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by skorgu 17y ago
There is civilization below Astor Place you know.
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by skorgu 18y ago
Aww, look at their datacenter, it's so cute! Seriously, I can see why they're so cagey about when it'll go live, if they let The Internets onto six racks of machines doing un-cacheable, potentially expensive computations they'll pull a Cuil
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Create Python GUIs using HTML (And Webkit and GTK)(aclevername.com)
40 points by skorgu 18y ago|10 comments
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by skorgu 18y ago
Concur to both. The Economist is a necessity for my commute. I find my wife stealing before I can get to it most weeks :) The FT is harder to justify if you have a good set of financial rss feeds but the economist has no real substitute.
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by skorgu 18y ago
Each time the traditional media butchers a technical story I'm astonished anew. And then I get a second round of surprise when everyone accepts it so uncritically because it was in a non-blog context.
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by skorgu 18y ago
Caching decreases load on application servers! Film at 11!
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by skorgu 18y ago
New York State grew by nearly a half-million people from 2000-2008.
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by skorgu 18y ago
This article is quite poor. Firstly, "Instead, the state politicians are pocketing the federal cash to maintain spending, and raising taxes anyway." is quite a stretch. Using his own numbers: "[New York's] $132 billion budget is now $17.7 b
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by skorgu 18y ago
Sennheiser CX300S Canalphones. Bought them on a whim from newegg but I'm pleased with them. I can't be isolated for more than about an hour before some emergency crops up so the comfort is less important. The HD280s are amazing though, I th
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by skorgu 18y ago
At my former employer we did some work integrating QuickBooks with several existing systems. I wanted: Documentation; Intuit gave: Cut-and-paste C# examples. I wanted: an easily parse-able format; Intuit gave: almost-XML-but-not-quite (orde
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by skorgu 18y ago
Fair enough. Context fail on my part, the phrase "not safe for $foo" is given to include NSFW regardless of the value of $foo elsewhere it's hardly a guaranteed assumption. If pg or someone wants to include an explicit NSFW in that comment
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by skorgu 18y ago
I thought I disclaimed it well enough but just in case: THE PREVIOUS LINK IS NSFW, REALLY REALLY NSFW. IN FACT THE ENTIRE SITE IT'S HOSTED ON IS NSFW.
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by skorgu 18y ago
I traced your attackers back to their source IP: 127.23.108.72 Good luck man!
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by skorgu 18y ago
You should be aware that moot has a long habit of being somewhat less than perfectly truthful with the media. ED is profoundly not safe for anything: http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Christopher_Poole
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by skorgu 18y ago
I fail to see how any but the third is web-specific. Any app with a server component will have scaling issues, at least there are well-developed mechanisms for spreading HTTP unlike a home-grown protocol. I've seen plenty of absolutely ho
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by skorgu 18y ago
There's a static demo at http://herecomethelizards.co.uk/mu_captcha/ (via reddit comment)
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by skorgu 18y ago
Some indication that a comment of yours has been replied to. Reddit's little orange envelope is the obvious example. Alternatively, an RSS feed of your "threads" page might work but I'd prefer an icon personally.
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by skorgu 18y ago
Ahem it's <plug type="shameless"> </plug>
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by skorgu 18y ago
See the thing is that if you're knee deep in an unfamiliar system trying to fix it you type "ls" about a dozen times a minute. Adding two unnecessary keystrokes (doubling the length!) not only adds up it makes typos more common. There are s
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by skorgu 18y ago
I idly wonder how much IPv6 google runs internally and if this has any bearing on this story.
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by skorgu 18y ago
I'd grab my Wagner's Chemical Technology 1872 , a Pocket Ref , a hatchet, my wristwatch (automatic movement, no batteries), my Leatherman, every knife in my kitchen and the entire contents of my medicine cabinet (asprin, alcohol, gauze, e
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by skorgu 18y ago
Because most of the time asking a hypothetical doesn't produce the same results as an annoying @#$% buzzer.
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by skorgu 18y ago
(Nearly) all spending by the gov't comes right back to (someone's) pockets so in the aggregate it's only a loss of the frictional losses to run the bureaucracy not the entire revenue base. Granted there are valid concerns about how the mone
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by skorgu 18y ago
Great story. Of course the expensive monitoring system did lead directly to the solution of the problem, so maybe the title should be "Networks are smart but blind at the edges."
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by skorgu 18y ago
Sorry for replying so late. As long as the tax revenue isn't spent on directly contradictory pursuits (tax breaks for SUVs or something) the increase in costs will do its job no matter how stupidly the government spends money. I think we sh
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by skorgu 18y ago
I don't know what "popular green schemes" you're referring to, but a carbon tax or a cap-and-trade scheme are very nearly equivalent and require no central planning at all (save that required to enact, collect and enforce the tax of course)
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by skorgu 18y ago
It's only broken windows if there is no net benefit. Bringing externalities into consideration by the market is the function of government to a first approximation. And, ahem, "some arbitrary green standard" cite please?
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by skorgu 18y ago
This is a crime against god and man and I love every second of it.
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by skorgu 18y ago
Plenty of people predicted something. Hell I knew the housing market was due for a crash way in advance and I'm not inordinately well informed. The problem isn't predicting what will happen it's predicting when. Nobody got that right as far