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by brennen 10y ago
"Proud" might be a stretch, but some very small tools I get a lot of use-value-for-coding-time out of and thus feel warm fuzzies about: https://github.com/brennen/bpb-kit/blob/master/home/b
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by brennen 10y ago
This is great stuff.
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by brennen 10y ago
This seems odd due to the fact that the Great Father in Washington already gave us all affordable health care via the Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”), signed into law by President Obama in 2010. Greenspun's rhetoric is an embarrass
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by brennen 10y ago
> That's getting a little dodgy. I just want a browser, not a social movement. I kind of want a social movement.
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by brennen 11y ago
Thanks for this.
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by brennen 12y ago
Quite true. Although on this theory, I should really have learned some Haskell by now. And yet. Every trip to the xmonadrc is a fresh glimpse at the depths of my own ignorance.
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by brennen 12y ago
> The only thing better would be a VM I could spin up that let me self host an instance of this. Yeah, we'll get on that.
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by brennen 12y ago
SSL is supported, but not mandatory because a lot of the hardware we're targeting just isn't up to the task. We're aware this isn't exactly optimal. Suggestions welcome. Re: Key revocation, that's a good question a
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by brennen 12y ago
This is certainly true for values of "that page" excluding everything after the title. :)
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by brennen 12y ago
There's some simple example code in the core phant repo: https://github.com/sparkfun/phant/tree/master/examples And a tiny PHP wrapper here: https://github.com/sparkfun/SparkLib
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by brennen 13y ago
I'd be more inclined to look to state funding for encryption-related public goods if the state wasn't demonstrably an antagonist in the realm of encryption...
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by brennen 13y ago
POSIWID.
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by brennen 13y ago
I think that most of what I appreciate about Computer Modern is that it sends the neighborhood font nerds into fits of white-hot rage every time I use it.
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by brennen 13y ago
> It might be better than Perl, but not by much. Oh come on. PHP is more evolutionarily fit than Perl in a handful of very important ways (I would illuminate, for example, function signatures and a pre-built object system, syntactically
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by brennen 13y ago
I live and die by the shell. I'm constantly composing little one-liners, and keep an absurdly long Bash / zsh history to draw from. There are places the obvious answer is almost always "how about you just write a shell scri
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by brennen 13y ago
> it's always intrigued me that the tar command (I imagine it is mainly used to "unzip" things) does not make it very simple to do this. It helps to remember that tar stands for Tape ARchiver (or Tape ARchive, or something
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by brennen 13y ago
If nothing else, it's probably time we give OpenERP another look just to get an idea of how problems are being handled there. Pointers to useful reading would be welcome, if you've got any.
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by brennen 13y ago
You can always ask WTF. What else is the internet for? I'll try to give you a face-value answer. If we could just sort of rewrite all of our code in a nicer language than PHP (taking it as read that most of us can think of one or two o
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by brennen 13y ago
Thanks. I never know I'm actually in a conversation about how I do my job until this comment shows up.
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by brennen 13y ago
See my reply to rpedela elsewhere in this thread.
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by brennen 13y ago
I'd second this. I've pretty much fallen in love with the official docs over the last few months. They remind me of perldoc in terms of clarity and general quality. The mailing lists also seem to carry a lot of good material.
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by brennen 13y ago
> If you can share, what's the reason you folks went with this architecture? In its present state it's a fairly sane architecture for our purposes, but the only honest & concise answer to this question is that we didn'
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by brennen 13y ago
Awright, so I didn't write the linked piece, but Chris isn't talking about scaling our web traffic by an order of magnitude. We're a small-to-mid-size web store & light manufacturer and we do decent business and very occ
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by brennen 14y ago
Your internet penis is _enormous_. This sort of bilious, spittle-flecked juvenile chest-thumping teenaged-courageous-loner noise is precisely why venues like Hacker News, despite the presence and attention of a good many smart people, have
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by brennen 16y ago
You have in effect given out an irrevocable license to your work. This isn't practically or legally the same as giving up ownership, though it's certainly ceding a sizable measure of control.
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by brennen 16y ago
In terms of ease-of-install and basic user interface stuff, I remember it as a substantial improvement over most of what people had been exposed to. Mind you, I hated it passionately from the first time I was asked to do anything more invol
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by brennen 16y ago
If you're just looking to publish a weblog-like thing, rolling your own remains a viable option...
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by brennen 16y ago
I got a new laptop a couple months back. It came with Windows 7, and I thought, ok, what the hell, I might as well fire it up and see what this is like. It took somewhere upwards of 15 minutes to finish some final installation step, and the
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by brennen 16y ago
It's nice how Facebook keeps validating the decision to opt out of Facebook.
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by brennen 16y ago
The more I think about it, the more certain I become that immutable constants (a good idea, IMO) are the furthest CSS could safely go down the rabbit hole before the entire enterprise would consume itself in spaghetti-code madness. Not that

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