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Use bugmenot. ;) http://www.bugmenot.com/view/scribd.com

It's rather interesting that every story I read advocating that any member of the eurozone should get out for one reason or other, was written by someone not in the eurozone.

I wonder if these people are trying to make the situation seem worse than it is in order to further drag down the value of the Euro. It certainly looks like that and I'm not one to believe conspiracies.

Yes, the situation is bad, but if the eurozone crumbles, every country involved will suffer. We would have trouble exporting goods and protectionist policies would be common.

Nope, it's not from Portugal. Judging from the portuguese text, I suppose it's a Brazillian search engine.

Either way, congratulations to the creators, it's rather nice. I found out that when the english locale is selected, some text still shows up in portuguese (like the text from advanced search).

Thanks, I found it useful. :)

A small bug I noticed: longer biographies aren't showing up in full [1]. Happens in both Chrome 5.0.375.17, Safari 4.0.5 and Firefox 3.6.2; OSX 10.6.3.

[1] http://cl.ly/YXs

Yep, it does. Usually OSX gets everything right immediately after connecting my MBP to a TV, although sometimes (rarely, in my experience) it needs adjustment, but that only takes a couple of clicks.

I'd love to get one Henge Dock, but it seems they're only available for Unibody Macbooks. :(

One-page version here: http://www.technologyreview.com/printer_friendly_article.asp...

Would content-aware fill be enough? http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2010/03/caf_in_ps.html

That's so amazing my brain won't stop screaming "FAKE!". :)

I used to use dmenu in Linux, which used just a few kilobytes of memory, wasn't running all the time in the background and was fast...

My point was how little memory Alfred uses when compared the Quicksilver or Google QSB (the latter currently taking up 39MB at the moment).

[I just noticed this reply was an example of this: http://xkcd.com/386/]

I didn't mean to be too evil in my comment. I actually like the design and how fast it feels (not that QSB is slow). :)

I'll keep tuned for updates. It does seems promising, although it isn't yet complete enough for me (or for people who tend to use Quicksilver as more than just an application launcher).

EDIT: I just noticed Alfred uses very little memory (12.5MB after launching an app). http://grab.by/2V19

Not bad at all, but I still find Google Quick Search Box[1] more complete. Navigating the filesystem directly is what I miss the most in Alfred.

EDIT: It also doesn't seem to have a built-in calculator. :(

[1] http://code.google.com/p/qsb-mac/

"How I turned coding unicorn picture technology into a $12 million a year business"

Bonus points for madness!

What can I say? Pico Computing likes to brag and Dr. Dobb's published an article about it. As you said in your first comment, there's nothing new about this.

Sorry, my bad. I didn't bother to research, just pulled that from the article.

  Pico Computing has announced that it has achieved the
  highest-known benchmark speeds for 56-bit DES decryption, 
  with reported throughput of over 280 billion keys per
  second achieved using a single, hardware-accelerated server.

Sure, but I suppose their means didn't consist in a PCI Express card filled with FPGAs, like described in the article.

I think their point was this:

  When using a Pico FPGA cluster, however, each FPGA is able
  to perform 1.6 billion DES operations per second. A cluster
  of 176 FPGAs, installed into a single server using standard
  PCI Express slots, is capable of processing more than 280
  billion DES operations per second. This means that a key
  recovery that would take years to perform on a PC, even
  with GPU acceleration, could be accomplished in less than 
  three days on the FPGA cluster.

So, they managed to brute-force DES a lot faster. No crypto breakthrough, please move along. :)

This should have been titled "FPGA cluster brute-forces DES in record time" or something like that.

Well, it's not strictly necessary, I could have just used an image with my email address but that could be harvested by OCR-capable spambots (I think there are a few in the wild) and wouldn't be clickable. ;)

With the captcha, I can be fairly sure that a human solved it (reCAPTCHA is particularly good at filtering bots, afaik) and the user gets a clickable link.

In any case, that's just to accomodate browsers without Javascript or with it disabled. I believe most people have Javascript enabled, so they'd get a regular mailto link.

I use a combination of reCAPTCHA Mailhide [1] and Javascript.

By default I use the link to my "mailhidden" email. Then, some Javascript code [2] replaces that link with a mailto link. The email is saved in the js file after being ROT13'd and encoded as HTML ASCII entities.

If the user has JS active, he/she sees a regular mailto link. Otherwise, he/she sees an http link to recaptcha and, as long as the user's browser can display images, he/she can solve the captcha and see my email address.

You can see an example of this working in my personal site. [3]

Until spambots can run javascript or solve recaptchas, I'm safe. :)

[1] http://mailhide.recaptcha.net/

[2] http://ricardomartins.cc/js/email.js

[3] http://ricardomartins.cc

I'm working on 0xCOFFEE, a compiler for a toy language implemented using Ruby, TreeTop and LLVM.

http://github.com/meqif/0xCOFFEE

It's quite fun, but I had to fork llvmruby (the ruby bindings for LLVM), since it lacked some things, like allowing access to part of the LLVM API and raising RuntimeErrors instead of segfaulting (especially because of some code mutations that heckle[1] generates).

Currently, this is just a little project to keep me busy during the past holidays and the current university exam month, but I hope to create a nice language.

[1] http://glu.ttono.us/articles/2006/12/19/tormenting-your-test...

From Wikipedia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink#Pink_in_gender]:

"In Western culture, the practice of assigning pink to an individual gender began in the 1920s.[5] From then until the 1940s, pink was considered appropriate for boys because being related to red it was the more masculine and decided color, while blue was considered appropriate for girls because it was the more delicate and dainty color, or related to the Virgin Mary.[6][7][8] Since the 1940s, the societal norm apparently inverted so that pink became appropriate for girls and blue appropriate for boys, a practice that has continued into the 21st century.[9]"

So yes, you're right, this association is recent.

I use gandi.

Was this it? http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32q/benchmark.php?test=al...

I use tarsnap[1] and not-so-regular backups to my home fileserver.

[1] http://tarsnap.com