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by cleaver 15y ago
I attended a Startup Weekend event... It definitely gave me a boost in energy and enthusiasm and ended up presenting me with multiple opportunities for learning and for work. There should be other local or national events that could also fi
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by cleaver 15y ago
I've used both git and svn--probably a bit more time using git on the command line. I wouldn't want to say that git is the best choice for every system, but I've had more hair pulling with svn. Specifically, merging a commit from a branch
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by cleaver 15y ago
I don't actually, but I feel there is less lock-in. It wouldn't be hard to move off. Also, the risk of S3 pricing changing greatly is constrained by the wide adoption. If DynamoDB failed to become pervasive, it would be relatively easy for
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by cleaver 15y ago
DynamoDB is not open source, at least according to a blog comment by Jeff Barr of AWS. ( http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2012/01/amazon-dynamodb-internet-... ) I'm certainly not going to commit to platform lock-in like that. I know a lot of folk
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by cleaver 15y ago
Does nobody use rsync? I see no mention in the comments here (and the original site is down). There's a few command line parameters to learn, but after that it is so simple, efficient and reliable that there is no need for a GUI client such
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by cleaver 15y ago
More at: https://twitter.com/youranonnews
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Anonymous TKOs UFC's White(ocregister.com)
1 points by cleaver 15y ago|1 comments
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by cleaver 15y ago
Yay freedom?
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How Traffic Jams are Born(boingboing.net)
15 points by cleaver 15y ago|8 comments
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by cleaver 15y ago
Odd that compiled languages (C, C++, Java) are higher than some interpreted languages (PHP, Javascript). Of course, the search will match comments as well as code, so it may just mean they have better comments. Also fun to search on "functi
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by cleaver 15y ago
I can corroborate this. I had a newer 3,000 RMB per month apartment in Beijing. So many things we take for granted (hot water anywhere other than the shower, plumbing being inside the wall instead of running along the baseboard, carpeti
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by cleaver 15y ago
For up-to-date reports on outages, check: http://www.herdict.org/
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by cleaver 15y ago
Agreed. Not an effective visualization. A bar graph would be much better.
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by cleaver 15y ago
Agreed. And certainly better than creating bad indices.
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by cleaver 15y ago
One mistake I used to see a lot is not paying attention to indices. It's sort of like the "go big" error in that you just create indices all over the place even if they could never be used. Also, it could be adding columns to the index that
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The Mycology of Santa Claus(permaculturetokyo.blogspot.com)
2 points by cleaver 15y ago|0 comments
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by cleaver 15y ago
A lot was spread on Twitter too... There I saw that a number of registrars were offering discount codes.
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by cleaver 15y ago
I've used outside air to cool a small server closet. It makes sense to just blow the hot air out. When shopping around for fans, I discovered that the best prices were at hydroponics shops. Apparently, they have customers who deal with heat
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SOPA could ban TOR(boingboing.net)
201 points by cleaver 15y ago|33 comments
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by cleaver 15y ago
One other thing is that the character gives no clue as to intonation. (EG. "ma" can be "mother", "horse", "to scold" or other meanings depending on the tone.)
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by cleaver 15y ago
I'd add that the composition of Chinese characters makes possible poetic structures that are impossible in other languages. A famous poem by Tang dynasty poet Li Bai: 床前明月光疑是地上霜。舉頭望明月，低頭思故鄉。 (Apologies if you can't see the characters o
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by cleaver 15y ago
While not the same thing as reading, I have noticed that Chinese is quicker to scan for a phrase you're looking for. I'm a native English speaker and have learned to read a bit of Chinese. I'm at the level where I can interpret some signs,
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by cleaver 15y ago
The important word in the the Gall quote is "complex". I still like to believe that a perfect non-complex system designed from scratch can spring forth from its creator's imagination. The "complex" threshold will vary by programmer. The com
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by cleaver 15y ago
I suspect it has something to do with when you started using computers. In the VT-100 and MS-DOS days, you pretty much got light text on a dark background. So when GUI environments came along, dark text on a light background became the new
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by cleaver 15y ago
That sounds like good behaviour for the browser plugin, but removing the entire JDK would be annoying if you used Eclipse. I suspect that non-plugin use of the JDK would not be as impacted by the security issues.
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by cleaver 15y ago
The first thing I did was to see if there were any distros I could remember that weren't listed... The first is Finn linux (or was it Fynn or Flynn?) that was an early attempt at a commercial distribution. I recall some ads in computer mags
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by cleaver 15y ago
My first thought was typical Microsoft FUD, but at least they're not alone. Apple has used the virus card often enough. ( http://www.apple.com/why-mac/ )
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by cleaver 15y ago
From my experience in consulting (over a decade), I have to agree. It's extremely difficult to convince people to do things right. It's sooo much easier to give a friendly grin, a firm handshake, maybe dinner or a round of golf and state e
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by cleaver 15y ago
That sounds like any contact I've had with TV news or newspapers from the inside. To be charitable, the way I'd put it is: they can only afford the time to write the story, but not enough time to really understand the story.
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by cleaver 15y ago
Make hay while the sun shines.

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