amock

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by amock 16y ago
Your confidence in your abilities provide only an illusion of certainty. Maybe if you had enough time you could fix any problems that occur with open source software, but when you have a deadline it's nice to have experts to help you. You
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by amock 16y ago
Another big deal is mentioned at the end of the article; you should now be able to boot operating systems them don't support such as FreeBSD. I know that tarsnap was hosted on Ubuntu because FreeBSD wasn't supported on EC2 and now that Ope
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by amock 16y ago
See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1515315
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by amock 16y ago
I think http://couchdb.apache.org/ is a better site for finding out what CouchDB is.
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by amock 16y ago
I use Gentoo and OS X for my desktops and laptops and Solaris x86 for my servers.
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by amock 16y ago
I try it out from time to time, but the Cuil blog hasn't had any activity in a while. The results seem to have improved over the past few months, but I haven't noticed any major changes.
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by amock 16y ago
What is NoSQL if not databases that aren't based on SQL?
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by amock 16y ago
Isn't Cuil doing basically the same thing except with Google instead of Amazon?
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by amock 16y ago
In some places there is more than enough water for everyone, so wasting water isn't a concern.
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NASA Takes Gamers on a Lunar Adventure With New Online Video Game(nasa.gov)
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by amock 16y ago
Of course they do. Customer feedback allows you to add products and services that add value to your offerings and remove ones that don't. In my experience I've found that it's very difficult to see your business as your customers do, so t
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by amock 16y ago
Nuclear bombs are neither good nor bad, they're just a tool. Since they're so powerful you should carefully consider the consequences before you use them, but that applies to any powerful tool.
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by amock 16y ago
Do you really believe that governments are more responsible than corporations? What do governments manage better than corporations? When something does go wrong at least corporations can be held responsible while governments can claim sov
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by amock 16y ago
What kind of encoding standard? Creating the standard isn't the hard part, but getting it used by other people could be very difficult or very easy depending on what it is.
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by amock 16y ago
Headers are easy to fake.
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by amock 16y ago
Maybe, maybe not. I think a better way to filter people would be something like Justin.tv or Facebook does where they have applicants write code as part of the application. I don't have any experience with hiring so i don't have any real
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by amock 16y ago
How will offering a higher salary deter less qualified people? It seems like it will attract more of all kinds of programmers.
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by amock 16y ago
I have this question about a lot of sites. I've heard very few good things about MySQL and lots about PostgreSQL but MySQL seems to be used more and get more press.
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by amock 16y ago
I think Objective-C is a great extension to C, much better than C++. It does sometimes involve more typing that I would like, but it's very simple and straightforward. Message passing is very powerful and is what makes me like Objective-C
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by amock 16y ago
Hypernumbers http://hypernumbers.com/ has an interesting way of building web pages.
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by amock 16y ago
It sounds like he wanted a SQL database all along, so there's not much insight in this post.
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by amock 16y ago
I think it just requires residency, not citizenship.
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by amock 16y ago
At the University of Nebraska–Lincoln Macs get on the network without any checking. So if you spoof your useragent you can bypass the check.
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by amock 16y ago
He explicitly mentions not exercising to reduce your hunger and because he and other sources he cited don't think it helps. If you track your weight every day then you can try different eating schedules for a week or so and see which on wor
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by amock 16y ago
It's not just about HTML5, it's about browser support and speed for the features they use. Browser performance has increased dramatically in the past few years and many people have upgraded to browsers with much better standards support.
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by amock 16y ago
I think that years ago the technology wasn't ready to do what they wanted it to do.
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by amock 16y ago
It would be better to report problems to Citrix rather than in this thread where they are completely off topic.
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by amock 16y ago
Or maybe you'll get downvoted for saying "I'm sure I'll get downvoted."
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by amock 16y ago
I think they fell for a while, but in the last few years they seem to be doing very well.
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by amock 16y ago
Is there any way to find out what rating was given for our application?

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