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cjg_··on Halloween Bash Profile Generator
Nice!

A bug report, space tokens should not exhaust. Currently you can at max have 2 spaces, the one that is in the config by default and one from the available tokens.

cjg_··on Hacking ls -l
FYI, Greg Lehey is a longtime FreeBSD committer.
cjg_··on First case of malware in the Apple App Store.
Spoofing sender in SMS is easy, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_spoofing
cjg_··on US Navy's High-Resolution Radar Can See Individual Raindrops In a Storm
Yeah, continuously is the point here. The frequency of the data points is largely dependent of the distance to the object. And you need to be able to identify the object in two subsequent images.

I guess there's not that many insects at high altitudes either.

cjg_··on US Navy's High-Resolution Radar Can See Individual Raindrops In a Storm
Still need to distinguish between a large insect and a plane having the signature of a large insect. Otherwise you'd have a lot of false positives.
cjg_··on Visualizing Galois Fields
"The polynomial m(x ) (‘11B’) for the multiplication in GF(28) is the first one of the list of irreducible polynomials of degree 8, given in [LiNi86, p. 378]."

from the Rijndael submission to the AES competition, page 25 (http://csrc.nist.gov/archive/aes/rijndael/Rijndael-ammended....)

LiNi86 refers to is R. Lidl and H. Niederreiter, Introduction to finite fields and their applications, Cambridge University Press, 1986.

So there is no apparent reason they choose this polynomial, i.e. other would also have worked.

cjg_··on PyCharm 2.5 python IDE released.
Checked my last receipt from them, 19% VAT was included in the total amount billed (this was 2011 and it was for Resharper). But the seem to sell it through a German company so I guess it is German VAT.
cjg_··on PyCharm 2.5 python IDE released.
Based in the EU means they have to collect VAT for all EU customers. And the VAT amount depends on the volume of sales. If they sell more than a certain amount (€100k) to a specific country they can collect the VAT rate for the buyer country otherwise it is the seller country VAT. And the VAT seems to be 20% in Czech Republic. (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_value_added_tax#...)
cjg_··on Hidden features of C#
I would recommend "C# in Depth" by Jon Skeet also.
cjg_··on Kiva is matching loans for first time donors
A few months ago you could do a trial $25 loan with their money. Guess matching loans is better though.
cjg_··on Our holiday / vacation policy – unlimited with bonuses
Minimum 28 days, is that including public holidays?

As in Sweden, 25 days is minimum paid vacation, not including public holidays.

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