brianmurphy

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by brianmurphy 8y ago
Nearly every service provider complies with legally issued requests. The ones that don't are either lying to you or fly by night operations that I wouldn't trust my business with.
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by brianmurphy 8y ago
You can't be serious. The challenge of filing presidential candidate paperwork in the US versus the challenges of having a contrarian political opinion in China are nowhere near each other in level of hardship.
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by brianmurphy 8y ago
To me this is even worse than choosing a bad registrar once by mistake. You keep choosing companies who can't stay in business and let your domain float around like it didn't matter. The second or third buy-out of your name regist
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by brianmurphy 8y ago
Speaking for myself, I have 20 years of C like language experience and I can't stand the scoping rules or functional nature of javascript. This is why I like PHP. It comes natural when switching between C, bourne shell, perl and PHP. T
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by brianmurphy 8y ago
Time to make the Donuts. It originated with donut TV commercials but I think after 20 years in the industry it applies well to waking up every day to serve my tech clients.
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by brianmurphy 9y ago
I don't know what is hard about setting up a PHP stack. "yum install" and you're on your way. It's certainly no more work than setting up nodejs, ruby, python, a go compiler, etc.
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by brianmurphy 9y ago
I hope you are joking and not seriously suggesting a Pug that alerts on the word "jews" is a danger to anyone.
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by brianmurphy 9y ago
I wonder if any of the proponents of booting large groups of users understand tribalism. It is easy to see one of the unintended consequences of grouping cigar aficionados, home brewers, and gun enthusiasts in with the racists is that they
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by brianmurphy 9y ago
Other people in the thread have pointed out the woman stepped out in a darker area between where the street lights are placed. Reflecting eyes are not the only way to detect an object. A person watching the road would have seen her dark sil
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by brianmurphy 9y ago
Or for that matter look at the replies to Trump's tweets if you want an example of vile hatred.
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by brianmurphy 9y ago
Not tone deaf at all. The BSD license explicitly permits reuse in differently licensed software. This is the ultimate disagreement of what software freedom means. GPL people think derivatives of their software should remain free. (the viral
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by brianmurphy 9y ago
That subreddit is hard to follow if you're not up on all the lingo. But it seems pretty normal to me for staffers to reach out to constituents when building legislation. I'd much rather see them talk to regular citizens as in this
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by brianmurphy 9y ago
Some projects would use older version control systems like cvs. Others would manage development through email lists. Everyone was good at using the diff & patch commands. Mail clients like mutt were great at searching and sorting email.
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by brianmurphy 9y ago
You can't use whitespace in a variable name so I don't think that's it.
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Ask HN: Why is kotlin colon happy?
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by brianmurphy 9y ago
You're going to get into trouble with the PC Police when trying to build an AI Hot or Not. Just look at the Microsoft AI chatbot who turned racist.
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by brianmurphy 9y ago
I'm not a denier by thinking no change is happening. However, I do deny the more aggressive estimates are true. This is easily fact-checked by going back 20 years and see who predicted 2017 correctly. It just seems fishy that the most
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by brianmurphy 9y ago
It really depends on your purpose and how technical your content authors will be. If you need a CMS that non-tech people can handle, WordPress still does a decent job of that. The plugin ecosystem of wordpress is ginormous. Page builder the
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by brianmurphy 10y ago
One reason: Focus. Anybody who has tried to launch a SAAS app knows that launching the software is not enough. The sales and support infrastructure has to be there as well. I'm not saying they can't do it. They certainly have the
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by brianmurphy 10y ago
The purpose of my life outside of work right now is dating women so I think you are treading dangerous waters by asking people to bring a more "whole" view of themselves into the workplace when that is perceived to be the problem
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by brianmurphy 10y ago
There are some good books on the subject. Start with "The Google Resume" by Gayle McDowell. Then move on to industry specific books like Cracking the Coding Interview.
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by brianmurphy 10y ago
As a former C programmer, you know not to fool around at the max bounds of a type. That avoids all of the integer overflow/underflow conditions. When in doubt, you just throw a long or unsigned on there for insurance. :)
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by brianmurphy 10y ago
Consider the source of the article. The root of modern journalism is to make a negative insinuation despite official statements to the contrary and let the reader's preconceived notions run wild.
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by brianmurphy 10y ago
Most people I know are using the REST API as a data provider for other services in their control, not as a public interface.
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by brianmurphy 10y ago
It sounds like you have two issues, your social group and your product. I can't help you with your social group. It's up to you to associate with the dream killers or not. The product market is very interesting and counter-intuiti
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by brianmurphy 10y ago
I totally agree any statement within the spectrum is considered a political position. Thank you for the good conversation.
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by brianmurphy 10y ago
Godaddy is terrible. I do small business websites so I run across clients with GoDaddy all of the time. Their legacy "deluxe" hosting is as terrible as always. Simple things like extracting zip files with their file manager will h
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by brianmurphy 10y ago
I made the transition from firebug to chrome devtools about 6 years ago. It took 2 weeks to fully feel comfortable with the UI differences but I'm glad that I did. Google was asking their internal teams (gmail, etc) to eat their own do
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by brianmurphy 10y ago
If my life was in danger, I'd have higher priorities than HN. The dictionary has a word for people who "feel" their life is in danger when it's really not: delusional. HN will get really messy if the comment board become
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by brianmurphy 10y ago
Of your choices, I think finding a traditional enterprise job (#1) is going to be your easiest option. Starting a consulting company is going to be your most difficult. Unless you already have good connections looking to hire you as a consu

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