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by pp19dd 12y ago
Went ahead and performed a Levenshtein distance analysis from this list, and made a graph of it. Number 8 seems to be the sweet 'secure' spot that most people latch onto, though the distribution curve is interesting - or very hum
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Suppose like you say, all earth-bound telescopes have a small window of observation. How many hours a day would that be? Aside from watching Contact or Goldeneye, my only source of knowledge about dishes is a C-band. But, according to its w
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by pp19dd 12y ago
Others have pointed out virtues of convenience, but, one more thing to point out: there's no cleanup. You simply eject the spent cartridge, throw it in the trash, and you're done. No filters to clean or replace. No wet, sticky cof
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"The Machine That Won the War."
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by pp19dd 12y ago
Near the bottom, project bluebird description: "Guided twitter messages for surveillance prototype.. " Not a reassuring description. Or a very positive one. The project is, afaik, a flu survey that tweets an encoded set of answer
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We version (localize) projects all the time, so I thought reasonable logic for seeing whether a string is empty is to check whether its trimmed length was greater than two, allowing for two stray characters that show up all the time in cont
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What manufacturer / model?
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There's almost such a thing right now. In the node Socket.IO package there is a 'computer' example where you and random internet strangers can control an XP machine: http://socket.io/demos/computer/
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Just a word of caution: elasticsearch allows everyone access to the indexed data, by default. If you're doing this on a world-reachable machine with sensitive data, you should probably lock it down or make sure it's locked down.
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> Mr. [Stephen] King never cashed the $5,000 check Mr. Darabont sent him for the right to turn his story into a movie. Years after "Shawshank" came out, the author got the check framed and mailed it back to the director with a
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Binary Metal – fairly servicable song composed out of coded binary messages(youtube.com)
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On suggestions for automating the blinds: it almost begs that a homeowner should be an engineer. Back in '01 I went to a job interview at a home automation company. At the time, there was some major hype surrounding the industry and I
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by pp19dd 12y ago
Good questions. No answers, but I have this reflection to add. Over the past decade PHP has, by and large, put food on my table. Every year or so I evaluate my overall toolkit (ranging from languages to frameworks) and make sure I'm b
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by pp19dd 12y ago
Languages are so weird when deconstructed. My observation is that English in particular seems to have a big lead on eponyms.
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Entire server is 403'd: http://www.gafferongames.com/ Rather puzzling. Traffic strategy?
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Nope, you're not wrong. That's part of minecraft and had nothing to do with PHP. I have a 200 meg server.log file that was run on a dedicated server, and in it there are 570,000 lines that say that -- out of 2,461,927. In other
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by pp19dd 12y ago
Just thought I'd say, when I first ran into D3, I sneered a bit. "These guys are just copying protovis." Took me a bit longer to notice the connection.
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The RepRap 3D printer I assembled used lots of these (Jam Nuts), and I can confirm that it was very annoying to keep making geometric adjustments. The instructions were - assemble loose to keep general structure, then tighten to exact fit,
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First time I've ever heard of the mugshot, and the arrest, was back in 1998. My boss told me it was a DUI arrest, but, this is complete hearsay and I didn't believe its certainty then just as I don't now. Where were you when
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Well, the PD found out that we were scraping and publishing data when a superior asked them about it. They were embarrassed and ambushed. Imagine your boss asking you "hey data guy, when did we start sending data to the paper?" Th
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by pp19dd 12y ago
So this situation happens in the news world all the time. While a company or agency has original databases, excel sheets, what have you - they don't consider that publishing them in a "human-readable" format is nearly the sam
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by pp19dd 12y ago
Where did you see that quote? It doesn't sound right. From WikiPedia: ''Upon the creation of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Milošević's government engaged in reforms to the Serbian Penal Code regarding restrictions
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"They included a link to a blog post by Economics Editor Robert Peston. The request was believed to have been made by a person who had left a comment underneath the article." Now that's a good example of a feature fighting th
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Edward Snowden's last job was a Sharepoint administrator, IRC.
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I bought the bundle a few months ago. The steam start process made the game wonky, so instead of going through the steam client, I made this batch file (for the 4th game): @echo off cd C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common
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What changed my mind about node.js was when I ran a demo program as a daemon and then forgot about it for months. And it never broke. Despite the program being very poorly constructed (by myself, of course), it was still running reliably on
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The very first page on it and I get this random gem: (do a ) tracert -h 100 216.81.59.173 ; after the 10th hop or so, watch for an imperial star destroyer.
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Oddly prophetic note on Radio Shack, which is recently sending signals about its impending bankruptcy. Jobs: "Radio Shack is totally out of the picture. They have missed the boat." - "...their model of retailing, which in my
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Often enough, when I get stuck I realize that plenty of other programmers have gotten stuck at that point too. And now I wonder if this has a detrimental effect on the developer community. By that I mean if a common problem has such a commo
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Reminds me of orbitalis - a Ludum dare game from last year that eventually ended up on steam. Object is simple, establish a stable orbit in the system for a span of one clock rotation (clock is on the very outside.) See http://w

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