divtxt

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   by divtxt 15y ago

   This is common violation that everyone accepts. It's definitely done by 'bad' clients - not sure how often servers send bare LF. (I used to telnet to port 80 for testing, and type GET / HTTP/1.0 <enter> <enter>, and that sh
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   by divtxt 15y ago

   I expect a short squeeze has extra risk till the end of lockup in May. Why risk your money only to have to others take the profits of your labor?
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   by divtxt 15y ago

   1. Why would management care about the price? The founders and early investors have already taken a lot of cash out. (one of warning signs in this IPO, btw) 2. I expect it's (mostly) illegal for a company to manipulate their stock. One
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   by divtxt 15y ago

   I too expected the syntax list comprehensions to chained. Turns out that nesting is a feature: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0202/ - The form [... for x... for y...] nests, with the last index varying fastest, just like nested for l
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   by divtxt 15y ago

   The reason I want to avoid Twitter & Facebook is that meaningful use requires constant attention to check for incoming messages and respond.
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   by divtxt 15y ago

   Thanks. Will try AdWords to see how it costs. Unfortunately, my app functionality doesn't lend itself to funny pics/videos. Will think about it.
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   by divtxt 15y ago

   Thanks! I was planning free copies for friends in the space, but somehow didn't think of the bloggers. Probably because I don't know any in that space, but I'm sure my graphics/design friends will. :P
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   Ask HN: Marketing with minimal hours? (small desktop app)

   8 points by divtxt 15y ago|11 comments
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   by divtxt 15y ago

   There's no payoff for me as a developer to make my website 'semantic'. The only semantic part of my websites is 'robots.txt'. A nice step forward would be by giving me a way to separate data & presentation. E.g. when a user navigates to
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    by divtxt 15y ago

    Existing storage technologies are insufficient to replace fossil fuels by multiple orders of magnitude. Here's a nice summary: http://www.theoildrum.com/node/8405 The bottom line: storage will need some serious R&D to find a secret s
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    by divtxt 15y ago

    EDIT: Already it's own post now: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3084961 Wow! Easily the best Steve Jobs article I've read this week! For me, this paragraph captures it all: I spoke with a man whose right hand was permanently curle
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    by divtxt 15y ago

    NO - this is about the availability of DOCS to setup 3rd party software. 10 years ago, Debian may have had apt-get and stable but a lot of software setup docs were for building from source leading to possible compile issues and version conf
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    by divtxt 15y ago

    Here's an example showing how a human user does not require a local unix user of each server: Jack starts Apache on one of the web servers: $ ssh jack@web4.example.com Password: secret123 [_x_@web4] $ sudo /usr/bin/apachectl s
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    by divtxt 15y ago

    Replying to multiple comments: 1) Automation: Yes to automation, but if I'm arguing that a task is needless , automating it does make change that. 2) Authentication: Yes to authorized_keys, auditing, LDAP, etc. I'm killing the local 'lo
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    by divtxt 15y ago

    Sounds like you've misunderstood that either password1 or password2 will get you in! I didn't change any behavior - just the UI strings. So you need both! i.e: $ su maybeUniqueString1 Enter Password2:
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    by divtxt 15y ago

    LDAP is a sensible suggestion. Why can't we still kill the local login i.e. directly map LDAP user -> permissions instead of LDAP user -> local 'user' -> permissions .
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    by divtxt 15y ago

    Uniqueness is not an issue - see my original point - we only create one admin user on servers! Imagine a team of 3 people running a SaaS webapp on 3 web servers & 1 db server. I guarantee no one will waste their time creating 3 'user
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    by divtxt 15y ago

    [mild rant] Usability discussions like this invariably fill me with rage because of how oblivious and dismissive some of the comments are. They might as well say: No Wireless. Less Space Than A Nomad. Lame. You'd think people would kn
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    by divtxt 15y ago

    Here's a simple thought experiment: Imagine a distro that changed the terms 'login/password' to 'password1/password2' No commands you type would change, but you'd wonder why the password is in 2 parts. That's how redundant user is
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    by divtxt 15y ago

    On a practical note, I've seen the install situation improve in the last 5 years thanks to two ubuntu features: - the ease of apt-get install (inherited from debian) - ubuntu LTS releases I now use availability of apt-get instructions for a
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    by divtxt 15y ago

    Challenge accepted! - Here's how needless Unix users is: Every fresh server install, I have to make up a meaningless string called the 'login' of an 'admin user' who belongs to a 'group' called 'admin'. Once upon a time, I could use the
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    by divtxt 15y ago

    But that doesn’t mean they want the stock market to go up. Apparently, capitalism = rising stock market! How ironic that he makes fun of Zero Hedge - a site that points out such absurdities!
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    by divtxt 15y ago

    If you mean the death of the old HP, the 2008 acquisition of EDS was the formal declaration of HP's death. The company named HP will not die anytime soon but that's irrelevant - it's just another large IT services vendor.
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    by divtxt 15y ago

    It's like design by contract (preconditions/postconditions) without classes. Interesting parallel to how Go has interfaces without classes.
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    by divtxt 15y ago

    I like the concurrency trend - channels & cheap threads like Erlang and Go. The concurrency feature that stands out: ... no need for ... concurrent garbage collection. (slide 17) The upside should be amazing performance compared to s
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    by divtxt 15y ago

    Don't burn out for asap. We'll still be here. :)
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    by divtxt 15y ago

    Thanks! Remember to 'Show HN' when you hit beta / have it up on the chrome extensions site.
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    by divtxt 15y ago

    Does anyone know the equivalent Chrome extension?
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    by divtxt 15y ago

    This comment reminded me to check Gruber. Sure enough: http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/09/02/iphone-5 Translation from Gruber-speak: > Nice reporting by Peter Jamison at SF Weekly Let's think positive things about people. &#
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    by divtxt 15y ago

    The important question is: how can humans correctly write concurrent code? We think of "threads" as one of the options. The thing is that we've mostly been using threads with locks (e.g. Java), and slide #3 points out where we have gone wr