monastery for centuries. Sounds like Anathem.
740.
by mprovost 14y ago
It's not like the press (ie paper newspapers like the NYT) is a neutral party in this - craigslist has pretty much destroyed one of their largest traditional sources of revenue (classifieds).
741.
by mprovost 14y ago
...but not on schedule.
742.
by mprovost 14y ago
Americans also think that ASCII should be good enough for anybody.
743.
by mprovost 14y ago
At least they took the time to write it in English. Considering how much effort the inventors and maintainers of the DNS put into supporting non-ASCII languages like Chinese I think that's pretty good, even if they missed a few articles.
744.
by mprovost 14y ago
If it was going to be a smooth transition it would have happened a decade ago. Unfortunately IPv6 wasn't designed for a gradual cutover.
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by mprovost 14y ago
Google would like you to believe that everyone stopped innovating when they did. There's actually a thriving market for site search but very little of it is for free. Check out SLI which has been doing cool stuff in this space for years. h
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by mprovost 15y ago
Just start some alternative root servers. There's nothing that makes the current roots authoritative except for convention and a hardcoded list of IPs. It's not even hard to start up a server that can act as the authoritative source for blo
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by mprovost 15y ago
Here's my test of whether a message should be sent via email: "Can I reply to it?" If the answer is no then it probably shouldn't be in email. Think about all of the do-not-reply@ messages that come in that are notifying you of something ha
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by mprovost 15y ago
We periodically try this at our company, and in fact mailing lists are also available as newsgroups. Most people don't use the newsgroups. Part of the problem is on the client side - Thunderbird keeps newsgroups as separate folders so you d
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by mprovost 15y ago
But can you buy insurance for their launches? http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2011/0...
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by mprovost 15y ago
dc is the standard RPN console app that's been around forever (according to Wikipedia it predates the C language). It loads instantly but I always have a terminal window running it somewhere.

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