Ixiaus

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by Ixiaus 15y ago
Preface to this comment: I started life as a PHP programmer (a core committer for many years to the KohanaPHP framework too) and stayed that way for 5 years - I am now a professional Python, Erlang, and Scheme programmer and will never go
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I have to agree with you. Having started life using PHP, Python, Ruby, etc... I had no idea what memory management even was. I think learning the hard fundamental languages like C and Assembly (HLA) are super important - C is easily the m
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by Ixiaus 15y ago
For quite a long time I hated Math and was horrible at it - I remember being up until 2AM in the morning with my father during 7th and 8th grade trying to do my math homework, taking tests and feeling confident about all of it then receivin
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by Ixiaus 15y ago
I think the larger issue that is bugging you is the fact that user's data on the web is no longer owned/exchanged by the user but by the properties that the user interacts with. It frustrates me too, believe me. I would much rather visit a
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by Ixiaus 15y ago
That's silly, many users expect that. What you can do is geolocate their country so they don't have to select their country but other than that I still ask them to type in their city and state...
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I believe it is a violation to store the expiration date without encrypting it. I could be wrong, here is a link to PCI DSS standards documents.
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The best way to handle it is to have your gateway handle the storage of CC data - gateways (Authorize.net - CIM, Braintree - Vault, etc...) have the resources and incentive to be PCI compliant. With it stored on your gateway's servers, they
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by Ixiaus 15y ago
This is a big one. I threw out the "click the activation link email" process a long time ago, I now just set the session and push the new user straight into the panel.
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Or GNUnet, as it matures.
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It doesn't work like that at all. MDMA gives you a sense of euphoria while slightly altering your perception (it's considered a slight psychedelic in that sense) - it also makes you very empathic to the people you are with. MDMA isn't like
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by Ixiaus 15y ago
Mmmh. You are wrong, but I would state that creativity and inspired thinking is something that can be cultivated without the aide of euphorics or psychedelics.
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by Ixiaus 15y ago
Owning your data is the only way to keep "other people" from owning your data! A distributed F2F (friend to friend) graph of nodes (people) in which every node (person) has the "software" to connect with the other nodes and share informat
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by Ixiaus 16y ago
Mmmm, unnecessary flame bait. You could have instead, said, "I like and am productive in VIM too, check out this tutorial". I think we all know, at this point, that you can be immensely productive in either Emacs or VIM. /me bias because I'
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by Ixiaus 16y ago
That is a standard preface for many lists that get a lot of crossposts. You'll see it a lot on most academic mailing lists where conferences and papers are announced and crossposted to many similar lists that receivers may be subscribed to.
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I have to say, Blender has come a long way. Big kudos. Python scripting is a major plus for me (Maya uses Python too).
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BitBucket https://bitbucket.org StackOverflow The dictionary Mnemosyne (for spaced repetition) A pad of paper Google Calendar (it integrates with my phone! and I integrate it with org-mode agenda)
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It's that way for chick-geeks too. I get hit on a lot by women in the tech scene and they can never figure out why I ignore their sexual and IOI signals in favor of women that are a bit boppier, wear heels and g-strings most of the time, an
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by Ixiaus 16y ago
It doesn't work that way. You go buy clothes that are as close as possible to your fit, then you take it to a tailor and have that last inch brought in/up etc... Believe this: tailors aren't just for fancy clothes and they aren't expensiv
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by Ixiaus 16y ago
I was an unfashionable geek for quite some time - I picked up salsa dancing it changed my entire perspective on outward appearance. I really grew to appreciate it, to appreciate the time people (and obviously women) put into grooming and dr
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by Ixiaus 16y ago
I think the premise that men hate to shop is quite false. Men perceivably hate to shop because many men don't appreciate the art of looking beautiful and it's usually because our society doesn't instill that in men - we are instilled wi
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Tell HN: SDHN mid-month (March 16th, 6PM Lestat's)
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I won't ever hire a developer to work for free - I remember being in this boat when I started as a self-educated programmer. The employers that you attract by saying you will work for free in exchange for possible future employment and expe
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I don't mean to be an ass I just think your time spent working on this tool could be invaluable working on some sort of shared-state mode for Emacs or VIM. I wouldn't go from Emacs to an online editor, no matter how good it is, because I do
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I would say I'm offline often. I was interviewed by a company who's tech lead required everyone to program using VIM only on the server (production server). They didn't want any of the developers to have code on their machines for fear of
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Then my suggestion would be to tackle a real problem. It took me a while to know when Erlang was appropriate for what I as trying to tackle. About a year ago, I came across the need to regularly scrape websites from a list (pulled from a
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by Ixiaus 16y ago
Are you sure it isn't the functional paradigm of the language that is frustrating you? That is usually the hurdle for people and not the syntax in my experience - I luckily had quite a bit of experience with Scheme and Haskell so recursion
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I'm primarily a Python/Pyramid (web)programmer but have been wanting to experiment more fully with Racket/Scheme in that regard - I think I'll try throwing something together for the event...
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Is this event also open to "dabblers"? I would happily fly out from Cali to participate in that event.
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This is probably the biggest potential win for this feature as long as said developers understand the difference between the inbuilt webserver and the production server (the difference between python paste and apache/mod_wsgi).
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Self-taught as well with a strong emphasis on the liberal arts and a special focus on Mathematics. I make it a habit to learn new languages often, particularly esoteric languages (I'm also learning Greek in the natural languages). The self-

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