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by boie0025 10y ago
Yes, Seeing the "ZMODEM" on the front page triggered some nostalgia... waiting for hours to download a few megabytes. At least ZMODEM supported resume!
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by boie0025 10y ago
I think you're right, not much of the voting infra is network reliant, but the more I think about it the more it seems that the "fear" factor of such outages could influence the election. Or, perhaps a curated working set of
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by boie0025 10y ago
Thanks for posting that! I just had a flashback to my BBS/FidoNet days of childhood.
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by boie0025 10y ago
Yeah I went hunting for a new API software for the same reason.. I wound up purchasing Paw for my team. The big selling point for me was the ability to define a request, and then use data from that request in other requests (the dynamic dat
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by boie0025 10y ago
I agree, I think the situation with possible miscommunication is now, to me, one of the better arguments for legalization of assisted-dying. What a tragic story; but I'm glad I read it, I will surely now be cognizant of it should I fi
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by boie0025 10y ago
Agreed, I also take issue with "Safer than cigarettes"; we know a lot more about cigarettes/tobacco than e-cigarettes. It's true that cigarettes have a large buffet of unsafe chemicals, but it's clear that e-cigare
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by boie0025 10y ago
I agree, and it seems clear that publishers are caught in a tough spot.. but I don't think that's a very good excuse to employ deception. To me it reads like "We're honest when we're making money, but when we'
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by boie0025 11y ago
I like this idea. Maybe a context menu for each word with scored alternatives..
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by boie0025 11y ago
Seeing that the fact-checking department was called out specifically gave me a good hearty laugh.
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by boie0025 11y ago
This is pretty awesome, thanks! Can't wait for a GitHub integration and a badge to paste on the app readme. Seems like an excellent build check.
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by boie0025 11y ago
Yes, one gigantic integration test (Live/Die) is unhelpful and makes it very difficult to pinpoint problems. Looking for something beyond "it compiles".
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by boie0025 11y ago
Yes, I half expect to see something like: //Not sure what this line of code does, but if you //delete it, you'll break the whole application in a bill one day.
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by boie0025 12y ago
I know these sounds very well.. I ran a BBS for many years in another life, and left the modem sound on (probably to just irritate my parents). I could identify a connection "speed" from the sounds, but I never really knew what w
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by boie0025 12y ago
I would have thought the same about SVN.. When confronted with a mixture of money, ignorance and fear, all bets are off.
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by boie0025 12y ago
Ahh, thanks, good looking out. "safe" seems like an additional layer of perceived good intentions.
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by boie0025 12y ago
Sergey must not have visited HN, because it seems safe to say had they found that in the browser history it would have been mentioned as well.
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by boie0025 12y ago
Wow, thanks for pointing that out.. that makes this reporting look pretty laughable, and wildly uninformed: "..through a so-called 'subversion repository'.." Apparently I can add "not looking suspicious" to a l
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by boie0025 12y ago
Yeah, I think we're on the same page. I just hacked together a quick example at this gist: https://gist.github.com/boie0025/ae9697eed61cbf5342a6
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by boie0025 12y ago
I had to write scrapers in Ruby for a very large application that scraped all kinds of government information from various states. We found (after a lot of pain working with very procedural scrapers) that a modified producer/consumer
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by boie0025 12y ago
In my experience, the only kind of PHP (or any) app where you can change just one line and walk away is a well written one. It's the poorly written ones where you have to change dozens or hundreds of lines, and run away screaming. Bu
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by boie0025 12y ago
Yes, I finally gave up and re-typed the HN URL.
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by boie0025 12y ago
My thoughts exactly. I was incredibly excited until I read the first line or so. One day perhaps.
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by boie0025 12y ago
I keep having flashbacks to 1994... Clipper Chip saga.. anyhow, here's a good read.. looks the the debate hasn't changed too much. http://www.nytimes.com/1994/06/12/magazine/battle-of-the-cli.
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by boie0025 12y ago
What a bunch of nonsense. TXT records were intended for arbitrary use. Why in the world are these companies pulling data from unknown sources and dumping it RAW into their output? Wow. Good find, IMO. [1] http://tools.ietf.or
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by boie0025 12y ago
I'm excited for the ActiveJob abstraction layer. This means I can start building things out for background work before even deciding what I want to have handle them.
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by boie0025 12y ago
Care to enlighten us, or shall I just guess at what you're talking about?
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Bash on Balls – Bash MVC-ish Web Framework(github.com)
2 points by boie0025 12y ago|0 comments
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by boie0025 12y ago
I got out of a similar situation about 2 months ago. It was awful. On top of all the aforementioned stressors, I actually was severely stressed out about bailing out on the company. We're all in this together. I wish more people wo
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by boie0025 12y ago
I just had a BBS days flashback to RIP: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_imaging_protocol
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Responsive Video Embed(cyberdesigncraft.com)
1 points by boie0025 13y ago|0 comments

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