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by ef4 12y ago
> Physical distribution of acid-free paper books are better at preserving history. I don't doubt that those books have better survivability, but they also represent only the tiny fraction of written information that was worth publis
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by ef4 12y ago
No, history is all about writing. That's pretty much its definition. The invention of history happened precisely when people decided to start writing things down for the future. We prevent the rewriting of history by distributing the w
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by ef4 12y ago
> leaning on technology as a crutch... Yeah, kids these days with their "clothing" and "language" and "fire" have it so soft. Clearly we should worry about how well they would fare without those things.
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by ef4 12y ago
I'm very happy with Ansible. Salt looks good too. Too many of the other alternatives seem to be focused on the easy part of the problem (running commands on lots of nodes) without putting enough effort into the hard part of the problem
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by ef4 12y ago
Nice work. I'm also a fan of velocity.js (and I wrote liquid-fire to make it easier to use velocity in Ember apps). My top use case for something like blast is applying typographic rules that aren't possible with CSS. Like adding
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by ef4 12y ago
Thanks. I have integrated with both Pamfax and Interfax, and neither really makes me happy. I will check this out in detail. HelloFax is also a great service, but not comparable. It's for end users, not a programmable API.
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by ef4 12y ago
People with no money in the US go on Medicaid, and Medicaid is legally obligated to pay for any medically necessarily FDA-approved drug. Much of the article above is essentially about state Medicaid programs freaking out for exactly this re
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by ef4 12y ago
I think we're agreeing. I was suggesting that Xcode should use real directories on disk.
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by ef4 12y ago
To elaborate on patio11's point: I actually do spin up an ec2 instance per customer, and even then it's not really a relevant cost compared to the cost of acquiring customers. Why would I do such a wasteful thing? It's totall
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by ef4 12y ago
> In a short essay outlining the vision behind Internet.org, Mr. Zuckerberg says one of its goals is to offer credit and identity infrastructure “that is still nascent in many developing countries.” Such services might be of some help in
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by ef4 12y ago
This is a nice band-aid. But really this problem is a symptom of Xcode putting way too much redundant information in this file in the first place. It's configuration over convention. You could eliminate all the file references if you
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by ef4 12y ago
It's easy to forget how radically different people's programming backgrounds can be. There are a whole lot of subtle underlying assumptions and attitudes that may not match up and cause a lot of angst and unintended miscommunicati
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by ef4 12y ago
There's no fundamental reason. I think the internet swings back and forth between periods of openness and periods of walled gardens. We're in a walled garden period. My gut says it won't last forever. Our current walled garde
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by ef4 12y ago
A family with $100k in income can expect to pay around $12,000 per year at Harvard, the difference being covered by need-based grants and scholarships. Very few people pay full price.
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by ef4 12y ago
... the net flow of which reversed several decades ago. For the past 30 years, many American cities (the nice ones with living economies, think NYC, SF, Boston, Portland, Austin, etc) have been experiencing a steady influx of affluent white
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by ef4 12y ago
I'm also a Somervillian. And I will add that Somerville actually has a significantly higher population density than Boston. We are undeniably a part of the urban core, deeply integrated into the city. In a discussion about suburbs vs c
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by ef4 12y ago
> When it comes to families... It's hard for young single people to grok that. I'm tired of this myth that young families obviously want to move to the suburbs. My young family certainly doesn't. And all our peers with s
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by ef4 12y ago
I'll elaborate further on the "just abolish it" idea: let each airline manage its own security. They have every incentive to balance customer experience with meaningful security. Especially if you leave them open to civil lia
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by ef4 12y ago
It is "the" functional package manager for GNU OS. But it's only "a" functional package manager, as there are others that also deserve consideration, like http://nixos.org/nix/
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by ef4 12y ago
... said the dying old media company.
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by ef4 12y ago
I came here to say the exact same thing. Even if you're using synchronous storage, wrap it in an asynchronous API and save yourself a world of hurt later.
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by ef4 12y ago
> "The logical answer of course being that the computer should throw an error or return false" But that's not the question that was asked. The question is "what are the final values of a and b?". Someone adopting
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by ef4 12y ago
I cannot relate at all to the people who actually lament the bursting of that old model. "Feudal" is an apt description for it, and I guess some people find the certainty of always being a serf comforting. But it was never a gre
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by ef4 12y ago
Because the whole infrastructure of the web depends on it. Including Google's $380 billion market cap.
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by ef4 12y ago
Yeah, U2F is exciting. It has a lot of weight behind it, and I can't wait to try out the new Yubikey implementation. We move closer to the day when I can buy embedded authentication hardware in the form of a ring, and I can make endles
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by ef4 12y ago
It's not obvious whether it's really a bad idea to have several independent fiber networks in the same geographic area. Choice is good. And it would also necessarily imply more total capacity, which is also good. So deciding the &
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by ef4 12y ago
> We have the opposite view on this: you seem to think that the bulk of what the startup scene does is disruptive, with a few idiotic startups giving the rest a bad name. I believe the balance is in fact the opposite: a few truly disrupt
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by ef4 12y ago
Spare me. We hear a constant litany of people complaining about being disrupted. You can't also claim no disruption is happening. Examples: giant taxi strikes and regulatory fights, the "Google bus" protests in the bay area,
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by ef4 12y ago
Read the actual article. Both of them are listed as defendants.
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by ef4 12y ago
In an infamous 2002 wargame, an American carrier and much of its fleet were destroyed by swarms of speedboats with missiles, simulating potential Iranian tactics. Also, anti-ship ballistic missiles keep getting better. It's not clear w

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