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SpaceX Jason-3 Live Webcast(spacex.com)
76 points by nerdy 11y ago|75 comments
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by nerdy 11y ago
Getting the "Something is technically wrong" page on and off for the past 15 minutes. Seems like it comes up and goes right back down again.
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by nerdy 11y ago
The title is somewhat misleading because only 48/250 had actual pricing pages, the others had what really amounts to "contact us" pages for their sales teams. Fortunately it's still an informative read, and even 48 pages
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by nerdy 11y ago
If he doesn't know what is happening should he be making assertions to Congress (or anyone) like that?
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by nerdy 11y ago
Categorizing it as "blame the engineer" is sadly accurate in my opinion. That has been VW's stance from the very beginning. VW's US CEO said, while denying a corporate-level scandal, "software engineers who put this
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by nerdy 11y ago
Stallman wins again! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CP8CNp-vksc
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by nerdy 11y ago
Even PHP has trajectory toward static types. Some examples are Hack[1] and PHP7[2]. Check out the talk Rasmus gave at Etsy[3] for more about PHP7 changes but it looks like at least limited support for static or "strict" types (wha
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by nerdy 11y ago
Talk by Rasmus Lerdorf at Etsy HQ. Covers engine improvements, breaking changes, a little about their process and internals too. The talk has a good pace and kept me interested. Thanks to Etsy Engineering for hosting & posting! Official
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Deploying PHP 7(youtube.com)
3 points by nerdy 11y ago|1 comments
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by nerdy 11y ago
My mistake, still an insane amount of missing money.
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by nerdy 11y ago
I heard about the $43MM gas station (similar gas stations were built for a half million). At the scale of government $40 million is a significant miscalculation but not scandalous. To know the bloat goes beyond that to a staggering $800MM,
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by nerdy 11y ago
Free PDF download... how can we not? "Nancy G. Leveson is Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Engineering Systems at MIT. An acknowledged leader in the field of safety engineering, she has worked to improve safety in nearly e
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Engineering a Safer World(mitpress.mit.edu)
3 points by nerdy 11y ago|2 comments
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by nerdy 11y ago
I make 3rd party/unsanctioned mods for video games in my free time, which involves plenty of Assembly :)
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by nerdy 11y ago
It's a legacy system developed by someone who is lucky he lives 4300 miles away! I've been working at the system to free it from that subsystem with an eventual replacement. There are all kinds of single-letter variables and Russi
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by nerdy 11y ago
My inspiration from massive science projects is more like: "With that in mind, debugging this 1500-line function is nothing!"
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by nerdy 11y ago
Except this article says it is not served over SSL. There's even a huge graphic with an arrow pointing it out. https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1600/1*dLlQGvWTeMTB7PT_n...
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by nerdy 11y ago
Really succinct & easy-to-read code at only 118 sloc, very nice!
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by nerdy 11y ago
Title is a false editorialization. Two new rooms are suspected, have not been found. It's been widely reported for more than a month now and nothing has changed. From the article: "Egyptian officials plan to use radar equipment to
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by nerdy 11y ago
Hate to be the one to pick fly shit out of pepper but why "/user" and not "/temp"? I'm sure you'd get used to it over time but just for the sake of consistency if we're going to reconstitute vowe
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by nerdy 11y ago
First time trying to watch one of their events for me, figured I already missed it and wondered why their stream was still running.
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by nerdy 11y ago
Yep; same issue here an hour later. Google cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:vneH1nu...
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by nerdy 11y ago
Yep, or GPU benchmark cheats back in the early 2000s
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by nerdy 11y ago
I wonder if this is at all related to the targeted attack Kaspersky suffered a few months back? http://www.kaspersky.com/about/news/virus/2015/Duqu-is-back Maybe someone was exploring the possibility tha
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by nerdy 11y ago
It's pretty scary to see this many critical vulnerabilities in a patch, then consider all the other widely-used software and the cumulative sum of their vulnerabilities.
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Adobe Patches 23 Critical Vulnerabilities in Flash Player(threatpost.com)
1 points by nerdy 11y ago|1 comments
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by nerdy 11y ago
I wonder if this has anything to do with their inclusion of Skype call support directly in Edge. http://www.digitaltrends.com/?p=836715 http://www.pcworld.com/article/2984806/web-apps/microsof
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Agile Africa 2015: Managing by the 'Book – Kent Beck(youtube.com)
1 points by nerdy 11y ago|0 comments
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by nerdy 11y ago
It can be just like that "Unsinkable" ship!
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by nerdy 11y ago
I just respond to people and kindly tell them why I'm unable to accept the work. Most people can appreciate everyone having limited time and resources. Doesn't an e-mail template (even with modest customization) seem impersonal? M

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