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In some ways git blame accomplishes this, at least conceptually. It chains back through the diffs to find out who edited the line. So to address the OP problem you could have a has…

Can anybody with experience of using Openstack Ironic[1] in this space comment on advantages of rolling your own liek GitHub? [1] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Ironic

Nice find. Relatedly I found this brief history of DEC: From: http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Digital_Equipment_Corp.asp... >There was virtually no organizational structure durin…

>The ability to create privacy should be a point of pride as not everyone has that luxury. It should be a human right. I agree; so does the UN in The Universal Declaration of Human…

Speaking of Dojo. Why not mentor at your local Coder Dojo? (Or start one) I've found it a great way to meet people and have made some good friends with other mentors and the parent…

I found this link: https://medium.com/precision-medicine/how-big-is-the-human-g... In summary: > 1. In a perfect world (just your 3 billion letters): ~700 megabytes > 2. In the rea…

I first heard about Nellie Bly via the early West Wing episode. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0745595/quotes?item=qt0297998 I hadn't realised that she had also done a Jules Verne aro…

I've done a lot of data work for several other brands in a few markets and can confirm the used car part of this is true. A properly run organisation can sell and re-sell the same …

Why not remove everything and go for vacuum spheres... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco_Lana_de_Terzi#Airshi...

You don't want a body lying around for a few days spreading whatever they died off. Apparently plague victims were often buried in haste.

good idea! Let's also change the airport code for Brownsville. Better change the ones for Manchester and Guymon too. Something does need to be done to address the gender balance in…

The full ruling is available here: http://www.politico.eu/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/schrems-ju... These bit jumped out at me: >Furthermore, national security, public interest and …

They have sold 100k Porsches on to an information superhighway that has only room for 1000 at a time so they only let each one use it for a relatively short amount of time each mon…

I could imagine a scenario where this started out as something less evil. Seems to me that cars will perform differently in a lab than on the road; off the top of my head: - Statio…

Well they could be.. Demand Side Response is a mechanism where utility companies pay energy consumers to stop using grid power at peak times. Effectively a company is treated as a …

I was curious about this; Ethnologue, which seems to be the base reference on this says: The exact number of unwritten languages is hard to determine. Ethnologue (17th edition) has…

The papers I mentioned above) indicate that it can be used against postgres. You can annotate your scheme to configure how you want the tables to be handled.

This is a fantastic project from the MIT CSAIL team that builds brings together many cryptographic components into a integrated system. The academic papers on this are available fr…

Another great resource is the tz database [0]. It includes some great vignettes as well as the time zone rules: From Larry M. Smith (2006-04-26) re Wisconsin: http://www.legis.stat…

In the Ben Bova Mars series they have strategically positioned piles of patches that get sucked up and stuck in the holes. Maybe you could accomplish something similar with a middl…

Lots of databases are configured to do both. The tables store what we normally think of as "the data" and the log stores the changes. Tables are like the HEAD in git etc and the tr…

Is the fact that the talks are in a "Luxury Hotel" pertinent? The article doesn't explain how. Would the EFF be happier if the the "Secret TPP Talks Continue at a Reasonably Priced…

I did a little searching to expand on your numbers. What follows is not scientific. According to https://www.datanyze.com/market-share/cdn/ CloudFront, Akamai, MaxCDN, CloudFlare, …

I've been through this a few times as both the vendor and the client. There are normally a bunch of conditions that can trigger a release of the the source code to the client. Thes…

as a remedy I have one of my monitors rotated 90° into portrait orientation. I can just drag the offending tab across and have a screen width of 1200px. There are a (very) few site…