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by sitharus 13y ago
The Microsoft services are becoming a very tempting alternative to Google Apps. Mostly I'm getting sick of Google randomly dropping services I use and re-designing every 3 months. I was looking at fastmail.fm for my mail hosting, but n
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by sitharus 13y ago
I've used a few Parsec-based parser combinators and now I'd never go back to a parser generator. It might be a little slower at runtime, but the ability to see everything in your chosen language is worth it in my opinion.
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by sitharus 13y ago
It's possible, but I'd expect modern decoders to be more resilient to out of spec files. I'd share them, but copyright and all that.
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by sitharus 13y ago
They've been across about 4 different disks. I copy using SCP, so it's unlikely that the corruption happened over the network, most likely it was between the CPU and disk as it was being read/written.
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by sitharus 13y ago
That's actually pretty nifty, and shows what a little bit of corruption does to an image. Hopefully more systems will start shipping with checksumming file systems by default. Even better if they have error correction. I still have som
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by sitharus 13y ago
For those interested, this comment is caused by this commit revert: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-intel/com... So originally the XMir support was merged in, then reverted on instructions
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by sitharus 13y ago
This is something I've been through before. The first version of an app I worked from was very SQL heavy. Almost every calculation was done in a stored proc and the app servers just formatted that. As the product got popular this becam
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by sitharus 13y ago
I've had the fun experience of debating with anti-vaccine people. Outside of the religious 'god will protect us' line, which I can't really argue with as it's a matter of faith, the vaccines cause autism line keeps
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by sitharus 13y ago
There are true common-rail direct cylinder injection gasoline engines out there. They're not so common though, since there aren't as many advantages to it compared to a diesel engine. Cars marketed as GDI, such as the Ford EcoBoos
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by sitharus 13y ago
V6 turbo with energy recovery on the turbo itself. They're also allowed to use that energy to re-spool the turbo to eliminate lag. They've also hugely bumped the KERS and built it in to the throttle map - no more button for it. I
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by sitharus 13y ago
I think so, this place does get a lot of traffic.
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by sitharus 13y ago
If you're going to take it that far you have to add "at standard pressure".
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by sitharus 13y ago
Never underestimate the pedantry of a crowd of IT-types. I used to be like that, but I grew out of it. The main problem seems to be that it's either a simplification - which is needed because the real thing is too complex to absorb at
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by sitharus 13y ago
I just took a close look at it, and I think you're right. It's not the easiest thing to see due to the wireframe, but with a second look it does appear that the injectors are just behind the valve. So yes, it's multi-point in
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by sitharus 13y ago
It's worth noting that the engine illustrated is a gasoline direct injection engine, which are fairly common on new cars but historically not so. Until the early 2000s most fuel injected gasoline engines were multi-point injection - th
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by sitharus 13y ago
Mirror here: http://visual.ly/how-car-engine-works-animated
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by sitharus 13y ago
This is the same thing that bugged me when using Windows instead of MacOS. On MacOS menus appeared instantly and faded out when you've made a selection. On Windows the menus faded in and disappeared instantly. Didn't take me long
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by sitharus 13y ago
Looks good, but the typesetting is a little off and I don't see any examples of paragraphs or line wrapping. I built a PDF library for PHP many years ago and the hardest part was text, typesetting is a hard problem. Looks good for expo
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by sitharus 13y ago
If you run Chrome on OS X and have the keychain set to prompt you on every access you'll notice that Chrome does something really shocking. It reads and decrypts every password you have on startup. Safari and Firefox don't try to
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by sitharus 13y ago
Can't upvote this enough. It's very hard to stop a determined attacker, but that's not what this is covering. As a developer sometime I peer program, and that might mean handing over the controls to a colleague. Now I trust m
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by sitharus 13y ago
That would be very difficult in a software development role. You'd either end up out of dev and in management or you'd have to leave. Everywhere I've worked there's only a few levels where you actually code - right now w
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by sitharus 13y ago
After some digging this is a syndicated article from here: http://www.shns.com/web/guest/shns-search?p_p_id=listenersea... That's a horrible URL. Who cite the Digital Power Group, who seem to be here: http:&
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by sitharus 13y ago
I'm not sure how this is possible. On one hand I'm not hugely surprised - once fridge is at temperature it doesn't require much energy to sustain it if people don't open the doors, but on the other the iPhone uses a tiny
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by sitharus 13y ago
Completely agree. I constantly have this fight with designers, disappearing scrollbars may not be (and I don't think it is) the best experience, but it is the system experience. It's far easier to explain to a casual user that o
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by sitharus 13y ago
> All I'm saying is, never trust Elon Musk PR to tell you the whole picture. Never trust anyone's PR to give you the whole picture! Though as a counterpoint, I've seen cars with the roof cut off to extract people, but neve
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by sitharus 13y ago
I'd be cautious about deploying a high traffic app to Mono as well. This is more for experiments and personal apps.
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by sitharus 13y ago
You can get quite a bit done on Mono these days. My main job is at a MS/.NET shop, so for my personal projects I'm mostly using MVC 3 and PostgreSQL deploying to Mono. Probably not good for large installations who want vendor supp
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by sitharus 13y ago
I haven't tried MVC4 yet, I was waiting for async support in Mono. Personally I run everything on a VPS, because I'm not worried about scale. If I was running something larger I'd probably go with Azure.
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by sitharus 13y ago
Interesting list. Though I didn't see much consideration to Mono on Linux, which is my personal deployment strategy. It would have been nice if it was compiled in to a larger comparison table so I could see it all on my widescreen disp
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by sitharus 13y ago
I suspect that's because a lot of Brits (and the commonwealth, certainly here in NZ) don't take well to commercial friendships. We don't want a random barista knowing our name. However, if we've seen the same barista eve

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