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WillyNourson

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WillyNourson··on Quadsort: a stable non-recursive merge sort
Oh lord it's almost 1k long
WillyNourson··on Modern terminal-based text editor
Wow the Snap install is > 80MB ..; for a console based text editor...
WillyNourson··on Vanishing Point: How to disappear in America without a trace (2012)
I love this thing because if you remove the first four points, it's just a good how-to about life in general. Actually if you follow these rules you may never have to vanish :

#Discard your old life. #Limit the resolve and resources of your opposition. #Run from your opposition (and your old life.) #Hide from your opposition.

Make new friends. Acquire a (new) identity. (Legal papers: Birth record, Social Security #) Find gainful employment. Pay your taxes. Get medical, life, and automotive insurance. Get a credit card -- and keep it paid up. Perhaps take college courses to learn a new marketable skill. Acquire and maintain respectability in your community. Find a wife or husband: Make a (new) family. Don't drink heavily, don't use any illegal drugs, don't do any crimes. Die with dignity.

WillyNourson··on A Computational Approach for Obstruction-Free Photography [pdf]
Ah, the end of the bathroom-mirror selfies ? :D
WillyNourson··on When HHVM doesn't work quite right
"nginx does provide health_check in its commercial builds, but at this time I'm not too inclined to pay $1500/server/year for the pleasure."

But Varnish does it for free out of the box ! Quick example from the documentation (https://www.varnish-cache.org/trac/wiki/BackendPolling) :

backend b0 { .host = "phk.freebsd.dk"; .probe = { .url = "/probe.cgi"; .timeout = 34 ms; .interval = 1s; .window = 10; .threshold = 8; } }

WillyNourson··on Apple App Store STATUS_CODE_ERROR causes service problems
We should seek some news from Akamaï
WillyNourson··on Coinbase Exchange
Coinbase Exchange API, protectedd by CloudFlare ? Hum.
WillyNourson··on A positive leap second will be introduced at the end of June 2015
Because of High Frequency Trading
WillyNourson··on Microcontrollers Not Allowed – Trolling a college instructor
Ah remembers me of this "genius" chinese external hard drive scam : http://www.neowin.net/news/fake-chinese-500-gb-external-driv...
WillyNourson··on Obfuscating “Hello World” in Python
This is like brainf*ck to me.