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by Legion 14y ago
> When they're not innovating, it's a problem. When they're throwing things against the wall to see what sticks, it's a problem too. I feel like they really can't win here. There's perhaps some truth to that, but they could handle thing
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by Legion 14y ago
Nobody is suggesting Microsoft is the only company that deprecates and drops development technologies. But Microsoft is a chronic, habitual offender. It's a point of routine at MS rather than an occasional occurrence.
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by Legion 14y ago
Plus, Aptos and Capitola are crazy beautiful. :)
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by Legion 14y ago
> You can write a single PHP file that includes HTML, Javascript, MySQL, CSS and PHP, but that would make you a bad developer, or it's such a simple one-off thing that you don't worry about it. Tools facilitate workflows. The fact is, P
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by Legion 14y ago
> PHP has no shortage of weirdnesses and warts, but it occurred to me recently that no other major language was created expressly for the purpose of rendering web pages. All the other major contenders (Python, Ruby, Java, etc) are, for
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by Legion 14y ago
Not that this line of discussion is particularly constructive, but I agree. I'm not sure why someone would think a giant head staring at the reader is a good idea, but it's not. On a 27" monitor, it's almost like a child sized head right up
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by Legion 14y ago
> I find these benchmarks to not be very valuable. It's interesting to take one piece of the stack and see how much abuse it can take, even if it's not necessarily reflective of real world behavior.
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by Legion 14y ago
Depending on a browser's screen width, the "Fork me on Github" bar's clickable box can almost completely cover the "Blogs" menu item.
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by Legion 14y ago
I was expecting a more compelling case.
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by Legion 14y ago
> Just because they created their own hack as a workaround doesn't mean it's the right thing to do. Are you honestly at HackerNews posting that someone hacking together some code to scratch their own itch is not "the right thing to do"?
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by Legion 14y ago
> We may have reached Peak Sudoku on mobile devices. That's a nice and clever way of saying what I intended to say. Absolutely no one is sitting around saying, "man, I want to play Sudoku on my phone but I can't find any games!". Ther
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by Legion 14y ago
Agreed with this! I'm more devops than sysadmin, so more expertise may have changed my experience, but when I did run a CentOS server, I thought, "yay, this is great"... until it came time to actually update. Then, I realized that I had sim
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by Legion 14y ago
I worked a lot of long hours last week to 977's '80s channel. I don't always listen to '80s pop, but when I do, it's when I am doing the long late night hours. A habit that goes back to college. "Land of Confusion" coming on the stream was
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by Legion 14y ago
> if SSL is enabled for the agent, all data would be encrypted and could not be viewed by an attacker. Allow me to paraphrase Ghostbusters 2: "Ray, if an external service you're connecting your app to asks if you want to encrypt the tr
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by Legion 14y ago
Something has been lost in the evolution from home pages to Facebook and Twitter. The creation part of the equation has been reduced down to nothing more than choosing a picture to stick in a predefined slot. I miss when people I know used
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by Legion 14y ago
Repurposing special kit parts for your own builds is one of the best parts of Legos. It's an early age manifestation of the hacker ethos - taking some thing and finding all the ways you can use it outside of its original intent, and then pu
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by Legion 14y ago
I went from Vim and shell beginner a couple of years ago to a serious user, and built up a nice set of dotfiles along the way. Janus and oh-my-zsh were big for me, but I never actually installed either one. Instead, those were my Vim and Zs
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by Legion 14y ago
Interesting that learning something besides .NET didn't make the list. (Or anything back-end at all, for that matter)
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by Legion 14y ago
"Two" words. Sorry.
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by Legion 14y ago
And they cost about $60 USD. That's why.
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by Legion 14y ago
> although it's definitely unidiomatic. Most Ruby books I've read that have been published in the past couple of years seem to disagree.
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by Legion 14y ago
> I know the saying many eyes make bugs shallow, but so does billions of dollars and years of concentrated effort. The saying holds. Billions of dollars buys many eyes.
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by Legion 14y ago
> this whole thing has really turned me off reddit. To me, that's like saying, "that dirty alt.binaries.whatever group really turned me off USENET." The reddit I visit doesn't have any violentacrez. Nor does the reddit my wife visits. T
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by Legion 14y ago
Sysadmins are the offensive linemen of the tech world.
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by Legion 14y ago
Paypal security seems to be a perpetual case of the cure being worse than the disease. They're chasing away the real business along with the fraud.
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by Legion 14y ago
> PHP is the Model T of web languages: people love to laugh at it because it's old and ugly but it nearly single-handedly revolutionized the landscape. I for one applaud any efforts to revive and improve this language. I agree with the
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by Legion 14y ago
> Will this be a default in Rails 4? Yes.
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by Legion 14y ago
> I find it interesting that the Macbook air (Intel based) isn't considered an 'ultrabook' by them That's because they're talking about Ultrabooks, capital "U", a spec for PC laptops (and an Intel trademarked name).
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by Legion 14y ago
There's a reason Minecraft was created on the PC and ported to the Xbox, and not the other way around. The issue here isn't "death to all closed systems", but rather taking one of the few open ones left and making steps towards closing it.
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by Legion 14y ago
One you missed: Nitrous. Give non-Safari apps (like Chrome) access to the Nitro JS engine. Not just for browsers, but apps like Alien Blue that open pages in a UIWebView.

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