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decrypt.co 3y ago

Bitcoin Plunges 7% in an Hour to Under $28,000 as Mt. Gox, US Gov Wallets Move

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www.pistoncloud.com 12y ago

What is SDN and Should You Buy Into the Hype?

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www.nasa.gov 15y ago

NASA to Hold News Conference on Astrobiology Discovery

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lcamtuf.blogspot.com 15y ago

Skipfish, the Open Source Web Application Security Scanner

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www.julien-oster.de 15y ago

FeynTube - transform YouTube comments into reasonable and smart ones

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whatever.scalzi.com 15y ago

Why Not Feeling Rich is Not Being Poor, and Other Things Financial

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www.wimp.com 16y ago

How to open a wine bottle with a shoe

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www.acmuller.net 16y ago

Wikipedia and the Matter of Responsibility

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www.iphouse.com 16y ago

Carpet in the datacenter

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store.steampowered.com 16y ago

Portal 2 Announced

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io9.com 16y ago

Your Military Science Fiction Isn't Really Military Science Fiction

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content.usatoday.com 16y ago

Israel cancels raid after soldier posts details on Facebook

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www.eetimes.com 16y ago

Junctionless transistor could simplify chip making

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www.xefer.com 16y ago

Tweets by Time of Day & Day of Week

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news.cnet.com 16y ago

Hacker 'Mudge' gets Darpa job

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en.wikipedia.org 16y ago

Embedding Pictures in Music

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darkreading.com 16y ago

Fog of Cyberwar

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www.20by20room.com 16y ago

Lexicon: A Roleplaying Game

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www.schneier.com 16y ago

TSA Logo Contest

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www.theregister.co.uk 16y ago

Scammers Scrape RAM for Credit Card Data

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www.dailymail.co.uk 16y ago

Mystery as spiral blue light display hovers above Norway

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theappleblog.com 16y ago

Apple's Official iPhone 3G Unlock

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The projects are more interesting and feel like they are actually benefiting humanity, rather than making money for some random company. Though there can be a lot more bureaucracy and friction. Pay is certainly less, though sometimes the benefits can be better.

There's also annoyances coming from political things, such as the budget not being done on time so no one gets paid or there are furlough days.

It's a lot easier to delete specific lines using sed. Also you can have sed do replacements to the n'th instance of something. Doing that in Perl is a bit more complicated and a lot less succint.

$ echo "foo foo foo foo" | sed 's/foo/bar/3'

foo foo bar foo

Title Junk 16 years ago

An unfamiliar favicon lets me know I am not somewhere I normally would be, and to regard the site I am at more suspiciously. Without familiar favicons, I would treat every site that way before looking at the page more thoroughly. Obviously I do not rely solely on favicons, but they are a good initial way of orienting myself when looking at tabs.

Title Junk 16 years ago

I can distinguish the icons of every site I visit on a semi-regular basis.

Actually, since st1 is a char* and the sizeof char is 1, that is a valid declaration. It just probably isn't doing what the writer expects. It allocates 5000 bytes and then moves the pointer to point at the very last byte.

edit: Though free()ing it would not work so well until you move the pointer back to the beginning of the 5000 bytes.

My Google Interview 16 years ago

Positive that 'a' is on /dev/sda1. Running CentOS 5.5 and /dev/sda1 is ext3.

I get similar behavior on the other partition:

echo "a" > a; du -sh a

8.0K a

dumpe2fs /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 | grep "Block size"

Block size: 4096

Though if I 'touch' the files to create them, they are the blocksize. Which seems odd, since on my AIX and HP-UX boxes that gives files of size 0.

My Google Interview 16 years ago

That doesn't exactly work.

echo "a" > a; du -sh a; rm a

2.0K a

dumpe2fs /dev/sda1 | grep -i 'Block size'

Block size: 1024

Xz 16 years ago

Software that was released 9 months ago isn't particularly new.