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by xirium 19y ago
Is an RSS feed available?
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by xirium 19y ago
> where and how to find them? Linux User Groups ( http://www.linux.org/groups/ , http://dir.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Software/Operati... ), Perl User Groups ( http://www.pm.org/ ), 2600 Meetings ( http://www.2600.org/meet
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by xirium 19y ago
Let them define part of the problem.
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by xirium 19y ago
Don't use hashes for primary keys because they are verbose and they cause a huge amount of cache churn ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=122869 ). Use a composite key instead.
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by xirium 19y ago
That went badly wrong for a fellow in London ( http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6217728.stm ).
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by xirium 19y ago
I've had that problem too. There was a competition, possibly in 2004, to win an old BBC Micro by writing a program on a BBC Micro. I wrote a program to draw a spinning tetrahedron with back face culling. I was disqualified because they thou
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by xirium 19y ago
Dup. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=61831 and http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=99936
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by xirium 19y ago
There's an overlap with job hunting ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=131870 ).
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by xirium 19y ago
It would be quite easy to inspect the bytecode and find if the class loader would be invoked. I don't believe that you can eval source with mobile Java, so its fairly watertight.
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by xirium 19y ago
You can render fractals from a database ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=130971 ) and stored procedure languages are powerful enough to generate .tga files.
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by xirium 19y ago
One rumor going around is that Sun will merge with Apple ... The logic behind this rumor is that Apple is now effectively a Unix company, that Apple and Sun could target the desktop and server markets, respectively -- http://www.pbs.org/cr
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by xirium 19y ago
From the article: The solution that Microsoft posted, however, was effectively a VBScript script translated to a Perl program (by their own admission). ... Hungarian notation prefixes of variables, in addition to the Perl sigils That's vile
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Mandelbrot Fractals Using MySQL Stored Procedures(deepselect.blogspot.com)
5 points by xirium 19y ago|2 comments
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by xirium 19y ago
I thought that they were doing quite well on their current course, despite the advertising being quite bizarre and easy to dismiss: Believe me, I'm not shilling for Ask.com. On the contrary: during the month I recently spent in London I was
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by xirium 19y ago
Thank you. I only asked because it didn't follow the usual format of user, user, expert, expert, client with money.
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by xirium 19y ago
There are standards. The problem is that the minority of hits are made by software which implements those standards.
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by xirium 19y ago
From the article: Silverlight is being downloaded and installed an average of 1.5 million times a day Does that include or exclude the AOL Mail users ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=130000 )?
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by xirium 19y ago
> Does anyone have any other suggestions? Uncle Bill only pays the bills if you're a paid-up member of the fan club. This is a cost that you've been externalising. So, now would be a good time to re-evaluate open source alternatives. Yo
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by xirium 19y ago
You've got at least 80% of web designers ensuring good layout as part of all of their compliance testing. Additionally, there's plenty of legacy intranet applications that only work well on Internet Explorer. Not defaulting to a quirks mode
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by xirium 19y ago
> How much of the buyout goes to you? > How much are you personally making now? If you get less than two years of salary then declining the offer would be the best option.
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by xirium 19y ago
From the article: Load up Fred Wilson's blog. He has about 50 widgets on the page. How can a person easily figure out what the privacy policy looks like for the entire site (blog + widgets)? Who knows what any of those widgets are tracking
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by xirium 19y ago
Is this a PR hit? From the article: Leave a comment or trackback on ReadWriteWeb and be in to win a $30 Amazon voucher - courtesy of our competition sponsors AdaptiveBlue and their Netflix Queue Widget.
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by xirium 19y ago
There's two items that should be followed much more often: Always use heading levels in order, with one heading level 1 at the top of the document, and if necessary several level 2 headings, and then if necessary several level 3 headings un
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Style Guide For Online Hypertext by Tim Berners-Lee(w3.org)
1 points by xirium 19y ago|1 comments
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by xirium 19y ago
If this is a temporary change so they can survive until Aug 2008 then this is a good strategy: nearly a third of the first 500 Googlers have departed, and many more of the estimated 2,200 pre-IPO employees are planning an exit as their stoc
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by xirium 19y ago
I'd be surprised if only 8/10 of those skills had peaked. There has been a glut of Cisco experts for almost a decade. Likewise for web designers.
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by xirium 19y ago
From the article: Solve failed OCR inputs That can sometimes have unintended consequences because the words are unknown: http://www.makeuseof.com/tech-fun/rape-now-facebook-captcha-...
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by xirium 19y ago
You could place a Java applet on your website which connects to an IRC server, such as pirc.
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by xirium 19y ago
If we keep increasing energy consumption then it is possible that we could make ourselves extinct. There was an article in the New Scientist about the WBE equation ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metabolic_theory_of_ecology ). Essentially,
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by xirium 19y ago
Or this fellow: http://www.bash.org/?203247

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