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by cwp 14y ago
Tell that to Ben Johnson.
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by cwp 14y ago
Yeah, but even in Smalltalk, lots of #ifTrue: messages are a code smell.
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by cwp 14y ago
I do this too, not for risky migrations, but for daily updates. The app relies on a data service that's normally read-only, but gets fresh data daily. When everything was running on the bare metal, we had to schedule the updates for the mid
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by cwp 14y ago
No. I'm an Amazon customer. If you prefer some other IaaS, fine. The point is that fabric can drive both the virtualization API and the actual set up of servers over SSH. I have a fake region called "dev" that runs the build against a vmw
845.
by cwp 14y ago
You mean you don't believe in making your own AMIs? I don't see how you could run an instance without an AMI.
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by cwp 14y ago
I did the same thing. What's nice about the Phoenix approach is that you start with a known state (base Ubuntu install or whatever) and end with a known state (running your setup) and completely ignore all other possible states. A tool like
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by cwp 14y ago
Craigslist dominates apartment rental advertising. Landlords post to CL because that's where the renters are looking, and renters look on CL because that's where landlords post apartments. But CL does have competitors. Lots of sites want a
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by cwp 14y ago
Sure. I'm not trying to give advice to Craigslist. It may well be that legal threats are their best strategy. They certainly have the right to sue anyone they want. I'm just saying that ericd needn't feel guilty for ignoring Craig's wishes.
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by cwp 14y ago
Nah, it's not morally gray. You guys are a search engine. Craigslist may not like what you're doing, but that doesn't make it wrong. Traditional publishers hate Google, despite all the traffic it sends them. So what? Getting a C+D from Cr
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by cwp 14y ago
Don't count Google out yet. Just because it hasn't become hugely successful in it's first year doesn't mean it won't. How many users did Facebook have in 2005? Twitter in 2007? Google has put enormous resources behind Google+, and they don'
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by cwp 14y ago
Disappointing. I'm currently living in an apartment I found via Padmapper and Craigslist. Padmapper was absolutely crucial, without it I wouldn't have found this place. I understand why they're complying with the C+D, but I wish they'd figh
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by cwp 14y ago
I used it to find an apartment in Vancouver. Still, I have a hard time finding sympathy for somebody that posts something on a public web site, and expects it to remain private.
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by cwp 14y ago
Neither the original link, nor the above are working for me now... so much for keeping his freedom of speech.
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by cwp 14y ago
I must have missed that bit.
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by cwp 14y ago
What you say is true, but I don't think this article is demanding access to Netflix data. They've noted rather dispassionately that Netflix is making technical and legal changes, analyzed its impact on Netflix users and third party develope
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by cwp 14y ago
So basically, he dismissed philosophy as irrelevant, then happened across some obscure papers by cranks at the margins of philosophic thought, and concluded that he was right all along. Unenlightening.
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by cwp 14y ago
Open source isn't a compromise between free software and proprietary software. It's a different philosophical basis for advocating the same practices.
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by cwp 14y ago
I thank you for the respect you show when you disagree. I hope I can do the same. I do indeed think about this kind of thing often and as carefully as I can. The thing is, freedom in the general sense does produce happiness. If you doubt
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by cwp 14y ago
Sure. The right to tinker is required for actual tinkering, and a right that's never exercised is pointless. Regardless, I don't consider the right to tinker an end in its self. The pleasure of tinkering is utterly unimportant compared with
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by cwp 14y ago
I think that’s a fine statement to make if you qualify who “we” are. If you mean people concerned with practical objectives, you may be right. I caution against rhetoric that might be mistaken for suggesting that your point of view encompa
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by cwp 14y ago
No. The difference between RMS and ESR is one of kind, not one of degree. Both the free software movement and the open source movement believe that open system are good, and the more open they are the better they are. The difference is in t
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by cwp 14y ago
Yes, and a tap is, technically, a zero length swipe. But there is nevertheless a distinction between taps and swipes just as there is between points and lines. Apple's API distinguishes between the two gestures, even if Apple's lawyers don'
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by cwp 14y ago
Yeah, I went down this road too. It looks like a good way to handle exceptions during streaming, but browser support is essentially zero.
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by cwp 14y ago
Yeah, I saw that - some great stuff in there, particularly on the history of Solaris. It's great context for understanding what's going on in the Illumos world.
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by cwp 14y ago
Nah. They don't care what that crowd thinks. I think PJ got it right in the article. Lodsys is probably threatening Oracle customers with patents that cover Oracle software. If that's true, Oracle is suing to take away the threat from Lodsy
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by cwp 14y ago
That would work well in situations involving facts—politics, for example. It's relatively easy to fact check a claim like, "since President Obama assumed office three years ago, federal spending has accelerated at a pace without precedent i
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by cwp 14y ago
So, if there happened to be a really clear-cut, one-sided case out there, how would an unbiased news organization report on it?
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by cwp 14y ago
Because people with that sort of power don't want an audit trail of their actions.
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by cwp 14y ago
The word "pivot" is like "refactoring." It's so overused that it's mostly misused, and you can't rely on its meaning any more.
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by cwp 14y ago
Satire, huh? So by telling a story of sexism with the genders reversed, the author is slyly poking fun at all the fuss about sexism in tech that we've been hearing lately, and showing us how ridiculous it all is. That's an interesting take,

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