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mjschultz

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About mjschultz

I am a perpetual computer science student that has the simple goal of making the software world a better place!

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    Both my cats get up on the refrigerator easily.

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    Comment #9133311

    I was curious so I decided to post some of the Google links about this: * man page: http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/man1/pollinate.1.... * Q&A style blog post: http://bl…

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    Comment #8835132

    I'm referring to this code on the originally linked page [1] (you'll have to scroll back a bit because your header blocks the content). In the context of this thread, brghts states…

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    Comment #8835059

    In a chapter about deconstructing someone else's book, your own book also does dangerous things according to yourself: > The problem is, as with every book with code ever in the un…

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    Comment #8098169

    I seem to get a 500 error page whenever I search for something along the lines of "NOT label:css". I was hoping to be able to find issues that are not labeled as something. Other t…

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    Comment #7914073

    You might want to check out the CELERY_SEND_TASK_ERROR_EMAILS configuration option: http://celery.readthedocs.org/en/latest/configuration.html#c...

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    Comment #7515931

    Here is his response to that question on the mailing list: http://mail.tarsnap.com/tarsnap-users/msg00846.html

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    Comment #7231876

    That code should only create the dict/namedtuple instance once, then access it many, many times. The creation occurs in the --setup portion. The field accesses occur in the actual …

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    Comment #7231864

    The --setup code (creating the namedtuple and dict) is only executed once. The timed portion is simply the field accesses.

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    Comment #7231005

    Does the --setup statement really get timed? My reading of the docs[1] has always led me to believe that it doesn't. For example, "It is possible to provide a setup statement that …

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    Comment #7230989

    I'm probably doing it wrong but I measured exactly this yesterday and the dict version was faster: $ python -m timeit --setup "from collections import namedtuple; Point = namedtupl…

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    Comment #6825235

    To answer your question directly, no I don't think so (perhaps some updated theories, but nothing concrete). But the article does cover more than just the incident, I found the who…

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    Comment #6825091

    Also, here is the Wikipedia article on the matter [1]. And a Reddit thread (presented as one of the theories in the article) [2]. [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Headroom_bro…

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    Comment #6664024

    For anyone interested in looking for at this, here is the wikipedia article: https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(psychology)

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    Comment #6465713

    Safeway is called Dominick's in Chicago (Safeway Inc. purchased Dominick's in 1998, but left the name because branch loyalty I would guess). Source: Former Chicago native that purc…

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    Comment #6437867

    I think their policy is typically to update to the latest model if the order hasn't shipped yet. The same thing happened to be when I ordered a MacBook back in 2007, where a few da…

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    Comment #6015180

    Or you're reading it upside-down, making it "06/" which would mean it was taken in June (much less surprising since it is now early July).

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    Comment #6008208

    Here's a previous discussion of this post as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5600883

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    Comment #6000143

    It's also using dygraphs javascript visualizations for the timeseries instead of Google Charts.

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    Comment #5920772

    Here is a recent discussion on chromium-dev about the password manager: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!searchin/ch... Evidently, only 0.0085% of users toggle on t…

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    Comment #5920734

    But if there is already malware on the user system, it just needs to wait until the user authenticates once in Firefox to get the master password, then it can fetch all the other p…

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    Comment #5328949

    Before everyone gets their pitchforks out, why don't we look at the URL and see that it has the "sample-" in it? Meaning that this is an example of words that can be filtered. It I…