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by nprescott 9y ago
I'm reminded of two other surprising uses of Awk -- "Awk for AI"[0] and "awk-raycaster"[1] I really like Awk as a language because it integrates so well with shell pipelines and it is incredibly small, while remaini
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by nprescott 9y ago
Really interesting much more consumable than most census data infographics I've seen. Can you speak to what some of the "private sources" of data are? On a more technical note, I can't get any reports to render in Firefo
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by nprescott 9y ago
Using the RSS feed for the content seems clever, and useful as a means to build the static search widget outside the content generation phase of site building (or for adding after the fact). I recently had a similar (less well fleshed-out)
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by nprescott 9y ago
Very neat, I really appreciate the Racket community's willingness to experiment with syntax. Looking at the examples reminds me of Julian Noble's "Elegant Finite State Machine" in Forth[0], which takes a different approa
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by nprescott 9y ago
While I like the idea of lightweight UIs, this one seems to have some problems[0] in Firefox 55.0, the responsive mode view looks better but still has some issues with the menu. I thought I had failed to download a stylesheet at first but t
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by nprescott 9y ago
There's this talk by Dan Callahan from PyCon 2015 that touches on the very topic - "My Python's a Little Rust-y"[0] [0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CwJ0MH-4MA
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Finite State Machines in Forth(galileo.phys.virginia.edu)
2 points by nprescott 10y ago|0 comments
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by nprescott 10y ago
This is a cute idea. One thing I notice, it cycles the brightness higher every 6.666 seconds regardless of where it began until it reaches 100%. I only notice because I rarely have the brightness at 100% and it was a little disconcerting wa
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by nprescott 10y ago
I really enjoyed the coverage of the same topic in High Performance Browser Networking [0]. It effectively explains the key performance influencers across various networks without being boring. [0]: https://hpbn.co/
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by nprescott 10y ago
The verbal explanation is long but worth it, probably best (as mentioned) after watching the video. Source code is at: https://github.com/MrWint/gb-tas-gen
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Tool Assisted Arbitrary Code Execution in Pokemon Yellow(tasvideos.org)
1 points by nprescott 10y ago|1 comments
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by nprescott 10y ago
One of my favorite books - I initially bought a copy based on a review by Brandon Rhodes [0]: > But the real reason to learn awk is to have an excuse to read the superb book The AWK Programming Language by its authors Aho, Kernighan, and
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by nprescott 10y ago
Not the author but if you view source or follow their linked github you can find generation is the result of org-mode and org-twbs[0]. [0] https://github.com/marsmining/ox-twbs
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by nprescott 10y ago
I hadn't quite realized the simplicity of the POODLE attack previously. There was an article covering similar ground in LWN recently[0]. [0]: https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/701956/4dc5a506c0a6fd82/
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Firefox Test Pilot: Min Vid(testpilot.firefox.com)
1 points by nprescott 10y ago|0 comments
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by nprescott 10y ago
Zeke mentions this in the comments[0] on the article: >The console functions are synchronous when the destination is a terminal or a file (to avoid lost messages in case of premature exit) and asynchronous when it’s a pipe (to avoid blo
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by nprescott 10y ago
Vertical axis wind turbines are pretty well studied, if less widely deployed compared to HAWTs. Reading the article it isn't clear to me what they propose that is fundamentally new or different from existing technology. There is brief
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by nprescott 10y ago
You'll have to talk to a lawyer for legal advice; You could do it preemptively or just wait. To properly pursue a UDRP they'll have to file a complaint in court, at which point you'll need a lawyer anyhow. Personal opinion -
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by nprescott 10y ago
You can use 3 asterisks - * to italicize a single asterisk: *** as such Or you could always use a pre-formatted block: * just prefix with two spaces
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by nprescott 10y ago
From the project README: > Websites get seized by losing control over a webserver or a domain. If we > replace both the webserver and the domain with torrents and blockchain then > there's nothing left to seize. >
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by nprescott 10y ago
This is due to a step taken by the browser to improve performance, namely, timers in Chrome are limited to 'ticking' at most once a second when a tab is backgrounded. The drum loop is at its core: setInterval(function() {...
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by nprescott 10y ago
I had a similar idea recently, originally I intended to try and identify "fashionable" color palettes, which worked pretty well: https://idle.nprescott.com/2016/scraping-color-palettes.html and only later tri
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by nprescott 10y ago
Nothing specific to Markdown, but all tools that can be integrated into emacs or run from the command line: Matt Might's "3 shell scripts to improve your writing"[0], which has a "port" to emacs lisp[1]. There'
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by nprescott 10y ago
I wanted to like something about this, if for no other reason than the title (which is excellent). The writing is good but I think the author gives too much credit to Gins and couches the whole thing to sound like "maybe she knew somet
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by nprescott 10y ago
It might not be quite so direct, but there are a number of ad-network companies focused on exactly this. It can work like: 1) Sign-up for a "rewards card" or mailing list at a store 2) Use a credit card with that account
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by nprescott 10y ago
> Sites with usergenerated content was manually filtered out. I read that as Wikipedia, blogspot and wordpress are not being included in "noisy domains" - which you can verify by looking at: https://github.co
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by nprescott 10y ago
From the Are We Slim Yet FAQ: > For each change to Mozilla's inbound repository, our build infrastructure > generates a build which we test and include in the graphs here. Sounds to me like they are testing with e10s (si
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by nprescott 10y ago
I can't answer your first question, they're similar high-level web frameworks - do you want to learn another? As for books, I'd recommend Two Scoops of Django[1]. Between that and the tutorial you should be up to speed pretty
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by nprescott 10y ago
What kind of public policy data? What country? The Sunlight Foundation[1] is pretty good for US data. [1]: http://sunlightfoundation.com/api/
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by nprescott 10y ago
Puts me in mind of Moxie's experience in a similar incident with Mobily and Saudi Arabia[1] [1]: https://moxie.org/blog/saudi-surveillance/

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