andyl

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   by andyl 13y ago

   Many/most of the comments here reflect a general mistrust towards the administration, questioning motives or competence. I've been the parent of a troubled kid. In that time, I worked closely with our school administration, who could not h
2. 422.▲
   by andyl 13y ago

   Lots of generalizations there. Change '50 year old' to 'woman' and the thought-police will have your scalp. :-) Yes of course there are lots of clock-punchers out there. We used to call that mentality 'terminate and stay resident'. (may
3. 423.▲
   by andyl 13y ago

   I'm not buying it. I'm about to turn 50 - doing better work than ever and more in demand. The tools today are so good compared to 5-10 years ago. Now I have these awesome tools, and understand sales/marketing/management/finance. ps - cou
4. 424.▲
   by andyl 13y ago

   Most new companies fail, but not all. Apple and Google were founded by twenty-somethings, and in the early days, nobody was certain what they would become. The key is to keep trying stuff, even ideas that might seem unusual. One group tha
5. 425.▲
   by andyl 13y ago

   Some of those gadgets would be right at home at Maker Fair.
6. 426.▲
   by andyl 13y ago

   To me Dart looks like another brick in Google's walled garden. Weakening support for XMPP, Webkit, RSS, and JavaScript. Investment in so-called open technologies like NaCL and DART that are controlled by Google and optimized for Google's
7. 427.▲
   by andyl 13y ago

   Here comes a flame war. Hopefully some moderator will move drop this entry to the bottom of this list.
8. 428.▲
   by andyl 13y ago

   With CoVim, do all the co-editors see the same screen, or can they view different buffers?
9. 429.▲
   by andyl 13y ago

   At one time I was looking at NaCL as a possible solution for lightweight server-side sandboxing.
10. 430.▲
    by andyl 13y ago

    I'm an old person. It is quite impossible for me to get a job as a developer, or anything else really. And - I don't care. I focus on doing excellent work, not on grievances, whining, or complaining. The world is enormous, and there is u
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    by andyl 13y ago

    Yet another article on Gender politics. Where is the advocacy for black/hispanic/old programmers? Having said that, I wish there were less politics on HN. I read "Hacker News" for technology and startups, not social engineering.
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    by andyl 13y ago

    I don't see the need for NaCL when there is asm.js and emscripten. For fast lightweight native sandboxing, now we have docker. NaCL seemed like a great idea, but now it has been overtaken by other initiatives.
13. 433.▲
    by andyl 13y ago

    Is related to Angular in any way ??
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    by andyl 13y ago

    'Are you sponsored by Google?' I think so. I've been accused of being an 'anti-google astroturfer' before. 'Gosh that's odd', I thought. Then I read the posts written by my accuser. Pro-google, down the line - echoing PR talking points
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    by andyl 13y ago

    Can this be used for non-google apps ??
16. 436.▲
    by andyl 13y ago

    I can't imaging trusting a 3rd party to provision userId's and SSH keys for my servers. Am I missing something here?
17. 437.▲
    by andyl 13y ago

    Is there any way for a Vim session to span multiple monitors? Multiple terminals? That is what I would like more than anything.
18. 438.▲
    by andyl 13y ago

    +1 for BeagleBone Black - what a great device. Beware: running 'opkg update ; opkg upgrade' broke my system. (disk out of space) Recovered by reloading the OS.
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    by andyl 13y ago

    Smart phones already track everything. The privacy battle was lost long ago.
20. 440.▲
    by andyl 14y ago

    Does anyone know if Docker runs on a 32-bit ubuntu host?
21. 441.▲
    by andyl 14y ago

    OMG this is great - should be a standard part of rails.
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    by andyl 14y ago

    In the early days of the telephone, there was some debate about the proper way to start and terminate a discussion. Many were fond of starting a discussion with 'ahoy', ending with 'that is all'. Alas, 'hello' and 'goodbye' won the competi
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    by andyl 14y ago

    OK - I'm willing to transfer one of my servers from IPv4 to IPv6. How do I tell if my hardware/software/isp/etc. is compatible? Where should I get started?
24. 444.▲
    by andyl 14y ago

    The dependency thing is a big deal. So much wasted time tracking down dependencies for my Ruby projects... I recently discovered RVM autolibs. Wow - what a great idea. Is there a way to make 'autolibs' work with bundler, or rbenv?
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    by andyl 14y ago

    > Like who? Honest question. I've got a county-government customer on IE8, with no plans to upgrade. My workaround for them: ChromeFrame.
26. 446.▲
    by andyl 14y ago

    Well, I use Debian for development and production, and I would never use Debian ruby packages on production. With the Debian packages, you have no idea what version you're getting. And then gem installs can only be done by the root user
27. 447.▲
    by andyl 14y ago

    no more public projects? lol someone needs to open their eyes - its non-stop construction around here.
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    by andyl 14y ago

    Git and GitHub have both made monstrous contributions to the software development landscape. I've acquired incredible new powers, for free! What other power-tools are on the horizon? What's next?
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    by andyl 14y ago

    I agree 100% - ban all politics and celebrity discussion from HN.
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    by andyl 14y ago

    Dear god - not more gender politics - please make it stop.