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by xd 14y ago
I'm looking for a reference to the @ operator being used to suppress spurious module errors. I'd not spent the last decade oblivious to the PHP manual.
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Ask HN: Purpose of the AT operator in PHP?
1 points by xd 14y ago|3 comments
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by xd 14y ago
From memory the 2CV had brake drums attached to the gearboxs differential CV shafts, you can see this in the pictures and he has strapped one up which puts all power into the other side allowing him to drive the wheel by placing the brake d
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by xd 14y ago
2CVs where the first cars I ever stripped apart .. you can see in the pictures where he has one of the drive shaft brake hubs strapped up and the other side is placed in direct contact with the wheel to drive it .. simply genius. No questi
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by xd 14y ago
When I was young, I really really wanted a motorbike and at the same time my dad collected 2CVs which for some I would strip for parts .. this guy would have been my hero back then.
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by xd 14y ago
True, but maybe they could release the original game onto steam as a consolation; I'd be happy with that. Wait a minute , why didn't they do that in the first place, surely that would have raised a fair amount of money in itself.
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by xd 14y ago
Kickstarter page: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/stainlessgames/carmagedd... $15 for a copy of the game has to be worth it.
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Carmageddon seeks Kickstarter cash comeback(bbc.co.uk)
75 points by xd 14y ago|30 comments
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by xd 14y ago
"guesses wrong about how to perform queries all the time. Experienced MySQL users expect to write a lot of FORCE INDEX clauses." This is most generally a sign of bad indexing/query construction. I've seen so many databases with dozens of i
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by xd 14y ago
"To feel depressed: SQL" SQL isn't a programming language you would learn to program general purpose programs with. It's a language to manage relational data in a database. It's not a depressing language. Depressing, is watching a programm
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OpenSSL 1.0.1b is now available.(openssl.org)
2 points by xd 14y ago|0 comments
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by xd 14y ago
I find myself cringing at the excessive use of the word "awesome" round these parts. It seems a lot of people just can't articulate themselves or their product so they just slap "Awesome" into the mix and be done with it.
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OpenSSL Security Advisory - ASN1 BIO incomplete fix(openssl.org)
1 points by xd 14y ago|0 comments
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Anonymous creates Pastebin rival to combat 'censorship'(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by xd 15y ago|0 comments
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by xd 15y ago
The wikipedia entry states viaweb was partially written in lisp .. would be interesting to know what part lisp played .. is pg in the house?
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by xd 15y ago
Out of curiosity .. when was the last time you read a story that told of company x dominating the market because they used programming paradigm n.. just a thought.
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by xd 15y ago
You won't get very far on radio waves so you best look up torpedo wire or something around the .1mm diameter range to tether to the pi to get a signal. edit: farnell do 19300ft of 38awg .. that should do the trick.
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by xd 15y ago
That's interesting about the powerplant .. I bet there was a good amount of face palming going on when that was picked up. Email appealed to me mainly because it explicitly includes identity. The system I was attempting to use it for was a
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by xd 15y ago
I was attempting to use email as a message transport mechanism some time back .. some problems I ran into; off the top of my head: 1, Acknowledgement of receipt .. this has a whole load of pitfalls to watch out for so you really have to tre
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by xd 15y ago
Your article begins by linking to anti-PHP articles that are 6-8 years old .. You might want to start by bringing your research up to date.
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by xd 15y ago
True, also come to think about it, I guess it would limit the damage a rouge loop spitting errors at the server would cause.
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by xd 15y ago
"making one HTTP post for every error is very wasteful." We implemented this where I work many years back, and as long as you are keeping on top of the errors this isn't a problem. If you are having to buffer your errors before sending them
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The job rejection letter to end all others(guardian.co.uk)
2 points by xd 15y ago|0 comments
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by xd 15y ago
Being someone that has only ever programmed in languages that use brackets, I really, really don't get this white space thing .. it appears, to me at least to make reading code very difficult. With brackets I can scan a page of code and s
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Nokia and Apple squabbles delay Sim card ruling(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by xd 15y ago|0 comments
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by xd 15y ago
The actual line is #define BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO(e) (sizeof(struct { int:-!!(e); })) The guy asking the question just misread the code, the colon is part of the struct definition and the key part is -!! which coerces an integer to 0 if the va
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by xd 15y ago
Do we even know all primes?
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Robot Quadrotors Perform James Bond Theme [video](youtube.com)
2 points by xd 15y ago|0 comments
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by xd 15y ago
Whenever I hear someone talking about the scale of the universe I just can't help but bang on about the Hubble ultra deep field picture: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2004/07 If you can look at this picture and "get it
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by xd 15y ago
Interesting point you make about ripping off the design. I'm not a designer, just a humble developer .. why is it OK to rip of a product idea but not the design of a product?

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