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by acabal 13y ago
More than a few of these arguments are basically, "The money's better there." Which might be true. But emigrating to a place is a big decision and money shouldn't be the factor you use to make it. Depending on where you go, building a ne
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by acabal 13y ago
For anyone interested in taking the next step for some of these suggestions (i.e., "OK, never put variables in SQL, what do I do instead then?"): I maintain https://phpbestpractices.org , which is an attempt to document the "best" solution
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by acabal 13y ago
Poverty-level income is in the eye of the beholder. He and his family sound quite happy at that amount; if they're happy, is it really poverty? If they're happy with that amount, why can't we be too? The "starving children in Africa" p
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by acabal 13y ago
Definitely. Even when coworking spaces exist they're typically pretty expensive for what you get--which is usually just a desk, fast internet, and maybe free coffee. Bring the price down a little, or offer daily passes for $10-$20 (even t
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by acabal 13y ago
From strictly an engineering perspective, I stopped developing for FB a few years ago because their API was like quicksand that you stepped in by chance because your treasure map was so bad. It would change every week, it was buggy, poor o
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by acabal 13y ago
Just as a heads up to those thinking of buying an X1 Carbon, the RAM is soldered in on that model, and the SSD is a non-standard size making it difficult/impossible to upgrade.
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by acabal 13y ago
So forgive my denseness here, but that can still be broken down into two separate protocols, right? 1) I wish to communicate with foo.com privately, regardless of whether foo.com is really who foo.com claims to be; that is, one time foo.
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by acabal 13y ago
I've been wondering lately why SSL ties both encryption between two parties and the identies of those two parties together. A genuine question borne of genuine ignorance on my part: why are these two concepts tied to the the same protoc
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by acabal 13y ago
Petrichor is one of the great neologisms of the English lexicon. An excellent word for an excellent, trans-cultural sensation.
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by acabal 13y ago
Until a year or two ago, yes. I've been using Ubuntu on only two different laptops since 8.04 and the staggering amount of fundamental problems and regressions that occurred and continue to occur is shocking. It's gotten a whole lot bette
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by acabal 13y ago
I've mentioned this in other threads but my gripe is that they got rid of the pgup/pgdown/home/end/etc. column. I have no idea why, and it even looks like there's plenty of space on the laptop for it. I use those keys all day, every day,
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by acabal 14y ago
I don't know, haven't we? An entire city shut down, militarized police systematically searching wide swaths of civilian homes, all to look for a guy who caused fewer deaths than a botched bank robbery, a highway pileup, or a hospital MRSA
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by acabal 14y ago
As unfeeling as his statement might sound, he's entirely correct. I told a family member today that the saddest thing about this whole Boston incident isn't the (still very sad and senseless) loss of life and limb, but that it's undoubtedl
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by acabal 14y ago
I thought this was going to be about people who took the Steve Jobs route of design: "I know better than you, you'll use my design and like it, or go to hell." People see Jobs' success in design and think they too can be successful by being
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by acabal 14y ago
I would have preferred a larger city like Munich but my girlfriend's work was in our town and it was far enough away from a big city to not be able to commute.
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by acabal 14y ago
Hey, I know that feeling. That was me just a few months ago. I went to Germany to live for a year and change with my girlfriend. We lived in a small town. While the town itself was beautiful, after a few months there was little to do an
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by acabal 14y ago
Sure they do, look at Coinbase. You can (for example) buy Reddit Gold for $3.99 USD, or the equivalent in Bitcoin, which changes based on some USD-based exchange rate they figure out. Or look at Namecheap, which can refill your account in
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by acabal 14y ago
I guess what I'm trying to say is that if merchants selling products for Bitcoin simply peg its worth to USD (like most merchants today to) then nobody can ever be sure how much you can actually buy with 1BTC. Bitcoin is unstable in part
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by acabal 14y ago
But you can't really claim that Bitcoin has any buying power, because there's almost nothing you can buy with Bitcoin where the merchant hasn't pegged the Bitcoin price to USD. Bitcoin has, functionally, near zero buying power; in prac
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by acabal 14y ago
I don't own any Bitcoins, but the concept interests me. (I'm no economist either so these musings are probably entirely wrong or unfounded.) I can't help but feel like all this hooplah about Bitcoin's "price" on the dollar is missing the
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by acabal 14y ago
I didn't say it was Apache's problem. For various reasons one project does not have HTTPS at all, and I understand how the web server handles things and the reasons why. My point was that a cheaper option from Linode would let me spin up a
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by acabal 14y ago
In Apache, one server can serve both HTTP and HTTPS (and multiple HTTPS with SNI). The problem occurs when you have both on the server with name-based virtual hosts and you request the HTTPS version of the HTTP site. If Apache can't find
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by acabal 14y ago
That's what I do now, but it's a pain to serve multiple HTTPS sites and an extra pain (practically impossible with default HTTPS in browsers nowadays) to serve mixed HTTP/HTTPS. I'd much prefer sandboxed Linodes for all my little projects,
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by acabal 14y ago
This is great, but it would be nice to have a plan < 1GB for < $20/month. I love Linode, I've been using it for years, and the pricing is great in general. But it'd be really nice to be able to spin up a $10/month, 512MB server fo
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by acabal 14y ago
I've been thinking about adding a mobile version to Scribophile lately but reading about the craziness of media queries and browser support is kind of scaring me away. I think the core of the problem is that CSS was designed to style docume
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by acabal 14y ago
Everything goes in cycles of human attention span. Technologies become tired and "crufty" because maintainers get bored with them and want the new hotness. This is nothing new and the up-and-down cycle will continue happening over and ove
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by acabal 14y ago
That quote from Jeff Hammerbacher comes to mind: "The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads. That sucks." There's lots of genuine good to be done in the world outside of the US. A year or two ago I di
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by acabal 14y ago
Nobody has bit, and for a few reasons I think: 1. The site audience tends to be a little older and not very tech-savvy, so Bitcoin isn't something that many are interested in comprehending. 2. Since the price was fixed at 2BTC a few weeks a
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by acabal 14y ago
Yeah but that's what I don't want to do--because that makes Bitcoin just a USD proxy, not a currency and economy of its own. I'm interested in BTC as its own economy, but unfortunately the price instability and tendency of most users to
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by acabal 14y ago
I added a Bitcoin purchase option to Scribophile to test the waters. But I'm interested in a Bitcoin economy, not a USD cash alternative--the situation where a Bitcoin has its own value, not a value dependent on a different currency. For

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