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by benmarks 11y ago
Agreed. There is a de facto anonymity in public which is being reduced by mass surveillance. I generally eschew slippery slope arguments, but it's hard to ignore these points mid-slide.
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by benmarks 11y ago
Wow. This resonates at several levels for me (middle aged, middle class white male in the US). I wonder how much this is influenced by the comforts of living in a relatively affluent and secure environment.
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by benmarks 11y ago
> If you think of the distance any individual consumer needs to travel as a penalty/loss to that consumer... I wouldn't consider "distance" a penalty in most cases; again, our respective opinions here seem just that.
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by benmarks 11y ago
> This is clearly a non-optimal solution for consumers. Pretty sure that needs qualification or at least a citation. "Non-optimal" sounds suspiciously subjective.
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by benmarks 11y ago
Heh, well, it is on GitHub, and there is a history of merged PRs: https://github.com/hacksalot/HackMyResume/pulls?utf8=%E2%9C%...
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by benmarks 11y ago
And here's a non-paywall link! http://www.foxbusiness.com/industries/2015/12/21/ericsson-si...
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by benmarks 11y ago
I've been shocked at the number of enterprises with workflows involving shared Excel docs (particularly in the eCommerce space). One of my (Magento) community members has a business which seems to tackle some of the issues around this:
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by benmarks 11y ago
GitHub DDoS, pointing out ironic single points of failure since the beginning!
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by benmarks 11y ago
Drumming is almost as sublimely infectious as yawning - try tapping a little rhythm around others and see how regularly others start tapping themselves.
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by benmarks 11y ago
A fantastic mind with such an ability to relate the otherwise un-relatable. "Six Easy Pieces" is an accessible read if you find this interesting.
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by benmarks 11y ago
Support just confirmed that we do not ship any code in local. Given the namespace I'm assuming your shop works with Gorilla?
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by benmarks 11y ago
> As I said: Magento Enterprise tar ball, supplied at considerable expense straight from Magento. Is this a download from the partner portal? I've asked support to check, but you can probably point out the source much more quickly
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by benmarks 11y ago
Speaking to your points, in turn: > Magento is a piece of junk Commerce is hard. Making an extensible commerce platform for all/most merchants is even harder. These two reasons are why there aren't a lot of options in the ope
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by benmarks 11y ago
Not really accurate to say that Magento is "built on top of... Zend." We don't use much of it. Regarding the crumbling comment... well, Magento is seven years old. There's a reason we're releasing Magento 2. Code&#x
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by benmarks 11y ago
The first two are a third party module. If 0777 is objectionable then I'm surprised you are using the module or haven't at least patched it - not trying to snark, just wondering if there's some additional context. There don&#
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by benmarks 11y ago
Link to the referenced blog post? We absolutely do have tests for 1.x and have for years.
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by benmarks 11y ago
Doing my best to get a 100% marketing-free mailing list for notifications in place soon.
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by benmarks 11y ago
See my comment above.
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by benmarks 11y ago
From http://devdocs.magento.com/guides/m1x/install/installer-priv... : "All directories have 700 permissions (drwx------). 700 permissions give full control (that is, read/write/execute) to the
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by benmarks 12y ago
You're talking about Phil Sturgeon, aren't you? That guy ticks all of us off. (<3 you Phil)
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by benmarks 12y ago
"They were 'astonished' to find it almost completely wiped out staphylococcus aureus, otherwise known as MRSA." Not all S. aureus is MRSA; wondering if this is just poor phrasing or if I'm misunderstanding somet
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by benmarks 12y ago
Great write-up. But why did I read the comments? Immediate conjectural descent into the harm inflicted on the children without parental consent. This is a more egregious reality today than kids needing to verbalize all the things. Personall
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by benmarks 12y ago
You are not alone in this strategy. I just wish we could have a password standard.
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by benmarks 12y ago
Curiosities of human/social behavior such as this amaze me until I think about all the people across multiple cultures who feel compelled to respond in some manner when someone sneezes.
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by benmarks 12y ago
Age and the accompanying experience have started to bring me introspection and retrospection, and from these I've realized opportunities I've missed out on because I didn't do something earlier that I could/should have.
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by benmarks 12y ago
Had the pleasure of meeting Elijah on a two day work trip to LEX. Airport cabbie drove me to Woodford, dropped me off, and didn't charge to wait while I toured. Elijah was entirely indifferent to my presence. Aside from Charleston, Lex
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by benmarks 12y ago
Not a user, but after being a bartender for years - and knowing many who do consume marijuana - there seems to be no logical reason to punish (let alone _incarcerate_) people for something which is ultimately less destructive than what I wa
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by benmarks 12y ago
Great tech, but am I the only one who noticed "administrated"?
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by benmarks 12y ago
Huge thanks to EngineYard for their prompt initiative and sponsorship of a mental health summit at php[tek]. Four of us spoke to the entire conference on anxiety and depression. Also, thanks to Ed Finkler (@funkatron) for getting this conve
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by benmarks 12y ago
Single points of failure everywhere. This is not the future we were promised. At least the fixes are in our hands.

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