mthomas

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by mthomas 15y ago
Each retailer that "supports" Upromise sends them a sha256 hash of your creditcard along with the amount for each transaction.
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by mthomas 15y ago
Seconded. Alternatively you can just take a power drill and drill a hole straight through the case into all the platters.
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by mthomas 15y ago
You simply highlight the blocked text to reveal it. The text is the same color as the background.
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by mthomas 15y ago
I question the inclusion of bubble sort especially two versions of it. I worry that people are more prone to using bubble sort, because it's conceptually simple.
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Inaugural release of Apache Lucy, Version 0.1.0(mail-archives.apache.org)
61 points by mthomas 15y ago|16 comments
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by mthomas 15y ago
This headline is misleading. According to the article, Anonymous is targeting the US Chamber of Commerce http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Chamber_of_Commer... which is a business lobby, not part of the US Government.
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by mthomas 15y ago
There is more to CSV that splitting a line on commas. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma-separated_values#Basic_ru... You need to be able to handle values that contain commas, quotes, leading spaces and line breaks.
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Martin Odersky (Scala creator) launches company to commercialize scala and akka(typesafe.com)
135 points by mthomas 15y ago|94 comments
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by mthomas 15y ago
I have to say inception wasn't too difficult to understand. I still don't understand Primer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primer_(film) though.
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by mthomas 15y ago
Also, they would have to recompile and test all their existing applications on the ARM architecture. It was a big deal when they switched from PowerPC to Intel. I guess that this would make sense if they started making laptops running iOS.
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by mthomas 15y ago
This is a single data point. Its best not to draw conclusions from it.
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by mthomas 15y ago
The article is from 2008. Link to the project page: http://nixos.org/ with links to a video and slides from 2011
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by mthomas 15y ago
The details of the Calculus were not worked out until decades after Newton and Leibniz: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_analysis . However, the notation that most people use to denote infinitesimals and differentiation is Leibniz
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by mthomas 16y ago
I use thttpd: http://www.acme.com/software/thttpd/thttpd_man.html for simple fast serving.
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by mthomas 16y ago
I wouldn't lose hope just yet. In my experience it takes on average 6 months to find a qualified full stack java developer, or just any qualified developer. Just by luck of the draw, you're going to run into 9-5 ers more than anyone else.
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by mthomas 16y ago
Are there any significant barriers to use the event MPM as it stands in the 2.2. Does it fall back to worker when its used under SSL?
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by mthomas 16y ago
I don't understand the point of the talk. The only way you could follow what he was saying was if you understood the material he was trying to "explain". I think someone wanting to learn about about the relation between pi, e, i, sine and
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by mthomas 16y ago
Perhaps offtopic, but I find it odd that there is an opinion piece by Peter Norvig in the NY Post.
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by mthomas 16y ago
It seems that they let the domain expire. This should get you by: http://hpaste.org/42369/haskellorg_ips
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by mthomas 16y ago
I think its just referring to being in the Zone: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(psychology)#Professions_a...
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by mthomas 16y ago
I believe that is also possible with Android phones when you use the default Exchange connectivity app. I've ended up using a different program to connect to Exchange.
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by mthomas 16y ago
I just tried it out. I like the feedback about which keys gave me trouble. However, i sometimes got tripped up because I automatically added two spaces after a period and your test only expected one space.
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by mthomas 16y ago
The Senate Judiciary committee passed the bill. It still needs to approved by the full senate: http://www.dmwmedia.com/news/2010/11/18/senate-judiciary-app...
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by mthomas 16y ago
Some things your shopping cart might be missing which are non trivial. - Coupons or PROMOS ( X% off, $Y off, stackable) - Persisting a shopping cart between visits if an user doesn't checkout. - Saving items from a shopping cart to
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by mthomas 16y ago
For those who are unfamiliar with the erlang parlance, like me: native implemented functions (NIFs). http://www.erlang.org/doc/man/erl_nif.html
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by mthomas 16y ago
Chargify requires that you setup both a payment gateway and a merchant account. Why would you use them instead of just integrating with the gateway directly?
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by mthomas 16y ago
I notice that you're using a polling thread keep track of modification times. I know that linux has inotify: http://github.com/seb-m/pyinotify and OsX has something similar with FSEvents: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/MacFSEvents
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by mthomas 16y ago
Why not simply use Hudson: http://hudson-ci.org/ . It has a bunch of plugins http://wiki.hudson-ci.org/display/HUDSON/Plugins
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by mthomas 16y ago
Have you looked at http://www.web2py.com/ . It comes with a webserver and database. There is also a book: http://web2py.com/book and there are prebuilt application that you can install http://web2py.com/appliances
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by mthomas 16y ago
The date on that post is April 1. Took a while for that to register for me.

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