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by spc476 7y ago
True. I live in a county that is twice the size of Rhode Island. I work in a county that is the size of Rhode Island. And both counties are far from what you would call "rural" [1]. [1] For the record, Palm Beach County, Fl (ma
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by spc476 7y ago
And I have an implementation in Lua/LPEG: https://github.com/spc476/LPeg-Parsers/blob/master/soundex.l...
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by spc476 7y ago
Imagine we exist in a 2D universe, but one that happens to be the surface of a sphere. Any point you pick on that surface is "at the center of the universe."
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by spc476 7y ago
Okay, but instead of the popup asking to immediately log in, say "Congratulations on solving the puzzle. To keep your score, create an account (or log in with Facebook, etc). Otherwise, you can continue to play ... "
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by spc476 7y ago
From a truly paranoid security perspective, all files can be dangerous. At one point, a computer could be infected by a virus from a JPEG image (thanks, Microsoft!).
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by spc476 7y ago
I use the combo Mac Mini and PC tower at home. The crucial piece of software that makes this work for me is Synergy. It allows you to share a keyboard and mouse across Linux, Mac and Windows (and support cut-n-paste of text across all thr
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by spc476 7y ago
I work (and have worked for nine years) at a company with a dedicated DevOps team. As a developer, I have never been on call, but I do have to be there for deployment of my code to production (which, due to the nature of the code, happen
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by spc476 7y ago
I'll see that, and raise you a quote: "Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty- f
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by spc476 7y ago
Given the problems people have with Rust and the borrow checker, I would guess that people will not accurately predict how long an allocation will live (it's a similar issue with profiling---programmers usually guess wrong about where
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by spc476 7y ago
While a company that controls the majority of a market may be the text book definition of a monopoly, it's the the legal definition in the US. The US law recognizes that a company may naturally (and legally) gain a majority market sha
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by spc476 7y ago
I think the American culture of "being tough on crime" was a reaction to the insanity of the 70s counter-revolutionary movements. In 1972 there were over 1900 domestic bombings in the US alone ( https://status451.com&#x
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by spc476 7y ago
Having learned Ada (or rather, taken a class that used Ada) back around 1990, at the time, it was a bloated monstrosity. It's just that over the past 30 years, C++ has bloated to such a size that it now dwarfs Ada (in my opinion). N
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by spc476 7y ago
It's "Garamimals". It's a clothing line for very young kids where they can match the tag on a shirt with a tag on the pants and have an outfit that "goes together."
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by spc476 7y ago
Oh, so it's FastCGI then.
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by spc476 7y ago
And RBLs aren't that great. I visited this in January of 2018 [1] and in my case (where I do greylisting [2][3]but nothing else for spam) it wouldn't help. [1] http://boston.conman.org/2018/01/10.1 [2]
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by spc476 7y ago
Or even USENET, which used the same format at email.
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by spc476 7y ago
There are cases where the compiler can't enforce it: void foo(int *p) { func(p); } How can the compiler know if `p` points to space for 10 integers?
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by spc476 7y ago
As long as both sides (developer, management) are aware of this (he says, as his "proof-of-concept" was installed into production directly by his manager with no warning).
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by spc476 7y ago
I don't like the metaphor. With financial debt, you get $X up front for $Y (where Y >= X) and pay $Y amount over N months. It's known up front what it's costing you (Y - X) over what time span (N). If the difference bet
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by spc476 7y ago
Well, it's interpreters all the way down ...
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by spc476 7y ago
They sold software. Before Microsoft, there wasn't much (if any) of a market for just software, independent of the hardware.
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by spc476 7y ago
I'm thinking about how this technique would apply to our codebase, and I'm not seeing it. The company does Caller Name ID (returns a name based on a phone number), and the code I work on is on the call path (as the call is being
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by spc476 7y ago
Back in the late 80s and 90s, there was the magazine Computer Shopper that was easily 90%+ advertising. It was incredibly popular.
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by spc476 7y ago
When I started writing it back in 1999, it was what I knew. I also had a C library for dealing with CGI scripts I wrote from the mid-90s. Also, for several years my website was run off a 486 I had colocated at a company my friend was runn
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by spc476 7y ago
It's only a concern if the CGI script is written in shell or uses the `system()` function.
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by spc476 7y ago
i still run my blog [1] via CGI [2]. I've never really had a problem with it in 20 years. [1] http://boston.conman.org/ [2] https://github.com/spc476/mod_blog
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by spc476 7y ago
You still have to be careful though. CGI scripts were (are?) suseptible to the shellshock exploit [1] if they were written in shell (or used the C function `system()`). I had to work around that for a few of my scripts at the time. [1] h
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by spc476 7y ago
I suspect you can, although I it's been years since I last used QNX.
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by spc476 7y ago
QNX can do that as well. You can, from the command line, run a program on computer A referencing a file from computer B and pipe the output to a program on computer C and send that output to a file on computer D.
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by spc476 7y ago
Have you checked the IPs to make sure they're actually Google? There's a strong incentive to fake being Google.

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