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Alan Mulally joins Google Board(theregister.co.uk)
1 points by stewars 12y ago|0 comments
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Bill Curbing NSA Passes House As Advocates Demand More(time.com)
2 points by stewars 12y ago|0 comments
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by stewars 12y ago
What license is the code distributed under? It is not clear from the site or the code that is available through npm.
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by stewars 13y ago
Not bash. '~~' gets replaced by the MANTA_USER environment variable by the manta command line tool mput.
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by stewars 13y ago
S3 claims 99.999999999 (eleven nines) of durability. This is not comparable S3.
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by stewars 14y ago
I think in this case it's phase inversion of one of the signals as opposed to a phase shift which would imply a time difference.
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Clay Shirky: How the Internet will (one day) transform government (with git)(youtube.com)
3 points by stewars 14y ago|0 comments
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Code at the Human Scale(zguide.zeromq.org)
3 points by stewars 14y ago|0 comments
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by stewars 14y ago
Tortoise git is the windows git gui of choice at our work and is the one I recommend to install for our clients who use windows. Haven't tried any others though. Since I know the command line client best, I always install msysgit first, se
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by stewars 15y ago
Very cool. I had a flashback this fall after discovering an old book I made for some school project about programming the Apple 2. Code looked horrible (to my 2011 eyes) but with an emulator I was able to get it working. Those few old pa
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by stewars 15y ago
Swiffy saved the day for us recently on a project where we needed an animation to support IE7+ as well as iPad. We were able to have our designer create a flash animation and upload to swiffy to test that the conversion worked. We then us
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Ralph Merkle: Publishing a new idea(merkle.com)
1 points by stewars 15y ago|0 comments
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by stewars 15y ago
A related interview here with the researcher: http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/pure-genius/as-brain-pathway... How significant is the degradation? It’s hard to have absolutes. It’s not like it’s completely gone. These were 60- to 80-yea
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by stewars 15y ago
Node does not create a new V8 context for each request so the 2ms => max 500 requests per second scaling problem does not exist with Node.
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by stewars 15y ago
Probably not what you're after but the computer history museum videos are great: http://www.youtube.com/user/ComputerHistory
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by stewars 16y ago
I believe IPv6 provides a start for what is necessary to solve Step 2. IPSec is part of the protocol so these connections can be trusted. Also no NAT issues so connecting directly between trusted 'plugs' may be simpler than with IPv4. May
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by stewars 16y ago
You don't need to allow others write access to your repositories on github. Simply have them fork your public repository but don't add them as a collaborator. They can commit all they want and send you or any one of your 'admin' collabora
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by stewars 16y ago
I've just recently ported a python/Django site to c#/.NET. The switch was not done for performance reasons (or community for that matter) but as a consideration the .NET version was an order of magnitude faster on the same hardware without
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by stewars 16y ago
Re-thought for-loops hurt the brain. Please don't do that. "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it."
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by stewars 16y ago
Can confirm it works great with a Wacom tablet. Pressure and erasing works. Info on using the Wacom plugin is here: http://www.wacomeng.com/web/release_notes.htm
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by stewars 16y ago
Another complication to note is that pitch != frequency. Pitch is how we perceive the thing. The same frequency at different volumes can be perceived as different pitches. So you really can't ever find perfect without knowing some exact
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by stewars 16y ago
"He's like the early hackers at MIT such as [open source advocate Richard] Stallman who fought for people not to have passwords or secrets." .. and now fights for people not to confuse "Free Software" and "Open Source" http://www.gnu.or
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by stewars 16y ago
I was looking at the terms of service here: http://www.MusicTrainer.com/lgl/tos/ "ALL PERSONS UNDER THE AGE OF 18 ARE DENIED ACCESS TO THIS WEBSITE. IF YOU ARE UNDER 18 YEARS OF AGE, IT IS UNLAWFUL FOR YOU TO VISIT, READ, OR INTERACT
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by stewars 16y ago
The site looks like it will be a great resource especially for young people learning. Just curious why are you disallowing anyone under 18 from using it?
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by stewars 16y ago
The pace seems too fast to me. Working through some of the exercises should be attempted and these are not your typical textbook exercises.
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by stewars 16y ago
Their test for "Set selectionStart and selectionEnd on a text field" tests that selection start and end can be set which should pass in Safari but their test fails because they are asserting that window.getSelection().anchorNode == null aft
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by stewars 17y ago
I would definitely recommend scratch. My nephew has been experimenting and making simple games with it for a while. There is a certain pride that an uncle feels when asked to explain the "abs" function to a child.