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by shabble 14y ago
There's some commonly repeated (and likely even true to some extent) that ~60-70% of the cost of a software system is in maintenance. Which to me, sounds like if you're the contractor providing the system, that means 60-70% of the value
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by shabble 14y ago
I'm pretty sure I saw a library somewhere that could be purchased in both "raw code" and "commented, documented code" forms. Which I can only assume meant they had the comments/documents and were intentionally stripping them out for the che
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by shabble 14y ago
I'd like to see a site/service along the lines of http://www.tldrlegal.com/ but which crowdfunded some decent lawyers to review the ToS, privacy policy, etc of popular sites (determined by user votes) and provided a list of potentially ob
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by shabble 14y ago
Also, you now can't ever sell exclusive rights[1], because there's a perpetual sub-licence capable party floating about out there. [1] IANAL, but I think that's how it would work; for any licenceable aspect which you wish to grant exclusive
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by shabble 14y ago
There's something I can't quite put my finger on, that makes this response seem a bit forced and insincere. "Legal documents are easy to misinterpret. So I’d like to address specific concerns we’ve heard from everyone" My understanding is t
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by shabble 14y ago
I think there's a valid argument in the fact that it's diverse enough that you could have 2 highly experienced Perl coders who nevertheless disagree about an awful lot of things[1]. In professional environments or large projects, hopefully
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by shabble 14y ago
If you know enough about the standard Perl warn() and die(), it turns out: croak(): (slang) To die[1] confess(): to provide information, commonly[2] as one is dying[3] carp(): To complain, often at length and of minor details[4] cluck(): No
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by shabble 14y ago
I have a vague recollection that it was fixed or mostly eliminated in Quake 3. It was definitely still an issue in Quake 2, and one relatively well-known cheap trick was leading people towards particularly architecturally dense parts of the
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by shabble 14y ago
I think this is the end part of the "Emergency Egress System" which included a slide-wire basket from the top of the vehicle support structure/gantry. Some of the images at http://history.nasa.gov/ap10fj/as10-image-library.htm do look a l
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by shabble 14y ago
Part 1 (from yesterday): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4893457
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by shabble 14y ago
see also: Nethack RNG trickery: http://taeb-nethack.blogspot.co.uk/2009/03/predicting-and-co...
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by shabble 14y ago
from the caption under the house door/garage images: Hang it in the shed or make it into a great porch light, you can clip on a hanging basket or anything weighing about 20lbs. So that's ~2x your estimate, which doesn't seem impossible. I
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by shabble 14y ago
Sites that allow users [to have significant control over] personalised subdomains are also problematic for things like NoScript and other whitelisting tools. Since I have github.com permitted, all the subdomains inherit that permission. I'm
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by shabble 14y ago
Whilst his point is clearly that Ubuntu should be punished (by users switching to alternative distros), it would have been nice to provide or link to some detail about how to disable this behaviour, for those who can't or won't reinstall. A
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by shabble 14y ago
Licence: "You may only use these tips for evil"
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by shabble 14y ago
I suspect that eventually we're going to start integrating chip-scale atomic clocks[1] into our mobile devices, which will allow a much longer synchronisation period. Right now they're still ~35g and ~130mW power, but that's only going down
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by shabble 14y ago
ObRef: Automated fresh pizza vending machine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7_lxiU8eLM
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by shabble 14y ago
These being my introduction to the Dune universe, I was quite surprised when I finally read the books to not come across a single mention of the House Ordos :)
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by shabble 14y ago
Rapidly heading off on a tangent, but there was an AMA by the creator of the RA soundtrack on Reddit[1] quite recently. I had no idea Hell March was that well-known (and I finally found out what the correct lyric[s] was!) [1] http://www.r
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by shabble 14y ago
Do you know if there's an issue tracker or list of topics that need work anywhere? I'd be interested in contributing, but I'd rather not scan the whole text for things to fix (and risk duplicating effort with others)
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by shabble 14y ago
Yep, forms (and presently, Tastypie) are the biggest hassle for me as well. Digging through the internals of CBVs in order to figure out annoying little mixin-related quirks probably comes second. Even in spite of all that, it's still the n
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by shabble 14y ago
I recall reading somewhere that the distinction between a framework and a library was that in a library, you[r code] calls the functions it needs, whilst in a framework, it calls you. Often, bugs in your code will manifest as the framework
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by shabble 14y ago
Maybe the 'django [reusable] app' terminology? One of the first few pages in the tutorial includes: "Django apps are "pluggable": You can use an app in multiple projects, and you can distribute apps, because they don't have to be tied to a
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by shabble 14y ago
Seems like the Oracle rebuttal published in Forbes is 404ing (Taken down, or just moved?), but appears to be in google cache still: page 1: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp... page 2: https://webcache.googleus
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by shabble 14y ago
There was an interesting article on "Australia's Strategy"[1] published by Stratfor I came across a couple of months ago that argued that Australia has such a huge dependence on access to sea lanes and shipping that it has made a great effo
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by shabble 14y ago
Surely a tool like this is exactly how you translate that 'physical access' into a useful result within the target VM? If that VM is handling the data you're tasked with stealing, bypassing auth and getting a root-shell equivalent which you
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by shabble 14y ago
In general, using n -grams[1], probably at the character level. (So, as the article mentions, the bigram "ch" is common in German, and "qu" is much more common than "q X " for any X in English) You can analyse texts you believe to be sim
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by shabble 14y ago
My initial thought was that they were inserted as a diversion to those who thought a simple frequency analysis would break what appeared to be a simple substitution cipher. Whereas in practice, the 'expected' substitutions yield gibberish,
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by shabble 14y ago
The situation for new builds / speculative construction which are then placed on the market, versus 'having a house built to your specifications', might be some of the difference. Or you (that is, not you or I, but "people") might select a
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by shabble 14y ago
The old "interview screenplay"[1] post on the Matasano blog had a particularly compelling image of Why ECB Sucks. Sadly, it doesn't seem to have survived the 3 years of blog herd migrations. [Fake Edit:] Hooray, WaybackMachine to the resc

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