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by papaf 16y ago
When you're down on your luck and unhappy, things that bring you pleasure are more desirable than ever.
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by papaf 16y ago
I had real trouble using autoconf back when the documentation wasn't very good (it may have become more newbie friendly but I'm not sure). In the end I wrote my own configure script in bourne shell. The shell script suited my needs fine and
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by papaf 16y ago
This looks really cool. It uses Kilim, the lightweight threading library for java, that I hadn't heard of before: http://github.com/kilim/kilim I have been looking for something similar for C but have not been able to find anything.
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by papaf 16y ago
Many thanks for this, its potentially very useful - I'm following the RSS feed.
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by papaf 16y ago
For those that don't know about it, this book on skunk works is a wonderful read: http://www.amazon.com/Skunk-Works-Personal-Memoir-Lockheed/d...
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by papaf 16y ago
I was writing a small hobby project (a web email frontend) and abandoned GWT for ExtJS. I got a lot more done with a lot less code. Personally, I find javascript a more powerful language than java for writing event driven applications. The
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by papaf 16y ago
I imagine this could become part of a non-blocking google wave server...
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by papaf 16y ago
I came back to studying after a 12 year break where I hardly used maths. I bought the Students Survival Guide and found it very useful and easy to dip in to after work: http://www.amazon.com/Maths-Students-Survival-Self-Help-Engi... It ta
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by papaf 16y ago
I deactivated my facebook account this morning. I clicked the "concerns about privacy" radio button when I gave a reason.
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by papaf 17y ago
One of the things I like about google apps is that I can set up a DNS entry to point mail.mydomain.com at google's servers and it puts me straight at the login prompt. It feels good to use it. Would it be possible to do this with Cloudmatic
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by papaf 17y ago
That looks really cool. I'll be in a position to give it a go in a few months. One thing that would make me hesitate though, is not knowing what the potential pricing would be when you move from non-free.
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by papaf 17y ago
www.2dparts.com is fine and looks rather cool. I've not used the google app engine and one of the reasons for not using it is that it doesn't handle naked domains very well. Surely there is a way of getting better behaviour than this though
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by papaf 17y ago
My first job in IT was with PC Magazine in London. Guy Kewney was one of the top columnists at the magazine and I was a lowly technical assistant. Despite this he would sit around and chat over a beer. When I visited the magazine many years
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by papaf 17y ago
I've seen many systems that use relational databases be patched up with if (null)/then/else in the application where fields have been added and the change was not important enough to justify a data migration. I wouldn't say this practice is
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by papaf 17y ago
Further to the main question, should the blog be on a different domain or is it preferable to have a blog subdirectory on the main website?
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by papaf 17y ago
I don't have access to a printer this week and this would have definitely been useful for me. When sending to third parties, its not just the effort of printing that's being saved but also buying the stamps, having enough envelopes and goin
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by papaf 17y ago
The point of reusing the IV is that identical blocks of data encrypt identically. That's the information that is leaked. That's the behaviour required by rsync to efficiently transfer changes. Is it really so bad?
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by papaf 17y ago
Somebody said to me once, "Shakespeare is so good, it even survives being taught at school.
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by papaf 17y ago
It will be really sad to see netbeans go. In combination with jvi it is a slick development environment - the only one thats ever tempted me from vim and emacs. I'm sure the people that have developed plugins for netbeans will be gutted if
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by papaf 17y ago
I'm handing in my PhD thesis tomorrow so this is a well timed question :-) I have learnt a lot from my studies and feel that I have gained important skills in attacking problems and evaluating my solutions to them that will be useful inside
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by papaf 17y ago
The documentation on clojure.org is usable and once you're in clojure you can type (doc whatever) to get the documentation for a function. However, its a known problem (discussed on the clojure group this week) that there are many ways to s
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by papaf 17y ago
Two things surprise me about this article - probably because I've misunderstood it and don't see the big picture. One is that there are master and slave databases and searches are done off the master - I've always seen them done off the sla
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by papaf 17y ago
One of the selling points of Scala is that actors were created as a library without special syntax or compiler support as described in this paper: http://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/128406 One of the advantages of this is that improved imp
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by papaf 17y ago
From the explanation it looks like github isn't using '5 whys' when things go wrong. Has anyone tried this? Is it overkill or does it work? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5_Whys
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by papaf 17y ago
Myself at 39, educated above but living below my parents standards. I'm not complaining since I'm very happy, but it is interesting that my generation is already experiencing this drop. House prices and a competitive job market are the main
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by papaf 17y ago
"Homeopathy never works any better than a placebo." Which is still pretty good - provided you have some belief in the placebo.
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by papaf 17y ago
I'm using Opera on 64 bit Linux. Despite my non-standard setup the site is beautiful and slick. I worked out how to use it instantly. Its very impressive.
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by papaf 17y ago
Apparently, Benford rediscovered the law that Simon Newcomb wrote about in 1881: http://www.jstor.org/pss/2369148
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by papaf 17y ago
I also use emacs -nw on my netbook. Its faster than the graphical emacs and, if you turn off the menus, its a quiet minimalist experience.
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by papaf 17y ago
I'd like to say something in defense of the cloud -- its not just that its cool. Years ago I worked for a small web company which was ticking along and had capacity to spare on their servers. One day, the skilled PR woman working there got

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