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by CodeMage 13y ago
Great job! I really loved LGB. One small complaint: level advanced2 could be solved with 3 commands instead of 5, if only you recognized the "--onto" option in "rebase" command :)
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by CodeMage 13y ago
So, because you can't find fault with my main point that there are scary high-impact potential threats that the US government can and should try to protect us from, you are instead picking apart an imaginary scenario that I spent all
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by CodeMage 13y ago
And yet you chose to present your ideas using words. At the heart of the Web is the communication between humans. At the heart of that communication are words. You can argue that we can communicate using images, but that communication is li
724.
by CodeMage 13y ago
That's the old mentality: "NSA/CIA/FBI/UGA will actively spy on me ." The way I see it, that's not the greatest danger right now. Instead, we should be worried about the government being able to passiv
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by CodeMage 13y ago
And that's something that frequently ends up being overlooked in discussions like this. Software development isn't special because you need to state it in terms of goals. Yet you don't see people telling surgeons "you sh
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The Code That Needs To Be Written(beardseye.blogspot.com)
2 points by CodeMage 13y ago|0 comments
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by CodeMage 13y ago
If you don't mind my curiosity, what do you do for money?
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by CodeMage 13y ago
You know, your comment made me think a lot. You're both right and wrong at the same time, but I couldn't find a good way to express why and how. In the end, I believe Michael Ende described it the best in "The Neverending Story" (the book,
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by CodeMage 13y ago
The software source for stuff like /usr/bin/ssh is a thing that has some serious infrastructure, well-established procedures and well-organized people. Right from the start the trustworthiness of that source is higher than average, arbitrar
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by CodeMage 13y ago
> most users prefer using web applications to installed all else equal because it's easier. Except that all else is clearly not equal: your solution is insecure.
731.
by CodeMage 13y ago
Maybe it sounds extreme, but I agree with @edw519: you don't want to work at a place that lets a project fail as badly as the OP described it. I've been in situations like that too often and I've learned that particular lesson too well. Lik
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by CodeMage 13y ago
You've got a lot of good points there, but I think the worst problem with the article is that it oversimplifies everything. It's fundamentally wrong about a whole lot of things. For example, it assumes that there's only one reason for wanti
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by CodeMage 13y ago
I was going to complain about the same thing, but it turns out that @lsc said "more money does not always mean more successful children". Perhaps it was a poor choice of words and he really meant "happier" instead of "more successful".
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by CodeMage 13y ago
I didn't start this project to solve problems for bloggers, there are plenty of them solving it really well. It is a niche problem that I had. This. The startup-oriented audience sometimes forgets that people don't always start a project
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by CodeMage 13y ago
There's a balance to strive for between making a statement concisely and making it nitpick-proof. I could have been more factually correct by stating that it's illegal to sell booze directly to minors, but that would've made the tone of my
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by CodeMage 13y ago
You're absolutely right! We shouldn't let these petty concerns about the competence of children infringe on our liberties! For too long has the Almighty State been sticking its nose where it doesn't belong and we should do something about a
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by CodeMage 13y ago
Poverty on the other hand is a much, much harder problem than that. In fact, no one quite knows how to solve it in a general way (there are things that seem to work in certain contexts but not in others, many special case half-solutions).
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by CodeMage 13y ago
That kind of comment can only be excused by lack of experience. Try "making time" when, for example, you've got a job where you can't bring your food with you (and would have nowhere to heat it up even if you were permitted to bring it), a
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by CodeMage 13y ago
That's a nice sentiment, but I don't see how you can apply it to any situation that involves estimating a project for a client, based on client's requirements. I wish the article actually addressed the problem of estimating the time/effort
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by CodeMage 13y ago
I have a stupid question: how do you do this with HTTP Basic auth?
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by CodeMage 14y ago
With certain people, it's not just about crude jokes. I think Lyndsy Simon summed it up pretty well in his comment on Avdi Grimm's G+ post [1]. It's not possible to link to a comment, so I'll reproduce it here: I was at a sprint on Monday,
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by CodeMage 14y ago
Their boss finding out what they said got them fired. You know, we don't actually know what they said. We also don't know for sure why the guy was fired. It might help to keep these things in mind before yelling "off with their heads" or
743.
by CodeMage 14y ago
The fact that the former was meant to be private doesn't grant it a reasonable expectation of privacy. When you're in a public place where you're likely to be overhead, don't expect privacy. More importantly, the issue of privacy is irrel
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by CodeMage 14y ago
You misinterpret the reaction. I'm not suggesting that the guys meant any harm. It's in their right to make the joke, and it's in her right to respond, and anyone telling you that the guys meant harm but she didn't is applying a double sta
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by CodeMage 14y ago
The problem is that people are attributing to her certain actions that she was not involved in. She didn't fire the guy; the employer did, based on his interpretation of the actions. I am continually perplexed to see this argument. Two gu
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by CodeMage 14y ago
I believe she's being a hypocrite by taking offense one day, and making her own penis joke on Twitter the next. I've seen that argument tossed about. There's a difference between reading someone's Twitter stream and hearing someone's joke
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Off With Their Heads: The PyCon Incident and Our Society(beardseye.blogspot.com)
1 points by CodeMage 14y ago|0 comments
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by CodeMage 14y ago
It's not about fault. It's about responsibility. It's your responsibility not to expect explanations of observed inconsistencies to be spoon-fed to you [...] Let's put this part to test. I hereby claim that I can teach you how to transmut
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by CodeMage 14y ago
Funny, what you call out here is quite similar to what I've witnessed, too, only I have a different point of view. For example, "we know agile better than the project managers" often comes from people who find themselves in yet another carg
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Mrs. Mayer's Major Misstep(beardseye.blogspot.com)
1 points by CodeMage 14y ago|0 comments

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