chrismsnz

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   by chrismsnz 15y ago

   To a techie, his "tools" are probably his mind and body. Pays to take care of those to stay productive :)
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   by chrismsnz 15y ago

   Whoops, I will stand corrected. Casting my eye over the recommendations in the pages I linked - yes some of it seems to be a little behind the times (for instance, adaptive hashing isn't mentioned once in terms of securing passwords), but n
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   by chrismsnz 15y ago

   I guess the question is - who do you trust to make these calls? In this case, the answer probably is OWASP which is a great and often overlooked resource, contributed to by a lot of experts in the area. They have a lot of pages in their wik
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   by chrismsnz 15y ago

   I think that len() is not a good example, it was actually designed that way for a very good reason. [0] [0]. http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2011/7/9/python-and-pola/
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   by chrismsnz 15y ago

   I have a Das keyboard (with Tux keycaps for the windows keys!) and you can pry it from my cold, dead hands. Not cheap, but a seriously nice piece of kit.
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   by chrismsnz 15y ago

   I use KeePass (keepass 2 which runs under mono). I use a key file and a long passphrase to encrypt the database and store the encrypted password db on dropbox which handles the syncing across all my machines and phone.
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   by chrismsnz 15y ago

   I'm guessing it's a tracking string. It's actually past the # in the URL so it's not being used by the server, rather it's probably being picked up and reported with Javascript.
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   by chrismsnz 15y ago

   I agree with you, I imagine your parent's reply was could have been sarcastic that got lost in text. It's really an authorisation issue as to who/what can update which parts of a model - generally this is handled in the controller.
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   by chrismsnz 15y ago

   Slightly off-topic, but can someone explain the history and use of the word "Shutter" in this context? Obviously it means "shut down"... I see the term fairly often on HN, but haven't really seen it used that way elsewhere.
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    by chrismsnz 15y ago

    They have resellers around the place, where are you located? http://www.daskeyboard.com/where-to-buy/
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    by chrismsnz 15y ago

    I'm guessing "...threatened on Saturday..." is probably a better way to phrase it
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    PHP: Cracks in the foundation(phpadvent.org)

    134 points by chrismsnz 15y ago|76 comments
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    by chrismsnz 15y ago

    Any plans on releasing the code for your framework/orm?
14. 104.▲
    by chrismsnz 15y ago

    Looks like those outside US are reduced, yet again, to grey-market solutions.
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    by chrismsnz 15y ago

    Or you could use a PaaS provider like Google App Engine and not have to deal with building, hosting and monitoring your own servers and stack of technologies. Not to mention effortless scale-up when you need it, predictable pricing and buil
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    by chrismsnz 15y ago

    It's really good to see some well engineered PHP software coming out. For my projects I've moved out to Python after having dealt with legacy trash like Wordpress, Google's api libraries, over-engineered frameworks like ZF and lets just say
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    by chrismsnz 15y ago

    I have the X220 and I love the display... Did you not get the IPS option?
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    by chrismsnz 15y ago

    Who cares what DB it is when you don't have to manage it? Django's data access layer is abstracted so it's actually pretty easy to migrate between.
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    by chrismsnz 15y ago

    After having battled a PHP (mod_php) deployment system and having to hack the hell out of capistrano to get a usable one... Amen to your comment.
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    by chrismsnz 15y ago

    Annoyed someone called the police when he vanished? What a schmuck...
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    by chrismsnz 15y ago

    KeePass: average Banshee: great Which ones have you used?
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    by chrismsnz 15y ago

    Walked to school uphill, both ways, in the snow and with bare feet too, did ya? Reddit is, and has always been, a large organic community that has always undergone change. Reddit had to introduce subreddits as a way of breaking up and categ
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    by chrismsnz 15y ago

    There's also a decent python application that does what you need called "blogofile".
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    by chrismsnz 15y ago

    Good luck Ctrl+C'ing in your terminal trying to copy that output.
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    by chrismsnz 15y ago

    If you're using varnish as your front-end cache, ESI is another way to stitch together different parts of a page. https://www.varnish-cache.org/trac/wiki/ESIfeatures
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    by chrismsnz 15y ago

    Maybe that's because we don't understand it fully?
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    by chrismsnz 15y ago

    There is a better way! A virtualenv combined with pip and a project requirements[1] file is the best way to handle this. It even supports SVN/SSH checkouts and .egg distributed packages. [1] http://www.pip-installer.org/en/latest/requireme
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    by chrismsnz 15y ago

    I believe that Virtualmin (a YC startup) is currently building[1] a control panel with the ability to configure a low-memory setup. 1. http://www.virtualmin.com/node/11831#comment-51928
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    by chrismsnz 15y ago

    For those playing along, Jeff is heavily involved in the GNOME project and thus have a strong opinion on all these things. Much has been written on the indicator spat and the tension between GNOME and Canonical, and it seems that's there's
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    by chrismsnz 16y ago

    Awesome! I've been looking at moving all my domains (.com and .co/org.nz to IWMN for a while - the fact that you're a kiwi with a customer focussed bootstrapped startup might just tip the scales :) All the best!