dmaclay

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by dmaclay 13y ago
This prevents Chrome from ever being my primary browser.
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by dmaclay 16y ago
Someone pretty much has, it's called chicken scheme.
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by dmaclay 16y ago
Working on large projects where you experience the consequences of bad judgment calls made years earlier, and trying to figure out how things could have gone better. Probably the nastiest way to learn, but still the best.
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by dmaclay 17y ago
Edsger Dijkstra had this to say: "Are you quite sure that all those bells and whistles, all those wonderful facilities of your so called powerful programming languages, belong to the solution set rather than the problem set?"
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by dmaclay 17y ago
Gandi http://en.gandi.net
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by dmaclay 17y ago
So what they are saying is rather that "power attracts the already corrupt" you just don't get to see their true colors until they are in power. Your stereotypical abusive politician is typically someone who has been a nasty piece of work s
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by dmaclay 17y ago
Just don't use threads in python, use multiprocessing!
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by dmaclay 17y ago
If management can't figure out what is going on without people deliberately reporting to them, they're not much good at their job.
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by dmaclay 17y ago
gandi.net
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by dmaclay 17y ago
This is bullshit, he admits he realised that in addition to installing AdBlock, users had to deliberately get EasyList, then he goes on to conveniently assume that said users (who had to make 2 very deliberate decisions to get there) didn't
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by dmaclay 17y ago
I would ask "What are we looking for?" A correct answer requires great insight and pretty much compels the candidate to continue and explain how they fit the description.
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by dmaclay 17y ago
Mount elastic blocks to hold your db directories and take regular incremental snapshots.
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by dmaclay 17y ago
Sing the first few words of your opening sentence. It really grabs attention, and usually shuts everyone up in confusion. While it is not overtly offensive, you will piss-off the usual alphas by grabbing focus from them, so expect some ba
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by dmaclay 18y ago
The problem with this idea is that the rich are more mobile, and will simply relocate globally to a more favorable tax zone, giving you nothing.
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by dmaclay 18y ago
Actually a canny data-center operator might be able to offer a limited free service to something like a hospital, allowing them to argue that a wholesale shutdown might threaten lives. Done just right, the hospital gets a free service and
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by dmaclay 18y ago
The 10 cents to the dollar allows you to absorb some fraud. You also check the applicants records, and for those cases where there is too much uncertainty offer payment only after a successful lawsuit (you my want to pay out 25 cents to th
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by dmaclay 18y ago
Even high-profile complaints will only ever result in case by case resolutions. Now if someone was able to start a business where they bought the rights to seized google checkout accounts at say 10 cents to the dollar and (now representing
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by dmaclay 18y ago
it is a rip-off of: http://quintura.com
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by dmaclay 18y ago
You don't get it, to Google advertisers are the customers, the so called 'users' are product.
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by dmaclay 18y ago
This looks better suited to the B-Tree version of Berkeley-db than MySQL.
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by dmaclay 18y ago
For Lisp read: Practical Common Lisp by Peter Seibel (www.gigamonkeys.com/book/)
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by dmaclay 18y ago
http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com
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by dmaclay 18y ago
A real full-size keyboard with tactile feedback.
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by dmaclay 18y ago
To hire sufficient good TAs, schools would have to pay much more than they do, as they are competing with a lucrative commercial industry. However academic hierarchies won't tolerate paying elevated salaries to people with lesser paper qua
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by dmaclay 18y ago
We use Adobe Flex, and at times have the Flex app write to a HTML page in the browser (for the vastly better markup). The .swf format makes things a bit more secure, although you can decompile Flex apps. For the most part we are targeting
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by dmaclay 18y ago
Don't use any of the JVM schemes (for one thing, none of them even satisfy RSR5 in compiled mode), stick to Chicken or PLT.
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by dmaclay 18y ago
I favour ubuntu on servers mainly because it's what I use on my desktop, and it's handy to be able to write & test scripts on your desktop and deploy to the servers only once everything works.
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by dmaclay 18y ago
The sensible way to build more complex web apps these days is to have a (invisible) client side model, and have the controller communicate with the server as is required (typically to fetch data, sometimes to poll). The server becomes more
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by dmaclay 18y ago
Common Lisp's main advantage over Scheme is that it has been used commercially for years, and has thus accumulated a large number of libraries. Scheme was created as a more consistent and concise Lisp, and is better suited to experimentati
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by dmaclay 18y ago
I like Vim, so I use Netbeans with the jVi plugin when I need an IDE. I would use Eclipse because of its more extensive language support, but there are no decent plugins that offer vi style navigation AND code-completion.

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