samuel

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   by samuel 16y ago

   So it must be really tiny. Seriously, this thing is doomed unless gets really, really cheap, and I don't think how it could be.
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   by samuel 16y ago

   But, How are they going to reach that price point? Specially since they are not going to produce them, and at least this model is pretty ordinary hardware(runs an Atom, not an ARM CPU). And, why manufacturers would want to canibalize their
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   by samuel 16y ago

   So you have a paper on your wallet, which can be used to obtain every password you use, using an intricate and very specific "algorithm". Then you publish the fact itself and the algorithm in your blog(real name), which, besides, doesn't de
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   by samuel 16y ago

   So you only test those cases you have thought can fail(which is compulsory to test anyway). The purpose of the Monkey Chaos is to trigger situations you haven't dreamed about. OK, it ain't perfect. Things usually doesn't fail in a uniformal
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   by samuel 16y ago

   This is only true for SBCL on Linux, isn't it?
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   by samuel 16y ago

   Sorry I don't get it. May be its me, I'm not on Sales or purchasing. You want to purchase a large quantity of licenses, and you want a discount for them. So you ask for just one and use it as a proxy to know if the Company is flexible in it
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   by samuel 16y ago

   So it's more like a hotmail killer. Gmail users tend to be "power" ones.
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   by samuel 16y ago

   It's funny, because that one of the "obvious" things to try that instead shows no correlation with academic performance. At least that's what it's said in "Freakonomics". Anyway, I'm doing it with my two years and half son. He loves it and
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   by samuel 16y ago

   When I ran OpenBSD I used to block on repeated failed attempts(see: http://home.nuug.no/~peter/pf/en/long-firewall.html#BRUTEFOR... ). I used to change ssh's port, but not anymore. If a bruteforce attack is a threat to you, then you are be
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    How To Tell A Software Developer What You Want (itworld.com)

    1 points by samuel 16y ago|0 comments
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    The Peter Principle Revisited: A Computational Study(IgNobel 2010)(arxiv.org)

    2 points by samuel 16y ago|0 comments
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    by samuel 16y ago

    I don't understand why stock Python doesn't include some sort of optional type annotation, as SBCL and other Lisps. Some years ago there was a lot of fuss in the Python community about including optional type checking in Python 3... what ha
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    by samuel 16y ago

    (I'm not the OP) It's a free ebook about Prolog. I started reading it some time ago, and looked very promising, with a balanced combination between theory and practice. But, as with any other book about Prolog I've tried to read I hit a wa
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    by samuel 16y ago

    I forgot to add, in this case, check the DB. It could be some sort of deadlock...
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    by samuel 16y ago

    That's the last resort: almost never you need to get that far(stracing/trussing usually do the trick), and it doesn't have to take "hours and hours" if you have done it before, specially if it's a locking issue. I don't remember if I have
16. 226.▲
    by samuel 16y ago

    I wouldn't recommend to blindly change his setup. This is the sysadmin equivalent of changing lines of code almost randomly to fix a bug. When there is a problem the very first step is to find out what's happening. Apache is rock solid soft
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    by samuel 16y ago

    Oracle DDL doesn't respect transactions, but at least you can wrap it into an autonomous transaction so it won't commit your main transaction. Said that, it's a great feature. It allows you to deploy your stored procs transactionally, inste
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    by samuel 16y ago

    His book "Head First Data Analysis" seems a fairly gentle introduction to data analysis. I've read it and it's enough to learn a couple of tricks. Where to go from here it's harder to figure out. I'm refreshing my stats classes with the Pea
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    by samuel 17y ago

    What means "personal"? Do you do it mainly for the fun or for the money? If it's the second, it's a no brainer. Use the tools you know and focus on you problem domain. If its an experiment or an exploratory project, well, use whatever appea
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    by samuel 17y ago

    What about Nokia? They smartphones also sucks, and they have already sued Apple for IP infringement.
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    by samuel 17y ago

    You can't be serious. That guy is a sadic. It's OK to be scared. It's OK to confuse a camera with a gun, and shoot before discovering that it really was a weapon the hard way. That shit happens at war. But aiming a severely wounded guy, beg
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    by samuel 17y ago

    No, it isn't. The first { encloses the class and the second encloses the "anonymous constructor" or whatever is called. It's code executed at object creation, even before the "named" constructor.
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    by samuel 17y ago

    I can't agree. What's revolutionary about the iPad? Only that isn't running a desktop OS? There have been Windows CE tablets for ages. The difference is realization, which is everything, of course, it's the difference between Altavista and
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    by samuel 17y ago

    If they would be serious about that, they would distribute IE8 for Win2k.
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    by samuel 17y ago

    I don't know if C is the best answer for him. Ada has most of C advantages(unless you are doing "dirty" C tricks), while retaining type safety, exceptions, bound checking... (Haven't used it in years, though).
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    by samuel 17y ago

    I'm in my nth effort to learn (Common) Lisp, and this is the implementation I've chosen, mostly because its portability (read it as I could run it in Windows, despite not being my preferred environment). The only thing that may worry me a l
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    by samuel 17y ago

    I wouldn't call that "thing" a netbook, but a small laptop. The iBook was about the same size and nobody called it a "netbook". For me "a netbook" it's something similar to a product really called Netbook, the Psion Teklogix's "Netbook Pro"
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    by samuel 17y ago

    One more: mkdir(2)
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    by samuel 17y ago

    Points 28, 38, 39 may apply here. I haven't studied this directive but its spanish implementation(IANAL, but if you work with personal data you need to know how to comply), and under that law, users should be asked for explicit permission u
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    by samuel 17y ago

    Probably, it's illegal at every EU country which implements the 95/46/EC directive( http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:... )