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by Legion 13y ago
Ubuntu's patches for the various font rendering technologies are my #1 must-have software on Linux. Any distro I use is either a Ubuntu or something that has these patches an easy install away. (Arch has them in the AUR, for example)
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by Legion 13y ago
For this to work, the PG role that the Rails app is using has to be a superuser, as AFAIK only superuser roles can execute CREATE EXTENSION. Does anyone consider this an issue? I have been using non-superuser roles within my Rails apps, and
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by Legion 13y ago
Puppet for server provisioning, and a self-maintained fork of Webistrano (web-based interface for Capistrano) for deploying applications.
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by Legion 13y ago
> Republicans view Libertarians as closer to Democrats. When all you have is a right, everything looks like a left.
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by Legion 13y ago
I am a customer too, and I wield no torch or pitchfork, but I grow increasingly frustrated at the lack of response from Linode. I understand your point about the idea that they may be unable to speak to the issue due to law enforcement effo
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by Legion 13y ago
> 2. If Linode grossly mishandles the situation. There have been a couple of allegations to that effect so far, but nothing substantial. I don't see any reason to claim that they've done this yet. Linode's handling of the Bitcoin incide
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by Legion 14y ago
> Fiber to whatever suburbs are invited to the party will likely follow after that. I'm interested to see where in the priority list some of the closer suburbs are. Round Rock, after all, is Dell headquarters. I'd have to imagine there
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by Legion 14y ago
That's a fair question. The title is "Why I (still) Love Perl", but the post doesn't really seem to get around to explaining that. It's not really a "Why you should use Perl instead of X" either. It seems more like, "Perl's Not Dead, It's J
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by Legion 14y ago
> However, git will not pull matching branches. That means that all your branches except your current branch will not get updated when you pull. This is why git-up was created: https://github.com/aanand/git-up It's silly that this is
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by Legion 14y ago
Well, everyone is somewhere on the embrace-new-languages spectrum. It's clear that the people on the far edge of that spectrum have long moved on from Ruby. But there are still plenty of people further back. I'm sure we have years to come o
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by Legion 14y ago
Awesome. This is getting added to our company chatbot's little morning news report, right next to the "days since last Java exploit" one someone posted here a couple of weeks ago.
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by Legion 14y ago
> I dont really get why people want the shirt to be recognisable. That's kind of the core concept of putting something with any sort of meaning on a t-shirt.
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by Legion 14y ago
Are there any more sites like this, for other languages or frameworks? This and others like it would be a great addition to our chatbot's morning news update. :)
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by Legion 14y ago
He does the same in Every. Single. Thread. about Linode. http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=linode+tali... Basically, all this person seems to do is troll a certain set of pet topics.
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by Legion 14y ago
What makes the Internet-required single player a deal breaker for me isn't even the launch problems (those will go away), but the fact that the game will ultimately be terminated once EA no longer finds it worthwhile to run the servers. Som
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by Legion 14y ago
This is what I think of as the ideal HN - posts that are "How I Made X" or "How I Debugged Y" (or even "How Someone Else Made X", like the Amazon menu post, though the author ended up making their own implementation too). No product announc
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by Legion 14y ago
Things like this are why I have DuckDuckGo as my browser's default search engine. "!amazon thingamabob" (or just "!a thingamabob"). Way more convenient than going to the homepage and worrying about search auto-focus.
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by Legion 14y ago
> Apple products are luxury items with high margins. They don't need to or want to chase that mass PC money. This reality gets less true every day. It's the same argument people repeated to insist that the iPad Mini would never happen.
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by Legion 14y ago
Wow, that is considerably less egregious than I had imagined it would be. From my initial reading, it sounded like images were outright copied, or copied and slightly altered. That is hardly the case in these examples. If there aren't any s
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by Legion 14y ago
> "I just got off the phone with the White House" How badass did you feel writing that? I feel badass for you. Good job. Well done.
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by Legion 14y ago
People call it Google-Fu for a reason. You could probably tell a lot about a candidate by how they Google for things. To effectively search, you have to effectively define the problem. Often that means having the understanding to redefine y
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by Legion 14y ago
Everyone is talking about the font size and how zooming can fix small fonts. That's only half of the discussion. The other half is line spacing. I think that's much more important. In his examples at the bottom, the Phoronix one really gets
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by Legion 14y ago
And yet, there he goes, using it, happy as a clam.
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by Legion 14y ago
Post title seems like it should be, "Refinery is a messy CMS". Seems like a good portion of these comments are comparing simple code written in (other-framework/language) with a big messy CMS written as an add-on for Rails. Hardly apples-to
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by Legion 14y ago
Agreed, but bear in mind that the author is already having to learn a bunch of new software packages to replace many other things from his previous experience. Being able to delay a few new learning experiences for later makes for smoother
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by Legion 14y ago
That's a very compelling reason to use Python if you need those things. On the flip side, RubyGems is much bigger than PyPI and has a lot of modules that you won't necessarily find equal counterparts to in PyPI. I think there's a lot of use
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by Legion 14y ago
"We'll do it live!"
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by Legion 14y ago
Google Wave was supposed to be that "IRC on crack" product.
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by Legion 14y ago
Ahh, the Linode troll's right on time. We've heard you http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4840352 again http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4121734 and again http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4911934 and again http://news.ycombina
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by Legion 14y ago
Having a convention is useful. It doesn't necessarily have to be that particular one.

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