taway2012

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by taway2012 12y ago
Hopefully the redesign won't give us light gray text on a white background, which seems to the rage these days. :) I had zero problems reading the print version.
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by taway2012 12y ago
To me, it seems to be the same as the Norvig algorithm, except that only deletes are considered. Which allows them to pre-calculate misspellings with modest storage cost. Am I mistaken?
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by taway2012 12y ago
How long ago did you buy your house? If a person bought the house today, would they still pay only $640/mo?
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by taway2012 12y ago
Been in a few orgs. I now think "no rewrites" is a good policy for all but a few orgs. Few orgs have the (1) business luxury (time and money) or, (2) the caliber of people and, (3) team motivation (few teams people even want to
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by taway2012 12y ago
I like functions that return a value to be written in the guard-clause style. [In C++, that's probably better for efficiency since the compiler optimizer doesn't have to remove temporaries by converting the code to guard-clause st
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by taway2012 13y ago
Don't do this. The whole thing gave off a bad smell on first reading so I would never have done this. Thank you vinkelhake for nailing the the real problem (exceptions) and bothering to check whether the stack overhead really exists. J
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by taway2012 13y ago
How? How can DRM force me to display the iframe containing an ad.
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by taway2012 13y ago
No story here. No budget provider I've looked at says they will help you withstand a DDoS attack. [Thanks to the commenter who says OVH does, I will look into them closely.] I did this due diligence for a 10-user app. These guys have n
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by taway2012 13y ago
Multiple file attachments in entries. I think 1.x only supports one attachment per entry.
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by taway2012 13y ago
Crockford's "Javascript: the Good Parts" is a very good book.
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by taway2012 13y ago
This is probably what the parent meant: >>> 'truthy' if None else 'falsy' 'falsy' >>> 'truthy' if False else 'falsy' 'falsy' >>> &
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by taway2012 13y ago
Yeah, I know this is just an Internet forum so who cares what's said right? But ... But Ask the Korean made an excellent point about culturalism: "The term "culturalism" is my coinage ... is the unwarranted impulse to ex
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by taway2012 13y ago
OK, I see why a downvoter downvoted it. I meant to write: "Yep, I know why the Mac's text looks blurrier" i.e., I meant to agree with 'coldtea' and add to the discussion. The way I've written it now makes it
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by taway2012 13y ago
Yep, I know the Mac's text looks blurrier: Link for anybody else interested: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/06/font-rendering-resp... (linked articles are good too)
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by taway2012 13y ago
> what more do you need? (don't say photoshop :@) In my case it's Lightroom. :) Longtime Ubuntu user here. Bought a Mac mini as my desktop replacement on the off-chance that I might write an iOS app. I'm actually running U
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by taway2012 13y ago
Sort of off-topic question. :) Is it still the case that updates from Apple will randomly break a Hackintosh? It used to be the case a few years ago. Has it gotten easier to update a Hackintosh these days?
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by taway2012 13y ago
Thanks for the response. I get the A+ site when I directly visit via IP. I went through the delta between the reports with a fine-toothed comb and discovered that SNI wasn't the problem. It was a biggie: looks like HSTS wasn't ena
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by taway2012 13y ago
I host two sites on the same IP. The first site declared in my nginx conf file got A+. The second one got A with a note that it doesn't work in browsers without SNI. Identical SSL configurations otherwise. Is this expected? Or am I doi
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by taway2012 13y ago
> everything-is-string semantics make programming an exercise in quoting. Is your code filled with literal strings? Otherwise why your code be "an exercise in quoting"? re Python: Remember that EDA tools aren't libraries,
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by taway2012 13y ago
This is a relatively obscure feature of Tcl, but it has some great ideas on how to safely execute user-supplied scripts in a sandbox. Pretty cool. http://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.5/TclCmd/interp.htm
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by taway2012 13y ago
Base64 can maybe result in strings unsuitable for pasting as-is into bad HTTP servers' URLs (the default character set include '/' and '+'). Using only the uppercase letters lets them worry less about whether
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by taway2012 13y ago
Fair enough. I now see that speed limits are set differently in different parts of the US. My driving has been mostly in the western and southwestern states.
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by taway2012 13y ago
> It causes the speed limit on a majority of roads to be set to a level that is well below a safe speed to drive, instead of setting reasonable limits in most places and then carving out exceptions in places that are more dangerous. OK,
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by taway2012 13y ago
Interesting. Even compared to the hallowed Thinkpad?
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by taway2012 13y ago
"Practical Cryptography" is a good book.
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by taway2012 13y ago
Hmm, you think noisy drones flying around delivering packages within 30 minutes of ordering is a more concrete vision than a robot walking up to your door from a self-driving car? (last 30 ft problem). I can easily imagine myself solving
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by taway2012 13y ago
Couple questions. 1) AFAIK, bitcoin has "comments" within transactions. Why not embed the checksum as a comment in a transaction between wallets you control? 2) In the approach described here, no coins are being sent with the tran
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by taway2012 13y ago
I suspect this is a HMAC-SHA1 similar to what the blog author surmised. It's possibly a response to the recent fiasco where they misrouted IMs. I think they use this signature in their backend as a last defense when routing a message t
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by taway2012 13y ago
Pretty interesting nugget there. I've always thought Amazon cloud services were overpriced. But I thought maybe the software engineering labor is expensive. The comment that "software engineering costs rounds down to zero" wa
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by taway2012 13y ago
Yeah, I think this is probably going to work. Thx! PS: 'inevitable', you made the same suggestion. But you seem to be hellbanned.

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