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by Legion 16y ago
Worthwhile and insightful stories are good. Stories that trigger worthwhile and insightful dialogue are good. What's not so good is yet another link of Gruber dutifully cheerleading whatever Apple does, followed by comments about how all Gr
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by Legion 16y ago
Forcing users to do something isn't always necessarily a bad thing. It depends on the use case. In general, no, I wouldn't want to tweet about a video before seeing it, but that doesn't mean it doesn't have a use inside of something larger.
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by Legion 16y ago
Yeah, the first thing I thought of when reading this was Ruby's WEBrick and how it's used in Rails to provide an out-of-the-box local development server. Don't see how that would be a bad thing. Something simpler and quicker than installing
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by Legion 16y ago
I got Trumpet Winsock from my ISP. I wonder if they licensed it or not. Probably not, from the sound of it.
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by Legion 16y ago
The point of the video was chronicling Windows upgrades. ME wasn't an upgrade. :)
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by Legion 16y ago
Is the layout of this site borked for any other Chrome users? Looks fine in Firefox, but the layout (sidebar & header) are gone in (my) Chrome OS X. Want to be sure it's not a script-blocking or ad-blocking plugin doing it (I think I di
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by Legion 16y ago
Was the problem really that Python was slow, or did they not discover event-driven until finding Node?
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by Legion 16y ago
Agreed. This is something someone might find useful in a project they're working on. Unlike any Techcrunch or Gruber post. If HN were my personal pet project, that would be my link litmus test. "Is this something that might be useful info f
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by Legion 16y ago
I"m less concerned about Linux taking Windows market share, but I do not want Windows to be considered the only viable option, as so many IT departments do consider it. Even just a 10% drop in market share, with Macs and Linux splitting t
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by Legion 16y ago
The headline reads like one of those ironic Onion "everyday thing that's not really news" headlines.
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by Legion 16y ago
Using Wired's awful iPad app and its ludicrous 700MB downloads as an example of how magazines are bad on tablets is a joke. Go try the Economist app and then come back and try to make the same argument. I hardly read my print copies anymore
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by Legion 16y ago
> .net and .org are better, but users always expect (and type in) .com. Which makes country code TLDs an answer... how? They're not .com either.
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by Legion 16y ago
So leaving it port 22 lets your server blend in with the crowd, making it more secure... by obscurity!
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by Legion 16y ago
Not only that, but your team has somewhere to go for help other than you. So many of the "do it yourself" comments are so clearly written from the one-man shop perspective. No thought of working in a team environment. Drop 5 Rails program
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by Legion 16y ago
I think the Zune launch tarnished the name so permanently that it never recovered. In too many peoples' eyes, it was always the poop-brown also-ran. Which is too bad, because in many ways, the later Zunes were superior devices, although far
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by Legion 16y ago
Another Microsoft digital media strategy reset? Has it been 5 years already? At least the Zune Marketplace went DRM-free, so people won't get shafted like all those PlaysForSure media buyers.
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by Legion 16y ago
Magazines.
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by Legion 16y ago
I'm moving from California (where I work mostly in-office) to Austin (where I will continue to work the same job, but 100% remote), and I have been looking for things like this in the Austin area.
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by Legion 16y ago
I do too, but I find for non-trivial searches, I often have to make use of !g. More than once I've spent time doing multiple searches for the answer of a tech question, re-wording the search to try and find a hit, only to have an a-ha momen
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by Legion 16y ago
Just like how he reached for PyUnit for "readability counts", I definitely think of ORMs over raw SQL when it comes to "readability counts". Especially when you're actually working with data, not just the table creation step.
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by Legion 16y ago
I thought about that, but saw no indication that that's what they have planned. And even if that's the case, I'm quite skeptical that they'll keep up with future printings of every book they do. And what about classics that have an army of
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by Legion 16y ago
On the one hand, I agree with the commenters on that post that it's too early to be cutting off updates for the Kindle 2 and DX, if that is indeed what is happening. On the other hand, I think this issue is almost exclusively principle-of-t
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by Legion 16y ago
I wonder how many more people have to quit Facebook before we stop getting these "I quit Social Network X" martyr posts. Honestly, it's like the people who never fail to let a new acquaintance know that they abstain from owning televisions.
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by Legion 16y ago
So are we Eurasia, or Eastasia?
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by Legion 16y ago
I just started using the Kindle app on my iPad. Loved it so much that I planned on buying a Kindle 3G as a companion device for my iPad (to handle the outdoor summer reading that iPad struggles with). It looks like Apple is just testing the
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by Legion 16y ago
I own four set-top devices that support browsing and viewing Netflix streaming content directly from the device. I own zero devices that can do the same with Hulu. This is the #1 reason Netflix gets subscription money from me and Hulu does
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by Legion 16y ago
How do the Chinese rifles compare? Are they similarly simple & resilient?
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by Legion 16y ago
What I get from buying a "Linux machine" isn't just avoiding purchasing a Windows license. (Those tend to be paid for by all the software bundling, anyway) What I get is a computer that is tested on Linux and thus is known to have well-supp
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by Legion 16y ago
As many have pointed out, this is not really analogous to robots.txt. The first thing I imagined was a text file that said stuff like, "Don't read anything in the Features section. Also, don't try to use the admin login panel!" But really,
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by Legion 16y ago
For some people, college is truly a joke of an academic experience. I worked a couple of on-campus jobs at the school I attended. One of those jobs was in the department of Recreation Administration. I couldn't believe it was a major that p

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