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by brendn 13y ago
The Concorde was an engineering marvel, but it was more than just increasingly cheap transatlantic fares that did it in. Noise regulations prevented it from flying over the Continental US. Maintenance became increasingly expensive as the fl
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Was Y2K overhyped, or was disaster successfully averted?(retroreport.org)
2 points by brendn 13y ago|0 comments
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by brendn 13y ago
By my understanding, yes and yes. The third-party service caches the public key (with timestamp) and the browser caches the signed certificate (with timestamp). The timestamp gives the credentials a relatively short TTL to prevent a stolen
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Compilers Explained Using the Ten Hundred Most Used Words(sodiumdreams.com)
6 points by brendn 14y ago|1 comments
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by brendn 14y ago
A friend of the author of QLB here, and I brought up the idea of a visual interpreter to parse the square kufic calligraphy. My understanding (limited as it is by my almost complete ignorance of Arabic) is that certain stackings of adjacent
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by brendn 14y ago
That's exactly what's happening in some places in Vermont. (I know, not the first place you think of when you hear 'solar.') People can buy shares of a solar co-op and get credited on their power bill for their portion of any electricity ge
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by brendn 14y ago
Turing should be pardoned as a human victim of an unjust law, and his genius should have nothing to do with it. That said, there are more important fights for equality that affect living people right now than whether the British governmen
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by brendn 14y ago
I'll have to try it out. Thanks!
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by brendn 14y ago
I would love to see a LUA scripting framework built into this. I built an iOS app with an embedded web server, and dealing with dynamic text generation in Objective-C is a pain.
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by brendn 14y ago
I used Mongoose [1] to do exactly that for devices that share a local network (auto-discovery and everything). So yes, it's definitely possible :) [1] http://code.google.com/p/mongoose/
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by brendn 14y ago
ConEd shut of power to the Financial District at approximately 7PM, but there were a number of explosions at substations including the one at 14th Street. There are over 1 million New Yorkers without power; ConEd reports most places below M
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by brendn 14y ago
Most of Manhattan is without power. While some people may think it's badass to hack through the storm oblivious, the situation out here is pretty intense. I would encourage some leniency with the deadline, especially since as far as I know
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by brendn 14y ago
I've heard (but can't find a link ATM) that it's not uncommon for people in developing countries have multiple phones or multiple SIM cards and will call on one or the other depending on that provider's current rates.
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by brendn 14y ago
I'm curious about that issue, too. Here's a brainstorm: - An independent Identity Provider (IdP) uses some means of identification for the user (two-factor, iris scan, whatever) - The IdP provides an anonymized email address to each site th
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by brendn 14y ago
I'd like to second this sentiment. Instead of tearing down someone's significant effort to build something cool, the community should constructively communicate their issues with the project and offer suggestions for improvement. I was pers
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by brendn 14y ago
Could you enlighten us? I've read about fiber optic gyros, but I assume they haven't gotten small enough to fit in a mobile device. (Since they require kilometers of fiber.) I really don't know enough about how the solid state (?) gyros wor
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by brendn 14y ago
Yeah, I kind of glossed over the vacuum aspect of the attitude indicator because I don't understand all its intricacies. The video pretty much confirms my understanding of how the gyro is kept spinning. The original author's description of
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by brendn 14y ago
OK. I'm no expert on this myself, but for someone who claims to have just figured out how an attitude indicator works, the author certainly doesn't explain it very well. I was left with the impression that the author is uncertain of the dis
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by brendn 14y ago
It was totally a lobbying effort to get the legislation passed. First by the tobacco industry because of fires started by smokers falling asleep with lit cigarettes, then by the chemical industry (by courting state fire marshals) to boost s
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by brendn 14y ago
At first I thought it said "mind control drone" and reached for the tin foil.
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by brendn 14y ago
Being stabbed to death would be a less painful and drawn-out alternative to being sued for the thief's medical bills.
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by brendn 14y ago
No, both authentication factors are required, so either losing your phone or forgetting your password would be sufficient to lock you out. However, the Google authenticator PAM plugin provides emergency access codes to use in the case t
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by brendn 14y ago
This is a repost of a backers-only email from Kickstarter. It wasn't meant to be published as a gist.
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by brendn 14y ago
Tornado relies on its own HTTP server, but its modules for everything from templating to authentication are loosely coupled, so you can take them or leave them. To your point, I'd be curious to see a non-Tornado server that is Tornado compa
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by brendn 14y ago
The article itself says, "While this HOWTO tries to give an overview of Python in the web, it cannot always be as up to date as desired. Web development in Python is rapidly moving forward, so the wiki page on Web Programming [1] may be mor
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by brendn 14y ago
Interesting that there's no mention of Tornado [1]. (Disclosure: as a co-author of O'Reilly's Introduction to Tornado , I'm biased in its favor.) I haven't played around with Brubeck [2] yet, but I also hear many great things about it. Nee
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by brendn 14y ago
I find the toilet analogy to be flawed. Sure you don't fix their toilets for free, but you would certainly let someone know if you used one of their facilities and found it to be clogged or otherwise malfunctioning. As a someone who's filed
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by brendn 14y ago
Are you seriously bashing their icons based on the number of people on the team? How can you pass any kind of judgement without knowing what went in to planning, designing, testing, and deploying the change? If you think you could do someth
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by brendn 14y ago
My guess is that radiation's effects on solid-state technology was well-known from nuclear tests.
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by brendn 14y ago
I think you're misinterpreting my use of "grease monkeys" in general as offensive. (I said not to project value judgements in my original comment. There are certainly developers who see "craftsmen" as aloof purists who look down on practica

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