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871.
by thwarted 11y ago
The complaint was that in psql the backslash sequences are a combination of client operations (\copy, \html) and database metadata operations (\d) [0], which while extremely rich, are a huge list and are not very intuitive to learn. Many d
872.
by thwarted 11y ago
We can see the actual date of Shakespeare's death by using... The use of "actual" seems dubious in this context. The whole point of this gist is that time interpretation is relative. I like how the author makes the distin
873.
by thwarted 11y ago
I worked at Yelp for five years and was there when Yelp engineering first started doing "hackathons". People worked on some interesting stuff during them, but very little of it was meant to be production ready and useful (vs toy)
874.
by thwarted 11y ago
It's more appropriate to take a "no MBAs" rule as "no one who self identifies primarily as having an MBA". In my experience, an engineer with an MBA who neglects to even mention their engineering schooling/exp
875.
by thwarted 11y ago
Every blockbuster movie released ever: "This movie made X millions of dollars!" Ticket prices keep going up, so...
876.
by thwarted 11y ago
Heck, if intent were irrelevant, it'd even be legal to plan to kill or harm people as long as you don't fully follow through. If you caught a terrorist before the act, you'd have to let them go because they haven't yet
877.
by thwarted 11y ago
I've written a script that looks at the output of xrandr and reconfigures the screen layout, based on which outputs are plugged in and what the resolutions are. This is then bound to a key via the window manager so I can seamlessly mo
878.
by thwarted 11y ago
The thing is that spawned processed do not give a damn about already opened file descriptors (except for stdio). But the standard is broken for historical reasons, very unfortunately. It would be nice to have more detail here, at least wh
879.
by thwarted 11y ago
Yeah, what's with these assumptive statements? Now, Morris is the first to admit that this wasn’t exactly a true scientific experiment, but you know what? That’s okay! Because the findings are still fascinating. Experiment validity a
880.
by thwarted 11y ago
The UK gov't, and other governments around the world have clearly demonstrated incompetence WRT their ability to tell dangerous individuals from harmless ones There's also the position that they (the government) are somehow uniq
881.
by thwarted 11y ago
Almost every article and bit of material I read on Git advocates the understanding of its data formats to make "effective" use of Git or claims that once you understand those things then you can understand how to use the system.
882.
by thwarted 11y ago
There's "Perl Power Tools: Unix Reconstruction Project" [0], which doesn't seem to have activity since 2004. I remember something older than 2004, I think, back from when perl was first available on Windows, to bring UNI
883.
by thwarted 12y ago
It became clear he had no concept of the ordering of statement. He wrote them like math formulas, and didn't understand that they got executed in order. We eschew languages like BASIC these days, but I wonder how much BASIC, as avail
884.
by thwarted 12y ago
Unless you have a reference for Google saying they purposely do this, it is more likely that the cache is dropping LRU entries as it fills up. Also, I doubt there is a trivial number of actual resolvers behind the google public DNS endpoin
885.
by thwarted 12y ago
It is awful. It makes the standard way to plan and do a DNS migration really difficult. It occurred rarely, but a few years ago it was a regular problem because some bigger ISPs were doing it[0]. Not sure how common it is these days. That
886.
by thwarted 12y ago
For example, I need IP-only certs for a new project I'm working on (waiting for DNS to propagate to all clients is too unreliable and slow). This doesn't make any sense. You're not waiting for DNS to propagate to clients;
887.
by thwarted 12y ago
I don't know of a way on Linux or OSX to embed a word processor to work on documents but never show the user (but this might be due to my lack of knowledge about those systems - I would welcome being enlightened). … I once wrote somet
888.
by thwarted 12y ago
keeping track of which keys have been added to your local ssh-agent is a tedious task. SSH is very promiscuous when it comes to using SSH keys, and once you make use of another key it will happily add that to your current agent session. I
889.
by thwarted 12y ago
Is there a chat system that leverages keybase.io?
890.
by thwarted 12y ago
If HR or Finance doesn't have this, they aren't doing their job. The company should know exactly how much money is going to payroll every pay period and should know exactly how much they are paying each employee. If they don&#x2
891.
by thwarted 12y ago
I suspect inherited sockets across forks don't exhibit this, if a test done by Nicholas Grilly described on the haproxy mailing list [0] is to be believed (no code though, but shouldn't be hard to reproduce). One thing that makes
892.
by thwarted 12y ago
Renaming a column in 5.6 as described works with concurrent read and write access: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/innodb-create-index-... The only thing about implicit full-table locking in the
893.
by thwarted 12y ago
ma.ttias.be has a certificate issued by a CA with a Common Name of "AlphaSSL CA - SHA256 - G2". Is this going to be common, putting crypto settings in the CN and creating new sub-CAs when crypto settings change?
894.
by thwarted 12y ago
In many ways we are already selecting for those traits and have been for countless generations, so assuming we had a well-understood and safe method for artificially selecting for them then there should be no ethical quandaries beyond &quo
895.
by thwarted 12y ago
For example, to plug in a laptop and do a checksum of the binaries would take seconds. This would only test that the software was a known set of instructions, it wouldn't help debug the flow of the code and the run-time state: Softw
896.
by thwarted 12y ago
I've used a goat service to clean up my backyard in San Francisco. There's a time lapse of it at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paxvsQOAI48 where you can mainly just see the goats moving around.
897.
by thwarted 12y ago
Often they already are thinking in grays: they have doubt where everyone else has an absolute! The thinking in grays is great; as you point out, that's the basis of science. But when it comes to making a decision, the actions need t
898.
by thwarted 12y ago
This is usually borne by the string literal being used to express the regular expression literal syntax in many languages. Perl, for example, has a regular expression literal syntax that is part of the language proper (which has the added
899.
by thwarted 12y ago
I'd be interested in experiences with what IPO means for internal processes, especially in the software engineering parts of the company. Any more supervision? Did the way development and deployments work change? I can imagine when
900.
by thwarted 12y ago
This is called "comparative advantage". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_advantage This description of it by P.J. O'Rourke in "Eat the Rich" uses the respective talents of John Grisham

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