Firehed

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by Firehed 14y ago
Well, you can't deny that it does stop the abuse. Really poor implementation though.
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by Firehed 14y ago
What kind of price are we talking about here? Hundreds? Thousands? Tens of thousands? I realize that there are plenty of people who will be able to afford nothing beyond what their insurance covers, but of those that can, I imagine the pric
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by Firehed 14y ago
I'm more turned off by hard-to-read regular expressions, especially ones that look like they may break depending on what terminal emulator I'm using, how quotes are escaped, etc. The "you've been doing it wrong for years" tone I could do wi
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by Firehed 14y ago
That assumes that "silver" will appear before "needle", which may not always be the case. `grep needle file | grep silver` gets you lines containing both "silver" and "needle" but not necessarily in that order.
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by Firehed 14y ago
Not just that, but cleaning up (er, creating) multi-sign-on support. We've fortunately decided to only use our company domain emails for Dropbox for Teams, but because I can only be logged in to one Dropbox account at a time, it prevents me
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by Firehed 14y ago
I'm ok[1] with them for "I accidentally deleted a file" type stuff, I would not suggest it for a full system backup. I'd suggest SuperDuper! for that if you're on a Mac; I don't have any useful suggestions for Windows or Linux users (sorry
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by Firehed 14y ago
Or you let it go to your head, get cocky and start assuming that you can do no wrong, and start making stupid decisions that lead you and your company to failure and bankruptcy. It will affect everyone differently. But I imagine the folks t
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by Firehed 14y ago
Oh, I don't think isolating logic necessarily adds a layer, unless you go overboard with isolating it. I think we're probably caught up on the subtle differences between encapsulation and abstraction. There seems to be a point where "I can'
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by Firehed 14y ago
Every extra file I have to look through when programming is an added cost; abstractions add more than just CPU overhead. The highest-priced EC2 instance on Amazon is under $5/hr; you won't find a decent programmer whose time is worth anywhe
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by Firehed 14y ago
When the actual logic resides deep in a call stack, it's more difficult to debug code, much less bring on new developers. Each additional abstraction layer is, unsurprisingly, another layer that you're going to have to trace through to get
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by Firehed 14y ago
Well to be fair, if you're the type that is sure that you can simply will your beliefs into becoming reality (preferably without recognizing the concept of reality), then you almost certainly fit into one of those two groups.
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by Firehed 14y ago
When your friends are talking about the latest episode just after it airs, waiting a year isn't necessarily practical. That doesn't make piracy OK , but it certainly makes it a lot easier for many people to justify.
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by Firehed 14y ago
It's not, but the problems it tries to solve are the same and it seems to do a better job solving them.
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by Firehed 14y ago
Font designers are not security experts, just as the music and movie industry are also not security experts. There's just as high of a chance that these fonts are already posted to torrent sites, too. At least with custom/designer fonts, t
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by Firehed 14y ago
It's insanely high-contrast with a relatively light (thin) typeface and light-on-dark. While I fear the idea of having that neon green as the background instead as I may start glowing, having a slightly heavier font or a not-so-extreme gree
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by Firehed 14y ago
Really? Are you in enterprise software or something? We (WePay) see less than 1% of our traffic and revenue from IE<=7, and that includes the data from our embeddable checkout flow. And of that tiny amount, most is related to our API. W
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by Firehed 14y ago
Cuban has ranted about software patents publicly many times. He's just putting his money where his mouth is. Even if he's done little that's innovative (I don't know, I'm not especially familiar with his history), there's no reason he can'
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by Firehed 14y ago
So, ensure that organizations that fail to achieve their goal go away? This isn't complicated: if you want to keep your job, you need to do it, and meet some sort of standard in doing so. The problem is we've somehow managed to create orga
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by Firehed 14y ago
The number of times I've wanted to find a non-harmful way to prove that point (smoke grenades come to mind)... but the risk to me is not worth it, and all it would do is introduce some sort of pre-security screening that completely fails to
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by Firehed 14y ago
The pre-2001 screening was perfectly fine, and would still work today (maybe excepting the improvements to detecting plastic explosives, although I imagine that screening would have picked up the detonators just fine). The other major impro
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by Firehed 14y ago
The TSA is more actively harmful to the freedoms we (supposedly) cherish, and is a strong push towards a surveillance society and a police state. Many other agencies are equally unproductive (or actually do something useful, just in a very
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by Firehed 14y ago
Open source wasn't exactly a huge priority for Microsoft in 1995 when the application came into existence. In fact I think it's a testament to their backwards compatibility that pinball survived for as long as it did with little or no main
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by Firehed 14y ago
I'm mostly surprised they allow so much power to phone reps. In my way-too-many years of using Amazon I've had to call them precisely once, about trying to get an SSD replaced that had died just outside of warranty (yes, they did replace i
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by Firehed 14y ago
Why are we limiting to firearm-related deaths? Within hours of the event in CT, there was another mass attack at a school in China - that one by knife, wounding twenty or so. While guns may have increased the severity of the damage, the lac
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by Firehed 14y ago
Odd choice of categorization. Subscription implies that if you're not paying you don't get access, in contrast to (recurring) donations where it's optional and more of a charity.
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by Firehed 14y ago
Not really. People that turn off display_errors and set up proper logging typically know what they're doing; it's a pretty sensible default for "my first website" level of projects. Remember, those folks are just uploading PHP files to thei
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by Firehed 14y ago
Most beginners are not going to be looking at their error log, or even know where to look for it. In a development environment, I think display_errors is a very reasonable behavior, and is in line with PHP's goals: be easy to get up and ru
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by Firehed 14y ago
I assume the former, as they just killed free signups for Apps For Your Domain (and one of the best "first hit is free" tricks in recent history)
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by Firehed 14y ago
Fully agree. While you get new mail notifications, the messages are not downloaded to the app in the background as they hit your inbox. Every time you swipe the notification to view the message, you have to wait a good ten seconds for the a
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by Firehed 14y ago
Sure, but who uses iCloud as their primary email provider? I certainly don't trust Apple to get it right, given their experiences with internet services. They've already changed people's email addresses as least twice, which is beyond uncoo

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