premchai21

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by premchai21 15y ago
I'm guessing that Flash being embedded from scribdassets.com is the list? I don't suppose there's a way to get access to this in plain text, or even a raster image?
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by premchai21 15y ago
If you actually mean “asynchronous”, could you please explain how that is relevant? Or perhaps you meant “asymmetrical”.
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by premchai21 15y ago
Ruby methods bound to their objects can be passed around; it's just a bit more cumbersome, in the form of « m = obj.method(:foo) » followed by « m.call(…) ». You can even do « m = :foo.to_proc » in recent Ruby and be able to « m.call(obj,
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by premchai21 15y ago
The number of available TCP ports is typically, but incorrectly, stated as 2^16 ports, but in practice, you can't use all of them. That's mainly why I wrote “at most” instead of trying to compute the exact available number, yes. You don't
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by premchai21 15y ago
What do you mean “isn't actually bound”? The function being defined using colon syntax doesn't close over self, since it's a parameter—but functions defined within that function will close over the self parameter, since it's a local from
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by premchai21 15y ago
Don't underestimate the hard, fractal, handwavey problems, though. Place a thousand apes together and they start forming chaotic systems that can be very hard to understand. What's worse, most bugs on that front are virtually guaranteed
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by premchai21 15y ago
I was originally thinking this would break things like IDENT, but then I remembered that they use the entire tuple (d'oh). I'll take your word for the pf behavior, and retract my bogus guess about kernel NAT. :-)
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by premchai21 15y ago
What do you mean by Lua leaving the caller to explicitly specify? Are you referring to earlier versions of Lua that used the explicit ^ upvalue sigil? Lua 5.1 (and 5.2) functions close over all local variables (including the implicit “sel
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by premchai21 15y ago
But there are at most 2^16 TCP ports available on the other side. I think this doesn't theoretically prevent one from reusing an exterior port multiple times for multiple connections to different other IP addresses or ports, but that would
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by premchai21 15y ago
Stack languages like Forth and PostScript could reasonably be considered SOV. In PostScript, even control flow words come at the end, with subordinate clauses being deferred by curly braces: « (Hello, world!) 2 2 add 5 eq { 0 5 getinterval
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by premchai21 15y ago
One thing to note about EasyDNS is that last I checked, glue updates require human intervention, and IPv6 glue is a good way to confuse the humans on the other side of the support channel. If you don't use glueful delegations, then you pro
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by premchai21 15y ago
They're similar, but the Lua form is much cleaner. In particular, JS objects only permit string keys, which makes Arrays sort of preposterous; they also have other baggage related to the prototype system. Lua tables can have any type exce
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by premchai21 15y ago
Lua tables are a general-purpose associative structure that are used for both map and list functions in that language: there's syntactic sugar for both consecutive integer keys and simple string keys, and the former are used to make sequenc
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by premchai21 15y ago
I was deliberately using the now-mostly-archaic sense of the noun referring to dragons. It puns nicely on my given name, among other reasons.
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by premchai21 15y ago
polyphonic radio croon in imitation of her dragons' death-recognition calls (I'm not Pernese myself, though I am a drake. But it seems fitting.)
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by premchai21 15y ago
Note that that particular word is a katakana phonetic import from English; in romaji that reads "hakkaa". So while that works as an example of multilingual character support, it may not be the best example for a foreign word per se. :-)
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by premchai21 15y ago
I'm curious: is there a reason U+2584 LOWER HALF BLOCK is missing from the character set, which otherwise contains the progression from U+2581 to U+2587? Edit: U+2588 seems like an obvious candidate as well.
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by premchai21 15y ago
Viz. XML Catalogs: http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/entity/spec-2001-08-06....
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by premchai21 15y ago
The base definition of XML doesn't specify hyperlinks. But XLink does, and because XML has namespaces, it can be integrated into any other namespace-aware XML application without risk of collisions: http://www.w3.org/TR/xlink/
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by premchai21 15y ago
Yes, and “Perl” has often been expanded as “Practical Extraction and Reporting Language” (I don't recall whether this is a half-joke or not, but I think it is). If you like you can add the “compatible” though, which would conveniently add t
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by premchai21 15y ago
preg_match might actually be better expanded as practical_extraction_and_reporting_language_regular_expression_match. (I'd comment on the original but it's currently too overloaded for it, I gather.)
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by premchai21 15y ago
Which fake software is this? If it's already taken control of the client side, too, couldn't it just be altering the root certificate set rather than exploiting some weakness of the union of all of the existing roots (which no doubt have m
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by premchai21 15y ago
I'm suspicious of certain possible scenarios here. Someone without the history state API (e.g., an Internet Explorer 8 user) who wants to send out links winds up publishing fragment-based links (with all the scattered interoperability brea
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by premchai21 15y ago
> 2. Asking for an "Email Address" would be better than asking for a "Username". You kill two birds with one stone. Most people can remember their email address(es) but I know I don't remember the different usernames I use. Allow users
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by premchai21 15y ago
I have little to say about the main functionality at the moment, but I'm afraid my first visual impression of that stylized “o” in the logo is somewhat squick-worthy! Perhaps a bit of reworking might be in order?
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by premchai21 15y ago
You are misunderstanding, in the latter case. Asymmetric cryptography is used to determine a session shared secret. The deniability aspect is that either participant can generate messages in the same session. Alice receiving X from Bob k
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by premchai21 15y ago
Interestingly, Java and Clojure have decidedly different startup times on my machine. A trivial hello-world in Java takes ~130 ms on my Debian sid box with « OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea6 1.8.7) (6b18-1.8.7-4) / OpenJDK 64-Bit Serve
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by premchai21 15y ago
Would not « print0() { tr '\n' '\0'; } » work in most cases? Does your utility do something special to existing instances of \0? That's the only case I can imagine where the transformation is necessarily lossy and it's not clear what to d
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by premchai21 15y ago
While the latter is logically true, one has to be careful. It may be easy to erroneously interpret that as comparing “rebellious hacker teens not recruited by terrorists” and “rebellious hacker teens recruited by terrorists”, which pair
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by premchai21 15y ago
> People have a reason to use their accounts on Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Hotmail/Live, Facebook, Twitter, and etc. […] As long as OpenID remains just an identity provider, it will continue to lose ground. I'm not sure I understand what you're

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