brianmurphy

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by brianmurphy 10y ago
The problem with many political topics is that we already know the conversation and the outcome. 1. Present a new data analysis tool used by police 2. Comment about disproportionately affect minorities 3. Response with FBI data explaining i
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by brianmurphy 10y ago
>and before you know it you've helped build a police state. The hysteria of thinking that we (the US) are one or two steps away from a police state is exactly why I support the notion of political bans on my computer related news si
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by brianmurphy 10y ago
In the old days (90s-2000s), allowing IRC bots opened yourself to being a DoS target and general receiver of harassment complaints from perceived social abuses that happened in the chat rooms. I assume things haven't changed that much.
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by brianmurphy 10y ago
We did this one better in 1993/94 at NAU. Taking our lessons of shell scripting while loops, redirection from a file, and the write command, we'd flood our friends terminal screens with endless scrolls of ascii penises.
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by brianmurphy 10y ago
If you are building software that will be deployed by a large number of users, having PHP provided by every $3.99 & up hosting company can't be underestimated. Languages like Haskell are nonstarters.
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by brianmurphy 10y ago
Do you have examples to counter this "racist suburban thinking?" Chicago, Baltimore, New York, DC are famous examples but I've not heard of one crime free major metropolitan area. And I don't think that's due to la
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by brianmurphy 10y ago
Vanilla WordPress may be the wrong target when trying to design for ease of use. Page builders have superseded the TinyMCE "visual" page/post editor. Beaverbuilder is the most talked about modern page builder at the WordPres
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by brianmurphy 10y ago
Take a look at VersionPress.
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by brianmurphy 10y ago
Wordpress.com doesn't allow 3rd party plugins. That is one of the primary differences between it and the self-hosted version.
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by brianmurphy 10y ago
The typical LWN reader is a heavy mailing list consumer. Emails have subject lines so having subject lines for comments is very familiar. Many people take the default subject heading because they are making an on-topic comment. I think out
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by brianmurphy 11y ago
Webpack is such a useful tool. These boilerplates are a nice way to get started. P.S. I found a little typo in the config code and sent you a pull request with the fix.
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by brianmurphy 11y ago
I'll take it a step farther. How many of those 1B+ people even know the difference between a slash and backslash. I hear people identify the characters incorrectly ALL the time.
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by brianmurphy 11y ago
I agree npm criticisms are more about the way packages are bundled than the manager itself. To your last point, the javascript ecosystem can have a lot of users and be "broken" at the same time. I think that is a large reason why
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by brianmurphy 11y ago
My biggest problem with all of the new libraries coming out is that it leaves me with the feeling that nobody want to improve upon what is already out there. I understand that paradigm shifts may require a rewrite. But nobody is shifting
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by brianmurphy 11y ago
Has anyone had to wait behind a senior citizen trying to use those touch screen 100 flavor Coke machines? It's an eye-opening experience.
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by brianmurphy 11y ago
Bikeshedding - if they can't make a website, how are they supposed to make a good programming language?
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by brianmurphy 11y ago
I did it once in college. It was terrible. Especially if you are the better programmer. Every encounter with your girlfriend feels like a tech support session. I'd much rather come home, ramble on for 10 minutes and get a "goo
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by brianmurphy 11y ago
(Paraphrased) The problem with a basic federal income is that you eventually run out of other people's money.
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by brianmurphy 11y ago
For the same reason that "90%" okay IDE code is acceptable for most people, 90% correct deployment will also be okay for most. Primarily because less experienced users could be doing a 40 - 60% optimal deployment today.
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by brianmurphy 11y ago
I hope they don't. In fact, I hope they encourage these kinds of small bids from qualified individuals. 100% test case coverage for $1 is amazing and to the benefit of all taxpayers.
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by brianmurphy 11y ago
Harald Welte never seemed to have a problem with Germany when he was actively pursuing GPL violators.
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by brianmurphy 11y ago
Please don't conflate tech and privacy. From a tech perspective, there are very useful and interesting public safety projects that can come from interdepartmental data.
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by brianmurphy 11y ago
Mozilla CEO Chris Beard is saying that hyper-sensitive permanently offended types are welcome within Mozilla. This creates a terrible working environment for those who want to have a job without the politics. I can't see Mozilla as a
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by brianmurphy 11y ago
Maybe not "github" repos, but other public git repos would pop up. Suggesting that open source wouldn't have distribution is ignorant of the origins of open source.
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by brianmurphy 11y ago
tsomctl, the other side of the coin is that we have a bunch of people arguing the color of the bicycle shed instead of listening to an expert on the issue.
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by brianmurphy 11y ago
It makes plenty of sense. Try finding the ford modeling agency by typing Ford into google. (without longtail modifiers) Guess what... ford.com is your first hit.
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by brianmurphy 11y ago
Remember this is in the context of startup businesses who may not have much on the web. Your position works out okay if you are confident in google's "I'm feeling lucky" kind of search. For everybody else, having a sol
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by brianmurphy 11y ago
It's good enough for me. After my resource is spun up, I'm talking to it directly through protocol so the AWS console is a quick and dirty on/off add/remove interface. As someone who has worked with a lot of enterprise