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With Forward Secrecy disabled when it wasn't before, it only being a quick configuration change to re-enable it (I'm talking two or three lines in Apache or nginx), and no discernible gain in disabling it other than to make it eas
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I've only ever been able to hunt and peck QWERTY, not having learned it through touch typing, nor did I ever pick it up. So when I learned Dvorak, through touch typing, it affected my QWERTY skills exactly not one bit. The only way in
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> There's no way I would request to an employer that I have a special keyboard just for me Why not? > or try to reconfigure software to support it. Why not? If there's a much better alternative out there that can make you mo
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13y ago
Char can be anything not " or \. You don't have to escape unicode. If you want to just use Unicode and encode as UTF-8 then go nuts. This is valid JSON: { "äöü": "大家好", "clef": "𝄞" }
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Just in case anyone hasn't noticed this: > While the data is free, it won't be particularly fast. Customers can expect network speeds at around the same level that they get in the US after they are throttled. Chief Marketing Of
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13y ago
I noticed > [some RDO graphs will be nice-- add these]
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Thank you Monty! Awesome as always and already waiting for the next part - no pressure :) And just because I know someone is going to ask: Motion prediction in H.264 is based on luma, but there's also a chroma option. I've done so
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Ditto, using Chrome 30. Going to try Firefox, then will see if it's some HTTP request not working. Edit: Working in Chrome now.
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But I'm confused now! http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/07/11/ubuntu_1310_to_ship_... said the following three months ago: > Shuttleworth said he has been running Mir on his own laptop, an "all-I
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AdWords
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Who is with me in wanting Google to release a web search product? You type in the search terms, Google will find you websites and websites only containing those terms. Simple. Something that just searches the web, http and https, no fancy f
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The peculiar cadence of executive mail messages
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http://web.archive.org/web/19980505193923/http://www.altavis... is wrong. Try this instead: http://web.archive.org/web/19980505193939/http://www.altavis... GoogleScou
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13y ago
More info: http://www.reddit.com/r/savethenbn/ http://www.reddit.com/r/australia/ always has something on the NBN. http://delimiter.com.au/ http://iwantthenbn
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Force them to, after let's say 28 years of copyright, to pay an ever increasing percentage of the revenue they earn from the characters as a tax to keep them out of the public domain. 35-50 years of extra copyright = 30% of revenue. 50
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> Most experts believe that warming of less than 2 degrees Celsius from preindustrial levels will result in no net economic and ecological damage. Therefore, the new report is effectively saying (based on the middle of the range of the I
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Also, this: http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/17584/is-the-cos... Also, the conclusion after the introduction of the carbon tax was that GDP was 0.1% lower than if it hadn't been there. How you get
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OK, let's watch this. 0:23-ish: No one in the mainstream media in Australia has ever told anyone about Henry fucking Ergas? Well, this is full of shit already. He also ran Concept Economics. > Concept Economics, the consultancy that
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I'm sorry, but this is just stupid. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Ridley and http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Matt_Ridley If you want to have an idea as to his economic credenti
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13y ago
Sure, PM me on reddit - same username.
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> We have to stick to ANSI M. I'm so sorry. Nothing more fun than manually keeping indices in MUMPS :|
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MUMPS is pretty cool: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4151554/need-mumps-sample... I've actually decoded it. Turns out that the thing most useful for this, by far, is an ASCII table :P
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I think the most relevant bit is that it's much cheaper than Oracle. And I've seen Caché do quite complex things quite quickly, like with all database systems it's up to your indices more than anything else.
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Ditto, there's not a whole lot of innovation of ideas in MUMPS at all. It's just a random programming language that's good enough to get things done with and the database that's next to it is nicer than most and supports
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Nope, not in the medical field.
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The fact that easy persistent on-disk storage other than through file streams or sqlite and the like is still not a built-in feature or a commonly used library in languages in 2013 when MUMPS did this in 1960-something then that's more
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> Most of the intersystems cutomers I have worked with want to move away to something more modern but cant. We're pretty happy with it. If, theoretically, we'd need to start from scratch, it'd would definitely be in our to
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13y ago
There was a thing a little while ago, but haven't seen anything big in many years apart from that. Mostly something about database corruption on VMS or ECP or similarly obscure things not really relevant to us.
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My languages of choice are JavaScript, SQL and Python and I've gone quite deep in all of them. I'd consider ObjectScript compiling down to efficiently work through SQL queries or to form objects and other things a metalanguage, so
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Nope, not in the healthcare industry at all.
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