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by timtadh 15y ago
The text resizes in FF4. Do you know what causes the text not to resize in your browser? It seems weird to me that you can force a browser to disallow resizing an element. Edit: Well now I get the Apache Tomcat default page so it may be imp
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Ternary Search Tries for Fast Flexible String Search : Part 1(blog.hackthology.com)
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by timtadh 15y ago
+1 to Go. I am not aware of any books on it. But between the spec, Effective Go, and the tutorial you can learn the entire language in a matter of days if you have serious project you want to work on.
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by timtadh 15y ago
I know restaurant names are often re-used, but I wanted point out there is already an awesome gourmet grilled cheese restaurant called "Melt".[1] see http://www.meltbarandgrilled.com [1] I guess he called his "The Melt" edit: first hit in
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by timtadh 15y ago
Reminds me of when I tried to fix my fried amplifier last Christmas. The amp was around 20 years old and had mysteriously stopped working in the night. Being cheap I enlisted an electrical engineering friend and together we stripped the amp
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I agree, with both you and your sibling. I meant to include "this one is no exception."
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> Does the dude not know about msbuild/xbuild or something? I am guessing not. Or hates it, one or the other. > The code smells, too. If you don't pass in a command-line argument it's going to barf with an exception. WTF? (I don't k
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by timtadh 15y ago
I only use monospace fonts with well differentiated Ls and 1s. This is a pretty important issue to me as I was constantly making dumb mistakes, and in general it improves readability. On another note, you probably change the default font wh
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by timtadh 15y ago
As a linux user I am surprised. When I download to open in my reader the pdfs go into /tmp. This is fine, because since /tmp is a ramfs it just goes away when I turn off my computer. If I want it I just save it to a permanent location.
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by timtadh 15y ago
Perhaps the OP was referring the URL bar sending auto complete requests to google, which some consider tracking... I don't really know of anything else Chrome does by default that "tracks your history" like this addon does.
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by timtadh 15y ago
For those interested, the crux of Friedman's argument for pursuing examples of "Concrete" Incompleteness is: > The second rationale for pursuing Concrete Mathematical Incompleteness preserves ZFC as the ambitious target. The idea is tha
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by timtadh 15y ago
tldr; Gödel proved the incompleteness of finite axiomatizations of arithmetic. Further more there is no maximum set of unprovable sentences in arithmetic. Therefore, there must be interesting and unprovable sentences in arithmetic. The arti
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by timtadh 15y ago
edit: However, it must be fully backwards compatible with the full unix toolchain to be useful to me . happy?
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by timtadh 15y ago
While, I understand your dislike of Vim, Vi, Nano, Emacs, etc. (I can't work in them for extend periods of time either do to hand problems) They remain essential tools for many programmers and system administrators. Sometimes, you don't wan
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by timtadh 15y ago
I haven't used it enough to really give you any gotchas. It has let me open source some stuff to github really easily though.
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by timtadh 15y ago
I agree, git-subtree doesn't quite do what they do in this blog post, but it covers similar ground and is really easy to use in comparison.
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by timtadh 15y ago
So true. If I need to co-write a paper or presentation I either use Latex and Git (for serious work) or Google Docs for one off stuff. Nothing beats Latex for writing something really lengthy, but the setup time is too much for quick 1-2 pa
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by timtadh 15y ago
An excellent tool I have used for similar purposes in the past (although it can do other things as well) is git-subtree. I recommend checking it out: https://github.com/apenwarr/git-subtree Edit a more useful page: https://github.com/ape
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by timtadh 15y ago
And you can't expect serious scholars to take books lacking through analysis, data, and logical arguments at face value. It is entirely reasonable for individuals to question such writing.
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by timtadh 15y ago
Note that lab grade glassware has been and is currently still borosilicate glass. (and is sold as such to prevent confusion over what you are buying).
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by timtadh 15y ago
My favorite (and I do mean my favorite) part of Time Warner is that to connect to my servers at CWRU a 5 min walk away I have to go through an public exchange node in DC. Seriously, Time Warner you and Level3 need to get that peering thing
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by timtadh 15y ago
This is entirely off topic and I apologize profusely. If you don't want to read an off topic post please don't continue. I know Firefox is not as popular among the HN crowd right now but I still like using it for a variety of reasons. Flash
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by timtadh 16y ago
dumb question: Is Google violating the GPL by not releasing code that is shipping on devices (eg. Xoom). Didn't Tivo end up having to give up some of there code because it was based on linux? Is this a similar situation?
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by timtadh 16y ago
They just seem to have entirely different purposes. GoPro looks really good for doing POV work. But, flip seems to be better for standing and filming something. I am a swing dancer and people seem to always use a Flip (or a cell phone) when
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Yellowstone volcanic plume much larger than expected(arstechnica.com)
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From and article I read yesterday (I believe it was in wired) the "bubble" is solid quartz.
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I agree 100%. However, I tried the amazon app store and instantly felt better at actually spending money. Somehow it just "feels" less shady. This is probably all irrational and the Amazon store most likely doesn't address the real issues w
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by timtadh 16y ago
You know how people fight over things that happened hundreds of years ago? Its like that. When people who have been here for 100+ years hear about "family history" it often involves stories of say the potato famine in Ireland. While intelle
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by timtadh 16y ago
>n^3 or n^4 might already be considered impractical in many situation You can always make these arguments for large enough N and short enough time constraints. It is an argument that as an engineer I sympathize with, but as a computer s
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by timtadh 16y ago
However, you shouldn't fall into the fallacy that if you have 100% "code coverage" that you code is really fully tested.

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