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Yes. SourceForge developed Allura [1] starting in around 2009 [2], and was accepted to the Apache Incubator in 2012. Meanwhile, the preceding SourceForge software was a fork of a community project that was in itself a fork of their oldest p
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JSON is in fact defined in (at least) six different places, as described in the piece 'Parsing JSON is a Minefield' [1] (HN: [2]). The problem is perhaps not as egregious as with "CSV" -- which is more of a "techniq
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No. HTML is not formally recognized to be a 'Structured Syntax' of upon which semantically richer standalone mediatypes can be built [1]. This is because existing deployments favor a different approach of imbuing additional semant
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Samsung's Exynos 8 mixed-and-matched cores of different cache line sizes and didn't bother to make the reported cache lines be the same size. This recipe led to a hard-to-debug condition that the Mono team wrote about [1] (posted
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It's unfortunate that XML has fallen so out of favor that well-made, strongly-schemad formats specified in XML, like Atom, are suffering in turn -- although reasons for feeds' demise go well beyond its forms-on-the-wire. This tren
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Your analysis appears correct, as several sources write that Gunstar Heroes uses multi-sprite bosses [1][2]. F1 on the Mega Drive owes its existence to an earlier game for the Atari ST, Vroom [5]. The brainchild behind that game, "Da
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The imprecise overruns because you'll draw over it is a clever optimization. It's interesting to compare and contrast these techniques from other excellent sources, like Michael Abrash's Graphics Programming Black Book, Spec
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It's unfortunate that this blog post does not cite another study, the results of which were published a month prior to the post's publication, which investigates in detail this issue: The Association Between Income and Life Expect
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This looks like it's going to be neat! But why does it come bundled by default [1], instead of an optional package? [1] https://atom.io/packages/github
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Fallingwater is aesthetically pleasing but belies FLW's poor understanding of structural engineering of the very materials he liked to use. It was the client, Edgar J. Kaufmann (1885-1955) and his wife Lillian Sarah Kaufmann (?-1952) w
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Some more info on the trees: from Calgary Downtown Association [1], some excellent photographs from various sources [2][3][4], and from the structural engineer [5]. Sadly, the architects (Cohos Evamy, merged and renamed DIALOG) don't h
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Las Vegas condo/hotel Vdara, one of the highrises in the City Center development, was designed by the same architect as the Walkie Talkie -- Rafael Viñoly -- and exhibits the same solar convergence phenomenon; affectionately called the
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> Detroit is a city which was designed from the ground up to discourage public transport This is simply not true. See [1][2][3][4][5] for the evolution of the transit system, from horse-drawn streetcars onward; notice that in the begin
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The article alludes to speculation about permits, but Dennis Romero writing for the LA Weekly in February [1] noted that at the time, permits for a small pedestrian tunnel were not granted -- albeit required by state law. That's in add
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Does this emulation work for x86-64 executables too? EDIT: no [1]. [1] https://www.theverge.com/2016/12/7/13866936/microsoft-window...
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It looks like a base64-encoded 20-byte value, which decodes to: 3f 4f 29 c4 8f aa ed a6 df be ad cb 23 0b 29 2d 1c bf 11 64 The length of a SHA-1 digest is 160 bits = 20 bytes. This does not at all conclusively mean this value may be a SH
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The author of REST, Roy Fielding, feels that they're intertwined [1]: HTTP/1.1 is a specific architecture that, to the extent I succeeded in applying REST-based design, allows people to deploy RESTful network-based applications i
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Most things on the web are half-assed, and half-assed HTTP APIs enable rapid results (before the problems start). REST is not fundamentally inappropriate, it just needs a lot of careful design about domain objects, link relations, and media
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We feel more engrossed in the Happenings of the world when they're directly relevant to our life and limb and the welfare of our family and friends. This is the sensation the author appears to have been experiencing during the Bataclan
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Maps of the Bears Ears National Monument can be seen here [1][2], to give an idea as to what's being talked about. It includes the area between the current eastern boundary of Canyonlands NP "below the rim" of the mesas like
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Contrary to what the article offhandedly suggests ("there are some drawbacks to using an online calculator on tests -- it's trickier to spot cheating, for example"), I'd wager an online-only service can be locked down in
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Are the FB Messenger, WhatsApp, and Telegram integrations official (i.e. known by, approved by, and/or supported by their respective companies)? Asking because I can't find a reverse-shoutout to Opera on either Facebook's, Wh
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Great article, and definitely made me chuckle -- I've been on this train too with enterprisey code and it's not fun. Often, the road to hell is at least nominally based on good intentions: beasts like a Rules Engine are as much of
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Some recommended reading: Mesh networks: commodity multihop ad hoc networks (2005) [1] The IEEE 802.11s Extended Service Set Mesh Networking Standard (2008) [2] Wireless Mesh Networking: Architectures, Protocols and Standards (2006) [3] [1]
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The blog post is... not so much misleading, but it doesn't clearly communicate the impact of this. It's a press release that's light on facts and is worded such that the reader will assume the best. A better source is the Ope
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The quote isn't solely self-congratulatory, as this pricing mechanism occurs in other industries too. For something like fuel stations, which (on the surface) appear plentiful in highly-trafficked areas, it would naively seem that ther
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This article posits that it was Google Talk (gChat) that caused the exodus from AIM and the other "old" chat networks of the time. In my researched opinion [1][2] it was Facebook (not solely Facebook Chat, but Facebook's enti
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So have tighter blocks more often. A block is a discretization of the continuous track, and in track-space, your absolute "GPS" location isn't relevant -- just where you are on the track. The on-vehicle location detector (&qu
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At first I had a lot of trouble making sense of the UI, but now I think it's pretty neat. It's essentially the final form of the Material Design idea, where each app is a Card like a physical deck of playing cards, and you get to

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