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by BrandonM 15y ago
I totally agree. I'm not a Gruber fan and I've never owned a Mac, but I was still interested in his analysis of why they held the meetings in the fashion they did. Letting us in on some of Apple's inner workings and their collective "though
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by BrandonM 15y ago
That sounds very interesting, and I'd love to read the study. Please post back here if you find it.
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Foolproof HTML escaping in Javascript(shebang.brandonmintern.com)
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Python: Iterators, Generators, itertools, & Special Methods [2008](brandonmintern.com)
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by BrandonM 15y ago
Part of the reason that Python has no canonical package management is that it is rooted in Linux, where the distro is perfectly capable of handling the task of package installation. It's an unfortunate artifact of shitty software management
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by BrandonM 15y ago
I appreciate the link, but I definitely disagree with you.
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by BrandonM 15y ago
Don't forget Studio 35 just northeast of campus, where they have a HUGE beer selection, a great staff, and monthly productions/showings of Rocky Horror Picture Show.
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by BrandonM 15y ago
This is the first rational explanation I've seen for this, so I voted it up. I'd be interested in hearing alternative solutions, if only for your sake :).
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by BrandonM 15y ago
Managing DNS completely separately is fine, too. I just don't think it's a particularly good idea to use your registrar as your DNS provider unless you're also using it for hosting. I'd much rather point my registrar at my host's DNS than t
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by BrandonM 15y ago
Why do people equate registrars with DNS? Wherever you're hosting your site is where you should be handling DNS.
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by BrandonM 15y ago
You don't have to wait until they expire! Transferring adds another year to your current registration, and you don't lose anything at all, unless you bought hosting at GoDaddy. For basic website hosting, I've been very happy with HostGator.
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by BrandonM 15y ago
The aspect of profit that is potentially bad is the maximization part. Based on the cost of the machine and some kind of statistical model, let's say that we determine that the inventor can make the most money (per time worked) if he sells
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by BrandonM 15y ago
You need to divide $91,250 by 8 (=$11,406.25), because the napkins are typically sold for $0.25 for 8 of them. Then, subtract out the costs of energy and raw materials and divide the result by 4 (the number of people it takes to work the ma
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by BrandonM 15y ago
I rarely use -p. Please point out where it was inappropriate.
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by BrandonM 15y ago
I forgot about sshfs! I don't seem to use it as much anymore, but I first encountered it about 6 years ago and thought it was pretty amazing. There is a downside to sshfs, though, and it's related to the classic Joel on Software post, "The
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by BrandonM 15y ago
Two points: 1. The scp command is not quite the same because it's not maintaining all the file metadata the way that tar is. 2. The examples were mostly intended to be illustrative, showing that you can do things like cd around on the remot
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by BrandonM 15y ago
Thanks for the suggestion... that is much simpler. I added that to the post. Sorry about commenting being so difficult; I'm using Posterous, so it's not by my design.
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by BrandonM 15y ago
Thanks for the link. I've actually been pleasantly surprised by Xvnc over an "ssh -C" tunnel. Additionally, there are some parameters you can set for the vncserver (man Xvnc... one example is "-deferUpdate") that can significantly improve p
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by BrandonM 15y ago
Thanks for the suggestions. I've been meaning to check out tmux, and just today I tried to install FreeNX to replace VNC. I hope my post at least provides a useful starting place and some creative ideas (e.g. SSH+auto-screen) for someone wh
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Tips for Remote Unix Work (SSH, screen, and VNC)(shebang.brandonmintern.com)
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by BrandonM 15y ago
It's rather interesting to see members here proclaim in one breath that legislators are money-grubbing old-fashioned idiots who are just out to make a bunch of laws, and in another remark complain of them calling people "nerds". Other group
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by BrandonM 15y ago
I think you're missing the larger point. One option is to cater to your fans, to cultivate a large fan base, and then to offer them a convenient way to support you. Another option is to cater to the whims of a production company, promote yo
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by BrandonM 15y ago
> But to say he hasn't done any publicity to this point is stretching the truth - he's promoted it all over his Twitter, gone on Reddit, did an interview on NPR, etc. This is all stuff that he was able to do from the comfort of his ow
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by BrandonM 15y ago
Google owns YouTube and Google+, both of which are sites for user-created content. And besides, the Internet is user-created content, indexed by Google. SOPA would require them to police their index just as much as the more direct user-co
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by BrandonM 15y ago
Since it takes a while to raise money, and since running low on cash can lead to a crisis, much fundraising is in anticipation of 1 or 2. But you're right, a lot of status do seem to raise money simply because it's what everyone else is doi
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by BrandonM 15y ago
From that perspective, sure, but the original context was that Scheme is not useful to a programmer except perhaps as an instructional endeavor. I gave evidence contradicting that assertion.
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by BrandonM 15y ago
I think people are more likely downvoting because "it's PHP also" is utterly incorrect, yet stated as if it's fact. As for the UI, many HN members (including pg?) have expressed the idea that the types of people that get hung up on UI short
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by BrandonM 15y ago
> It's exactly like learning scheme. Seriously who fucking cares about scheme? Err... This website is written in Arc (a cousin of Scheme), which itself is implemented in MzScheme. So by extension, you care about scheme, and so does
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by BrandonM 15y ago
To be fair, it's only 3 or 4 people in the thread who appear to be of the authoritarian "do what the government says and get off my lawn" mindset. It just shows how easy it is for a vocal minority to dominate a discussion.
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by BrandonM 15y ago
I totally agree. The author actually did great work in exploring what students need to improve to be able to write the types of essays that pg was talking about. It's too bad the author didn't actually realize that. I also wish the author h

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