zaptheimpaler

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by zaptheimpaler 15y ago
The 'designated asshole' idea works well only if the asshole in question has enough knowledge to recognize whether a question is relevant or not. Given the vast amount of knowledge it takes to differentiate a good question from a bad one (i
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by zaptheimpaler 15y ago
This is brilliant.
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by zaptheimpaler 15y ago
>Applications written in real languages don’t have such problems, but anything which does audio decoding is going to have to have a significant C component. No. Just no.
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by zaptheimpaler 15y ago
>So, the problem is since friendly_id v4, the gem no longer guarantees two really important principles: >No guarantee that we're the only person reading this value, right now >No guarantee that the ID we'll choose will be unique
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by zaptheimpaler 15y ago
Pre-fetchers rely on two metrics to determine what to cache - temporal locality, meaning it will cache things that it judges to be frequently accessed, and spatial locality, meaning that when you access something at memory address X, the ca
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by zaptheimpaler 15y ago
my implementation: i = 0 for c in string.split(): i = i + len(c) + 1 if i <= 13: sys.stdout.write(c) sys.stdout.write(" ") else: sys.stdout.write('\n') sys.stdout.write(c) sys.stdout.write(" ") i = len(c) took me
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by zaptheimpaler 15y ago
The fact remains that if it does happen to millions of users, something is terribly wrong. It's pretty likely that there are more ICS devices than there are WP devices, but then again, they've been in the market for longer and ICS devices r
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by zaptheimpaler 15y ago
This is incredible. Valve is possibly the only company EVER that truly operates with a completely flat hierarchy and does so well!
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by zaptheimpaler 15y ago
All this drama over one WP update when this happens every couple of months to millions of Android users.
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by zaptheimpaler 15y ago
Is there any evidence to the below the fold mantra working on GitHub as well? IMHO, looking at a bunch of folders doesn't tell me anything, so at the very least you have to scroll down and read the README if you have any interest in a proje
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by zaptheimpaler 15y ago
Aghh can't believe this is fake... Does anyone know whether this is actually feasible to make using Node.JS (or any other technology?)
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by zaptheimpaler 15y ago
The coupon code for the free book doesnt work anymore
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by zaptheimpaler 15y ago
This was one I used to backup all websites in a folder: find . -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d | awk 'BEGIN {FS="./"}; {print $2}' | xargs -d '\n' tar czf backup1.tar Note that you'll have to change $2 to the correct column number fo
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by zaptheimpaler 15y ago
I agree to a certain extent. If static content is a big issue, you should be using CDNs running barebone server applications anyways. At the same time, I can imagine plenty of companies dont have the resources or expertise to do these kinds
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by zaptheimpaler 15y ago
Did you really end up using buffer overflow? I've been trying to overflow a different quantity all this time, and I'm quite sure you can't buffer overflow..
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by zaptheimpaler 15y ago
Haha we just had that last week ( finished Buffer Overflow Lab a few hours ago! ), its definitely helping.
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by zaptheimpaler 15y ago
The title is really misrepresentative... He's not saying entrepreneurs should go ask their parents for money - that was one small example in the whole, and its really not what the article is about.
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by zaptheimpaler 15y ago
This is mostly you evangelizing REST without giving any concrete reasons as to why.. e.g REST is simple, succinct, easily scalable, consumable everywhere - these are all very subjective points. If you really think REST is so great, do some