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by timtadh 14y ago
"No taxation without representation" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_taxation_without_representat... Only being taxed by duly elected individuals is a founding principle of the US. The American revolution was literally about that issue.
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by timtadh 14y ago
What git id should I use. I tried using the master of rust to build the master of servo and got: make -C src/rust-harfbuzz RUSTFLAGS="-L ../harfbuzz/src/.libs/" make[1]: Entering directory `/tmp/servo/build/src/rust-harfbuzz'
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The problem is the distributions packages are often horrendously out of date. I have stopped using them entirely even for things like Numpy and Scipy which I would really rather use them for (as they take a long time to compile and rely o
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What?! it isn't like that at all. I am pretty sure 95% of the programmers on this board use the command line everyday. It isn't "outdated". It is the best tool for a variety of programming related tasks. The average "user" isn't using the c
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by timtadh 14y ago
Let us not forget the Apple Newton Emate 300: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMate_300 Probably the best computer ever designed for children. I used one myself in school from 4th grade through 8th grade when I upgraded to a "real" laptop. T
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by timtadh 14y ago
There is no relationship between the sales calls and the filtering algorithm. That is what the dismissed class action lawsuit was about. All "evidence" people have is purely anecdotal. Verifying a "business" relationship may work but it sti
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by timtadh 14y ago
Spam filtering is hard? You are a programmer, imagine trying to find a way to objectively and fairly filter reviews. Unlike with emails you don't know whose labels to trust. There are good business owners who will only report spam reviews a
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by timtadh 14y ago
I have been experimenting with using what I call a "site specific password munger." Basically it takes a key (random data stored on the computer), a password, and a site identifier (say: "hnews") and produces a password. I have been using i
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by timtadh 14y ago
I believe @tptacek will gladly accept your money for this service. As will Cigital.
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by timtadh 14y ago
Bad example. It does tell you something important, namely people no longer live easy walking distance from things which are important to them: job, food, and friends. If you live in a city next to a grocery store and walking distance from y
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by timtadh 14y ago
I don't use virtualenvwrapper either. I generally have more stuff to initialise for my projects than just the virtualenv. I use swork [1] a tool I wrote for managing your shell environment. It basically dumps all of your environment varia
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by timtadh 14y ago
Absolutely. That was a mistake I would fix it but I no longer can.
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This is a great document. Lots of detail, good recommendations. I recently gave a short lecture on API design and came up with the following "touchpoints" of API design. These are sort of general guidelines and a lot less specific than the
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by timtadh 14y ago
As other people have said, the real story here is how badly GoDaddy handles DMCA requests. Taking down a site for a single image is like using a bazooka on an ant. Yes it will stop the infringement, however it will probably damage some surr
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by timtadh 14y ago
Pretty neat game. WebGL is still a little clunky on Linux but I was still getting a playable framerate (but just barely).
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by timtadh 14y ago
From the reddit thread (which I just read through) a TED organiser responds http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/tqi15/too_hot_for_... "TEDChris 21 points 9 hours ago Chiming in here, as TED's Curator.. First of all, thanks for all t
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by timtadh 14y ago
It isn't pedantic just irrelevant. Using multiprocess is an entirely different beast than using threads. All shared values have to explicitly allocated that way in shared memory. Since there is a separate interpreter for each process there
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by timtadh 14y ago
I would also add Matt Might's blog http://matt.might.net/articles/ we see articles from it on HN from time to time so you may already be familiar with it.
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by timtadh 14y ago
I know there is a lot more to a nice laptop than proper software integration. However, proper software integration goes a long way. I bought an XPS m1330 "N" with Linux pre-installed 4 years ago. I have had zero funky hardware/software danc
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by timtadh 14y ago
"you have a better idea for an in-memory data structure" The problem with this question is (and your original example) is it entirely contrived. A better in-memory data structure for what ? String indexings? Integers keys? Complex objects?
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by timtadh 15y ago
:offtopic: Could you turn off the CSS for changing the highlight color? I know it is all the rage these days, but it is an accessibility issue for me (and probably others as well). I use highlighting to make it easier for me to read text (i
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by timtadh 15y ago
Here is a paraphrase of what went wrong: "The answer turned out to be 2 fold 1) We just got unlucky. In the Post-mortem analysis we figured out exactly what happened. And it was event that was very crucially timing related. The clock on the
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by timtadh 15y ago
Looking at the go version[1] I am not sure if will work as expected. Maps in go are not thread safe.[2] So it could be the go version is out performing the others do to the lack of synchronisation. There are several ways to fix this in go,
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Here is the blog post from Kaspersky: http://www.securelist.com/en/blog/677/The_mystery_of_Duqu_Fr... All of the posts on Duku are pretty interesting. If you have a few minutes you should check them out.
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by timtadh 15y ago
Actually, I do believe this. I am not going to make the age old argument "real programmers program by toggling there OS into the front panel of the computer". However, I am going to argue good programmers can program in such an environment.
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yes. >>> class A(object): ... def __getattribute__(self, key): ... try: return object.__getattribute__(self, key) ... except AttributeError: return lambda: 12 ... >>> a = A() &
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by timtadh 15y ago
http://events.ccc.de/congress/2011/Fahrplan/events/4780.en.h... Appears to have the materials from the talk. Most interesting bit from the researcher's write up: "We have also unpacked several engine-control processor firmwares (different
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His actual letter (from the CNET article): http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-57344028-281/vint-cerf-sop... December 14, 2011 The Honorable Lamar Smith Chairman, Committee on the Judiciary U.S. House of Representative 2138 Rayburn House Of
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by timtadh 15y ago
That won't work at all. There is no way to anonymize the donations. You can always just tell the rep. "That donation you received on such and such a date for such and such an amount was me."
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Direct Action: A Programmers General Strike Against SOPA
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