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You might be referring to Greenling ( http://www.greenling.com/ ), though I don't recall whether they're the only one.

Among other things, MyModule.camelize doesn't provide an extension point for polymorphism. Consider a serialization library in which different classes should be able to have separa…

fork() only leaves the one thread running in the child, and at that point the fd tables are no longer shared, so trying to detect and close unwanted descriptors in the child after …

There's signed commits, yes. Is there also "apply these but only if they have a valid signature from one of these people"? That's what I didn't see.

Darcs's send and apply work on this principle, of course, though I haven't seen it applied to XMPP specifically. As I recall, the manual even has an example of how to add an easy h…

If you change it so that what feels "natural" to you is not what feels "natural" to everyone else, then you are in for a world of hurt when you find that all the resources you were…

As it happens, I'm currently in a slow period and looking around for side projects that might lead to money. The other posters have some reasonable general ideas, but if you're wil…

I had not! That appears to work for now, though I'm not convinced it will continue working if Twitter continues going the way they are. For some reason that didn't appear in my sea…

Sure, but you have to be careful of the gradual lockdown effect as more people get involved. The handling of non-public information is a cross-cutting concern. If everyone builds t…

Well, let me clarify just in case: the “impossible” is an exaggeration, since they will eventually respond to things like email, but it's not enough to keep up. Many of the sociall…

Does that really qualify as open-Web facilities, though? Is it “show it to these people”, or is it “show it to these Google Plus users”? The latter is not appreciably better than t…

I have a large chunk of friends and acquaintances who now conduct their ongoing visible conversations with each other almost entirely on Twitter, many of whom have started becoming…

All right, I see it in C99 as well now (§6.5.2.3 footnote 82, if I'm not mistaken). Thanks for the correction.

I actually use macros along the lines of: #define LOAD(TYP, ptr) (*((TYP *)memcpy((TYP[1]){ }, ptr, sizeof(TYP)))) #define REINTERPRET(AS_TYP, FROM_TYP, val) LOAD(AS_TYP, (FROM_TYP…

It does in 3.7.13 (and presumably older versions, but I don't have a solid record of this immediately available).

But, last I checked, you could PRAGMA foreign_keys=off temporarily, which would also inhibit the automatic handling of foreign key constraints in other tables when the target table…

Resuming fetching multiple unfetched fragments of a resource is already possible with HTTP range requests. Checking the entire file can be done if the server provides a Content-MD5…

It is actually possible, though not necessarily advisable, to pay US taxes using credit cards: http://www.irs.gov/efile/article/0,,id=101316,00.html

In a billiard-ball model one would construct a NOT/inverter with a crab source that normally flows straight to the output but can be misdirected into a drain by crabs coming in fro…

I suppose being able to try out the API on the software level is useful, yes. I'm not sure how one is supposed to figure out whether results are likely to be good enough for a give…

504 Gateway Timeout would be the obvious one, since if I'm reading this correctly it's essentially a timeout of zero; 5xx status codes are indicative of retriability later on. But …

I wish I had time to write a more thorough response right now, but I just did a short test with Debian sid and its GCC 4.6.3 on a modern Xeon machine under Xen (so, not the best pe…

LZO, though, has the potential problem or benefit (depending on your situation) of not being readily incorporable into proprietary software without navigating Oberhumer's commercia…

"Octachoron" would work just as well (progression from "tetragon" and "hexahedron").