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by dnr 13y ago
The VirtualPostMail pricing page may be confusing, but I think calling it deceitful is a stretch. I think the prices are reasonable for the service they provide. It may even be cheaper than it looks, as I don't think they enforce the s
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by dnr 13y ago
No, not really. Buildings larger than six units can still be Ellis-ed and turned into TICs. Even if those TICs can never convert to condos, it's still often profitable to do that. (Btw, owner-move-in evictions have nothing to do with t
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by dnr 13y ago
You read that backwards: Garcia is a tech person, and is being self-deprecating when he refers to them as less real people. Whether it's ironic self-deprecation, or sincere sadness and disappointment at the situation, I can't tell
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by dnr 13y ago
I remember reading stories a few years ago about how facebook employees used to spy on love interests. I'm sure there are better access controls in place these days, though.
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by dnr 13y ago
The alternative to taking that job was staying in magazine publishing. Magazine publishing has probably done even worse than comedy writing over that time period.
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by dnr 13y ago
Thanks for the pointer to Android, I hadn't looked at how that was organized before. I agree that atomic commits are a red herring. They're nice to have, but by the time you outgrow a single git repo, you also have projects with d
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by dnr 13y ago
Why wouldn't it be a good idea, assuming we had tools capable of scaling indefinitely? We currently split large codebases into "repos" that are effectively isolated even though they're logically connected, and it would o
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by dnr 13y ago
I use http://www.virtualpostmail.com/ as my "pointer". It was very helpful when I was traveling around for a year with no permanent residence. As an added bonus, they scan my mail (on request) and make it availabl
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by dnr 13y ago
I agree with everything you said, but you're looking too closely at just the last link in a long chain. Yes, it's important to trust your password manager. I base that trust on my inspection of the short bash script and on the rep
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by dnr 13y ago
No decent password manager will expose your passwords to a third party. If syncing is supported, only passwords encrypted with your master password are sent over the network. AFAIK, that's how all the popular ones work. FWIW, I use &qu
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by dnr 13y ago
If you're memorizing a lot of passwords, you're doing it wrong. Use a password manager and memorize one, that no sites ever see. (In practice you'll probably want to memorize another one or two for important accounts and a lo
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by dnr 13y ago
Yup, I've used ion2 → ion3 → notion pretty much exclusively for 10 or 11 years now. I don't think I could switch to another wm for my main interface if I wanted to. But why would I want to? Gimp was the only slightly-annoying thin
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by dnr 13y ago
Alright, if you want to use the term metaphorically, that's ok. SF may be a financial capital to some degree, but your comment about VC is still off: they're not based in the city, and they didn't take much interest in compan
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by dnr 13y ago
Saying "You all deserve to be here" isn't intended as a pat on the back to the privileged in the audience, it's a reassurance to the ones on full financial aid and looking around and feeling out of place among their weal
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by dnr 13y ago
Just to point out few facts: New York City isn't a capital of anything, nor is San Francisco. VCs are in the South Bay, not in San Francisco.
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by dnr 13y ago
That's not going to match the release name that capistrano chose, right? Seems like you'd want to use latest_release or something.
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by dnr 13y ago
Who is this "we"? We don't refer to highways with the definite article around here.
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by dnr 13y ago
As a counter-anecdote, my high school quiz bowl team participated in a local TV game show thing and ended up winning (in our first year!). We had to recruit a cheering section for all five rounds, and we all got excused absences. Toward the
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by dnr 13y ago
If you like tries, take a look at the double-array trie: it's a pretty nifty (though somewhat complicated) way to greatly reduce the space usage of tries by interleaving nodes in the same block of memory. It also makes it easier to ser
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by dnr 13y ago
My favorite from Slow Learner was "Under the Rose", which he later turned into a chapter of V. I loved the absurdism, steampunk-ish bits, and theme of history as chaotic. They're all pretty good, though.
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by dnr 13y ago
V. is a disjoint "novel" with parts cobbled together from short stories. I wouldn't recommend it as a first (even though it was my first). Instead, try Vineland. It has a more or less straightforward plot and is quite enterta
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by dnr 13y ago
Of course there's plenty of conformity in Burning Man fashion. It is still fashion.
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by dnr 13y ago
"my own clothes were still all wrong" I can't even imagine what this might mean in this context. It was pretty clear to me even on the first day that there's no right or wrong way to dress, it's just part of that (r
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by dnr 13y ago
Hi, My dotstuff script can do most of that, with a little bit of work. With the current features, you'd put all your bashrc content into a single ~/dotstuff/bashrc file, marked off with preprocessor directives that turned on
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by dnr 13y ago
If I may, a small plug for my solution to this problem: https://bitbucket.org/davidn/dotstuff I settled on copying rather than symlinking, which has the benefit that the source files can be passed through a simple prep
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by dnr 13y ago
Agreed. Craig never exerted much technical influence (beyond the early years, I assume), but was always a strong cultural force in the areas of engineering quality, code reviews, readability, consistency, etc.
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by dnr 13y ago
SQLite isn't a replacement for postgresql (or vice versa). SQLite is a replacement for fopen. Among its many advantages in that situation: a database is contained in a single file with minimal overhead, the source is shipped as one .c
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by dnr 13y ago
Hi Ben! FWIW, my biggest issue with Rails (and much of what's produced by the Ruby community) is magic: I find the amount of stuff that's implicit, either depending on naming conventions, or automatic inclusion, or overriding defa
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by dnr 13y ago
Agreed! I'd love to rent some of the more interesting M43 lenses, and I'm sure some people could have a lot of fun with the Panasonic 7-14mm sitting in my drawer at home.
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by dnr 13y ago
That pretty much exactly describes me as well. Maybe not quite to the same degree. But the swinging back and forth between "I really need to have a connection with someone right now" and "I don't want to be around people

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