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I've found it helpful to use relative numbering in normal mode and switch to absolute numbering in insert mode: set relativenumber nonumber autocmd InsertEnter * :set norelativenum…

If you're getting more traffic than 1 request/s, it's less work to generate a static cached version on the cadence of ~1 second than to dynamically generate the content for each re…

As developers, many of us work everyday on increasing page hits, creating more engaging user experiences. What are the ethical implications of this? At what point do we become resp…

There was an interesting overview talk on predictive policing at 32c3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIQ2Xhov7D4

Could this not also be used in the near future by, say, the LinkedIn app to identify "People You May Know"?

This doesn't solve the problem where the parameters aren't checked at compile-time. Now, hopefully all your codepaths are tested so your builder doesn't throw exceptions in product…

This is contrary to the OP's example, where he passes data and num to the constructor, which is how I've seen it used frequently. The Builder pattern is often recommended to "make …

I used to be a fan of the Builder pattern (or Fluent Interface), but the ease of use for developers comes at the cost of no compile-time checking. Before, you just had to look up t…

How do databases like MySQL store data efficiently for querying? It seems like something like protobuf would do well here, though you'd need to generate code for each dataset.

I'm curious, what security measures are in place for human vote counters?

Posting this from #! right now. > Philip has mentioned that, since CrunchBang has been his project from the beginning, he would like to see the name separated from any derivative t…

As others have said, the classics awk, grep, cut, sort, uniq, and scripting languages (perl/ruby for on the fly one-liners) are great for log analysis. One additional tool I've fou…

A lot of the discussion in here revolves around "not being able to get an interactive GUI up and running quickly". If this is indeed the main problem with teaching programming with…

What is the accepted identifier for nodes? I did a rough implementation of Chord once using IP address as the identifier and ran into the issue where the node would see itself at a…

Peter Norvig's lis.py[1] is an oldie but a goodie. It really shows you the beauty and simplicity of Scheme/Lisp interpreters. [1]: http://norvig.com/lispy.html

According to the article, the receipt just says "Store Number 1", nothing about Starbucks.

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