Zelphyr

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by Zelphyr 8y ago
There's a fun movie from the 80's that I remember enjoying as a kid called Silent Mouse. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Mouse
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by Zelphyr 8y ago
I don't think there's a concerted effort to escalate. I think it's more of an emergence phenomenon. But yes, the outcome you describe is likely inevitable if something doesn't change soon.
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by Zelphyr 8y ago
I don't think they would stop. I suspect what we're seeing is that the mobs shouting very loudly is being propped up by social media and the news media (who fall all over themselves to report it because of the controversy). The r
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by Zelphyr 8y ago
This was such early days in web hosting that nobody thought that was an option. It was a little like the early days of Twitter where you just assumed the web site would be down as often as not.
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by Zelphyr 8y ago
Boy, talk about memories. My fondest one is when we finally got a Western Telematic console server I could dial into from home to troubleshoot a down server. This instead of having to get up when the pager wouldn't stop beeping at 3a
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by Zelphyr 8y ago
Digital Ocean. We compared AWS, Google Cloud Platform, and Digital Ocean. While the latter isn't an apples-to-oranges comparison like the other two are, we found that the price, ease of use, and reliability made it the best choice. I
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by Zelphyr 8y ago
Nice! Looks like this could be a useful tool for sure. But seriously; think of a new name. :)
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by Zelphyr 8y ago
I agree. I like that Digital Ocean takes their time to get a new product offering right. It shows. Especially when you compare it to AWS, which we're in the process of moving away from.
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by Zelphyr 8y ago
I've found that it's only when I use a framework that I absolutely need X-Debug. Otherwise it's a nice-to-have but not a requirement.
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by Zelphyr 8y ago
I suspect the better deterrent, and the reason we haven’t seen another attack remotely similar to 9/11, is that the terrorists know we won’t fall for that again. There would be a whole airplane full of people willing to take down a wo
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by Zelphyr 8y ago
I’m not a Windows user anymore but for nostalgia sake I’d love Macromedia (née Allaire) HomeSite.
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by Zelphyr 8y ago
We tell our clients this over, and over, and over, and over. And over. It's really hard to let their baby into the world without it being perfect. Even when you show them the graveyard of products (my own included!) that found thems
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by Zelphyr 8y ago
Really? Wow. I didn't realize that. Are there good sources for this kind of information you can refer me to?
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by Zelphyr 8y ago
This is becoming a common thread these days; assuming the male is the aggressor. I've heard stories of girlfriends beating their boyfriend so bad as to have him visibly bleeding, yet when the he calls 911, he is the one that gets ar
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by Zelphyr 8y ago
Walmart's treatment of the customer is terrible - a direct reflection of their treatment of their employees in my opinion. The same will soon be said of Amazon. Which is a shame because I can remember a time when both offered amazing
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by Zelphyr 8y ago
His death is a true loss to Magic. He was nothing short of an artist in every sense of the word.
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by Zelphyr 8y ago
What could we do about it if we did find we were going to get hit directly with it?
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by Zelphyr 8y ago
Maybe it’s longing for byegone days on my part but it feels like the atmosphere of the Valley and tech in general has changed so much so quickly that my head is spinning. It feels, well, not fun anymore a lot of the time. Development by co
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by Zelphyr 8y ago
He may be soaking up undeserved blame but a lot of it is deserved. He has demonstrated time and again that he has little care for user privacy when that got in the way of selling an ad. People are (hopefully) starting to wake up to how dan
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by Zelphyr 8y ago
One could argue that while you were sitting st that tiny river watching the animals and the flow of the water you were meditating. I believe, personally, this is likely how meditation was “discovered” in the first place.
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by Zelphyr 8y ago
It will improve your craft and you don’t need to allocate time away from the latter to do so. You can do both at the same time. Put more simply; when you’re doing the dishes, do the dishes. Focus on the sensation of the water on your hands
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by Zelphyr 8y ago
I agree with you about lazy loading. It's just dumb. How is it better to give me a scaffold of a page before the content? The page may look nice but is unusable until the content has loaded. Why not just give me everything when it&
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by Zelphyr 8y ago
A lot of people keep complaining about Apple raising their prices without considering that a) Apple knows people will pay it and b) they're making really solid machines that last longer. The MacBook Pro that I'm typing this on is
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by Zelphyr 8y ago
Agreed. Google is already doing things to make their products bad. Companies that size seemingly can’t help it. Maps looks real nice and all but the old version was WAY easier to use. They won’t stop with these changes because they feel li
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by Zelphyr 8y ago
Everybody is shouting at each other about how right they are and not listening to what others are saying to try to understand their point of view. The net result being giant echo chambers clashing against one another and the media using tha
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by Zelphyr 8y ago
How have we not learned this lesson from when Microsoft did it? Believe it or not, there are still companies that require sites built for them to be compatible with IE7 because that’s what they standardized on and they don’t want to go th
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by Zelphyr 8y ago
Except that with using a framework you have a big black box of unknowns. And they will remain unknowns to you unless and until you take the time to dive into the internals of the framework (StackOverflow only gets you so far), at which poi
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by Zelphyr 8y ago
This, in my opinion, is why frameworks of any ilk exist at all. Too many developers out there don't want to take the time to learn the language and the frameworks give them a (false, again, my opinion) sense of productivity. But, espe
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by Zelphyr 8y ago
Is the FDA stacked with industry insiders like the FCC? Is that what's going on here? Or does the DoD have that much influence?
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by Zelphyr 8y ago
You're right. My comment is out of place in this particular instance. But there are plenty of other examples where Google does have too much power and influence.

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