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spp··on Am I a douchebag micromanager?
Please don't use hashes for this. Use bcrypt (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bcrypt). Hashes are designed to be easy to compute, bcrypt is adaptive in the sense that it can be made harder to compute over time, so it's a lot harder to brute force. It also adds a salt by default.
spp··on I have written a basic chat application using node.js, what do you guys think?
pd: you should telnet/nc to 4ws.cl 8800 to connect.
spp··on I have written a basic chat application using node.js, what do you guys think?
It's working at 4ws.cl:8800
spp··on I have written a basic chat application using node.js, what do you guys think?
I've written a (very) basic mud server in node.js (in like 8 hours). Maybe you'll be interested: https://github.com/farevalod/nodemud (I'd appreciate some comments on it too!)
spp··on Learn Regex The Hard Way
Chapter 4 of Jeffrey Friedl's "Mastering Regular Expressions" goes in depth about NFA/POSIX NFA/DFA. It even has car analogies!
spp··on Ubuntu 11.10 Released (Online Tour)
Did you try "sudo apt-get install fancontrol"?
spp··on Promising HIV vaccine passes phase one human trials with 90% success rate
In the context of this discussion, I believe "a few billion dollars" would be pretty cheap.
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Actually, this makes me think. The area now dissipating heat is much smaller (perimeter of the square * h, and used to be the area of the square). You have to dissipate the heat. The solution really can't be as simple as the article proposes.
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What? Why is this, isn't memory indexed for direct access?
spp··on If this then that
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September

Nothing to see here, move along.

spp··on How much of R is written in R?
I learned R some time ago in university. I've heard of lots of newly graduated colleagues that now work doing "SPSS consulting" (whatever that means) for big businesses. But I can't really see how you could use R to parse financial data, becaule I lack the financial background to understand what it means. Maybe that's what SPSS provides, and what singingfish means with "you don't need to know what you're doing".
spp··on How much of R is written in R?
How well R competes with SPSS?