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Re:Al Jazeera America to Shut Down in April on Wednesday January 13, 2016 @06:12PM (#10898414)
_______ is propaganda run by a government that has propaganda as its modus operendi (INSERT TOP NEWS NETWORK HERE)
Re:Ansible 2.0 released on Tuesday January 12, 2016 @09:36PM (#10891990)
That does not make it Turing complete.

"You need some form of dynamic allocation construct (malloc ornew or cons will do) and either recursive functions or some other way of writing an infinite loop. If you have those and can do anything at all interesting, you're almost certainly Turing-complete." -- http://stackoverflow.com/a/449170

Re:Chinese Markets Halted, Equities Plunge Another 7% on Thursday January 07, 2016 @06:24PM (#10861621)
What does this mean for Bitcoin?
Re:Sneak Peek at Bitcoin's Upcoming Killer App – Open Bazaar on Thursday January 07, 2016 @02:20PM (#10860051)
> Also, how do you plan to scale up transparency?

I suggest using a web of trust akin to PGP signing mechanisms

Re:China stock trading halted early after 7% plunge again on Wednesday January 06, 2016 @11:31PM (#10855994)
What does this mean for Bitcoin?
Re:Pymux: a tmux clone in pure Python on Sunday January 03, 2016 @04:52PM (#10832654)
Same goes for Python
Re:Pymux: a tmux clone in pure Python on Sunday January 03, 2016 @03:15PM (#10832132)
Because doing it in C might be a waste of time
Re:The Refragmentation on Sunday January 03, 2016 @02:30AM (#10829847)
The inequality gap is the direct result of an education gap
Re:Microkernels are slow and Elvis didn't do no drugs on Friday January 01, 2016 @11:08PM (#10824981)
Great idea! I deleted everything in <head> and it looks beautiful
Re:What It Feels Like to Be Adopted at 17 on Friday January 01, 2016 @11:05PM (#10824973)
What happened to the brother!?
Re:The rise and decline of Wikipedia [pdf] on Thursday December 31, 2015 @03:33PM (#10819535)
^ this guy is why we can't have nice things
Re:The rise and decline of Wikipedia [pdf] on Thursday December 31, 2015 @03:27PM (#10819505)
No
Re:How DEA Agents Took Down Mexico's Most Vicious Drug Cartel on Sunday December 27, 2015 @07:32PM (#10799264)
Have you seen what sleep deprivation does to people? Have you seen how it causes people to lose their impulse control and go crazy ? What about driving ?
The design sucks it is not minimalist and most elements are too big. Do you even use Vim/Emacs?
Re:What web developers should know about SSL on Tuesday December 22, 2015 @01:56AM (#10776292)
The general public couldn't care less about EV certs.

Important reading: http://webmasters.stackexchange.com/a/9095

Re:1% the Code (2001) on Sunday December 20, 2015 @04:14PM (#10768319)
two words: job security
Thanks for the paper! Great read
Re:Tensorflow 0.6.0 Release on Tuesday December 15, 2015 @01:48PM (#10739576)
excellent!
Works really well for Somalia!
Re:Tensorflow 0.6.0 Release on Wednesday December 09, 2015 @07:05PM (#10707864)
Python 3 support please
It is very difficult to do distribution right, and Postgres is extremely conservative when it comes to new features.

Stability, reliability, and performance are #1

Re:Slack is down on Monday November 23, 2015 @03:10PM (#10616966)
My company is unaffected because we use MatterMost internally
Re:Math.random in V8 is broken on Friday November 20, 2015 @10:28PM (#10605415)
this. also /dev/random blocks and it can be really slow
Lol, like they give a fuck
Big media is controlled by powerful politicians.
Re:BetaFEC on Friday November 13, 2015 @05:45PM (#10562882)
But the politics don't change as a result of it.
Re:Google launches offline maps on Wednesday November 11, 2015 @01:39AM (#10545156)
All I use is an Android phone loaded with the OSMAND app and a small 1 sq. ft. flexible solar panel. I'm good.
Re:HTML as TeX replacement on Saturday November 07, 2015 @12:53PM (#10525551)
HELL NO.

If you need to, generate HTML et. al. from TeX. But HTML is not a substitute for TeX. Forget it.

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