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by burke 15y ago
People love to create meta-drama about the ruby drama, but really, let's not sugar-coat it. These are significant and serious breaking changes to the standard package manager, in a point release. Something is wrong.
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by burke 15y ago
What to Submit On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. htt
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by burke 15y ago
To the tune of probably 1 or 2 cents. Not saying it shouldn't be mentioned, but let's not scare people away here.
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by burke 15y ago
I wondered the same thing. Then I decided I didn't care, and bought it. If it's marketing, it's well done, and it looks like a useful app.
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by burke 15y ago
I thought I used both, but after paying attention to it for a few minutes, I seem to use the right shift well over 90% of the time. It's really too bad there's no way to actually detect which shift key is being pressed using JS or even Flas
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by burke 15y ago
Yes and no. If the entire content of the email is something like "Can you please add me to the new repository for X?", I have no problem with that being the subject line with a blank (or "Thanks!") body. I'm with you on paragraph-style subj
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A Chrome Extension to monitor and restrict your HN-browsing time(chrome.google.com)
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by burke 15y ago
To play Devil's Advocate: > Problem #1: Over-aggressive spam filtering In five years of using exclusively GMail (and GAfB, which has the same filters), I have never once missed a legitimate message (or, at least, noticed). A quick poll
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by burke 15y ago
Honestly, I'm a little surprised Slashdot is still as popular as it is. I quit using it in 2006 and have only rarely heard about it since. On the other hand, I guess HN is somewhat a niche site.
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by burke 15y ago
Yeah, it was built by a couple friends of mine. They started advertising there when AdSense kicked us off for being apparently-pornographic.
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by burke 15y ago
http://fuckyeahnouns.com Generates about $125/mo from 30-60k pageviews per day.
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by burke 15y ago
And an example with a lot of achievements: http://coderwall.com/defunkt
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by burke 15y ago
GoDaddy.
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by burke 15y ago
You must mean "elaborate"? "Enunciate" refers to spoken clarity, i.e. pronunciation of each syllable.
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by burke 15y ago
I keep trying to like magit, but I really can't make it work for me nearly as efficiently as doing everything on the command line, especially with as many git status indicators built into my prompt as I have (branch name, ditry/clean tree,
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by burke 15y ago
Mars doesn't tell nearly the whole story, but this sticks out in my mind as an interesting infographic, notably devoid of any "India" lines. http://cache.gizmodo.com/assets/images/4/2009/10/GoCGR.jpg
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by burke 15y ago
So we cut NASA's budget to basically nothing, then ban them from collaborating with China? These are sad times.
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by burke 16y ago
I'm seriously considering migrating from Slicehost to Linode. I've been a Slicehost customer for over 2 years. I was happy with them at first, but I don't think I've noticed a single thing change about their service since I signed up. Parti
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by burke 16y ago
Don't get me wrong, Neil deGrasse Tyson is a brilliant guy, and he's doing more for science education than almost anyone else alive today, but Sagan had a real talent for being profoundly inspiring on a deeper level.
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by burke 16y ago
| CA | [[any of the above]] | [[any of the above]] | +----+----------------------+----------------------+ I don't think I've heard two different people refer to them consistently.
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by burke 16y ago
Without. I don't want to have to read the whole comment thread to get the HN Zeitgeist. What if it was an option? Or better yet, something like "Hold Ctrl to see comment scores", or "hover here to see the score for this comment", etc.? Seei
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by burke 16y ago
Collectively, as a society, compared to that of, say, 1914.
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by burke 16y ago
Give me one reason why this is worse than downloading an unsigned binary from the same site. It's not. Yes, the user-agent sniffing is clever, but it's circumventing a security precaution that isn't even possible with a binary installer. Mo
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by burke 16y ago
I both agree and disagree. Git in its simple use case can be pretty simple. If there's a programmer handy to fix things when merges get angry, or things like that, it can be as simple as dropping two scripts on the designer's desktop -- one
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by burke 16y ago
I'm really, really trying to understand your viewpoint on this. How is this any more insecure than downloading (over HTTP) and running a graphical installer that requires your root password? Is it just because it takes a bit more effort to
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by burke 16y ago
Sure, but a huge amount of software is distributed over plain old HTTP anyway. I agree that we should be using HTTPS for things like this, but I don't buy that curling a shell script is worse than downloading an installer over an unencrypte
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by burke 16y ago
Why is this bad? I get why it seems offensive, but how is running a random shell script from some host any different than running some random software downloaded and installed from the same host? Anything malicious that the shell script cou
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by burke 16y ago
I don't understand how this is any different from running the application after you install it by whatever other method. Your shell doesn't have some higher level of access than most other software.
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by burke 16y ago
> hundreds of people several years to build it. Thousands of people several decades, maybe. I would also never pay $100 for an eBook. Regardless of content, I expect a hardcover for that price.
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by burke 16y ago
Nice to see this executed in a publicly-accessible way. I built a similar thing a little while ago, but never got around to polishing it up and packaging for consumption. http://vimeo.com/18833937 https://github.com/burke/jsgithistory

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