ankhmoop

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by ankhmoop 17y ago
Personally, I'd prefer to see reasoned responses to sho's comments, rather than sniping remarks ("elitist cack"), and downvoting into oblivion. I tend to agree with sho, and alternative, reasoned viewpoints would be enlightening.
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by ankhmoop 17y ago
About the same as any other client that makes it difficult to mask your identity via open web proxies.
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by ankhmoop 17y ago
Doesn't serve as counter argument for web chat providing strong value proposition, just that Freenode leveraged existing open source software to provide an alternative solution that they could directly manage. http://blog.freenode.net/2009
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by ankhmoop 17y ago
You need something better, though. After all, it should be noted that discussion here is via a web based interface, and yet the conversation isn't that bad. I agree, but IRC is different and arguably antiquated technology. It doesn't requ
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by ankhmoop 17y ago
I wouldn't say shouldn't , but I would say that a slightly higher barrier to entry serves as a good first-pass filter for technically-oriented communities.
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by ankhmoop 17y ago
As someone who has been placed in the position of semi-regularly banning mibbit from freenode OSS project channels due to abusive users, I can't see how this is a bad thing. The quality of user was exceptionally low, and "easy webchat" simp
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by ankhmoop 17y ago
More likely: the ridiculously steep, unsustainable price competition drives most smaller players out of the market, remaining companies take advantage of reduced competition to raise prices back to a relatively sustainable level.
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by ankhmoop 17y ago
Be happy with my $5.99 because you could have much less with this attitude. Your $5.99 isn't enough to support developing anything but a cheap , top-50 hit of an application. Thanks to remarkably steep price competition and remarkably po
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by ankhmoop 17y ago
Outgrew how?
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by ankhmoop 17y ago
No, it's the boot loader, locked to the device that they own, that actively blocks loading unsigned software.
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by ankhmoop 17y ago
It's an indication of the motivational factor of the promise of money. Every gold rush "success story" sends N more enterprising individuals chasing after the big payout. I've met our payroll for months on iPhone contract work and licensing
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by ankhmoop 17y ago
Apple, Inc. , not its individual developers, treats iPhone developers horribly. As a rule, Apple shields itself with layer upon layer of corporate bureaucratic armor, and the value of WWDC is cutting through that nonsense. However, at the
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by ankhmoop 17y ago
Buy a Mac? Just kidding. Mostly. If you browse to http://help.benm.at/ from your iPhone (UA checking), you can download a carrier profile that will enable tethering. Reboot your phone and you should be good to go. I recommend downloadin
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by ankhmoop 17y ago
Musicians can pay the bills by playing their music -- be it at a show or in a studio, but providing "support" is not programming .
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by ankhmoop 17y ago
If everyone actually knew how little they know, they wouldn't be cocky. There's nothing wrong with being self-assured in what you do know, and honest about what you don't, but cockiness does seems to be a good indicator of an individual's
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by ankhmoop 17y ago
Working with Apple via the iTunes store is an absolute nightmare. Why on earth, as a developer, would I want to give Apple all the cards on the desktop, too?
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by ankhmoop 17y ago
TechCrunch, Coding Horror -- both make me pine for downvotes. Nothing else does.
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by ankhmoop 17y ago
If you compare granularity of tracking and utility of historical version control across different projects of that era, such as FreeBSD vs. Linux, I think you'll find that Linus' position is clearly false.
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by ankhmoop 17y ago
3 clever ideas with very poor implementations, heavily refined by many others over years .
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by ankhmoop 17y ago
A comment I noticed from the follow-up article: Nice story Chron. Do a story like this every day and you'll have peple [sic] lining up to buy your newspaper too. Newspapers have the power to serve the local interest, if they would just ac
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by ankhmoop 17y ago
You can install apt-get and dpkg on Mac OS X via MacPorts (but apt_fu looks quite a bit nicer than using the dpkg tools).
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by ankhmoop 17y ago
Any chance of open sourcing it? It would be pretty cool to couple that with a central, authenticated server management web interface.
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by ankhmoop 17y ago
What do you use to produce dpkgs? In addition to the cumbersome standard tools, I'm only aware of jpkg ( http://code.google.com/p/jpkg-library/ ) for Java. I've found the dpkg method to be very effective. You can sign the packages, mirror t
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by ankhmoop 17y ago
It's also an interesting example of where an Option/Maybe monad would save you. Coupled with a type system, the issue would even be caught at compile time (or edit-time, in the case of a type-aware editor/IDE).
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by ankhmoop 17y ago
I mentioned this in another comment, but I just wanted to note that even as a very small company, we tend to avoid solutions that won't readily integrate with our existing LDAP users and group-based access control, backup system, single-sig
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by ankhmoop 17y ago
We're not an IBM, but tend to avoid solutions that won't readily integrate with our existing LDAP users and group-based access control, backup system, etc.
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by ankhmoop 17y ago
Coding Horror didn't jump the shark, it is the shark. Atwood has been dispensing profoundly bad development advice for years, leveraging interesting (but pointless) anecdote and provocative opinions to drive traffic and interest.
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by ankhmoop 17y ago
The "forget the resume" part, or perhaps the "we don't believe in years of irrelevance" -- they believe 6 months and 5 years of experience are roughly the same when it comes to productivity. http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/833-years-of-
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by ankhmoop 17y ago
Another ridiculous anecdotal extrapolation from 37signals. When I'm hiring, I only look to the cover letter to determine whether the candidate is personally interested in the job, not whether they're qualified for it. Might I suggest a new
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by ankhmoop 17y ago
Off the top of my head: - You generally own the license to the installed software in perpetuity. Your application source art will always be readable. - It will integrate better with your desktop user experience. Printing, drag-and-drop, cop

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