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by nas 17y ago
Neat. I'm pretty happy with my ultra-cheap Owon ( http://www.saelig.com/PSBEB100/PSSA002.htm ). For some more money you could have a Rigol, which I hear are very good (they make the low-end Agilent scopes). Having a digital storage scope i
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by nas 17y ago
Yet git doesn't remember those things either and can still merge as well as hg (arguably better in some rename cases). What was his point again?
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by nas 17y ago
Conceptually git thinks about snapshots of trees. The pack format uses deltas but that's a mostly hidden detail. The pack format didn't exist for the first months of git's existence. I haven't bothered to read the blog post (Joel strikes
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by nas 17y ago
The typography on that site is terrible. I have flashbacks of doublespaced reports (required by some idiotic style guide).
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by nas 17y ago
At the time I think CVS was the proposed system. Linus said he preferred patches. I'm not sure he was wrong. AFAIK, bitkeeper was designed (not sure to what extent) when Larry got together with Linus and Linus explained how he wanted it
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by nas 17y ago
Ugh, garbage. Use a HMAC with a master password and a parameter (e.g. the site name) to generate a site specific password. Forget about shitty crypto. My humble attempt (based on others work): http://python.ca/nas/tmp/pw.html Edit: just
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by nas 17y ago
Good stuff. For those who haven't seen them, the Periodic Table of Videos ( http://www.youtube.com/user/periodicvideos#p/u/17/pPdevJTGAY... ) are entertaining.
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by nas 17y ago
I laughed that the iPad joke even though I think he missed the point of it. The iPad represents the iPhone software model applied to personal (netbook like) computers. Installing software and keeping a computer is beyond the average perso
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by nas 17y ago
pyrepl allows multi-line editing of history. It's pretty neat, IMHO.
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by nas 17y ago
Perhaps I'm missing something but I don't see too much benefit from OTPs. If the machine in front of me is compromised (e.g. Firefox bug, Flash bug, Adobe Reader bug, Linux kernel bug, Windows bug, etc etc), a OTP doesn't stop a man-in-the-
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by nas 17y ago
A pretty classic case of the Innovator's Dilemma, IMHO. Sun hardware was kickass but cheap PC servers eventually beat them out.
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by nas 17y ago
More probably things like the Newton-Raphson method to solve simultaneous non-linear equations.
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by nas 17y ago
The Python interpreter is some pretty clean and educational C code, IMHO. Why don't you join python-dev, find some bugs in the issue tracker and start hacking? http://www.python.org/dev/contributing/
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by nas 17y ago
Interesting but I don't see how he can conclude "[Amazon EC2 has] deep rooted scalabilty problems at their end". One of the downsides of cloud computing is that you don't really know what's going on with the lower layers.
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by nas 17y ago
As far as I'm concerned (as a CPython developer), the 2.x branch can live as long as necessary. There is no reason to play games trying to push people to upgrade to 3.x. Those tactics piss people off and for good reason. That said, I don't
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by nas 17y ago
Weight gain is the same (not surprising since calories are the same), liver is 22% bigger in fructose fed rates. This is an old study, BTW. Here's a 2009 study comparing fructose and glucose for humans: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti
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by nas 17y ago
I'm planning to learn Clojure too. I plan to write a Durus ( http://www.mems-exchange.org/software/durus/ ) server. There is nothing Python specific (AFAIK) about the server and it's small and clean enough to be a good project.
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by nas 17y ago
Note that this rewrites history and changes the commit ids (i.e. the SHA hashes). That could be seen as a feature. The same thing happens if you rebase a branch.
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by nas 17y ago
IMHO, the reason DN3D was groundbreaking was because of Build. Ken Silverman is obviously hugely talented.
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by nas 17y ago
IMHO, Schulze is too complicated for the average voter. People need to understand the voting system. I don't deny that it's theoretically better.
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by nas 17y ago
Boo. IRV sucks (probably as much or more than plurality). Approval voting FTW. See http://zesty.ca/voting/sim/ . Noice how Approval and Condorcet voting produce the same pictures (aside from Approval having a little fuzzier edges).
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by nas 17y ago
Yeah, I find the article humorous because of that. It's not a great game (well, maybe great compared to traditional North American board games). I get the impression that these guys are trying to be cool by playing and the WSJ thinks they a
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by nas 17y ago
The problem with the GIL is nearly the opposite. The lock is dropped for system calls but kept when Python code is running. That's not a problem for IO bound workloads but does not scale well over multiple CPUs for CPU bound tasks that do m
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by nas 17y ago
On plaforms without fork it uses threads (e.g. windows). Why do you care if it is using fork() anyhow?
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by nas 17y ago
Not too much detail. I wonder how this compares to a peep hole sight. A circle seems just as simple as a triangle, perhaps simpler.
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by nas 17y ago
I'm quite interested in getting into the business of switching local small businesses from proprietary PBX systems to open VoIP hardware. Anyone got some tips for getting into the field? I'm a competent programmer and system admin but my bu
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by nas 17y ago
Yeah, I think it's possible (although unlikely) for someone to be able to privately build an AI that can compete at the pro level. As you say, they would have access to all the papers published by AI researchers. There is always a chance th
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by nas 17y ago
Tim Peters is very good at practical algorithm design. He one of the primary designers of the Python dictionary algorithms. His sort algorithm (timsort) is also pretty cool. Also check out the Knights Tour and N-Queens algorithms in the uni
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by nas 17y ago
A magic number like 100 ms seems like a bad idea. Also, it's not clear to me what happens when minimum path latency is > 100 ms. Based on my superficial understanding, the uTP rate would go to (nearly) zero.
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by nas 17y ago
I call a 7/100,000 chance of death a moderate risk, not miniscule. Also, the 1/3000 chance of contracting pneumonia might be an incentive for some people to get the shot. Further, those figures are estimates based on the current virus. It i

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