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LiquidWeb was down for 40 minutes and all I got was this tiny stinking update
1 points by _phred 16y ago|1 comments
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by _phred 16y ago
Lucky me! I was born on programmer's day just under 2^5 years ago. This is perhaps my happiest birthday yet. :-)
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by _phred 17y ago
Yep, even if they have to buy a Mac ($600 for a Mac Mini), that's still cheap. I'm glad my parents spent money on my "software habit," which has given me a lifelong valuable skill. I'd do the same for my kids in an instant.
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by _phred 17y ago
If the majority of iPhone users are satisfied with the current arrangement, what would be the incentive for Apple to open up the venue for other App Stores? I can't see benefit to Apple from doing so, aside from a theoretical, "more geeks
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by _phred 17y ago
Also, because expect(1) defeats the entire "remote shell" aspect of SSH, which lets me do this from my workstation: ssh server tar zc /srv/http > http-backup.tar.gz Yes, that's a remote command whose output is piped to a local fi
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by _phred 17y ago
This seems really, incredibly powerful, but I'm having a hard time thinking of great applications for it. Their examples are very interesting: http://www.twilio.com/docs/howto/ - Phone menu, where Twilio handles the call and listens to D
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by _phred 17y ago
Scheme has always been interesting to me. It gets really interesting when you have a Scheme with a C FFI, as discussed here: http://jlongster.com/blog/2009/07/19/gambit-scheme-app-devel... Using the FFI, I could write my application code
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Writing iPhone applications with Gambit Scheme's FFI(jlongster.com)
1 points by _phred 17y ago|0 comments
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by _phred 17y ago
It's a case for better technical documentation, which was later fixed by putting a beveled rectangle around CONTROL and other modifier keys in written documentation. What he attempted to do was technically accurate given the instructions.
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by _phred 17y ago
This is a noble goal — letting the user and site publisher know what data is collected — however, I don't see what the benefit is to the ad providers or data collectors on the sites, other than that they might possibly be able to simplify t
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by _phred 17y ago
> As an aside, the "do one thing and do it well" camp is a great idea in theory, but in practice sucks. Big companies make purchase decisions, like it or not, based on big feature lists. Products with big feature lists score better than
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by _phred 17y ago
Heck yeah, this reminds me why Space Quest's subtitle should be, "you're gonna die." There are so many horrible ways to die in the SQ games... Unfortunately, it appears that inventory disappears on restore from saved game, and there's also
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by _phred 17y ago
I can correlate the "strongly recommended TI part," having graduated HS in 2001. I used an HP-48GX and yes, at times, it was hard to adapt the teacher's instructions. My friend and I both had 48's, and we helped each other work it out. W
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by _phred 17y ago
The trick, it would seem, is convincing them that a $0 tool with its faults and crashes is better than a stable $400 industry-standard tool 15 years in the development and that, when billing design time at $80-120/hour, the latter tool won'
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by _phred 17y ago
There is inestimable value in doing so. I find the approach especially valuable for learning new programming technologies — in practice, learning a new technology comes down to the questions: what does the code look like, and why? By look
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Ask HN: where to find someone to maintain a Ruby on Rails project?
4 points by _phred 18y ago|0 comments
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by _phred 18y ago
This reminds me of a beloved tool from my youth, Maxis' (of SimCity fame) Klik n' Play. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klik_&_Play There was something very empowering about being handed a tool for instructing the computer to do what I w
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by _phred 18y ago
At the very least, using functional programming will raise the understanding bar for those who try to maintain those applications that use the paradigm. However, I fail to see how this will improve the overall quality of PHP applications, n
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by _phred 18y ago
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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by _phred 18y ago
I'd go for the microformats way of representing time, now that they've standardized it: http://microformats.org/wiki/datetime-design-pattern <abbr class="foo" title="YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS+ZZ:ZZ">Date Time</abbr> Th
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by _phred 18y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship "Censorship is the suppression of speech or deletion of communicative material which may be considered objectionable, harmful or sensitive, as determined by a censor." vs. http://en.wikipedia.org/w
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by _phred 18y ago
!$ is the substitution in most shells for the last arg of the last command. I use it all the time as it's really easy to type.
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by _phred 18y ago
Sorry to hear about your friend. I've personally decided that my skull and its contents are worth protecting, and worth protecting well, and feel naked riding without a good and properly-fitted helmet.