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by delano 14y ago
I think the BSD license can result in "tragedy of the commons" scenarios where maximizing individual freedom has worse total consequences than would have resulted by applying regulation to maximize societal freedom instead. There is no tr
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by delano 14y ago
Hey Gimp isn't so bad. But either way, you're right. Is there anything close to an opensource equivalent of Logic? Absolutely not. But great closed-source software doesn't preclude a great opensource equivalent. It may not be available righ
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by delano 14y ago
i would argue that GPL is more about "contributing to humanity" then BSD just because it forces someone to contribute back and thus enforce more "contributions" to humanity In theory yes, but it's like telling people that they should atte
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by delano 14y ago
I see where you're going with this but who is that target audience? Technical people? Non-technical people? And at that price, how different could the result be for me vs anyone else? If I'm an active technical person and I don't have a blo
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by delano 14y ago
You can find some background if you read through the comments. It's reasonable to not want to have your history right up at the top.
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by delano 14y ago
You could wrap the transaction in a lock based on the player ID which you could do with Redis or Memcached with near-zero impact on performance. A good reference: http://www.nateware.com/an-atomic-rant.html
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by delano 14y ago
What's the history behind the runtime.txt file?
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by delano 14y ago
It all starts with a silly, little thing.
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The Cure for Thinking is Work(chronicle.com)
2 points by delano 14y ago|0 comments
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by delano 14y ago
The world is a lovely, messy place.
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by delano 14y ago
And the overhead is extremely minimal which allows you to collect data in production while an application is running (without restarting).
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by delano 14y ago
Montreal - who's in?
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by delano 14y ago
Dtrace is such an awesome technology and the support in Ruby 2.0 is going to help improve a lot of projects.
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by delano 14y ago
It's pretty cool that Jekyll played a role in the campaign.
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by delano 14y ago
What was the book?
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by delano 14y ago
What's better than stuffing garish Share on Twitter/Facebook icons around your content? Overloading highlighted text to share itself when you click it. Very cool. http://rubymonk.com/learning/books/1/chapters/6-objects/less...
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by delano 14y ago
When they ask you to identify the correct date, they're validating you. Either way, you're giving them your birthday just the same (a malicious caller could use that technique to confirm a date).
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Fetish for making things ignores real work(johnkay.com)
2 points by delano 14y ago|0 comments
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by delano 14y ago
It looks interesting and I found a couple promising recipes but why not let us create accounts so we can actually try it out? You'll get more specific feedback.
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by delano 14y ago
That's a great analysis. It really underscores how rudimentary a symptomatic diagnosis is.
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by delano 14y ago
Just a side note for people like me: CYA is cover your ass.
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by delano 14y ago
Great list. I'd add: rather than ask someone what they do, ask them what they enjoy doing.
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by delano 14y ago
You only need one: https://www.google.com/search?q=nsa+whistleblower+william+bi...
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by delano 14y ago
Wow, great work! It takes a lot of effort to think and write in character (phrases, vocabulary, and most importantly mood). I've had a lot of fun tweeting as the old-timey characters for one of my brands ( https://www.blamestella.com/news )
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by delano 14y ago
True, but if you want to communicate you need to trust something at some point.
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by delano 14y ago
Also single view message services, like: https://www.thismessagewillselfdestruct.com/ https://onetimesecret.com/ https://pwpush.com/ https://whisperpassword.com/
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by delano 14y ago
Lots of these coming up recently. We launched ours in November: https://onetimesecret.com/ Here's another that opensourced their code last week: http://pwpush.com/
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by delano 15y ago
You're running a script that you've never seen on your machine with your user account. It's a dangerous habit at best. At worst you're exposed to poor code and man-in-the-middle attacks. As someone else pointed out, it also makes versioning
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by delano 15y ago
This is a very uncool way to install something: $ curl install.meteor.com | /bin/sh
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by delano 15y ago
We wrote a service for sending out one-time URIs instead of the value itself: https://onetimesecret.com/

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