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by papaf 15y ago
As a European I find that really scary. Its not as if you will be on your deathbed regretting that you had never spent more time working.
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by papaf 15y ago
I read a random sampling paper recently which took a simple problem and approached it in ways that were much more elegant than I did. Its almost a toy problem but I found the paper really interesting: http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/su
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by papaf 15y ago
For illustration (probably wrong again): curl 'http://weather.yahooapis.com/forecastrss?w=615702&u=c' | \ xmlstarlet sel -N 'y=http://xml.weather.yahoo.com/ns/rss/1.0' \ -t -m '//y:forecast' -v '@text' edi
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by papaf 15y ago
His example of counting unique words is not impressive compared to the unix command line: sed -e 's/ \+/\n/' words.txt | uniq -c
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by papaf 15y ago
I think you're severely underestimating what a $81 machine is capable of: http://www.kegel.com/c10k.html and the choices available for fun projects: http://www.lowendbox.com/
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by papaf 15y ago
We'll let you use a lot for free, until you use too much, at which point we'll either (A) Rate Limit you They throttle already. I had an app on Linode that required large uploads (around 1MB) but had to move to a different provider becaus
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by papaf 15y ago
Meanwhile, VPS and dedicated server providers are getting cheaper, faster and more competitive. I'd imagine that the majority of the people on GAE have found that they don't actually need to scale as much as they thought when they signed up
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by papaf 15y ago
There is a need for browser based crypto I would love to see reasonably secure browser based crypto. You could submit things to a website without the website being able to see what they are. Imagine a social network that was opaque to the
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by papaf 15y ago
I don't understand your logic. The GPL ensures that the software is free for you, your children and their children to modify as they please.
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by papaf 15y ago
It never became production ready, but I found this article an interesting discussion of the problem and a solution to it in Coffeescript: http://gfxmonk.net/2010/07/04/defer-taming-asynchronous-java...
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by papaf 15y ago
I recently changed from Xubuntu to Mint XFCE and really like it: http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=1725 Xubuntu is still an excellent choice though.
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by papaf 15y ago
Creating 1 thread per connection is for unskilled programmers. Its not as clear cut or obvious as it first seems: http://mailinator.blogspot.com/2008/02/kill-myth-please-nio-... Edit: The original presentation is more interesting: http
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by papaf 16y ago
Until recently I was living this problem. I finished my PhD in Computational Biology and then joined the ranks of the long term unemployed. I got 1 job interview in 1 year. Things have improved and I now have a position in academia (the fir
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by papaf 16y ago
Sorry to pick nits but the clojure example could be: (reduce + some-numbers)
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by papaf 16y ago
Is http://78.140.176.180/ blocked? If not then switching to something like OpenDNS will get round the damage. To be honest though I have no idea on what level their transparent proxying works.
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by papaf 16y ago
I mostly agree with you here, but I do think the technology has advanced since the Fukishima (or certainly Chernobyl) were built. Those plants are fairly ancient. Newer facilities have much safer designs. I don't like commenting on things
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by papaf 16y ago
Really cool. I'll see if it improves my German.
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by papaf 16y ago
Somebody told me the reason for this which I found interesting. Even if you felt you did the research yourself, somebody funded the research, somebody commented on it, somebody at the library ordered journals for you, you attended talks in
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by papaf 16y ago
I don't think this is a troll at all. I'm long term unemployed and I am having a similar experience. Most companies simply won't see the CVs of the unemployed because agencies won't be sending them on. Anything such as working on a personal
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by papaf 16y ago
People have answered you question well enough here but for general questions about web application security I recommend OWASP. Here's the section on SQL injection: http://www.owasp.org/index.php/SQL_Injection
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by papaf 16y ago
Bigloo Scheme is pretty cool and can target native code, JVM, mono and Android: http://www-sop.inria.fr/indes/fp/Bigloo/
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by papaf 16y ago
I finished my PhD and have failed to get interviewed for positions because I'm also bad at puzzles and algorithm tests. Reading this article made me sigh in relief. Like the author, I was a developer for many years before returning to Educa
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by papaf 16y ago
In my experience that isn't always true. However, I know some meditators who are very active and multitask very well. Unfortunately, I am not one of them.
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by papaf 16y ago
As far as I understand it you're exactly right. However, given the choice between awareness or a 'buzz' I'd currently choose the 'buzz'.
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by papaf 16y ago
Vipassana is certainly not enjoyable. Its hard work. It made me a much calmer person and the effects continue even though I have stopped - so I have no hesitation recommending it to people. However, over the last few years, I felt it hasn't
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by papaf 16y ago
As a counter to this I have stopped daily meditation (2 hours a day Vipassana) after about 7 years of practice because I hit a rut where it didn't seem to be improving things. I certainly remained calm through all the years but cannot hones
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by papaf 16y ago
But there is nothing stopping non homoiconic languages from adding first-class macros (macros that are written in the language itself). That is true in theory. However, I struggled with camlp5 [1] for hours to achieve something that could
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by papaf 16y ago
Those that ignore history are doomed to repeat it. I can't think of a single high profile company that has done well out of a deal with Microsoft. However the the road through computing history is littered with the burnt out wrecks of compa
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Queuing theory books on line(web2.uwindsor.ca)
39 points by papaf 16y ago|2 comments
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by papaf 16y ago
I agree with some of the articles points and queues can make things complicated. However, people too often ignore elementary queuing theory which goes a long way to simplifying things: http://www.shamrock-software.eu/erlang.htm https://s

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