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signifiers

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About signifiers

Cloud, crypto, neuro, informatics. @kennwhite

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    Comment #14869589

    If you're referring to full-blown IntelliJ, Elcipse, VS, etc, the answer is no afaik. But if syntax highlighting, code completion and lightweight refactoring (within and across fil…

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    Comment #14868190

    that is not correct.

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    Comment #14868157

    (author here) I think this was misunderstood. I don't mean the _entire_ Chromebook or OS was unstable -- just the opposite actually. I was referring to having to restart Termux twi…

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    Comment #9654557

    It's a common misconception. Chris Pinkham and Ben Black created it, and it never had anything to do with excess capacity. http://blog.b3k.us/2009/01/25/ec2-origins.html

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    Comment #8504795

    Yes, modems, access points, LTE tablets included. Consumer and Enterprise users (including me) are seeing it. Eg: https://twitter.com/innismir/status/525279100907560961

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    Comment #8500384

    Interesting. They're definitely ignoring it my case: https://twitter.com/kennwhite/status/525369304456658944

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    Comment #8500362

    They're ignoring it for me. See: https://twitter.com/kennwhite/status/525374343074029568 Can you confirm you connected over cellular when testing?

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    Comment #5895474

    The backporting involved here is non-trivial. If the past 9 months are any indication, I would expect we haven't seen the last of the serious YAML vulnerabilities yet: http://www.c…

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    Comment #5803631

    I hear this argument all the time, but let's get real. A million dollars in Berkeley isn't exactly a dump: http://www.ziprealty.com/property/6905-NORFOLK-RD-BERKELEY-C... this isn'…

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    Comment #5590869

    “The statement is patently false. Sid implies that what was perceived from a public demo is CipherCloud's product offering.” http://www.pdf-archive.com/2013/04/20/notice130419/prev…

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    Comment #5385356

    > GCE is currently in the US only. Not correct. They've had EU zones since November: https://developers.google.com/compute/docs/faq#datacenters https://developers.google.com/comput…

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    Comment #5344232

    Actually, I would call 5.3 as a fairly major jump - namespaces, closures (Lambda/anonymous functions), late static binding, const's allowed outside of classes. There are several po…

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    Comment #5208429

    They've been very reliable for us. Network is spiky (12-20MB/s at times), but otherwise, compared to roughly equivalent VMs (lscpu, /proc/cpuinfo, etc.) they are hands-down faster …

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    Comment #5208359

    If you use keys, no password is sent. An option to not send password by mail (for non-key-based launches) is on the coming-soon roadmap: http://digitalocean.uservoice.com/forums/13…

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    Comment #5202362

    I bet they are fairly liberal with their size limits: http://www.amazon.com/robots.txt http://aws.amazon.com/robots.txt http://www.google.com/robots.txt http://store.apple.com/robo…

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    Comment #5142762

    For those who don't follow this closely, from @MuscleNerd (of the gang-of-four): https://twitter.com/MuscleNerd/status/295964113270620160