carbonica

15 ms·

91.
by carbonica 15y ago
> Or maybe I've just been fortunate enough to be in an environment where an occasional goof of this caliber doesn't have any serious consequences. Primarily, this means you don't have to support internationalization - which is hardly a
92.
by carbonica 15y ago
I'm referring more to the fact that he suggests increasing a near-hidden version number every 6 weeks to be potentially criminally anticompetitive.
93.
by carbonica 15y ago
"This smells to me like an anti-trust move" People really need to learn what anti-trust is and what it isn't. My goodness, the label gets applied to everything .
94.
Quoted Labels: A Reasonable Ruby Syntax Change(carboni.ca)
1 points by carbonica 15y ago|0 comments
95.
by carbonica 15y ago
Again, if you are incapable of seeing the distinction between a general-purpose search engine which indexes the entire web and a website dedicated overwhelmingly to links to copyrighted content (including categorization features, rating
96.
by carbonica 15y ago
Perhaps Google finds asking users for their gender (which is highly correlated with your name, anyway) to be an easier task than introducing the necessary pronouns into every language in the globe.
97.
by carbonica 15y ago
> people who tell you where you can find drug dealers. ... people who get paid to direct you to the nearest drug dealer, and only to drug dealers, organized by type of drug, quality, and potentially even with a rating system. These si
98.
by carbonica 15y ago
Of course having an external hard drive works... as long as you're confident enough to lie well. Hopefully you paid cash, otherwise, they'll know when you bought it. That means no NewEgg. Damn. Then, you just need to be comfortable saying t
99.
by carbonica 15y ago
You're right in a way - TrueCrypt fills empty space in its volumes with random data, and hidden volumes fill that space, and will appear random as well (being encrypted). The question is whether, upon finding a volume which is vastly oversi
100.
by carbonica 15y ago
The TCHunt program, whose website this link points to, is quite interesting. It seems to exist to simply point out something I always felt was self-evident, yet I commonly see misunderstood: "Q. Why write a program such as TCHunt? A. To dem
101.
by carbonica 15y ago
"Facebook hasn't really tried to discourage indiscriminate friending..." This is certainly the impression I've got, though when I first signed up, it would ask you "how you knew" somebody, and if you said "I don't know them" then it would d
102.
by carbonica 15y ago
"The evidence that Google+ wasn't ready to be a Facebook killer is that it is invitation only." Google knows the best way to release a product - especially one in unfamiliar territory like the social space - is not to flip a giant switch an
103.
by carbonica 15y ago
It looks to be a quickly-hacked together interface for making Facebook user lists with the Circle interface.
104.
Don't like 1.9's Symbol-in-Hash syntax? Love it? Use hash_syntax(carboni.ca)
2 points by carbonica 15y ago|0 comments
105.
Laser Infers Ruby Block Use Pattern(carboni.ca)
1 points by carbonica 15y ago|0 comments
106.
To Yield or Not to Yield: An Inferable Question(carboni.ca)
2 points by carbonica 16y ago|0 comments
107.
Another Cool Reason Ruby is Slow: implicit super(carboni.ca)
1 points by carbonica 16y ago|0 comments
108.
Did You Know That (in Ruby) #2: For Loops and Fields(carboni.ca)
1 points by carbonica 16y ago|0 comments
109.
Statements in Ruby(carboni.ca)
1 points by carbonica 16y ago|0 comments
110.
Did You Know That (in Ruby) #2: Exception Handling(carboni.ca)
2 points by carbonica 16y ago|0 comments
111.
Ruby Modules: How Do They Work?(carboni.ca)
2 points by carbonica 16y ago|0 comments
112.
Amp - Mercurial rewritten in Ruby. Easily customizable.(amp.carboni.ca)
8 points by carbonica 17y ago|1 comments