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by newt0311 18y ago
Most linux distros just require setting the ssid some something unique and then changing the connection type to Ad-Hoc. For example, in gentoo (my distro.) all I need to do is add two lines to /etc/conf.d/net and I am done. Ubuntu probably
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by newt0311 18y ago
A related pet peeve of mine: treating the DB as a dumb object store. Its not!!! Thats what file systems are for.
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by newt0311 18y ago
C yes, C++ definitely not. C will help because it will introduce people to how things are actually stored in memory and because quite a few high level tools are implemented in C. C++ will just confuse the learner with excessive syntax.
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by newt0311 18y ago
Great project but it needs LaTeX support. Where is the fun in drawing graphs if you cannot write in $e^y$ in for one of the axis?
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by newt0311 18y ago
Um... Since nobody has suggested it yet, open up an ssh port on a computer and use sftp.
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by newt0311 18y ago
"medicine for medicine's sake." Point 1: What do you think doctors are? Saints? They are human like the rest of us and would rather work for cash. They would probably also do better work if they were doing so for their own good. Case in poi
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by newt0311 18y ago
Documentation is not a problem limited to just Rails. Quite a few open (and closed) source projects have only minimal if any documentation. Its good to see this issue being brought up.
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by newt0311 18y ago
Their recent actions and results indicate otherwise.
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by newt0311 18y ago
Why are lawmakers pondering this problem? Its none of their business.
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Fannie and Freddy get an exlplicit life line(forbes.com)
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by newt0311 18y ago
This depends heavily on implementation details. If you are using Oracle (rare, I know for any company not in the Fortune 500), then just make a materialized view and you are set. Oracle will pre-compute most of the data in the view and en
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by newt0311 18y ago
In what product? I have frequently transferred files larger than 2GB on SFTP as well as storing them with encryption on my computer and there is no 2 GB limit.
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by newt0311 18y ago
yes. 75 ms communication between earth and mars is physically impossible according to general relativity. Seeing as how nobody (including NASA) has found a way around this limitation, messages back and forth between earth and mars will alwa
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by newt0311 18y ago
Why not instead have optional quality? Provide a set of approved programs but still let users install what ever they want.
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by newt0311 18y ago
Which would be all fine and dandy until we look at past history of such maneuvers and find that no government has ever done this and survived. A good example of a government inflating currency to repay debt would be post-WW1, pre-Hitler G
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by newt0311 18y ago
Wow. For all these years, people assumed that the government would be stupid enough to provide an explicit guarantee for GSEs like Fannie Mae and now congress is out to validate that assumption. Talk about idiotic. Then again, what will be
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by newt0311 18y ago
"XHTML is still worth using, because it’s a transitional standard that moves us towards a pure-XML Web. XML is inherently better than SGML, because it’s simpler and stricter, and much easier to parse (once you’ve understood its rules)." Thi
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by newt0311 18y ago
I was especially amazed by the syntax for quoting and forced evaluation. Very nice and seems better for some cases than the lisp backquote.
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by newt0311 18y ago
unfortunately yes. Here doc syntax is pretty common. Even C has it.
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by newt0311 18y ago
I have mixed feelings about this. One one hand, this will promote wider unicode adoption which imho is a good thing but this will fragment the internet as regions split by language.
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by newt0311 18y ago
If I remember correctly (and I probably don't), the C function support is a bit iffy.
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by newt0311 18y ago
postgres has something similar. Pretty nice for benchmarking and optimizing queries.
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by newt0311 18y ago
That is what I call taking the banner of "FREE" too far. In my view, the GPL and F/OSS software were created and exist to make computers easier to use. To use these tools to argue against the usage of a useful feature is perverse.
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by newt0311 18y ago
I should point out that the article is incorrect. Namely, PDF is a complete superset of PS. Furthermore, it is capable of supporting non-printer specific properties like digital signatures and even external files and animation, none of whic
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by newt0311 18y ago
Yay.
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by newt0311 18y ago
wrong. See http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2008/06/selection_bias_1...
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by newt0311 18y ago
An open wireless + a home VPN + QoS works for me. I don't have ay problem letting other people on my network as long as my connection speeds are unaffected (thus the QoS) and my server has plenty of log information about who tried to access
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by newt0311 18y ago
And the change in the sunspots has nothing to do with climate change whatsoever? And that's just the first argument against global warming.
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by newt0311 18y ago
Rule 57 should be Rule #1 (assuming that 1 is the most important).
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by newt0311 18y ago
Finally a sensible response from a software company.

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