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by Pistos2 16y ago
That may be true, but I suppose the strategy is not to spend much more time on an item yourself once you've jotted it down on a list, especially when you're confident Joe Sysadmin would know the answer straight away.
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by Pistos2 16y ago
In Canada, it's common to start with 10 days.
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by Pistos2 16y ago
Could someone explain or expand on that particular point, for those of us who are just plain inexperienced or ignorant?
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by Pistos2 16y ago
When I tried it (earlier this year), it wasn't quite like RVM. RVM is very versatile, powerful and polished. Perlbrew is getting there, but seems good only for particular limited ranges of use. Things I got used to with RVM weren't ready
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by Pistos2 16y ago
I did Comp Sci at a major Canadian university. I used OSAP or a bank loan for each year of study. I've never put in a lump sum. Paying only regular monthly payments got me finishing maybe 10 or 11 years after graduation.
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by Pistos2 16y ago
In my opinion, nothing should pop up without explicit user action (keypress, mouse click). Every would-be pop-up should be pop-under, with some cue (visual or otherwise) to inform the user that something may deserve attention (e.g. flashin
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by Pistos2 16y ago
I have been using DuckDuckGo as my default search engine for a few months now, after having given it a second chance. At this rate, I find the result sets good enough that I only turn to Google for maybe 1 in 40 searches. The number one re
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by Pistos2 16y ago
I find that extremely hard to believe. Do you have some very anomalous usage patterns, such as never using that address to register on websites, and never having it posted anywhere spider-crawlable on the Internet? I'd wager that an addr
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by Pistos2 16y ago
I recently sent a payment from my Paypal account to someone else's. I thought I specified that the payment should be taken out of the credit card source, and not the bank account source. I saw a success page, closed my browser tab, and th
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by Pistos2 16y ago
My regrets in life are extremely few, but one of them is this: If I could go back in time and do things differently, one thing I would change would be my attitude about debt when I was young[er]. My kids are growing up, but the months are
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by Pistos2 16y ago
It works quite well under Opera 10.61.
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by Pistos2 16y ago
Yesterday and today, I quickly wrote up a Ruby interface to the API: http://github.com/Pistos/ideone-gem
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by Pistos2 16y ago
Although it usually only matters when compared code scores similarly, it is important to be able to know when benchmark comparisons are statistically significant [1]. I wrote a library[2] a while back to do this. This becomes even more o
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by Pistos2 16y ago
[Setting Rails aside, ]the Ruby community needs help to move forward into the world of 1.9. 1.9 has many improvements that most people would benefit from, but many folks are either afraid to get their feet wet with 1.9, or have to support
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by Pistos2 16y ago
I've come to conclude that I am alone in the world in this respect: I deliberately do not listen to music when coding (or studying) because I find it way too distracting. I end up listening to the music; enjoying it; analysing it. I would
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You pushed the button and out came hundreds and thousands of sonatas(guardian.co.uk)
1 points by Pistos2 16y ago|0 comments
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by Pistos2 16y ago
Cool. A couple suggestions: When you get your result, make the name clickable, and go to some sensible place, like a Wikipedia page, or such. Also, to be able to see a listing of all possible names, and perhaps a few stats (how many peopl
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by Pistos2 16y ago
Last night, I set up IMAP, TLS/SSL, and webmail on a server for myself, to liberate myself from third parties (i.e. GMail) having a searchable corpus of my email history. In addition to that, I recently adjusted my fork of RVM[1] to work wi
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by Pistos2 16y ago
To be honest, my primary goal in life is to be a saint. Second to that is helping others with the same. Roadblocks: Human nature. But grace overcomes that.
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by Pistos2 16y ago
[My First Aid training tells me that] although brain death occurs in just a few minutes once the brain ceases to get oxygen supplied to it, if CPR is applied to a casualty, and the casualty can get in an ambulance and into a hospital within
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by Pistos2 16y ago
I'm not a lifeguard -- I'm not even much of a swimmer -- but I am trained in First Aid. One of the things we were taught is not to just rush to be a hero when you come upon an apparent trouble situation. You first need to assess the situa
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by Pistos2 16y ago
300+ screenshots: http://media.ps3.ign.com/media/857/857126/imgs_1.html Visible drivers; car damage (open doors, crunched and torn fenders); breathtaking scenery; visible light from cars (on road, on dust clouds); driver's seat views (das
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Gran Turismo 5 [US] Release Date Announced(ps3.ign.com)
1 points by Pistos2 16y ago|1 comments
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by Pistos2 16y ago
I, for one, would appreciate a browser setting to not prefetch.
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by Pistos2 16y ago
As a Dvorak user, I can testify that, while it may not be faster (I didn't have an appreciable speed increase after switching), it sure feels more comfortable and natural when you do most of your typing on the home and upper rows, and commo
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by Pistos2 16y ago
I recommend adding an About page which describes the site. Either that, or add something to the landing page. Some sort of quick way to provide feedback would be good, too. What mechanism exactly is up to you: blatant mailto link; JS-bas
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by Pistos2 16y ago
> First, note the file structure. This step is aided by an editor that has a folder hierarchy view http://mama.indstate.edu/users/ice/tree/
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by Pistos2 16y ago
Previously posted: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=289694
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by Pistos2 16y ago
http://serverfault.com/questions/85893/running-a-cron-job-ma... I completely agree that there should be a better, direct way to test cron jobs.
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by Pistos2 16y ago
This is part of the reason I use browser password managers. I'm brazen in activating Opera's password manager, because of this "feature".

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