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by Lazare 15y ago
I'd suggest slum. It's a place to sleep, but you have no security and no property rights. It's generally unpleasant, and the whole thing could burn down at any moment. And you have (practically) no recourse if you don't like what you're
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by Lazare 15y ago
The may be off topic, but... At the moment we're mostly using option two (Linode VPS), and it's working pretty well. I've been repeatedly tempted by option option four (colo), but I'm kind of daunted by the task of getting started. I've
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by Lazare 15y ago
Paul Krugman talked about the "Apple is evil" side of the argument many years ago. http://web.mit.edu/krugman/www/smokey.html http://web.mit.edu/krugman/www/ricardo.htm Key quote: "At best, forcing developing countries to adhere to our
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by Lazare 15y ago
It might be worth noting that this is a roundup focusing very specifically on a subset of PaaS offerings. No Google App Engine, no Amazon EC2, and only a passing reference to Webfaction. :)
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by Lazare 15y ago
Good question. The good news is that, according to the latest research, HFCS are no worse than honey, or indeed, table sugar. The bad news is that according to the same research, all three are absolutely terrible for you, and cause metabol
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by Lazare 15y ago
Apparently not. :) Almost all countries have extensive rules limiting your ability to charge money for your labour, including but not limited to: * Minimum wage laws * Professional licensing laws * Legal bans on prostitution
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by Lazare 15y ago
HN implements both hellbanning and slowbanning[1]. Slowbanning makes the pages load very very slowly, and it's used as a warning step before hellbanning. You've almost certainly been slowbanned. To check, create a throwaway account, and l
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by Lazare 15y ago
I was hellbanned for a while without realizing on a different account. I was incredibly upset when I realized: a bunch of posts asking or answering meaningful on-topic questions had been blackholed, wasting a lot of my time, and (in my vie
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by Lazare 15y ago
Back in the day, we sometimes called this "shareware". The first episode of Commander Keen was free, but episodes two and three cost money. :) Or we called it a free trial, or a demo. We included a disc with a crippled version of the gam
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by Lazare 15y ago
Agreed. There's so many issues with the article, it's kind of weird. As you point out, they were hedging (and so did not see their bean prices go up), and even if they had, bean prices aren't even a major cost driver. But imagine, for a
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by Lazare 15y ago
Actually, the windows binary installers work perfectly with virtualenv, and is perfectly simple: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3271590/can-i-install-pyt... (It is, however, poorly documented.)
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by Lazare 15y ago
Greenspun is assuming that a "perfect" dating solution would result in zero people who want to be married who are not married. This is a pretty odd assumption. Let's imagine that my mythical friend Tom desperately wants to marry, but is ki
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by Lazare 15y ago
Actually, it's an incredibly good idea to motivate bottled-water companies to find ways around structurally unsound bridges to deliver needed water to desperate people on the far side. And we have plenty of health and safety regs that pro
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by Lazare 15y ago
For me, Apress's apparent feeling that the wording of contracts just doesn't matter, and the comment that they "don't modify the standard contract" are huge huge red flags, and I've had major issues in the past with this. Their seems to b
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by Lazare 15y ago
I know, I know! That's the obvious explanation, right? And yet... 1) All three workstations with the Seagate drives have seen constant failure of Seagate drives. They have different brands of motherboard and power supplies, and checking
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by Lazare 15y ago
Oooh, check out Django - it uses them for forms (and maybe other things). I've spent far too much time tinkering with modelformset_factory, inlineformset_factory, and my personal favourite, generic_inlineformset_factory. (As a bonus, they'
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by Lazare 15y ago
The study is interesting, but the linked press release is pretty sad, and has been roundly mocked across the internet. You see, the headline is: "Rare earth metals scarcity: A ‘ticking time-bomb’ for the world, asks PwC?" This headline woul
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by Lazare 15y ago
A while back I bought six 1TB Seagate Baracudas. Every single drive failed within the warranty period; I RMAed them and got replacements. Every single replacement drive failed too. I RMAed a couple of them, and their REPLACEMENTS have n
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by Lazare 15y ago
God, those are a nightmare. And unlike DS_Store you cannot safely delete them. Some apps/formats store critical info in them. (some fonts and some fcp projects, at a minimum. Good thing we had backups.)
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by Lazare 15y ago
I support, in principle , the concept of IP, and the right of IP holders to enforce their rights, and I hope everyone else on Hacker News does too. The big questions aren't "should IP even exist as a concept", but instead "how limited IP s
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by Lazare 15y ago
I moved all my domains from GoDaddy to Namecheap a while ago. The experience was really smooth, and Namecheap's interface is a TON easier to work with. Although I support the idea of switching domains from GoDaddy to protest their support
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by Lazare 15y ago
I've looked at Derby and it seems like a fantastic idea. I was considering giving it a shot for my next side project, but I'm a little confused as to whether it supports any form of persistence or not? I see you have an open issue on githu
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by Lazare 15y ago
So let's recap: This is a new Javascript template engine that uses Mustache syntax and allows you to pre-compile template syntax. Sound's good... But...why didn't they just use Handlebars? Or if you aren't wedded to Mustache syntax, one
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by Lazare 15y ago
The point of the linked article is that this is not the CoffeeScript way at all (although the author wishes it was).