Legion

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by Legion 14y ago
Given the option between text editor talk and TechCrunch reposts, I'll take the editor posts every single day. I love when HN is about making stuff, instead of yapping about Apple or Google or MS. People talking about their tools is great,
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by Legion 14y ago
I wonder how far Linux would have gotten without people contributing to "scratch their own itch". Self-interest is something to be harnessed and channeled to promote a greater good (better kernel code, more article contributions), not somet
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by Legion 14y ago
What killed Firefox for me wasn't just the plugin breakage on updates, but the unnecessary plugin breakage. For most of my broken plugins, the immediate solution was, "edit the XML file inside the .xpi, and update the maxVersion to includ
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by Legion 14y ago
> Furthermore, the recordings can be automatically uploaded to secure ACLU-NJ servers so that police can't delete them later. Does it upload while recording, or only after the recording ends? Streaming it during recording is the key fea
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by Legion 14y ago
> Don't take it personally, but I've seen a lot of confirmation bias from ex-PHP developers. > Often from developers who may, thanks to language Y, write more elegant code on the line / function level, but still create the same arch
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by Legion 14y ago
> The problem is, no, nothing else has. Myself and an army of other ex-PHP developers disagree. > What other language out there is better than PHP for getting simple webpages up and running quickly? This discussion is not just about
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by Legion 14y ago
> The only thing actually wrong with PHP, is that it's popular but not cool. No, what's "wrong" with PHP is that other things that are better have come along since. That's not a fault of PHP, that's the nature of language evolution. &#6
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by Legion 14y ago
And it's nice to see the FSF expressing the issues thoughtfully here, rather than pulling insipid stunts like harassing Apple Store employees. Maybe it's because this is from FSFE - the European counterpart.
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by Legion 14y ago
This pretty much explains the behavior of the scammers posing as "Microsoft Support" that geeks and techs love to laugh at and post funny recordings from.
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by Legion 14y ago
Going slightly off point, but I'm not sure what makes Puppet and Chef (two projects written in Ruby - Chef in particular whose configuration language is pure Ruby code) "non-Ruby deployment tools", versus Capistrano and Vlad, which I presum
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by Legion 14y ago
Not nearly as good as the last two birthdays. :) 2010's brought a massive RAM increase: http://blog.linode.com/2010/06/16/linode-turns-7-big-ram-inc... 2011's bumped disk space up 25%: http://blog.linode.com/2011/06/16/linode-turns-8-dis
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by Legion 14y ago
The point of multi-factor authentication is not that the additional factors are infallible. Rather, the point is, when one factor fails, there remain other factors still in place. When RSA was compromised, accounts in which RSA was used a
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by Legion 14y ago
I agree with you, and my Vim setup is loaded with plugins. The power of Vim is, first and foremost, Vim. A good set of plugins is simply for augmenting Vim and/or tailoring it to your desired workflow. The plugins I use could be broken up i
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by Legion 14y ago
Cloud backup services have taken away any possible excuse for not remotely backing up any non-ginormous collection of data. It's push-button easy and a lot cheaper and easier than dealing with taking tape backups and moving them offsite. No
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by Legion 14y ago
I am becoming a big fan of the free to play model. I think it serves a lot of players well: * When you're a kid, money is a scarcity. I would have loved to have had a bunch of quality F2P games when I was a kid. (Of course, these games tend
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by Legion 14y ago
For me, this is why I am extremely reluctant to ever rely on proprietary software for important things. Sometimes, of course, it is unavoidable. The more narrow the problem, the more likely that the software available that solves the prob
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by Legion 14y ago
Can people please respond to the actual posts each other makes, and not just the titles of the posts? This blog post battlefield is strewn with the broken bodies of straw men.
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by Legion 14y ago
Obviously, Ms. Susman's circa-1998 home computer would in no way be able to replicate the level of storage provided by the Sun server cluster and its 4.5 TB disk array ( http://www.hoise.com/primeur/99/articles/monthly/AE-PR-09-99... ). Wha
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by Legion 14y ago
> Google has provided this for years with the "site:" feature Which is something completely different, and is also something present in DuckDuckGo.
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by Legion 14y ago
Oftentimes, things happen as a result of more than just one single cause. I can easily imagine both this and JFK being contributing factors. It's silly to set them up as one vs. another.
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by Legion 14y ago
I love DuckDuckGo, even if a good half of my searches end up beginning with !g. Love the bang syntax for site-specific searching. I have set up my browser before to do this, but now it's far more convenient to just set my browser's default
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by Legion 15y ago
No, they aren't. Quote Adam D'Angelo, former CTO of Facebook: "PHP was out of the question [for building Quora]. Facebook is stuck on that for legacy reasons, not because it's the best choice right now". (source: http://www.quora.com/Quora
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by Legion 15y ago
Ask EA Sports fans about that. These games were annual PC releases and they have been dropped completely.
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by Legion 15y ago
2 minute fix: get people to use htop, not top.
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by Legion 15y ago
> I use the same password on most 'low-risk' sites Here's the actual problem.
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by Legion 15y ago
Hey, what else are you going to use a 6-core CPU and 16GB of RAM for if not to throw VMs around willy-nilly?
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by Legion 15y ago
As we speak, I'm running a Windows virtual machine in fullscreen on my left monitor. The VM's sole job is running Adobe AIR for the HipChat client.
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by Legion 15y ago
I wasn't taking anyone to task for not building it. I was saying what I, as a user, wish I had available to me for my primary dev environment. I don't care what toolkit it gets built in. I typically use Gtk-based environments and stick with
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by Legion 15y ago
"for Mac OS X" breaks my heart, because this is exactly the kind of open-source DB client I want on Linux. At least I can use this when I'm on my Air, but I recently went looking for a multi-DB client app like this for Linux, and this looks
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by Legion 15y ago
> Linode will send you a confirmation email if you access the admin panel from a "new" IP. IF you have the IP whitelisting feature enabled on your account. It is not by default.

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