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by nas 15y ago
I'm not a big fan of auto-restart. It's slow for the server to crawl over all files and check if re-load is needed. Having individual modules reload themselves without reloading the whole server is error prone (e.g. you could end up using
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by nas 15y ago
FYI, Quixote ( http://quixote.ca ) provides a bunch of options too: python -m quixote.server.simple_server python -m quixote.server.medusa_server python -m quixote.server.twisted_server python -m quixote.server.fastcgi
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by nas 15y ago
diffstats are misleading since it looks like he stripped at least 20 lines of comments from each file (license blurb). If Coffescript really did remove that much code I would seriously consider switching. Most research has shown that bug
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by nas 15y ago
Sounds like an idea. The security principle of "enumerating the good" rather than "enumerating the bad" is an old one. You could define an HTML subset that would be acceptable, perhaps putting total size limits on certain things. That ap
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by nas 15y ago
I've experienced congestion at my parents house. They live in a rural area and have a connection over a WiMax wireless link. I did a little poking around and the bottleneck is not the wireless link but some link further upstream (e.g. may
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by nas 15y ago
Yes, and it's very uncommon that you need to do that. I learned Scheme years ago before I learned Python (in 1993, I think). At first I was dismayed by Python's lack of non-local assignment. However, in years of Python programming I can c
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by nas 15y ago
Yes but Hawala requires that the agents trust each other. A Hawala-like network could be built by agents who do not trust each other. Users of the network would not have to deal with Bitcoin at all. I don't know if such a system will come
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by nas 15y ago
I'm somewhat unsure of the long term cost to benefit ratio of using Coffeescript. You are basically getting some syntactic sugar in exchange for the cost of learning new syntax and complicating your build and debug procedures. I'm trying c
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by nas 15y ago
I doubt they did, I expect it was his choice.
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by nas 15y ago
My view is probably warped because I helped design the PTL "language" for Python. However, it's been my experience if you write well factored code (i.e. Don't-Repeat-Yourself, helper functions/macros), then templates that use the HTML by d
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by nas 15y ago
That's a provocative title with a weak followup. One example of awesome hacking in a related field: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Lyndon#Cinematography http://www.visual-memory.co.uk/sk/ac/len/page1.htm
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by nas 15y ago
The following little piece of news is also interesting. Brad Burgess (chief architect of Bobcat) is now at Samsung ( http://www.linkedin.com/pub/brad-burgess/26/aa9/93 ). From what little I've read about AMD's recent processors, the low po
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by nas 15y ago
Yeah, I would not try to explain what UTC is "like". Most people can find the current UTC time somehow. When someone asks me about my timezone, I say "UTC minus six". As John suggests, that's simpler than trying to figure out is that per
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by nas 15y ago
I recharged my account on link2voip. That transaction was easy and fast and there was no fees for either party.
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by nas 15y ago
After reading the LWN security page for years, I don't consider root escalation as a difficult problem. There seems to be a never ending stream of vulnerabilities. That layer of security is a useful goal but I assume user level access also
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by nas 15y ago
I hear ya. I think people have the idea that automation and controls are high tech. In reality, most of the stuff I've seen is more like 1970s state-of-the-art.
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by nas 15y ago
I don't think most of his investments are good examples of the power of software. I would point to embedded systems as the best examples (iOS, Android, modern fighter jet avionics, millions of other products that would be useless without s
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by nas 15y ago
Ethanol is now using about 40% of the US corn crop.
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by nas 15y ago
Essentially direct source code copying.
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by nas 15y ago
There have been rumblings for years, at least since Strelka came out. I happen to think the GPLed code of Fruit was the best thing to happen to computer chess for a long while (thank you to Fabian). IMHO, cloning is not a bad thing since
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by nas 15y ago
Another real-world example: SMTP vs QMTP ( http://cr.yp.to/proto/qmtp.txt ). IMHO, saving space by packing bits is not really so important anymore since nearly every link has high-bandwidth. Reducing latency by reducing round-trips is hug
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by nas 16y ago
The complex calculations are used for something. They are used to create a peer-to-peer digital notary service that is very hard for an attacker to defeat. The proof of work is essential to prevent fraud. Early in bitcoin's life the "mine
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by nas 16y ago
Fascinating. Still, I'm not sure the problem with the babysitting scrip applies to bitcoin. You must be very careful to differentiate between monetary deflation and price deflation. In the case of the babysitting scrib, it sounds like it w
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by nas 16y ago
Another vote for Gandi. I've been using them for about 6 years. No bullshit.
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by nas 16y ago
Quite different, basically no gui. I like ledger better. I have my personal and two different business accounts using ledger. I use git to VC the data files. I've done quite a bit of scripting to make the system more convenient (automat
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by nas 16y ago
He meant Ghash/sec. That's quite a few ATI cards. ;-)
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by nas 16y ago
I'm not sure but a Merkle tree is used so that the amount of data downloaded by a pure client is much smaller than what a full bitcoin node needs to download. This Java implementation would be well suited to an Android phone.
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Google announces bitcoinj: a bitcoin implementation in Java(code.google.com)
117 points by nas 16y ago|44 comments
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by nas 16y ago
I don't follow the logic. If Oracle does "jack shit" then how how does this monolithic patch inconvenience them in any great way? Also, with their money I'm sure they can find a way to split apart the patch again (either via Red Hat's web
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by nas 16y ago
CentOS doesn't give a shit, they just build the rpm. This is meant to frustrate outfits like Oracle, where they mix and match patches to produce a Red Hat+ kernel (a least, so Red Hat feels). The thing is, Red Hat is free to grab Oracles c

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