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by cschneid 16y ago
From a pragmatist standpoint, something like google can't trust an RDF document any more than it can trust the META keywords tag. Anything a site can assert about itself will end up as fodder for spam and manipulation. Not to say that indi
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by cschneid 16y ago
I looked into RDF pretty heavily a few years ago. The biggest takeaway is that it was naive in its level of trust. If I make a new RDF document in a repo, claim it was written by Shakespeare, and then somebody does the search on "Complete
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by cschneid 16y ago
Please be aware that this is blatantly false. The bank can only loan out less than the amount they have on hand (after subtracting the reserve percentage). What happens is that you loan the money, it gets spent, and ends up in your deposit
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by cschneid 16y ago
The load was for election night, which is more than likely a full order of magnitude, or two above their normal traffic levels. So their normal setup of RoR is fine for normal amounts of load, but would fail under that expected spike. So
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by cschneid 16y ago
Core disconnect: what is source controls role: is it a journal of all history, or is it a tool to find code. I fall on the tool side, which means I rebase & amend and keep history semantically organized, and such. All that makes it eas
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by cschneid 16y ago
Puppet and chef help with the doing, but not with the knowing what to do. I'm a developer who only knows enough about sys-admin to mess around in /etc when needed. Knowing the sys-admin specific knowledge is beyond me, that's what you'd be
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by cschneid 16y ago
I agree, it'd be a very hard political decision. But the hurf-durf about us being beyond-broke is overblown, at least currently. I do however agree that the trajectory we are on is going to screw us.
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by cschneid 16y ago
As of July 28, 2010, the "Total Public Debt Outstanding" was approximately 93% of annual GDP. -- Wikipedia It'd suck, but we could pay that off in 20 years if we cut the budget to something maintainable. Not optimal, but nowhere near your
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by cschneid 16y ago
How does google know where MAC addresses are? I thought that they were non-routable, so they are limited to the extremely local connection. Presumably the range from your computer to the termination of the cable modem on the other end.
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by cschneid 16y ago
My hometown of Fort Collins, CO came up with that brilliant idea. GO TEAM!
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by cschneid 16y ago
While I agree that Redis (and other nosql databases) are very different than relational ones, I think that the classic model oriented approach makes getting the simple stuff out of the way very easy. "Makes easy things easy, and hard things
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Ohm 0.1.0 released - Object Hash Mapper for Redis(blog.citrusbyte.com)
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by cschneid 16y ago
While I agree that it should be allowed to tape any interactions you have with an officer, it's a bit of a gray area if you follow one around taping everything they do. First: they are off duty sometimes (they get breaks too) Second: They a
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by cschneid 16y ago
Sorry about being down, it's all back up now The great thing about widgets is that they act as OO Classes on top of a DOM object. So you can say 'make this DOM object act like an XYZ'. Sometimes the XYZ is a very visible thing (checkbox,
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by cschneid 16y ago
We've been working on some heavy-duty javascript projects for some of our recent clients, and docs are fairly weak on writing your own custom jQuery UI widgets, so I wrote this up.
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JQuery Widgets - Bringing Sanity to Complex Apps(blog.citrusbyte.com)
19 points by cschneid 16y ago|4 comments
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by cschneid 16y ago
Other than the academic nerdiness of minimal OSs, what is this good for? Do modern OSs cause too much overhead for certain operations?
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by cschneid 16y ago
On the other hand, nothing sells gym memberships like more success cases, telling their friends how they got fit.
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by cschneid 16y ago
So how often do EC2 instances go down? Is it at hardware fail rate? or more often? Can I use this as a VPS replacement, and not have to worry about monitoring and fast restoration? (of non-important projects).
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by cschneid 16y ago
The initial prices are misleading, since they are all 1 way prices. I like the interface, I just don't like that. Every other travel site shows the lowest possible combo price for round trip. Maybe as an option? The rest of this is great
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by cschneid 16y ago
I think there's a corporate equivalent of godwin's law. "The chance of a company turning into a bank is proportional to how big it is".
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by cschneid 16y ago
It's to be noted that while Ruby CAN change builtin functions, the metaprogramming ability is much more often used in cases like ActiveRecord, where you can say `acts_as_list`, and it reopens the AR class and inserts new list-related functi
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by cschneid 16y ago
This has been the worst pun-thread ever.
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by cschneid 16y ago
These make it so the next time you hit 'n' to continue a search, it centers the screen around the result. " Mappings to keep the cursor in the middle of the screen most the time {{{ nmap n nmzz.`z nmap N Nmzz.`z nmap * *mz
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by cschneid 16y ago
At the point you can make modifications to the user's local router, it's a much better malicious hack to just change the DNS of every bank's website to go to your data capture, man in the middle version.
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by cschneid 16y ago
Do you have a link to a breakdown of that?
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by cschneid 16y ago
As much as this all sucks, it just seems like a reviewer clicked the wrong button. "Whoops, undo".
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by cschneid 16y ago
My girlfriend has a kindle 2, and I have an iphone. I've found that the iphone has one killer feature that the kindle doesn't: It's in my pocket all the time. For whatever reason, my reading happens in 15 minute spurts while waiting for s
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by cschneid 16y ago
Problems that I see revolve around the formalities of office. Learning your way around legislation, the formats, styles, trade-offs, and compromises that must be made all require time. Beyond that, you run into the problem of lobbyists. N
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by cschneid 16y ago
More likely it was a call like: if (permissions["whatever"]) { Do code} instead of if (has_permission("whatever")) And the first if was copy/pasted across the entire app. So when you have to change the logic of that permis

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