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Comment #49014572
I sat next to John in our office for a year or so back in the heyday of podcasting. He was quite the character. RIP.
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Comment #48445754
I was thinking of bananas and banana flavoring too. It may have been a better example than strawberries, but most people don't know how much variety bananas have because they've be…
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Comment #48389638
Tiny peninsula; Six datacenters The geology of the area seems to make for good cooling and DR sturdiness. One DC is even 500 meters under rock. https://www.datacentermap.com/gibral…
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Comment #48345804
Weird/forced scrolling on FF desktop as well.
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Comment #47147439
Pagemaker was a workhorse back in the 90s.
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Comment #46928418
15 years ago... They had just released a remake in 2008 for the Xbox, so the IP was certainly fresh in their minds. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlezone_(2008_video_game) Did t…
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Comment #46336108
There are dedicated turnkey vendors these days, so there's no need to get elaborate. All you need is a U of rack or two and enough cash. Example: https://www.accubeat.com/ntp-ptp-t…
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Comment #46053160
It feels to me like everyone is holding their breath to see how the wholesale "AI can replace people" notion pans out. Whether it proves true or not, betting on the wrong result wi…
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Comment #45804469
Could be just plain alphabetical. There's a selector for which color name list to use/examine on the bottom of the visualization. There's also a selector for which color space mode…
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Comment #9904226
Cool project!
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Comment #3542017
Now the problem becomes mobile browsers... (hover vs. tap, tiny resolutions, differences in form controls, sometimes crippled features that work fine in a "pc" based browser, fluid…
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Comment #2949062
What have you needed out of ANSI SQL that is a gap in its Turing Completeness? Totally serious. A great many things can be dismissed as not being Turing Complete, so please provide…
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Comment #2866450
These words make me close tab for the site I'm looking at right away: "Click to launch site". I came to your website... shouldn't it have launched already? Oh it's not a website - …
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Comment #2848781
The phone number and extension is probably what's used to identify where the "sales lead" came from. As for the long-calls, there's probably a minimum connection time before the le…
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Comment #2844809
Sorry for the belated reply. Yeah, I saw Atommontage and it's quite interesting. Despite the realism of the track marks left and suspension movement, the truck still seems to exhib…
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Apache One-Liner to List All Server Names and Aliases
Here’s an Apache one-liner I often find myself using. It will list all of the server names and alises that are contained in the active Apache config files on a machine. I’ll go int…
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Comment #2836509
The more I think about it, the more I realize that of the three pure voxel problems (rendering, animation and collision), rendering is probably the low-hanging fruit - Though I'm n…
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Comment #2836417
That and I don't know of anyone (outside of using them as particles) that has successfully created collision models with voxels in real time. The collision calculations of just a f…
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Comment #2761208
I don't think you're being too harsh. I agree that newT really doesn't seem like a templating engine - it seems more like a HTML generator. It's a pretty complex hammer to drive a …
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Comment #2652397
POST can be sniffed and is only slightly less vulnerable than GET. HTTPS at a dedicated address should be a minimum level of security for a login form. Anything else is readily vul…
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Comment #2286757
A link to your award sir. Well deserved. Enjoy dinner ;) http://www.citivu.com/dvorak/95awds.html#winsock
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Comment #2286691
Seems to me they're charging for value-add services. From the page you linked: "Building your app is entirely free until you publish it. You do not need to choose your pricing plan…
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Comment #2282488
I contacted Peter and he got back to me. He seems to have settled well with how the cards fell and didn't seem worried about being compensated for things long past. However, if any…