mthomas

Kenyan engineer modernizes vintage cars with a custom ECU and EFI upgrades

#3 has a, b and c parts.

I don't see any clever way to make that more readable. I would have to break it into two subexpressions and then take the difference. i.e.

    (setv e0 (-> (+ 1 3 88) (/ 2)))
    (setv e1 (-> (+ 3 2) (* 8)))
    (setv result (- e0 e1))

I find that both are equally (un)readable. However, for expressions that are that long, I'm inclined to write:

    (setv result (-> (+ 1 3 88) 
                     (/ 2) 
                     (- 8)))

I wonder what the backup is for when the power fails while several cars are in one shaft.

HSQLDB comes with a command line tool called SqlTool http://hsqldb.org/doc/2.0/util-guide/sqltool-chapt.html

You will have to setup the classpath manually and specify the jdbc driver. It is pretty basic.

Release notes here: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/v0.3.0-rc1/NEWS.md

The title is misleading. Verizon is buying out Vodafone's part of Verizon Wireless. Verizon Wireless is owned 55/45 by Verizon and Vodafone.

SyntaxError: not a chance

It would be nice if they put a link to the main site from the blog for those who don't know what this is.

My understanding of hadoop and hdfs is that both input and ourput are to/from disk. Your MR jobs are spun up and pointed to hdfs urls to read input from and they write to hdfs when done. This means that when there is an error, the intermediate computations don't necessarily have to be redone. However there is a trade off.

Additionally, I believe that HDFS keeps 3 copies of the data around on 3 different nodes for redundancy. So there is the overhead of that network traffic.

http://www.silentpcreview.com/stop_lcd_whine What happens if you increase the brightness

There is no information in that article except generic language about injection.

I believe this is the actual advisory: http://www.mindedsecurity.com/fileshare/ExpressionLanguageIn...

It appears that spring double evaluates the expressions, so you can send a request param that is an EL expression that references values present in the server environment.

Can I ask that all product blogs provide a link to the actual site? Not everyone knows what layervault is and it would be nice to browse to the site without having to manipulate the address bar.

It is annoying that facebook login is required.

Why not use S3 with cloudfront.

How opensource is it if you have to agree to a TOS and give them your email to view any documentation about it.

If I recall correctly, we sent a daily feed to Upromise. I don't know how often or when they updated their totals.

That's more or less correct. But, the customer who is tracking their percentages earned would know that their purchases were not accounted for.

Each retailer that "supports" Upromise sends them a sha256 hash of your creditcard along with the amount for each transaction.

Seconded. Alternatively you can just take a power drill and drill a hole straight through the case into all the platters.

You simply highlight the blocked text to reveal it. The text is the same color as the background.

I question the inclusion of bubble sort especially two versions of it. I worry that people are more prone to using bubble sort, because it's conceptually simple.

This headline is misleading. According to the article, Anonymous is targeting the US Chamber of Commerce http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Chamber_of_Commer... which is a business lobby, not part of the US Government.

There is more to CSV that splitting a line on commas. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma-separated_values#Basic_ru...

You need to be able to handle values that contain commas, quotes, leading spaces and line breaks.

I have to say inception wasn't too difficult to understand. I still don't understand Primer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primer_(film) though.

Also, they would have to recompile and test all their existing applications on the ARM architecture. It was a big deal when they switched from PowerPC to Intel.

I guess that this would make sense if they started making laptops running iOS.

This is a single data point. Its best not to draw conclusions from it.

The article is from 2008. Link to the project page: http://nixos.org/ with links to a video and slides from 2011

The details of the Calculus were not worked out until decades after Newton and Leibniz: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_analysis.

However, the notation that most people use to denote infinitesimals and differentiation is Leibniz's notation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leibnizs_notation