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by saljam 11y ago
Saudi Arabia used to have it's weekend on Thursday & Friday. Recently they've switched to Friday & Saturday.
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by saljam 11y ago
Nader Khalili's other design, the Geltaftan[0], is worth mentioning. These are essentially clay buildings which are then fired to produce ceramic houses. [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceramic_houses#Forms_and_te
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by saljam 12y ago
What's stopping git from storing large files using Merkle trees + a rolling hash? I'm probably missing something since there this, and git-annex, and git-bigstore, and others...
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by saljam 12y ago
I recognise Sanea's story from all the spam about it that I received. Searching in my inbox reveals 6 of them in lists mostly about programming languages. I wonder if they're what inspired Nicholas Schmidle to write about this.
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by saljam 12y ago
What's wrong with their git repo?
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by saljam 12y ago
This is precisely the reason many of these huge projects are built. The Gulf countries have been and are still doing them (KAUST, KAEC, KAFD, huge mosque expansions, etc.) with a huge number of contracts going to Saudi Oger or the Binladin
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by saljam 12y ago
That might also be related to how they're now encrypting messages on the handset after partnering up with Open Whisper. https://whispersystems.org/blog/whatsapp/ Edit: this is also pure speculation.
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by saljam 12y ago
Musicians have made similar demands in 2008[1]. That includes Christopher Cerf, one of the Sesame Street composers. He features in a documentary Aljazeera made about this[2]. I seem to remember he also asked for royalties but was unsuccessf
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by saljam 12y ago
R=dmr RIP Dennis.
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CAP theorem and its implications(ssougou.blogspot.co.uk)
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by saljam 13y ago
Guess I'll join in. My first computer was also an MSX. They were very popular in the Arab World because of an Arabic branded version made by (for?) a company called Sakhr. It played all the MSX games and that's what mattered. I&#x
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by saljam 13y ago
Yep, I thought it sounded like Camlistore, but as a library.
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by saljam 13y ago
That would be cool. Are there any? I'm aware of sta.li, but it doesn't seem to be there yet. As a matter of fact, is it possible to get stuff like nsswitch working without dynamic linking on Linux?
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by saljam 13y ago
I was under the impression ChromeOS used upstart.
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by saljam 13y ago
I'm personally quite excited about this space. If the Internet of Things is going to happen, we need better languages than C/C++.
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by saljam 13y ago
I'm guessing it's in the Freudian psychoanalysis sense, rather than the more literal one. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anal_retentiveness Frankly, I'm not sure which is worse.
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by saljam 13y ago
Static linking is practically impossible on modern Unix because of bullet point 4 in nopaste7's linked page. > all kinds of features in the libc (locale (through iconv), NSS, IDN, ...) require dynamic linking (...) These are all fea
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by saljam 13y ago
There's a caveat with process substitution; the command can't seek() on the input file. If if a command, for example, needs to do 2 passes, it'll will either have to be 'smart' enough to stick the output in a buffer
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by saljam 13y ago
I love this game. Ottoman Empire, Bolivia [1], China [2], Philippines, Mozambique. 1: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sim%C3%B3n_Bol%C3%ADvarl 2: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Chin
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by saljam 13y ago
Here's another idea: why not use Namecoin [1] to keep the data? It's fair, no one owns it, and everyone can query it. [1] http://bluishcoder.co.nz/2011/05/12/namecoin-a-dns-alternati...
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by saljam 13y ago
Nice idea! Would it be crazy to just use an email address as the pointer? It's easier to remember than a random string of numbers and it means they don't have to worry about name spacing. They can initially verify it by emailing y
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by saljam 13y ago
(A bit off-topic) Locally hosted web apps are on the rise (Mailpile, Camlistore, etc.) and remembering which app runs on which port is neither user-friendly nor scalable. More so if you start to consider multiple users on the same machine.
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by saljam 13y ago
Almost every year, I reread the famous Goldberg paper, What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating Point Arithmetic[1]. And with every time I'm more astonished at how the hell can anyone do anything nontrivial with floats
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by saljam 13y ago
These tunnels were man-made. But yeah, obviously the scale these worked at was more towards villages and small towns.
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by saljam 13y ago
What's particularly sad is how the vernacular architectural features, which have evolved over thousands of years to deal with these issues, have been largely abandoned over the 20th century. Only to be replaced by ugly concrete buildin
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by saljam 13y ago
That's what I said. :-) BUILD had an influence on Go. Go is influenced by BUILD. One sentence is in the active voice, the other in the passive.
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by saljam 13y ago
Judging by his description of BUILD, it sounds like was a big influence on Go's build system. Well, no surprises there!
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by saljam 13y ago
That's almost certainly a different one. It's described as a scripting language and that it appeared in 92. This C-- only came around 97... It's quite an obvious name, I'd expect there to be many more called C--!
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by saljam 13y ago
I don't know about EC2 but Linode provide you with a web based console you can use to set stuff up.
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by saljam 13y ago
It's not a good thing. Only a handful of nations are capable of producing weaponized drones, and that's not likely to change anytime soon. This is very susceptible to abuse. The numbers here show my point exactly: http:/&#x2

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