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by postfuturist 14y ago
DDOS attacks are a fact of life, nice to know that Rails Machine will throw you under the bus when one happens. Doesn't seem to fit their homepage description: "You write Rails apps. We deploy, manage, support, monitor, and scale them. Done
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by postfuturist 14y ago
I think we use this: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/chishop/ You just set it up on a local server, and upload packages the same way they are uploaded to real PyPI. python setup.py register sdist upload You can specify alternate PyPI
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by postfuturist 14y ago
We do this, but also add a couple layers of safety between us and PyPI: 1. Run your own secure, local pypi clone with exact source versions of the packages you use. 2. The packages for production are built into RPMs from the local pypi. PyP
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by postfuturist 15y ago
If you're poor and sick, you get treatment, and you might end up in one of the following situations: 1. You fill out financial hardship paperwork, have most of the cost written off, have a small debt to pay off, 2. You fail to fill out fina
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by postfuturist 15y ago
As a working programmer who has to use PHP, I just use === all the time and have long since moved on from even thinking about the insanity of PHP's == operator. Kinda like JavaScript programmers.
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by postfuturist 15y ago
A great book I started reading recently, Lisp In Small Pieces, also starts with a simple Lisp in Lisp interpreter. It got me so inspired that I haven't gotten much further than the first 20 or 30 pages since I started writing my own Lisp (i
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by postfuturist 15y ago
I would never coerce anyone to look through their Facebook account (or email, or personal photo album, or their journal, etc) under any circumstance, especially a job interview where the candidate feels pressured to be obliging. What a sham
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by postfuturist 15y ago
The rudimentary nature of poll system on this site cheapens the experience somewhat. I love the community here, but this site is fairly archaic in construction.
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by postfuturist 15y ago
Google allows a logout from a GET request, on Chrome of all browsers? Is there a way to run browser tabs completely sandboxed regarding cookies/auth? (private browsing mode and running different browsers is a bit too clunky)
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by postfuturist 15y ago
After fiddling with about:flags and using --ignore-gpu-blacklist on the command line, I got chrome://gpu to report that WebGL is fully enabled. It _still_ doesn't work, with this error reported in the console: [75:75:1827873622829:ERR
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by postfuturist 15y ago
According to chrome://gpu: >WebGL: Unavailable. Hardware acceleration unavailable Chrome sadness.
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by postfuturist 15y ago
This works great in Firefox 11. It doesn't work in Chrome 18 which has WebGL disabled (on Linux). EDIT: I really doesn't work because "NVIDIA cards with nouveau drivers in Linux are crash-prone." Firefox has no trouble, strangely.
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by postfuturist 15y ago
Nothing radical here, even for 1994. Not long ago I was watching an old episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (around the same year) in which the commander's son is doing homework on a slightly smaller tablet with a color display. IIRC, he
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by postfuturist 15y ago
When I was using Common Lisp, I printed this out and referred to it all the the time. It is quite useful once you get used to it.
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by postfuturist 15y ago
Looks like 'Go' is missing, 'Lisp' should probably be 'Common Lisp' since Scheme and Clojure are also 'Lisp'.
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by postfuturist 15y ago
My pleasure. I worked on the visual effects team for a movie with a _lot_ of compositing. This is cut-rate stuff. Can you imagine what sort of things we will believe if someone were doing this sort of fakery with a real budget?
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by postfuturist 15y ago
His "shadow" (CG, no doubt) is on the front of the wing, while he is still "behind" the wing. http://imgur.com/NqgTL
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by postfuturist 15y ago
Ignoring impossible feats of physics, the video is fake. There is a comment on the first Wired article which points out incontrovertible evidence of poorly done compositing around the 20 second mark with the guy on the left running "through
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by postfuturist 15y ago
Is Typed Racket not Lisp? Most Lisps support lazy eval through macros and lambda.
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by postfuturist 15y ago
Yes, it's definitely by degrees. Some dynamic languages provide a great deal more help than others for common issues listed in the original article. And using the print-str and read-string (with read-eval off) is a fantastic way to serial
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by postfuturist 15y ago
I recently learned enough Standard ML to be dangerous, and I gained enough of an appreciation of ML-style static / type inferred languages to see where the author is coming from. I even agree to some level. But, in practice, some dynamic la
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by postfuturist 15y ago
It looks like a PHP extension to embed JavaScript using the V8 engine. The docs are pretty limited. The return value of executing a blob of JS is described thusly: "Returns the last variable instantiated in the Javascript code converted to
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by postfuturist 15y ago
Why would their product marketing manager be bashing Git with accusations like Windows support is a "completely separate project" when it's the first download link on git-scm.com? This is a very thoughtless article full of issues of persona
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by postfuturist 15y ago
To solve the clojure script startup time: http://www.martiansoftware.com/nailgun/ "Nailgun is a client, protocol, and server for running Java programs from the command line without incurring the JVM startup overhead." I only know about si
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by postfuturist 15y ago
An RSS feed would be nice, I think. I'd prefer to keep my email inbox uncluttered.
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by postfuturist 15y ago
This is a basic freedom issue. The freedom to run software I control on devices I own allows me to be free in how I share and protect my own private information. Apple and Microsoft are trending toward making it more difficult and less lega
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by postfuturist 15y ago
I used a jailbroken iPhone for 2 years, I never once pirated an application, I still purchased plenty of apps from Apple's dumb app store and a few from Cydia. Mostly, I just used it to "background" apps before that was a built-in feature.
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by postfuturist 15y ago
I like Python, but how do they plan on teaching recursion with a language that doesn't optimize tail recursion? Oh, I see, just give them trivially small data sets: http://www-inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs61a/sp12/labs/lab8/lab8...
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by postfuturist 15y ago
seems down, google cache : http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:7Ikgs4E...
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by postfuturist 15y ago
I'm so jealous of people who had the opportunity to take CS classes in high school (none at mine). I've seriously considered volunteering to teach intro CS classes at local high schools, just to pay it forward, I guess. I'd done some BASIC

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