mr_dbr

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by mr_dbr 17y ago
> We're talking about a traffic spike that is 30-to-1 type ratios. In other words, 30 times more IPv6 traffic is coming out of Google's data centers than before. Given that Google enabled IPv6 traffic to a high-bandwidth service like Yo
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by mr_dbr 17y ago
Same thing applies to tutorials which don't mention version numbers and such...
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by mr_dbr 17y ago
http://www.macruby.org/ not sure if it's rewritten in ObjC or just integrated-with
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by mr_dbr 17y ago
This seems like an absurd, silly idea.. 1) Have any laptops (or MP3 players) actually been used to smuggle explosives onto a plane? 2) Aren't laptops and such searched for explosives anyway? (x-ray'd, sniffer-dog'd etc - my hand-luggage was
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by mr_dbr 17y ago
It looks fine to me..
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by mr_dbr 17y ago
Futurama proposes a different reasoning for the inevitably changing human-robot ratio (I couldn't find a clip of it, so.. use your imagination): Fry: Well, so what if I love a robot? It's not hurting anybody. Hermes: My God! He never took m
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by mr_dbr 17y ago
Given that Gemcutter is a relatively new service, my first guess would be the graph is skewed if they switched to gemcutter before other popular Ruby projects (more so if FXRuby is a dependancy for another popular gem which is hosted elsewh
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by mr_dbr 17y ago
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/516406/latex-equivalent-t... lists a bunch of possible options that would be rather trivial to integrate (either a modified version of Markdown, or the editor)
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by mr_dbr 17y ago
The whole sentence regarding an if blocks (lack of) scope seems.. wrong. > .. since y has never been declared in that given scope. I don't quite know how Pythonists handle this, but I can imagine many situations where this will be the c
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by mr_dbr 17y ago
Good or bad, I'd say Apple are pretty much stuck with ObjC. Cocoa and all the other frameworks OS X uses are written like they are because of the language's syntax. This is demonstrated by how crappy the PyObjC code looks (compared to "regu
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by mr_dbr 17y ago
The git checkout [filename] behaviour always confused me.. Yes, it's documented, but git seems to really try and make it difficult to lose any work.. but has a command that makes it simple to irreversibly lose your upstaged changes, without
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by mr_dbr 17y ago
I present to you, Ubuntu in D Minor: http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=bc9a7de093071754ed24a2875... ...it's not actually in D Minor, but it's certainly Ubuntu (ubuntu-9.04-desktop-i386.iso.torrent, converted to a proper, listenable MIDI
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by mr_dbr 17y ago
Good point, or you end up with situations like http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/7702913.stm > When officials asked for the Welsh translation of a road sign, they thought the reply was what they needed. Unfortunately, the e-mail respon
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by mr_dbr 17y ago
It'd also be nice if the scroll-position was saved when you close the application.. When you reopen the file, it's always back to page 1..
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by mr_dbr 17y ago
Their plan seems to be, give stuff away for free, charge for more storage. I would have been surprised if they charged for the iPhone application..
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by mr_dbr 17y ago
When invites are available, perhaps something similar to the GMail Invite Spooler ( http://isnoop.net/gmail/ ) could be created? It would certainly beat the inevitable mass-posting of email addresses in comment forms (and worse, there's no
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by mr_dbr 17y ago
Not at all... http://dslrfilm.com/?p=340
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by mr_dbr 17y ago
They should just switch to Objective-C/Cocoa and that code would be perfectly normal!
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by mr_dbr 17y ago
http://www.stifflog.com/2007/05/09/erlang-for-the-practical-... Not the best tutorial ever, but I found it helpful.. It describes a fairly simple, but non-trivial task (creating an RSS feed from your email inbox, generating the RSS feed,
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by mr_dbr 17y ago
More importantly, why hasn't http://www.thepcspy.com/kittenauth taken off? This is more practical (and cuter) than using brand-logos.. Pictures of kittens and other animals are easy to find, whereas getting a wide enough range of companie
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by mr_dbr 17y ago
The "new web standard" is as obscure as "sw", and has various flaws.. Perhaps the biggest flaw is that the notation does not work for all-upper-case sarcasm, such as "A web standard for sarcasm? That's REALLY great idea.."
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by mr_dbr 17y ago
What exactly has Folding@home achieved in the time it's been running (about 8 years now)? It's a nice concept (using idle CPU time to help cure diseases!), but the papers on the F@H site doesn't exactly inspire me - http://folding.stanford
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by mr_dbr 17y ago
What about something like.. defaults = load_stored_config_to_dict('example.conf') parser.add_option( "-q", "--quiet", action="store_false", dest="verbose", default=defaults['quiet'],
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by mr_dbr 17y ago
A lot? There's about two lines I'd consider "boiler plate" (three if you count the import) from optparse import OptionParser parser = OptionParser() # initialise parser parser.add_option(...) # add option 1 parser.add_opt
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by mr_dbr 17y ago
It would be nice if this was back-ported to Leopard (so you could use GCD without the application being Snow Leopard only), I wonder how difficult this would be..
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by mr_dbr 17y ago
What about Amazon's SimpleDB service? http://aws.amazon.com/simpledb/
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by mr_dbr 17y ago
Might be different for stills, but nearly all 35mm motion picture film, which goes through DI, is scanned at either 2K, or 4K... 4K is about 8.5 megapixels, not quite the 175megapixels the article claims This post http://forum.blu-ray.co
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by mr_dbr 17y ago
OS X looks good because it's visually consistent, something that cannot be said for Linux.. Just in terms of frameworks, on Linux there is (in common use today) GTK+, Tk, Qt, wx (and probably others). There's also different versions, and di
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Transparent Telephony - Part 1 - An Introduction(neverfear.org)
3 points by mr_dbr 17y ago|0 comments
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by mr_dbr 17y ago
The first bit of code seemed perfectly readable.. Seems like decreasing the font size a few points would have clearer a better solution than clouding the could with loops and `eval()`/closures.. Depending on the context, perhaps showing the

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