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by Fizzadar 12y ago
We use HipChat at work, and I use Slack for some other projects; both pale in comparison to the simplicity, flexibility and client-options of IRC. But for those less technical it's a fantastic and easy to setup alternative. Pointless i
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by Fizzadar 12y ago
Thanks for the links, really interesting reads and some great programming concepts. Although I'm not a fan of curly brackets and semicolons, it's the `var` keyword which annoys me the most!
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by Fizzadar 12y ago
Fantastic idea. Shame the language had to take so many cues from JavaScript!
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by Fizzadar 12y ago
Couldn't agree more, perhaps a tiny bit of PHP to handle headers/footers but certainly nothing more. It seems these days you need a whole Django/Wordpress/etc app for even the simplest, static content.
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by Fizzadar 12y ago
Quickly scanned through - pretty sure jinja is a templating engine, not a static site generator...
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by Fizzadar 12y ago
Obviously completely biased. Well utilised hardware or dedicated servers can easily compete (and blow out of the water at cheaper DC's) on price with AWS (and then you actually get guaranteed resources).
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by Fizzadar 12y ago
The site is pretty light on details; I'd want to know more how it works before moving from kSplice...
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by Fizzadar 12y ago
There's a fine balance here; speed isn't necessarily a problem, but speeding in the wrong places/at the wrong times. It's all about driving to the given conditions, which sadly many people do not do.
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by Fizzadar 13y ago
I suspect this is because it looks bad to display the individual status of every node, because they'll have more common failures; keeping it limited to DC-wide issues is good for business. They should have a private/client-only pe
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by Fizzadar 13y ago
I love these "skip ahead w/ referrals" systems, because they're so incredibly easy to cheat - sorry about that! Am very much looking forward to checking the app out.
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by Fizzadar 13y ago
What the countries allied against Russia's moves into crimea don't seem to realise is that Russia literally doesn't give a shit: Lavrov added that Russia was "not attached to this format and we don't see a great mi
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by Fizzadar 13y ago
I love this idea, and welcome any attempts to improve the quality of comments on HN (despite already being one of the more sensible discussion sites). My problem is with the not being able to post more comments while one is pending. I'
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by Fizzadar 13y ago
Loads! Thank you everyone - enjoying a nice purple-topped HN :)
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by Fizzadar 13y ago
Currently sitting @ 249!
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by Fizzadar 13y ago
I built a web framework & control panel (early stages) using Lua + Nginx ( http://github.com/Fizzadar/Luawa & http://github.com/Oxygem/Oxypanel ). Although both are pretty basic currently I
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by Fizzadar 13y ago
I'm glad to see this on the HN homepage, it's about time americans started questioning why their insurance/healthcare system is focussed on money and not health.
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by Fizzadar 13y ago
Perhaps the safest (certainly not right) thing to do is call 911 and get the fuck out of there rather than trying to help and being imprisoned/abused for it.
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by Fizzadar 13y ago
Thanks for the link, really interesting/enlightening read. I would hope, at least, that Europe's police officers are on the whole less pointlessly violent (though, as Peretz points out the majority of SF police probably don't
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by Fizzadar 13y ago
“I mean, there are a lot of young cops on the street, trying to make a name for themselves.” - oh, so it's OK then. Absolutely disgusted by this story, particularly after reading another story about a different fucked up justice system
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by Fizzadar 13y ago
Although he's an idiot for posting such comments, the way the US police and district attorney's have behaved is unbelievable. This guy is clearly innocent but they seem hellbent on getting a prosecution. I see cases such as this m
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by Fizzadar 13y ago
So another exchange which ignored the known 'bug' in bitcoin and which as a result made them open to exploitation. Why can't bitstamp just admit they have a software issue and are fixing it?
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by Fizzadar 13y ago
Depressing to think anyone on this earth finds curly braces an improvement to Python. I always prefer languages without, curly braces are ugly!
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by Fizzadar 13y ago
jQuery still has it's uses... like when it's essential to have consistent support across browsers old & new. However I much prefer to tell users who insist on using out-of-date/poorly-built browsers to upgrade or fuck off
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by Fizzadar 13y ago
pfft I'd rather not offer support for buggy/lagging-behind JS implementations.
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Pngquant vs pngcrush vs optipng vs pngnq(pointlessramblings.com)
2 points by Fizzadar 13y ago|1 comments
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by Fizzadar 13y ago
The way I see it: Linode for production Digital Ocean for staging
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NSA surveillance lawful, judge rules(bbc.co.uk)
6 points by Fizzadar 13y ago|0 comments
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by Fizzadar 13y ago
This is very rare in the UK, everyone's pretty good at looking left & right (although many will run/jog rather than wait). I guess this is more an education problem. To be frank if you're stupid enough not to look then yo
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by Fizzadar 13y ago
As a Brit living in London the whole idea of 'jaywalking' is hilarious. It's totally ridiculous to force pedestrians to always use lights & pelican crossings. Assuming everyone has a bit of common sense (don't walk i
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by Fizzadar 13y ago
"NeuroOn has technology that lets you induce lucid dreaming, whenever you want" - polyphasic sleep is pretty interesting, but this is what does it for me... IF it's possible.

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