Pahalial

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by Pahalial 16y ago
You're kind of robbing that phrase of its context by omitting the 'deploy to linux' part. I have nothing against windows devs developing on windows - in fact, I can't offhand recall having met anyone developing desktop Windows software in a
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by Pahalial 16y ago
I don't know that I agree: you're essentially advocating dishonesty, in my opinion. If he legitimately feels that a Unix shop by nature will espouse certain qualities, why should he hold back? They solicited his feedback. Unless he wants to
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by Pahalial 16y ago
I can't believe the person who wrote this is legitimately knowledgeable about this industry or the relevant tech. Phonetically misspelling "Bayesian" as "Beysian", while hardly a deal-breaker or even worth notice from someone non-technical,
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by Pahalial 16y ago
S3 explicitly does no deduplication at all, last I heard. This is somewhat corroborated by the pricing for cloud player - it would be a lot lower per GB if they did.
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by Pahalial 16y ago
The thing to me - as someone who is more devops than dev, works at a currently 100% closed company, and does not have a public track record on github - is that this article and argument are both kind of silly. Github track records aren't ju
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by Pahalial 16y ago
My first reaction was "oh man, this is going to make Sublime Text even more ridiculously awesome." After hearing myself think that, I finally bought a license.
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by Pahalial 16y ago
I had to stop at the 'hate' for cached pages. He doesn't really expand on it at the linked article, either: http://daggle.com/search-engines-permissions-moving-forward-... In fact, he does not put forth any argument at all. There is talk
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by Pahalial 16y ago
I don't know that that point was made at all. In fact, the intentionally loose verbiage of "all necessary measures to protect civilians" would seem to open the door to an occupational force, particularly as it authorizes member states to do
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by Pahalial 16y ago
How exactly is it disrespectful to other startups to call your side-project a startup? This is the key assumption involved in this article, and it is not actually addressed in the slightest. I would argue it is far from disrespectful: the f
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by Pahalial 16y ago
So I read that, and the first thing that jumped out to me from the quotes: "The so-called civilized world can learn much from the stoic Japanese." If you don't consider Japan part of the "civilized world" you have probably not updated your
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by Pahalial 16y ago
Rather than turn this thread into a lot of "+1s for encryption" or necro the dropbox forums thread, I've made a votebox issue: https://www.dropbox.com/votebox/4452/enhanced-mobile-client-...
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by Pahalial 16y ago
I can't check at the moment, but it's worth noting that this is the direct opposite of what is claimed in the linked forum thread: http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=24507
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by Pahalial 16y ago
Okay, not to nitpick excessively, but why in this day and age is the NYT providing pure text information in JPEG? I really thought user education was making better progress than this.
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by Pahalial 16y ago
http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/news/international/Special_Repor... "The 40-year-old nuclear reactor facing a possible meltdown in Fukushima was originally scheduled to go out of commission in February but had its operating licence extended a
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by Pahalial 16y ago
<Obvious answers here> When you discount "learn on the job" and "read books", i'm really not sure what's left, or what you expect the people who have achieved success by doing these things to tell you (while omitting those things.)
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by Pahalial 16y ago
You are clearly the typical XP+IE6 user being targeted by this campaign.
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by Pahalial 16y ago
Within the scope of this discussion, that's somewhat facetious. The main reason cited for wanting people to move off IE6 is security concerns rather than HTML5 support, and for good reason - I don't care whether people can use the latest-gr
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by Pahalial 16y ago
Everything I've read and heard indicates it's really not that cut-and-dried, what with the founder of Kik having been an intern at RIM and then basically re-implementing BBM.
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by Pahalial 16y ago
You're completely shifting the argument. The point isn't that Apple's latest mandate affects iOS-only developers adversely or even at all; it's that it is intended to destroy cross-platform services, or at least leech their money. If you ha
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by Pahalial 16y ago
The MeFi thread on this a few days ago had some good content, including the abstract from a study on just how drastically housing the homeless and/or alcoholic reduces overall costs to society http://www.metafilter.com/100658/Everyone-is-g
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by Pahalial 16y ago
Kind of cool, but mostly ow. The last thing our eyes need is to move around even less within the scope of a computer screen. I'm going to stick to image searches that are less likely to aggravate my mild myopia.
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by Pahalial 16y ago
I'm frankly amazed that RWW is trying to present this 'neutrally' by asking whether people see an issue with AJE trying to break into the [bigoted] US market. I get that they rely on user engagement and comments and so on, but really, encou
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by Pahalial 16y ago
While I care a great deal about civil liberties, HN has a topic bias. The TSA situation, while touching on tech via backscatter x-ray, is really a purely political situation: there is opposition grounded either in medicine or general civil
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by Pahalial 16y ago
From what I understand, this stems largely from the fact that they were the only major news organization with an embedded presence in Gaza during the Israel-Hamas war (others being unable to get in after it broke out due to the lockdown.) T
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by Pahalial 16y ago
The last bundle recently made itself available via Steam, which despite the DRM included does make it vastly more convenient to download whenever, however. Is it known at this time whether that will happen with this one, or is that still pe
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by Pahalial 16y ago
No, the legal ramifications only come into play when the government officially declares something a terrorist organization. In the USA, this would be done by the State Department, which has yet to issue such a proclamation. All this folding
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by Pahalial 16y ago
Erm.. Well, seeing as you can't really have anything to base this on other than the US Government's say-so, I'm not sure what kind of discussion there is to have on the matter as of yet. You trust these governments far more than I do, I wil
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by Pahalial 16y ago
Timing is everything. Before the Kinect hack launched countless discussion threads into a breakdown of USB sniffing and the like, I'm sure this project would never even have hit its goal.
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by Pahalial 16y ago
This is interesting, but the article and I differ greatly at this point: "Being non-standards-compliant in a way that privileges their flows relative to others seems more than a little hypocritical from a company that's making such a fuss a
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by Pahalial 16y ago
As have been a disproportionate number of Canadian software engineers, one should add.

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