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seren
12y ago
What about : > The incidents follow reports of earlier DDoS attacks on other multiplayer titles on Friday, including Eve Online, League of Legends, RuneScape and Guild Wars 2. is this an unfortunate coincidence, or it is linked to PSN at
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12y ago
Anyway given how Secret works, if you are the only common contact between two people who receive the same secret, it is pretty easy to find the originator. It seems if would be pretty easy to create an app/website where you share you c
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12y ago
The good question is : is there is a way, with spatial observation or otherwise, to find where the leak comes from ?
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12y ago
And it is supposed to be 10,000 hours of "deliberate practice", if I remember correctly, i.e. exercises and trials focusing on harder point, with an immediate feedback. I don't think it is possible to keep that kind of focus
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12y ago
The article will probably be in the September issue of the printed magazine. This pretty common in the paper world.
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seren
12y ago
tl;dr use CtrlP plugin [0] (The post is not that long, but rather light on content...) [0] https://github.com/kien/ctrlp.vim
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12y ago
This is definitely cool, and "if" something come out of it, it will be huge. I am a bit skeptical they'll have a product in a few years, but it is possible that they can find important pieces of the puzzle, that could later b
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12y ago
Helion seems unreal. I am not ready up to date with fusion research, but as far as I know there was not even a demo or prototype in lab producing energy for a few seconds (or minutes), and they claim to have a product in 6 years. Can someon
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12y ago
I am not sure if you are aware, but if you hold a newborn baby under its arm, it will make a walking motion in the air with its legs. This is likely the remnant of a legacy behavior that was useful a few millions years ago. I don't kno
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12y ago
You have not addressed something in your post, but maybe is is obvious : why do you want or need to become an expert ? You can have a very fulfilling life being a jack-of-all-trade. In a fast moving word, I am not sure I would like to becom
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12y ago
> Why would a business do this ? If you are in charge of SW team, without too much SW knowledge, and you have to deliver something in the next 3 to 6 months to you customer, you would likely ask your architect/developers to do "
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12y ago
Procrastination is an avoidance mechanism, but you are not necessarily trying to avoid work, it could be pain, unpleasantness, or fear of failure as mentioned earlier. To take your example of WoW, compulsive players are likely trying to avo
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12y ago
Sorry to highjack the thread, but if I want to fix some neovim Coverity issues, where should I register / who should I ask ? I have already had a look to your waffle but it was not crystal clear. Just creating a Coverity account will a
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12y ago
Seems you are right. A video uploaded in 2011 showing the answers : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B78kmg9xPP8 I am still not totally convinced that the linked article is not a hoax, or an urban legend in the making.
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12y ago
If this is indeed a true story, and if the question is correctly quoted in the article, I really wonder why and how it happened that a "hiding" question returned dumps and swamps...
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12y ago
The default layer in OSM is not optimized for the best possible user experience, it is primarily the front end of an editing tool. It has to be useful for mappers first. It is why it looks rather crowded and slightly unpleasant. If you want
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12y ago
It seems that Coverity[0] is offering free static analysis to open source projects. Even if it is a marketing move, it will benefit the open source ecosystem in the long run. You'll waste some time analyzing false positive defects, the
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12y ago
I agree but in the short term some people are going to be freezing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia_in_the_European_energy_s... You don't want to be living in Finland and rely on natural gas for example. (To b
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12y ago
Until they suspend natural gas export ? Putin is probably waiting for winter to play this card.
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12y ago
My 2 cents. You are stressed both from the new job and the pregnancy, and you are bit confused by what's lying ahead. This is normal and would be weird if you were not reflecting on yourself at this time of your life. Getting a child w
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12y ago
You should try to add an open demo, and only request an email sign up when the user try to save or export the file (or a prompt after X minutes of use). I am not sure people are ready to sign up just to try a text editor.
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12y ago
Until now revolution have pitched humans against other humans. And in most successful revolution, at one point, the police/army refuses to shoot on the protestors anymore. (or oust themselves the current head of state) I don't nec
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12y ago
I am not sure this is an helpful response but you have plenty of countries where a small oligarchy controls an enormous share of the GDP and most of the population is dirt poor. I can't remember the reference offhand but there was an A
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12y ago
Hyperion is mostly OK, and should maybe not be in the list, but the third book, Endymion, is basically a giant chase, and I found it weaker than the first two. For my defense, I have not read WoT or Sword of Truth because of their terrible
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12y ago
I second it, if you enjoyed it, I warmly recommend Illium/Olympos from the same author which is a bit in the same vein. And generally I really like Dan Simmons. What I found fascinating is that he does not write always the same book (a
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12y ago
I used to have a similar stance, and I agree on most points. Long series tend to become less and less interesting, and weirder as they go along (Dune, Gormenghast, Hyperion, ...) Maybe it is the novelty that wears off, the author has used h
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12y ago
I would suggest Glen Cook's Black company series[1] It is written from the perspective of mercenary grunts, so they are no "heroes" in the usual sense since they are not always hired by the good guys (and it is hard to real d
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12y ago
I think this is the right approach, you can't compare programming to working on assembly line, i.e. the more time you spent typing in your editor is directly translated in more goods or value to the customer. Even if you should fill so
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12y ago
> "It's one of the best decisions I've ever made in my life and I completely advocate people 'coming out'," says Mark Hatcher, from Black Atheists of America. I am always amazed by how the American society s
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Interesting because it shows that what looks like madness to external observers, seems to have consistent and rational explanations for involved actors, at least for the very short term. Moreover, it seems it was more or less foreseeable.
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