tgandrews

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Web developer - JavaScript at work. Ruby, Haskell at home
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Comment · 2 years ago
It blocks nhs.uk which is definitely not a large media brand.
Comment · 9 years ago
In most other languages this would fail code review as it is overly terse. I can see it does match the mathematical notation but if the language is supposed to provide any layer of abstraction then it doesn't do a very good job IMO. I guess the target market are mathematicians who already understand and write mathematical notation.
Comment · 12 years ago
Looks like they have lost their www DNS record.

> linuxvoice.com Server: 8.8.8.8 Address: 8.8.8.8#53

Non-authoritative answer: Name: linuxvoice.com Address: 104.28.6.18 Name: linuxvoice.com Address: 104.28.7.18 > www.linuxvoice.com Server: 8.8.8.8 Address: 8.8.8.8#53

Non-authoritative answer: * Can't find www.linuxvoice.com: No answer

Comment · 12 years ago
My three favourite podcasts are:

* Startups for the rest of us

* Bootstrapped with kids

* Freakonomics

Comment · 12 years ago
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Comment · 13 years ago
The plugin details seems easiest but they are say "packet" and not http request and not necessarily by a browser. Presuming they have compromised the machine this staining will be affecting the network stack somehow most likely at an IP level.
Comment · 13 years ago
Isn't this just Chrome OS?
Comment · 13 years ago
What's the process for going about decrypting these things? I've seen some that are just base64 and the like - but those have obvious patterns. How are you meant to decrypt something when you don't even know the algorithm? Is it just a series of brute forces against different algos?
Comment · 13 years ago
To me it sounds like a good thing. We end up with 3 major rendering engines on the desktop; Gecko (Firefox), Trident (IE) and Blink (Opera and Chrome) and 2 major on mobile Blink (Opera and Chrome) and Webkit (Safari). This I think will help shake up some of monoculture.

Chrome definitely doesn't have any level of domination over the enterprise market like IE6 on Windows did. That was the problem with IE6 not the browser per se - it was revolutionary when it was released, MS just killed the team. The chance that enterprises will stick with Chrome is very unlikely.

As it stands at the moment, the only downside is the duplicated development between the Safari and Chrome teams. Webkit will suffer, but the web won't. Apple don't care enough, the web isn't the top of their priority list.

If anything, the iOS monopoly of mobile web traffic (in the first world) is a problem which certainly isn't changed by this fork.

That's my two pennies worth.

Comment · 13 years ago
I read the article and whilst it claims Opera are going to be using webkit the cnet article it references indirectly (http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20121236-264/hybrid-browse...) does not mention webkit or the lack of presto.

I don't understand why Ice implies webkit, it could be presto like Opera Mini/Mobile (rendered on server).

Comment · 14 years ago
Why is it iPhone App marketing? A lot of the publications write stories about android and web apps as well. Trying to focus on a niche?
Comment · 14 years ago
As long as you have the data then you can calculate it. It may be easier with SQL and a normalised form but that forces a lot of other constraints.

With a non-relational DB the idea is to attack it with map reduce and possibly in app calculations. This may not be ideal, but the benefits of easy placement and access of the documents outweigh the aggregation problems on most of the problems I have dealt with.

Neither solution is perfect you just need to make a prediction based on the projects requirements and make a choice.

Comment · 14 years ago
I appreciate it is written onto a 2d plain. But it does look like 3D. This appearance of looking like 3D when a screen is 2D is complicated and very mathsy (not a word - I know). I've tried reading about it before but it is not straight forward.
Comment · 14 years ago
Can anyone explain how this works? I never have got to grips with 3D.

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