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by dos1 15y ago
You're totally right. I don't know what I'm doing. I'm not a sysadmin by trade. I've had the misfortune of having to deal with sysadmin work because I was the only one willing to dive in. So you mention Puppet, Chef, the distro's package
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by dos1 15y ago
What part of hosting apps on Windows was painful to you? I actually prefer to host my apps in Windows when I'm able and the technology stack supports it. I don't need to set up new apps often, but when I do, it's many orders of magnitude f
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by dos1 15y ago
This was the first decent GUI text editor I ever used. Prior to using it I had only ever seen Notepad and pico. I was amazed that you could interact with the terminal right from the app's user interface! To this day I still have a soft sp
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by dos1 15y ago
I looked at your past comments. You are very critical of Microsoft. Is it possible you only support this rather sensationalist story because it fits with your viewpoint?
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by dos1 15y ago
Sorry, wait - how is this different than the RoR magic. Where you can do stuff like MyObject.findByArbitraryProperty and it just works? That's PFM if you ask me. Django, RoR, and Node all have lots of magic bits. You don't have to use
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by dos1 15y ago
Looks around guiltily - I still use their site too when I need something quick and I know they have it. Sure, some of the info is old. But some of the stuff doesn't change and is just as relevant now as it ever was. If they come up firs
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by dos1 15y ago
Do you write lots of security fuzz unit tests? Cause I don't. I write tests that hit the edge cases I can think of, but invariably, I can't think of everything. I really don't think the security argument has much to do with unit testing.
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by dos1 15y ago
How is the A stuff wrong when thousands of people have used it successfully(presumably for its intended purpose) thousands of times? I understand where you're coming from. But the longer I do this, the less dogmatic about testing I get.
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by dos1 15y ago
In my mind, the MPAA is certainly the best choice to pay these costs. They're the ones with the problem, they should be the ones to bear the burden. Especially considering Megaupload offered to take the data and they explicitly forbade it
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by dos1 15y ago
Node.js is becoming a first class citizen on Windows, so I'm not entirely sure what the point of this is. IISNode even allows you to host your Node.js apps in IIS. If you're desperate for some kind of evented web framework in C#, check out
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by dos1 15y ago
Based on your comment I assume that you have the means of supporting your "More to life than work" lifestyle? That you're not on the government dole or living in your parent's basement? If my assumptions are correct, then I commend you and
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by dos1 15y ago
I love posts like this. It's always great to get a healthy dose of perspective. I save articles like this to reread for when I'm getting terribly stressed at work. I think it's tremendously important to recenter priorities every so often.
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by dos1 15y ago
Good for Egor Homakov. I don't necessarily agree with his methods in this case, but in the end, the net result of his actions was positive for web security. And as so many others have pointed out, when the proper channels aren't working, s
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by dos1 15y ago
Sure, that was my knee jerk reaction too. Of course they should suspend the account! But I think that was the wrong choice. Shutting down the one account will do nothing. He can create a second account in a matter of seconds. They fixed
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by dos1 15y ago
I think that's the key piece. Yes, Google can operate the way they do because they have world class talent. Literally some of the best developers in the world. If you find yourself in that situation, then yes, you too can do things the w
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by dos1 15y ago
So do you work at Google or are you just a fanboy? IE is not being nefarious in this case. IE is following a standard that Google is actively abusing. Not sure why you have such an infatuation with Google, but I dare say: Everything in m
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by dos1 15y ago
I disagree. I work on an app that is entirely client side rendered. We use the JSON data approach. Step 2 is trivial. There are many JS templating engines out there. It takes almost no code. The part that's hard is step 1, figuring out
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by dos1 15y ago
In my head it's much easier to imagine manipulating a UI based on objects and their state, rather than partial snippets of HTML. It seems like it would get complicated to track the pieces of html you needed to request in order to redraw on
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by dos1 15y ago
I don't even think I'd use the word journalist to describe Gruber. I really can't even read his stuff any more. I got one paragraph in to this one and was disgusted. How is he so popular? I get the whole Howard Stern shock value thing, bu
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by dos1 15y ago
The author read Steve's biography and came away thinking Steve was some kind of superhero. He argues Steve used his weaknesses along with his strengths to become some kind of miraculous management guru, successfully motivating his top talen
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by dos1 15y ago
Agree with your first sentence. Being an expert takes loads of effort. For some that effort is work, for others it's fun, but no matter what it takes time and determination. What I see more and more of these days is (in the Midwest of the
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by dos1 15y ago
Regardless of the reason, I think this is the right thing to do.
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by dos1 15y ago
Looks like you were wrong chief. https://plus.google.com/u/0/115264064268941645500/posts/WfAL...
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by dos1 15y ago
My experience mirrors yours exactly. I'm not sure how or why Google garnered an untouchable status but I find it frustrating.
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by dos1 15y ago
And I've tried to honestly reply to every comment that points out a flaw in my argument. I did think carefully before using the word apologist, but I've had too many downvotes to really believe that people are thinking critically. What I'
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by dos1 15y ago
Wow, you're just being contrary to be contrary aren't you? While no one is obligated to follow standards, they certainly help adoption. Without standards we wouldn't be able to just buy a consumer electronics device and plug it in to our
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by dos1 15y ago
Really? When Microsoft "broke away" and created ActiveX, you were in support of that too because it was innovation? Or how bout Adobe and Flash?
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by dos1 15y ago
Dart, native client, Gears was in there for awhile.
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by dos1 15y ago
So to summarize: You agree that my comment was on topic, since clearly there are some who believe Google is in the wrong. Just because YOU don't agree with them doesn't mean my comment was off topic.
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by dos1 15y ago
I agree, they do a great job following the standards. I love that. What I don't love is when they break away. That's my whole point - work with the standards body to get your new cool tech introduced. Don't just go rogue and do whatever

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