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by binbasti 16y ago
Last year I attended a panel about women in tech on the fairly new CCC congress "SIGINT" in Cologne, which focusses more on society and politics. The panel itself was rather boring and not really insightful, but during the Q&A a young w
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by binbasti 16y ago
According to the UN, torture is "... any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person ..." . It seems this is very much the case here.
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by binbasti 16y ago
With everyone congratulating the Chromium/Chrome team so much, I'd like to add that none of this would be possible without the WebKit project.
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by binbasti 16y ago
Basing your choice of the framework and even the language for your project on some error during what seems to be your first installation ever of that specific stack is really not a good idea. Installation and deployment are well solved prob
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by binbasti 16y ago
Forking would be the key to eliminate the gatekeeper problem, so that for certain topics people could publish their own articles or make changes to existing ones without needing the approval of some opinionated moderator or admin. On the Ge
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by binbasti 16y ago
They advertised themselves as the "open source encyclopedia", but they have not adopted any other concepts from the software development world, such as "quality assurance" and "stable releases". Adopting the concept of forking, distributi
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by binbasti 16y ago
I'm starting to think that when an article's title is phrased as a polar question, you can be almost sure the rational answer is a simple "no" (in spite of what the content may suggest).
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by binbasti 16y ago
That's how every dishwasher I ever owned used to work. And it's actually a feature: you can add stuff that you forgot to put in after it starts, and you can take something out, when you need it immediately, and wash it manually.
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by binbasti 16y ago
I'd pay at least $50 for a Chinese-English language pack. And even just 50% accuracy would be ok.
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Startup countries: a quick video intro to seasteading(athousandnations.com)
2 points by binbasti 16y ago|1 comments
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by binbasti 16y ago
"I want to create a GitHub app for Mac OS X that will allow you to stay up-to-date on the latest activities of your friends and favorite open-source projects." The activity stream is just not a good tool to stay on top of what's happening w
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by binbasti 16y ago
Actual conflicts from working with the same fields in the same tables are so rare, I haven't even experienced it once. However, the second scenario would happen every single day in a team.
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by binbasti 16y ago
When the question is about 100% pair programming I'd say there aren't that many. Hashrocket is one of the few companies (I believe Pivotal is, too) where it seems to be true, but most teams that I know are only pairing part of their time.
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by binbasti 16y ago
He used his own Amazon account and his real name was visible on the Amazon Wishlist. And, even more funny, his wife did the same thing. Here's the original blog entry (in German, scroll down for some screenshots): http://gutjahr.biz/blog/2
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by binbasti 16y ago
There already is a more open movie database: http://www.omdb.org
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Haystack halting testing because of security concerns(blog.austinheap.com)
3 points by binbasti 16y ago|3 comments
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Celebrate Whyday(whyday.org)
225 points by binbasti 16y ago|78 comments
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by binbasti 16y ago
What's wrong with Passenger (mod_rails)? There's not really a difference to mod_php in terms of deployment, especially if you're not altering the software.
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Relational Data, Document Databases and Schema Design(paperplanes.de)
37 points by binbasti 16y ago|14 comments
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by binbasti 16y ago
I really like the recommendations. Already found a bunch of movies I should've stumbled over before but never have. Some things, in no particular order: * The SuperMatch UI needs some more love! Just watch someone new to the site use it and
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by binbasti 16y ago
That's the whole idea of this project, isn't it?
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Battle.net 2.0: The Antithesis of Consumer Confidence(the-ghetto.org)
107 points by binbasti 16y ago|39 comments
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by binbasti 16y ago
http://redcareditor.com is an open source, cross platform clone of Textmate currently in development. It supports Textmate themes and bundles, and for the split pane guys in here: yes, it does that too. Last time I checked (a few months a