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by ralph 17y ago
Its error handling is a little odd, and it doesn't detect unexpected commands. $ resty 42; echo $? resty: curl returned error 42 0 $ (curl was never called.)
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by ralph 17y ago
http://www63.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=SHA1+collision only comes up with the SHA1 digest of "1 collision", except that I can't re-produce the digest it gives: 260b ad88 a9bf 718b e7ac 56ab 10db 8368 2e04 3f5e
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by ralph 17y ago
Lose is loose that's lost an O, loose has to be looser than lose to have space for the extra O.
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by ralph 17y ago
I think Ubuntu prefers Postfix; perhaps you did something specific to end up with Exim. "Postfix is the default Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) for Ubuntu." -- https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Postfix
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by ralph 17y ago
As someone who has to nag someone else to wake up and get up, can I just say how disruptive it is to what I'm trying to do. Instead of concentrating I'm constantly checking back to see if they need another nag. So the sleeper isn't just c
426.
by ralph 17y ago
Everyone else would have to yield only if all traffic entering from that single busy inbound road was going all the way around the roundabout and exited onto the road it entered from. Since few cars do this, the odd single car on other ent
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by ralph 17y ago
It's called a roundabout. ;-) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roundabout They help traffic flow lots in the UK and elsewhere around the world. Not a panacea though.
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by ralph 17y ago
No, I'm sure it's the minority. I was just being polite. :-) "Today's" programming languages are a minority too. Just think of all the ones that came and went in the 60s, 70, and 80s. Most of those were ones that wouldn't let you do "f
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by ralph 17y ago
Just as most languages presented with "foo"+12 would silently convert 12 to a string via the toString() method. Most? The minority I'd expect. Others do things like TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for +: 'dict' and 'int'
430.
by ralph 17y ago
For those that don't know, Bruce Schneier designed http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blowfish_%28cipher%29
431.
by ralph 17y ago
Well, if Bruce passed comment on it, it would be publicity, bringing it to the attention of many that would be interested.
432.
by ralph 17y ago
Skip at least the first five minutes. There's zero content. I gave up watching then so YMMV on the sixth minute onwards.
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by ralph 17y ago
I still think the Friendfeed site does a poor job of getting across what it does and why it's useful. This readwriteweb article is better. They need some real-life examples, not just waffle about family and work groups. Can I use it inst
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by ralph 17y ago
As I write this, 4.55% "of those that answered" are female. That seems surprisingly high to me, so I think you could be right. It will be interesting to see whether the relatively high number of women will help keep the conversation civil
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by ralph 17y ago
Another case where a computer manufacturer ended up designing their own CPUs was the UK company Acorn, developer of the BBC computers. A couple of existing in-house staff, one the author of BBC BASIC, sat down and came up with the first RI
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by ralph 17y ago
Using the heap to store stack traces when TCO is in use and a "debugging" flag is set won't work. It could cause memory to be exhausted. You're effectively causing each recursion to consume memory; something TCO is trying to avoid. If t
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by ralph 18y ago
I think having ~/.mozilla/firefox/$foo.default/chrome/userContent.css containing @-moz-document url-prefix(http://news.ycombinator.com/) { td { color: #000000 !important; } a { color: #000055 !important; } } hel
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by ralph 18y ago
It's a crap title. A title shouldn't just grab attention; that's easy. I'm here today on this thread, but I haven't been on many others with similarly poor RSS appearance.
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by ralph 18y ago
Can people putting up stories please consider those of us that use the site's RSS feed? All you get for this one is <item> <title>You're calling *who* a cult leader?</title> <link>http
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by ralph 18y ago
With hindsight, do you still feel fnids are a good way to go? They present an obvious bottleneck in that the server has to remember many closures for a period of time as opposed to having each client remember their share. I know you drast
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by ralph 18y ago
Remember my last settings when I return to the site. Provide a `reset to defaults' button if I want sanity to return.
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by ralph 18y ago
Slide the old button image vertically and put the new one in its place. I'd like to be able to compare the before and after. Also, while it's sliding, I'm distracted from waiting for the new one, but don't make me wait for the slide to fi
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by ralph 18y ago
Either wrap long text to fit in fixed-width buttons, or let me specify \n and \\ to break the lines manually.
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by ralph 18y ago
Does anyone else look at the web page's source to see what bits of an essay are there but commented out?
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by ralph 18y ago
By your reasoning, you think it shouldn't be possible to upvote comments after a couple of days either then?
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by ralph 18y ago
What really annoys me is that pg took away the ability to downvote a comment after a day or two. Given I use RSS to visit news.yc every few days, that means I can't fully participate; I can upvote people's comments, but not downvote them.
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by ralph 18y ago
Interesting. Looks like Berkeley DB will be good enough for me to prove the concept then, and if, or seemingly when, it becomes the bottleneck I'll know it's possible to improve on it. Thanks again; it's great having first-hand access to
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by ralph 18y ago
Thanks for the detailed answer. I've a start-up idea that needs a big dag offline for the production of a smaller (in bytes, not nodes) one used online. My intention was to use Berkeley DB. It's good to see you say it's the fastest of th
449.
by ralph 18y ago
Thanks for taking the effort. Are tags implemented as just references from a tag "foo" node to the tagged item?
450.
by ralph 18y ago
Still seems to be too many of them at 2009-02-27 12:40:10 +0000. Also, playback gradually slows done here on Firefox 3. I gave up after about 1160 on Michelle's replay.

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