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   by asb 17y ago

   Personally I hate licenses like this. At least this one has been approved by the FSF, but I have to look it up. I see no reason not to just use MIT/BSD if you want a short, permissive license. That way everyone knows exactly what they can d
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   by asb 17y ago

   I'd somehow never heard of retrospectiva. It looks great. Can anyone with experience of both compare it to redmine?
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   by asb 17y ago

   You might be interested in Steven Murdoch's paper 'Hardened stateless session cookies'. See this blog post for the paper and some other related links: http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2008/05/16/hardened-state...
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   by asb 17y ago

   Stored procedures don't seem like a bad approach to me. You can provide versioning support by doing something much like Rails migrations. Providing access to the database through stored procedures basically is publishing business logic as a
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   by asb 17y ago

   That sounds fantastic. Is there a reason you choose BSD over MIT. I only ask as MIT seems more common for Lua projects because of course Lua itself is released under that license.
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   by asb 17y ago

   I'm butting in here. Check out the lists on the Lua-users Wiki and Wikipedia: http://lua-users.org/wiki/LuaUses http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lua_(programming_language)#Appl... I use it for general scripting purposes, but it's you run in
7. 487.▲
   by asb 17y ago

   No, the LLLL.coms have been bought up by domainers. They had some crazy bubble (which has now burst) for them as well. There are plenty of okish 5 letter .coms available.
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   by asb 17y ago

   I'm not from Github, but the blog post says "Please keep in mind that FI is priced competitively with other internal code management solutions and is well over the cost of our most-expensive hosted plan." Their most expensive hosted plan is
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   by asb 17y ago

   I know this isn't any help to you personally, but if anybody reading is in the UK then the Business Link website ( http://www.businesslink.gov.uk ) seems to be a great resource.
10. 490.▲
    by asb 17y ago

    I'm afraid the concept already has an accepted name: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backronym
11. 491.▲
    by asb 17y ago

    This is a problem at the moment, but I can see no reason why you shouldn't have a read-only account to give to services like this. Also, many UK banks (and I understand most banks on the continent) offer two-factor authentication for online
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    by asb 17y ago

    I'm interested in the author's perspective, but this piece seemed to end quite abruptly and failed to go into much detail about what the author believes happened to eBay. He states "In a futile effort to compete with Amazon and Google, eBay
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    by asb 17y ago

    As far as I can see, few of these services are available outside of America. The only available service I know that downloads data from your online bank account is Yodlee (which Mint uses as a data provider). I haven't used Egg Money Manage
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    by asb 17y ago

    See the updated version with a newer JavascriptCore: http://www.lassus.eu/2009/05/v8-and-javascriptcore-are-reall...
15. 495.▲
    by asb 17y ago

    I've recently signed up with Yodlee Moneycenter and become a big fan of these personal finance websites. Hopefully more services will soon become available to UK customers.
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    by asb 17y ago

    I hadn't noticed that. Wikipedia explains the licensing in more details ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constant_Data_Base#Library ) - the library code is public domain (and included in the public domain djbdns), but the rest of the package
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    by asb 17y ago

    I believe rcoder is saying the 4GB database limit is a property of the implementation rather than the cdb format.
18. 498.▲
    by asb 17y ago

    I have a Lua binding to tinycdb. I hadn't considered Windows compatibility and this bug exists in my code. I've just committed a fix, thanks.
19. 499.▲
    by asb 17y ago

    Here's a good public domain implementation: http://www.corpit.ru/mjt/tinycdb.html
20. 500.▲
    by asb 17y ago

    It would be nice if DJB would release CDB under the public domain like he has now done with most of his other software. However, there's a great public domain implementation by Michael Tokarev I'd recommend: http://www.corpit.ru/mjt/tinycd
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    by asb 17y ago

    As a consumer of open source libraries, my vote has to go for MIT. There's nothing wrong with Apache but I really appreciate the brevity of MIT and BSD licenses. I know brevity isn't all you should care about, but both licenses seem to have
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    by asb 17y ago

    I don't know enough about Jabber/XMPP to decide how well it could replace email, but email is plenty fast for me. For almost any website with password reset/confirmation, by the time I click my gmail tab it's already arrived in my inbox.
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    by asb 17y ago

    Here are the results for different sites: http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2009/05/20/attack-of-the-...
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    by asb 17y ago

    I have no experience with billing or merchant accounts. Why would you not just accept the chargebacks if you have a no questions asked moneyback policy anyway?
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    by asb 17y ago

    Lua Programming Gems was released around christmas and I think it's pretty good (although you definitely want PiL first). The mailing list is very friendly and there's plenty of information available on the lua-users.org wiki. Also take a l
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    by asb 17y ago

    This was asked and answered here in the thread about the 37Signals article: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=616948 eBay has an affiliate program called the eBay Partner Network ( http://ebaypartnernetwork.com ), and so CarsForAGrand w
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    by asb 17y ago

    I think you're really missing something by just looking at just the number of total hits over a month. How do you expect them to be distributed? What do you expect the peak rate to be? How slow is the site allowed to be at this peak?
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    by asb 17y ago

    If you want a really simply text-mode editor, just use nano/pico. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nano_(text_editor) You may also like Cream (an easy to use configuration of vim - perhaps gvim only?) http://cream.sourceforge.net/
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    by asb 17y ago

    Definitely. At first I made the mistake thinking that tabs were there to help me manage my buffers (and used them for this purpose, remapping :e to :tabe), but it turns out that instead they're just workspaces, which isn't what I actually w
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    by asb 17y ago

    Does anyone have a good algorithm for using a password template/seed for different sites? Choosing a template, say 5_h_7_s_9_j, and replacing the _ with characters from the site's name works (and you could increment the characters or whatev