premchai21

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by premchai21 13y ago
You might be referring to Greenling ( http://www.greenling.com/ ), though I don't recall whether they're the only one.
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by premchai21 14y ago
Among other things, MyModule.camelize doesn't provide an extension point for polymorphism. Consider a serialization library in which different classes should be able to have separate freeze/thaw behavior. It's possible to do this in curr
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by premchai21 14y ago
fork() only leaves the one thread running in the child, and at that point the fd tables are no longer shared, so trying to detect and close unwanted descriptors in the child after fork is not racy by itself as a way of mitigating the possib
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by premchai21 14y ago
There's signed commits, yes. Is there also "apply these but only if they have a valid signature from one of these people"? That's what I didn't see.
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by premchai21 14y ago
Darcs's send and apply work on this principle, of course, though I haven't seen it applied to XMPP specifically. As I recall, the manual even has an example of how to add an easy hook in Mutt to apply a patch from email. git diff and git
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by premchai21 14y ago
If you change it so that what feels "natural" to you is not what feels "natural" to everyone else, then you are in for a world of hurt when you find that all the resources you were relying on are no longer presented in a way that you're com
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by premchai21 14y ago
As it happens, I'm currently in a slow period and looking around for side projects that might lead to money. The other posters have some reasonable general ideas, but if you're willing to provide more detail, I can see whether it's the sor
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by premchai21 14y ago
I had not! That appears to work for now, though I'm not convinced it will continue working if Twitter continues going the way they are. For some reason that didn't appear in my search; thank you.
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by premchai21 14y ago
Sure, but you have to be careful of the gradual lockdown effect as more people get involved. The handling of non-public information is a cross-cutting concern. If everyone builds their software and security models around the assumption th
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by premchai21 14y ago
Well, let me clarify just in case: the “impossible” is an exaggeration, since they will eventually respond to things like email, but it's not enough to keep up. Many of the socially-important multicast messages only occur on Twitter. I'
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by premchai21 14y ago
Does that really qualify as open-Web facilities, though? Is it “show it to these people”, or is it “show it to these Google Plus users”? The latter is not appreciably better than the LiveJournal case, for me, and in fact this provides a d
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by premchai21 14y ago
I have a large chunk of friends and acquaintances who now conduct their ongoing visible conversations with each other almost entirely on Twitter, many of whom have started becoming impossible to reach by other means. They also have visibl
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by premchai21 14y ago
All right, I see it in C99 as well now (§6.5.2.3 footnote 82, if I'm not mistaken). Thanks for the correction.
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by premchai21 14y ago
I actually use macros along the lines of: #define LOAD(TYP, ptr) (*((TYP *)memcpy((TYP[1]){ }, ptr, sizeof(TYP)))) #define REINTERPRET(AS_TYP, FROM_TYP, val) LOAD(AS_TYP, (FROM_TYP[1]){ val }) In practice (that I've found, with GCC
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by premchai21 14y ago
It does in 3.7.13 (and presumably older versions, but I don't have a solid record of this immediately available).
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by premchai21 14y ago
But, last I checked, you could PRAGMA foreign_keys=off temporarily, which would also inhibit the automatic handling of foreign key constraints in other tables when the target table is renamed or dropped. Then you can create a new table, po
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by premchai21 14y ago
Resuming fetching multiple unfetched fragments of a resource is already possible with HTTP range requests. Checking the entire file can be done if the server provides a Content-MD5 header (though I'm not sure actual client use of this is w
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by premchai21 14y ago
It is actually possible, though not necessarily advisable, to pay US taxes using credit cards: http://www.irs.gov/efile/article/0,,id=101316,00.html
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by premchai21 14y ago
In a billiard-ball model one would construct a NOT/inverter with a crab source that normally flows straight to the output but can be misdirected into a drain by crabs coming in from the input. Of course you need a crab source for this, but
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by premchai21 14y ago
I suppose being able to try out the API on the software level is useful, yes. I'm not sure how one is supposed to figure out whether results are likely to be good enough for a given application if they're so unpredictably degraded. I do s
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by premchai21 14y ago
504 Gateway Timeout would be the obvious one, since if I'm reading this correctly it's essentially a timeout of zero; 5xx status codes are indicative of retriability later on. But I think that sort of performance would make the free tier es
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by premchai21 14y ago
I wish I had time to write a more thorough response right now, but I just did a short test with Debian sid and its GCC 4.6.3 on a modern Xeon machine under Xen (so, not the best performance testing device, so take this with some salt). At -
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by premchai21 14y ago
LZO, though, has the potential problem or benefit (depending on your situation) of not being readily incorporable into proprietary software without navigating Oberhumer's commercial-license maze, unless there's some form of clean-room reimp
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by premchai21 15y ago
"Octachoron" would work just as well (progression from "tetragon" and "hexahedron").
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Dwolla's terms-of-service salad(dwolla.com)
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by premchai21 15y ago
Do Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet still use totally unprotected mmap? Last I checked, truncating the DB file in the middle of an operation would take down the entire process with SIGBUS, and I assume a disk error would do something simila
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by premchai21 15y ago
As a mild counterpoint, I semi-recently tried to start habitually compiling my executables with -fPIE on my AMD64 development machines, and at least several months ago, the GDB I got from Debian sid was not up to the task of debugging such
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by premchai21 15y ago
I would think that a significant part of money-handling costs (in the general case) is mitigating risk of loss of money through fraud, theft, and similar means. That risk would have to be very small to be ignorable at scale. If you proces
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by premchai21 15y ago
Let me clarify: I didn't mean to say “this is directly part of the commons”. My main objection was to the idea that it was unambiguously not part of the commons (“as far from … as you can get”). I think that is incorrect because it is
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by premchai21 15y ago
Actually, it's not. As far from the commons as one can get might be more like a heavily shielded, localized room in a remote area with no sound, light, or other effects going in or out except for some set of operators. What is the sight on

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