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by obtu 15y ago
You missed a key property of SPDY then. Not that security is any single feature.
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by obtu 15y ago
Microsoft has worked with standards bodies for CIFS, Kerberos and LDAP, the whole pile of web standards (and their .docx thing, but this one is a joke). It doesn't mean you can interoperate with them, because they have introduced involved b
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by obtu 15y ago
I'm probably wrong about the figures; mostly I find it interesting that these different crafts praise different virtues. I'm very happy to render swathes of code useless and kill those lines, but the writers are on to something when praisin
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by obtu 15y ago
NaNoWriMo isn't a reasonable goal for everyone (and not for me either), but it's a meaningful badge of honour. I think there are other events with a similar recipe but an investment that would suit you better (some LJ communities, blog fest
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by obtu 15y ago
Writers swear by practice, and the discipline that enables it. Churning out words is practice; there's a saying that you need to get the first hundred thousand words of crap out of your system before the quality of your output improves. See
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by obtu 15y ago
Turns out I'm already collecting this data… Vim has recently added a persistent undo feature (enable by setting 'undodir' and 'undofile'; 'undolevel' can also be raised from the default 1000); there is a Gundo plugin that displays the undo
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by obtu 15y ago
I really liked O'Reilly's Statistics in a Nutshell ; it's readable, it's well structured if you need to look up something, but it isn't just a toolbox, it also spends the time to lay down the concepts and put things in perspective.
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by obtu 15y ago
Durability through replication should probably be mentioned as well; either to address performance requirements, or to provide stronger durability against hardware failure.
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by obtu 15y ago
Along with many Linux distributions, because they ship PolicyKit policies allowing some of these things by default. That said, Solaris is used on servers and should probably default to a reduced attack surface over convenience.
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by obtu 15y ago
I just dislike the “for human beings” meme/fad. 1. It's casually dismissive of us cyborgs, who are too often marginalised already; 2. It's a subjective claim; 3. It claims you have taste that your competitors lack; 4. I've seen enough examp
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by obtu 15y ago
The trick to learning vocabulary would be to make these words meaningful and not arbitrary, for example by learning words related to an activity or a theme (which happens naturally when you spend time in a foreign country). Meaningless word
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by obtu 15y ago
Received wisdom from my school system says that pupils are more attentive in their first three hours of the morning, then their attention drops as they run low on sugar; they are less focused in the afternoon. Discounting the effect of meta
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by obtu 15y ago
No, the graph shows markets for entire product categories. Individual products might have faster initial growth (because previous iterations for that market would be ignored), on the other hand they are fast to be discontinued.
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by obtu 15y ago
Looks good on firefox/ubuntu. It's strange that there's a browser using the lang tag for this; as I understand it web pages create a font spec according to style attributes and not lang tags, and fontconfig would only substitute fonts for a
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by obtu 15y ago
Try this page until the site comes back up: https://github.com/NateW/obtvse#readme
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by obtu 15y ago
Android has a “where did my battery go” UI to provide that incentive.
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by obtu 15y ago
In context: https://pay.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/qnyy9/duqu_tro...
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by obtu 15y ago
Couldn't this have been done with a cookie and caching?
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by obtu 15y ago
Look at graph databases. These are very different from document stores or KV stores (NoSQL doesn't imply any commonality), though a KV store or something like HadoopFS might be used as a storage layer. They have their own challenges to scal
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by obtu 15y ago
There was a scandal when the NSA's high-volume tap at AT&T came to light. Such a tap at a core router counts as blanket spying. The reaction to it, increased powers and retroactive immunity, speaks volumes. The very idea that something
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by obtu 15y ago
If such a thing exists, they wouldn't share it internally either. It seems they are already collecting data across many protocols and encryption schemes, and very few people would get to know reliably which were cracked or how.
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by obtu 15y ago
> If a site doesn't want to allow people to "view on one page," they can disable that feature. That's not something I'd want to encourage. Whenever the pagination isn't excessive, I'd link to the permalink the site gives, and let users
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by obtu 15y ago
For me the lightbulb moment was seeing the data model explained (in "Git for computer scientists" for example). I'm not sure this can be conveyed in game form, and githug doesn't seem to go there. With close to a hundred commands that can b
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by obtu 15y ago
I'd say “personal differences” (regardless of the deal about trademarks and code review), but it still surprises me; I thought the zmq developers were a tight-knit bunch. Maybe the drama manifests itself in more extreme ways because they
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by obtu 15y ago
The compatibility configure flag seems to be used to also install the crossroads library as libzmq.so.
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by obtu 15y ago
From the article > clojure-py is an implementation of the Clojure language in Python, compiling Clojure code to bytecode for Python’s virtual machine Which means both the compiler (mostly an AST walk from the look of clojure/lang/compil
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by obtu 15y ago
I prefer to think the Use Of Capitals to indicate Serious Business was done in the same spirit as on the defunct adequacy.org.
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by obtu 15y ago
I mentioned commenters and comments because I wanted to discuss the roles either party could play, not because I wanted to highlight their value. That said, some bloggers do have highly interesting discussions in comments, in part because t
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by obtu 15y ago
That's nice, but what's the alternative? Putting the onus on contributors to back up what they publish would be a crap shot; even with backups there may not be a plan for recovery, and recovery may be impossible if the contributor is unable
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by obtu 15y ago
I don't think a concise symbol is needed. A Markdown area, when activated, should have some sort of sidebar hint to give basic examples of the syntax, and that takes enough space that Markdown can be used as a word. Recognition might be spe

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