anthonyb

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Another blast from the past: reverse engineering and repairing a BigTrak(robotroom.com)
1 points by anthonyb 15y ago|0 comments
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by anthonyb 15y ago
Totally agree, except for his point three - beginners typically don't care about exercises, they want to get something working. As long as it works and does what they want, they're happy.
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by anthonyb 15y ago
This makes no sense whatsoever. "Plum Pudding"? and a b/w picture of some guy?
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by anthonyb 15y ago
Most of what this article claims about diet is not supported by the evidence. Typically vegans/vegetarians care a lot more about their diet, and will eat less of other things, like refined sugar and flour -- also linked to heart disease,
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by anthonyb 15y ago
Physical property has nothing to do with it. If I buy an mp3 and distribute copies of it, how is that different to ripping it from a CD?
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by anthonyb 15y ago
A large number of people are still willing to pay for music. How many people would be willing to pay you for a photocopy of a $1 bill? I understand the argument that you and this site are trying to make, but it's fundamentally flawed. Ultim
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by anthonyb 15y ago
By not wasting any more of his money on shitty movies? "Fool me once, shame on you" and all that?
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by anthonyb 15y ago
> They've made it very clear that they consider digital copies of physical property to be just as valuable as the original. Wow, talk about missing the point. Digital copies of movies and music are just as valuable as the originals, par
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Do you use Facebook? Or does Facebook use you?(jbdeaton.com)
2 points by anthonyb 15y ago|0 comments
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by anthonyb 15y ago
It's not hard at all. You don't need to recompile with LESS - just have a separate style sheet which overrides the default bootstrap one in selected areas.
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by anthonyb 15y ago
And yet they still fell prey to it. Insecure by default is not secure, even if you can fix the insecurities.
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by anthonyb 15y ago
What are the odds that there's a similar bug which allows changes to user accounts? If that's the case, then altering the password or email address is trivial.
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by anthonyb 15y ago
You can get your code out, but what about all of the rest of your data? Wiki, issues, pull requests, etc. Update: Apparently it's doable with some API magic, but you still have to handroll your exporter: http://www.lornajane.net/posts/2011
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by anthonyb 15y ago
People post links to their blogs all the time, so I doubt it's that. From looking at his history, it seems to be this post which caused the ban: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3555622 No idea why - it's inflammatory, but hardly worth
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by anthonyb 15y ago
The attack was on a hotel - that's also a matter of fact, and similarly indefensible. And I edited about 30 seconds to a minute after my initial post, to make my points clearer. I don't think that's unreasonable, much less "sick or disturbi
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by anthonyb 15y ago
He's not ignorant or lying - you just need to look at Irgun's activities in the '30s and '40s to know that. Those guys were bombing a bus practically every day at some points ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Irgun_attacks_during_th...
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by anthonyb 15y ago
YAGNI :)
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by anthonyb 15y ago
Yeah, the "trained properly by an expert" is a bit of a giveaway, isn't it? That said, I've worked in a scrum team and most of our issues were caused by not following the common sense stuff in scrum, things like "don't change the spec halfw
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Open your mouth and you're dead(outsideonline.com)
1 points by anthonyb 15y ago|0 comments
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by anthonyb 15y ago
That site is full of vitriol and hyperbole: "I know this is difficult, especially for retards, so you may want to consult your local Professor of Urban Studies before proceeding." And he blasts carfree's "green space", but then lists a whol
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by anthonyb 15y ago
Depends on the site, and how much free time to have to support him. You might be able to get away with something like Jekyll, or else give your friend a template and a quick lesson in editing HTML (h1, h2, p, img, and a tags, plus testing a
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by anthonyb 15y ago
It could also be argued that you will still have memory problems, just of a different type :)
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by anthonyb 15y ago
Which all seem to follow the exact same pattern, ie. only counting the cost of materials that you have to buy. From that link: The Soft Courtyard House This design draws heavily on bamboo, which is readily available in China... The Recyc
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by anthonyb 15y ago
Not hypocritical at all, if you read the background story here: http://www.simondale.net/house/family.htm Initially we had no capital and we had decided resolutely to be full time parents whilst our children were young. As you’ll appreci
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by anthonyb 15y ago
Strawbale walls + wood heater. Did you read the article at all?
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by anthonyb 15y ago
I get the room part, but it cost him 5000 pounds because he built it out of logs and straw bales. There's not really a massive supply network needed for that sort of thing. Also, your idea of a decent house is (obviously) not necessarily hi
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by anthonyb 15y ago
I would disagree with that fairly strongly. While there are other choices for specific niches, for most web development Django is the first thing that most Python developers will look at, mainly due to it's user base and libraries.
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by anthonyb 15y ago
Eventlet seems to support it: http://blog.eventlet.net/2010/02/12/scalable-wsgi-compatible...
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by anthonyb 15y ago
Well, ditto with Python and Django these days. There are other frameworks, each with their own strengths (werkzeug, web.py, bottle, etc.), but Django is the default choice. Back when this article was written there were at least five or six
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by anthonyb 15y ago
This article would date back to around the time of Turbogears, CherryPy, etc. before Django became the 'default' solution.

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