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Cassandra user in production here. Could you elaborate a little bit on what was messed up (size, false positives etc.) and which version this was? Did you have trouble with Cassand…

The fake letter doesn't separate them: > Members can log into both sites using the same login. This will allow streaming-only members to add DVD by mail, and DVD-only members to up…

Note that the word closure has meaning in set theory and other areas of mathematics relevant to computer science. SICP explicitly avoids using what wikipedia calls a 'computer scie…

How many lint-like tools use a full AST? pylint yes, but I doubt the original did.

Using this code on the code here (except for processing.js): http://github.com/cburroughs/minification-compare/tree/maste... Latest full release of yuicompressor vs closure at SIMP…

All of the IPCC reports are available online: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPCC_Fourth_Assessment_Report#E...

Ah my apologies. I meant (fire)watir. http://wtr.rubyforge.org/ http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/FireWatir

You may find this page useful: http://pycheesecake.org/wiki/PythonTestingToolsTaxonomy I find nose particularly useful both for running tests (including unit). I have also found (f…

And unlike email there is no way to automatically filter most of it.

From a Student's Guide to Startups back in 2006: "Speaking of cool places to work, there is of course Google. But I notice something slightly frightening about Google: zero startup…

"Is it true, Dr. Chandra, that you chose the name HAL to be one step ahead of IBM?" "Utter nonsense! Half of us come from IBM and we've been trying to stamp out that story for year…

Do you have a source for this? Every analysis of exit polls I have seen (for example: http://www.fairvote.org/plurality/perot.htm ) shows that Perot split the votes fairly evenly.

I think that is sort of the point people are trying to make. Pretty much every language messes this up badly. It would be nice to see something learned from those mistakes.

The Copenhagen Consensus looked only at a 5 year window. Since most of the likely costs of climate change take place farther in the future it is unsurprising that they found so lit…

How quickly have you been able to move through Concrete Mathematics? It looks like the sort of thing you might be able to do 1-2 problems a day.

Another closely related post is Math Every Day: http://steve.yegge.googlepages.com/math-every-day Since most here are of a programing bent Project Euler (projecteuler.net) may be o…

Could we have a way to flag headlines with an un-needed editorial?

Boring Stevey Status Update http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/12/boring-stevey-status...

A few minor corrections. First, most chess programs don't literally "brute force" the problem. A lot of work goes into pruning the search tree and only looking along the most promi…

Figuring out pot odds is an elementary part of poker. Most who play poker well can do that correctly, that is just as well as a computer. On the other hand combining those odds wit…

That is an interesting situation where a group of users might opt in and HTML could be a useful thing. Are you sending photos via email? Aren't browsers generally a more pleasant w…

Did anything every come of their push for more energy efficient computers? http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/26/technology/26google.html?e...

If you want email to be looked at and be delivered why would you use HTML?

If you are seeing CPU performance degrade with time it is (likely) a symptom of memory fragmentation. I have not seen any rendering benchmarks where gecko fairs significantly worse…

What about Gnash or Swfdec? A free Flash player seems to be high enough enough priority that one will have feature parity with Adobe "soon".