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by wladimir 15y ago
That sounds like a really, really bad idea. No one likes the idea of Germany or France taking over other European countries. We've been there...
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by wladimir 15y ago
This literally just happened to a VPS of mine. Time was jumping forwards and back, every second the time could jump an hour ahead and back. Everything screwed up, from log rotation to sessions. My first thought was that this was some kind o
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by wladimir 15y ago
That is simply western culture and nothing inherent. Whether you like it or not, you'll see women swarming to IT/programming/CS soon enough. Just the smart men are no longer enough. The smart women are needed as well. There is huge demand f
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by wladimir 15y ago
What if you only enable FTPS? vsftpd supports that.
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by wladimir 15y ago
He might be right, though. Intelligence might arise as an emergent property of some complex system. For example, automated trading. There's no telling really. It also depends on how you define intelligence. It doesn't necessarily have to be
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by wladimir 15y ago
Not to himself. MtGox was originally created by a guy named Jed, who sold it to Tibanne.
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by wladimir 15y ago
Some games solve this by rearranging the pointers/values for the target platform on installation (or first load of a data file). On platforms where you don't have installation phase (such as consoles) a fixed endianness can be assumed.
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by wladimir 15y ago
But what about the high-level stuff? When is a design "good", what colors should you use, etc. Such information is very hard to find on Google. Learning programs such as Photoshop and Inkscape, IMO, is the easy part. There are so many tutor
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Chinese city draws ire with controversial cloud zone(itworld.com)
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by wladimir 15y ago
Stackless python has a GIL as well. What we need is lockless python :-)
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by wladimir 15y ago
What does the title even mean? Doesn't seem like the article explains it either, or what the rationale for this bold statement is. It's basically "Women take less risks so they are better" all over again. Which is very debatable. I wonder w
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by wladimir 15y ago
Personally I found Trinity very good. The story starts in the cold war, and then takes you into a weird alice-in-wonderland like dimension, where you have to visit various places before a nuclear bomb hits. The Enchanter, Sorcerer, Spellbre
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by wladimir 15y ago
How is BeautifulSoup "outdated"? It's meant for making it easy to scrape non-properly-formatted sites, and works very well at that, as I've found out in practice. What's the advantage of Scrapy?
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by wladimir 15y ago
Does this avoid embedding keys in the application itself? IMO it's kind of impossible to reliably 'authenticate' a desktop application.
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by wladimir 15y ago
It now says "Nothing to see here yet. Move along." :-) Sounds like a very interesting project, though.
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by wladimir 15y ago
Banning the application could be justifiable (don't know the details), but removing everyones user photos just because they were uploaded with a certain tool, wow, that's messed up. I simply don't have words for it.
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by wladimir 15y ago
What is wrong with RRD as a backing data store?
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by wladimir 15y ago
To be fair, though, not only Linux suffers from these problems, but all non-windows OSes. There is a standard for power management and such, ACPI, but vendors decide not to follow it but do their own thing and put in all kinds of hacks so t
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by wladimir 15y ago
that nobody is interested in any serious stuff being done remotely From experience, I can say that this is simply not true. Obviously you have to get the right channels to find interesting assignments, and be able to build trust (have a g
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by wladimir 15y ago
For a lot of things I feel I don't need to run a modern IDE. Gcc + a text editor does fine, or something light like Qt Designer. This is why I explicitly added "if you don't use eclipse" :-) You have to be a bit creative with resources, i
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by wladimir 15y ago
Then I learned something new :)
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by wladimir 15y ago
100% agree. The netbook is the perfect cheap portable hacking tool. You can certainly get some development done on them (as long as you don't use eclipse as IDE :-). Phones or iPads are generally more expensive and not nearly as suited to t
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by wladimir 15y ago
It's just a cosmetic feature, so you can use it already. Older browsers won't show the ellipsis in that case but who cares. Graceful fallback is automatic.
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by wladimir 15y ago
I like to draw them myself using inkscape, but when I feel lazy I generally use findicons.com to find nice-looking and appropriately licensed icons.
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by wladimir 15y ago
I've been missing this feature in HTML for so long when making tables/overviews. Great to hear it's finally implemented.
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by wladimir 15y ago
Anything that makes it more user friendly (and secure by default) could get you a lot of customers. A lot of people are interested in it due to the recent media hype but don't get the technical stuff. Apart from that, as the bitcoin economy
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by wladimir 15y ago
+1 The Eloi would be more analogous to the people that cannot program and simply use the devices, and rely on them. We're the ones that gross in the "dirty" details and maintain the clockwork of the world.
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by wladimir 15y ago
Interesting article! I had a similar idea in one of my earlier captcha cracking approaches. For me, it had several problems: 1) it was very hard to get the captcha generation exactly right, so that it is close enough to the algorithm of the
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by wladimir 15y ago
I also have my hopes on commercial spaceflight these days, I don't think NASA is going anywhere anymore.
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by wladimir 15y ago
Hm I guess for high-resolution image/video manipulation, compositing videos, rendering intermediate 3d animations/effects, and such. But you're right they won't need more than a small render "farm". They don't need to render Pixar movies...

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