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by ef4 14y ago
> Personally, I use quite a few public/private keypairs for the various servers and services that I use, to ensure that in the event of having one of my keys compromised the dammage is as restricted as possible. If you keep all those pr
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by ef4 14y ago
But people who are desperate and gullible don't check references. The scammer can just as easily claim to have an MD they never earned from a legitimate school, or an MD from a school that doesn't exist, or one that has never received appro
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by ef4 14y ago
> I mean, unless it is a terribly difficult process, I don't see the big deal here. It quickly becomes a big deal as soon as other jurisdictions start doing the same thing. If I was Coursera I would definitely not want to go down that p
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by ef4 14y ago
"Tech" small businesses are doing just fine. And they represent only a tiny fraction of small businesses, probably even more so when you measure by employment, which is what people tend to care about. As someone who has cofounded both a tec
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by ef4 14y ago
The excitement comes from the combination of a few factors: 1. It's improving very quickly, both in terms of the materials you can print and affordability of the hardware. It's possible to 3d print powdered metal composites, for example, no
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by ef4 14y ago
Here's hoping it's the Martian equivalent of an arrowhead. :-) Or at least, let's hope it's not some critical piece of the rover itself.
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by ef4 14y ago
Ah, I see. I hadn't thought about that case. I have a lot gmail account, but only one of them is on the gmail domain name, so that hadn't come up for me.
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by ef4 14y ago
In the "Accounts and Import" settings, you add an account and instead of choosing "Send through GMail (easier to set up)", choose "Send through <example.com>'s SMTP servers". And then you need to enter the username, server, password
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by ef4 14y ago
Unfortunately they chose a set of APIs that is strictly weaker than what we have access to via WebSql. When I port from WebSql to IndexDb, I will need to implement in Javascript a bunch of things that sqlite3 is already doing for me in C. I
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by ef4 14y ago
I agree that those are drawbacks, but they're drawbacks of the standards process used, not the technology itself. They could have standardized around the subset of SQL supported and alleviated those concerns. IndexDB seems to be deliberatel
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by ef4 14y ago
There is for recipients using certain versions of outlook. But there's a workaround for that, see my other comments on this thread.
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by ef4 14y ago
> How does the appearance look? You send e-mail to foo@business.com and then funkyjizzbeats20@gmail.com replies to you! What could be more professional than that? If you configure your GMail account correctly, it will reply via the othe
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by ef4 14y ago
There is a simple fix for this. Gmail can be configured to send via any arbitrary mail server. So you can configure your person account to send via the SMTP settings of your business account. This leaves no evidence of your personal account
824.
by ef4 14y ago
No matter what you do, you should absolutely be asking yourself "do I want to still be doing this in N years?". It isn't just a matter of trying to have a fulfilling life -- it's a matter of survival. People who don't look up once in a whil
825.
by ef4 14y ago
Thanks, I love the shift-key training wheels idea. It caught me starting both of these sentences with the wrong shift key.
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by ef4 14y ago
But even if they're using attr_accessible to whitelist parameters, the failure mode here would have been exactly the same. The real culprit is Apple. It's just not ok to add unexpected parameters to people's POSTs. If anything, they should
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by ef4 14y ago
It's a real pain to guarantee that you will always get an answer back about whether some asynchronous operation succeeded or failed. Every callback needs to manually trap its own exceptions, manually listen for exception reports from the su
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by ef4 14y ago
I was hoping to read about some of the real reasons Javascript sucks, like the contortions I have to go through to get exception-safe asynchronous flow control. But this article is just trolling.
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by ef4 14y ago
> That would never work correctly on os x, unless you have a huge display. That seems like a non sequitur. The whole point of a tiling window manager is that you can map windows in and out of the grid -- they don't all have to be on scr
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by ef4 14y ago
I see this story differently. I see a fairly common, two-stage approach toward programming enlightenment. In the first stage, you simply go forth and try. And you drown in complexity. This stage is important, because it's what motivates the
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by ef4 14y ago
I seriously doubt these bans do need to happen. All it takes is one person to sue for discrimination because their profile says they're gay / disabled / pregnant / a veteran / etc, and the employer has no way of proving that wasn't the reas
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by ef4 14y ago
> Most importantly, we want Freddie Mac to start regularly testing the homes it sells for meth contamination, just like it would for lead paint. I seriously doubt they test for lead paint. While the laws vary by state, I know that landl
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by ef4 14y ago
> Is there any evidence or even a credible physical hypothesis why fast food processed mystery meats would be meaningfully less healthy than the roughly similar unprocessed cuts from the same animal? The typical processed meat product c
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by ef4 14y ago
Yes, but consider how doomed you are if you need to treat your parliamentarians like irresponsible children to keep them on task. But I think there's probably a more charitable explanation that everyone is too polite to say: large chunks of
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by ef4 14y ago
While this article is a bit flippant, I think ten years is a pretty good number when you consider the vast amount of engineering effort that has already been poured into projects like Postgres. This brings me back to the recent discussion a
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by ef4 14y ago
The argument that Apple needs their own map for strategic reasons is fine, but it doesn't explain why they needed to ship it before it was any good. I can imagine three explanations: (1) They think they need to start gathering user-generate
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by ef4 14y ago
You've already answered your own question. Start with the code your code already depends on: https://github.com/michellesun/zuppa-di-bella/blob/master/re... Flask==0.9 Jinja2==2.6 Pillow==1.7.7 Werkzeug==0.8.3 beautifulsoup4==4.1.1 lxml==
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by ef4 14y ago
Even working mostly alone, I read other people's code frequently. We all depend on libraries and platforms written by others and none of them are perfect. There are always bugs, performance problems, or missing features down there. You get
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by ef4 14y ago
"Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute." - SICP If you believe this (and I do), then it follows that reading fluently is absolutely critical. One cannot judge writing without being a good
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by ef4 14y ago
> The biggest problem is that there were few doctors, hospitals, or vaccination facilities available in certain areas, especially rural areas and poor urban areas A problem directly caused by earlier government intervention. Starting ar

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