sapphirecat

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by sapphirecat 15y ago
> I would like to know if PHP's object implementation, which was introduced after their associative arrays, suffers from the same hash collision issues. I was curious myself, so I went digging. Most of this stuff appears in `Zend/zend_
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by sapphirecat 15y ago
Not sure if serious, but consider English "to", "too", and "two". Disclaimer/explanation: I actually studied Japanese, but I'm assuming the same principle applies. If so, the symbols would be different because of the differing meanings, an
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by sapphirecat 15y ago
The technical quality of the photos is quite poor. They're way too bright if we're looking for subpixels, since all we see are full pixels, smeared together into blooming white. Also, looking at the HTC Rezound's standard color test, the
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by sapphirecat 15y ago
I was going to attempt this, but the solution was posted inline in the blog entry, and I read it by accident. My window was just big enough that it was the last line displayed. =(
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by sapphirecat 15y ago
> And then they brought it back in 7. Mea culpa. I haven't used 7 very much =) Speaking of context, though, I've also heard "don't use My" as a recommendation for mobile UIs, because they don't have that much space to spend on the word
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by sapphirecat 15y ago
Agreed. Users will be reading "My" every time they see it, so unless it's vital, leave it out. For example, Microsoft abandoned the "My" prefix in Vista for Documents, Pictures, etc. in the UI.
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by sapphirecat 15y ago
When an article about the problem is published on a gaming site, after it makes the point, it's got a couple of gratuitous chick images stuffed in it, with captions like "Bet you're paying attention to what I have to say now!"... Hmm. I ha
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by sapphirecat 15y ago
There's another mistake in that command (also present in the article): with that "t" in there, `yt$` will yank up to, but not including, a '$' character on the current line. Unless there is no '$', which is an error and no yanking. Yank f
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by sapphirecat 15y ago
+= does union-by-key: any keys present in the right array, and not in the left, are appended to the left. `array_merge` will append all numeric keys from the right array to the left, under new key values, as if you used [] one-by-one; for
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by sapphirecat 15y ago
> Is the theory that true "hackers" care more about the programming language syntax and semantics than whether it has the right libraries for the subject domain of the startup? Is the theory that true "hackers" care more about whether
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by sapphirecat 15y ago
Contrary to what he wrote here, Steve actually has ragged on Amazon in the past, in particular in "Have You Ever Legalized Marijuana?" -- the imagery of Amazon doing things by burning through people like little tea-lights really stuck in
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by sapphirecat 15y ago
Don't forget the long-term contracts, where an enterprise signs onto the software for five years in exchange for a discount. That's probably the most common justification for "Why can't we have better service?" that I've seen IRL.
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by sapphirecat 15y ago
> apt-get (did you mean aptitude? What's the difference?) aptitude is a TUI front-end for apt-get (which is to yum as dpkg is to rpm). synaptic and the Ubuntu Store are GUIs into the same system, though I think the store is further lay
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by sapphirecat 15y ago
I burned myself in that time frame, trying to implement SPs, because some people advocated for them. Like Etsy, I discovered you needed a lot of them, and worse, they weren't very easy to debug or version control. I think I decided to pu
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by sapphirecat 15y ago
Your experience isn't universal. I have people using my computer sometimes that I have to change the keyboard back to QWERTY for them, because they can't find the keyboard icon to do it themselves, even when they have directions. It reall
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by sapphirecat 15y ago
Looks pretty nice. Some pictures are worth quite a few words. Is this problem made worse by the ephemeral ports remaining unavailable after disconnect, because they're stuck in TIME_WAIT? Or does a modern TCP stack note a low RTT and rele
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by sapphirecat 15y ago
The "speed limit" is on the outbound connections from Node to the service. Node calls connect(), and receives a new port exclusively for that one connection. A server facing the Internet can serve lots of clients because those clients ha
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by sapphirecat 15y ago
> And before anybody brings up the usual objection that your customizations travel to other people's machines poorly... I'd say that's unimportant compared to other people traveling to your machine's configuration poorly, when the displ
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by sapphirecat 15y ago
> You can minimise the Windows 8 dialog. IIRC, if you "closed" the gnome one, it went to the systray, which is a UI problem all its own. Also, you can pause the win8 operations, not just cancel them. As for ugliness, this seems to be a
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by sapphirecat 15y ago
Likewise with lurking-until-valuable. If karma were converted to an incentive for daily engagement, that would be a strong disincentive for me to even log in. It changes the relationship from a friendly "it's okay if you contribute, howev
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by sapphirecat 15y ago
> it can be readily and universally exchanged for goods or services I'm pretty sure all of the retailers in my area only accept USD. Nobody even bothers with the Canadian exchange rate on this side of the border, although some (and a
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by sapphirecat 15y ago
So you claim to have "significant data" but the first thing you do is throw out huge swaths of it because it's not actually significant? Also regarding graph 2's commentary, 0.51 is not "almost" double 0.34. It turns out to be only 1.5x, so
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by sapphirecat 15y ago
> I assume everyone will agree with this statement, but I'll state it anyway: You can't cancel valid accounts! If the account is paid in full, and assuming the account isn't being used for nefarious purposes, you cannot cancel valid ac
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by sapphirecat 15y ago
I'v been eagerly awaiting this, since my major annoyances all have to do with the floating dialogs: Not hiding the palettes when the last gimp window was minimized. Minimize -> d'oh! -> unminimize -> secret key shortcut[1] -&#6
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by sapphirecat 15y ago
> Have you thought about what happens when their IP changes? ++. When I was walking this road, I answered that question with "I'll use the user-agent instead!" Then I checked that assumption, and the Internet told me that could vary
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by sapphirecat 15y ago
You might find your answer in the history of municipal network projects. But I'm strongly biased against the incumbents, so I'll avoid leaving any details here.
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by sapphirecat 15y ago
Also, the Senate was once elected by the States, which may have been intended by the founding fathers as an important check on the expansion of Federal power. State-elected senators would serve their state governments, who would probably
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by sapphirecat 15y ago
I think HN still tends to reward quick posts over more thoughtful ones. As humor is quicker to post, it will come to dominate (i.e. HN will become Reddit) without this important check/balance in the culture.
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by sapphirecat 15y ago
My ISP (Windstream DSL) started redirecting nxdomain responses years ago. I noticed when I mistyped a host alias I had set up for ssh and got back `connection refused` when it was not even a fully-qualified name. Thankfully VeriSign did th
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by sapphirecat 15y ago
One more fact for your collection: Verizon even subsidizes its prepaid phones. One option I was given to replace a prepaid out-of-warranty feature phone was paying $200 for a new one--though they sell the exact same model with new s

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