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by gamache 14y ago
I used https. Encrypted secrets go over the wire. Easier than OAuth for the programmer, as long as you can spare the overhead for the SSL handshakes.
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Nate Silver maximizes P(Olympic medal)(nytimes.com)
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by gamache 14y ago
For the love of god, please someone tell me what is so offensive about the semicolon. When you replace a thousand of them with commas, nothing has been gained! When you start placing them only at the beginning of certain lines, subject to J
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by gamache 14y ago
That "explanation of why", when you take the trouble of reading it, is just an explanation of how. The article ends with: Conclusion - Using the comma trick to do { }-less indentation is far from viable. However this may still be useful f
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by gamache 14y ago
As a programmer, I'd prefer to find out about actual bugs, rather than worry about the hypothetical legal consequences of potential name collisions in the entertainment media space. There is an actual bug here, but it's not in the code.
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by gamache 14y ago
If the best name you can think of is already in use by a huge player in internet media, exposes you to legal attack, and will confuse potential users and customers, you need to keep thinking.
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by gamache 14y ago
I hope Matthew Inman won't be shy about asking for legal defense donations, because I don't think his fans would be shy about giving them. With any luck, a good lawyer, and a few years clogging up the legal system, this could be an expensi
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by gamache 14y ago
PG has the right to curate HN posts as he sees fit. I just think a little more transparency would go a long way. Hellbanning is, by design, sneaky. The fact that it's the predominant ban method is extremely frustrating for a non-maliciou
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by gamache 14y ago
And then the second app called Foo comes around, and...
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by gamache 14y ago
During my hellban about two years ago (I posted an article which had been silently banned, and was flagged for spam, I guess?), I was anonymously advised that the HN moderators were "capricious and tone-deaf", and that my recourse was to co
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by gamache 14y ago
"Consider the famous 2-note guitar solo in the Buzzcocks' "Boredom": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoYiQ8Qsozk&t=1m15s . The rest of the band was rolling on the studio floor laughing while the guitarist played it because nobody belie
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by gamache 14y ago
Upgrades: The SE/30 started its life as an SE, so it got the 68030+SuperDrive upgrade, and we put a monitor card in the expansion slot (which I later replaced with a 10BaseT card). Upped the RAM from 1MB to an intimidating 8MB. I think I s
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by gamache 14y ago
Funny, I got ten years out of a Mac SE/30, four years out of a PowerBook G4 (Lombard), and five years out of a white iBook G4. I also used a Mac IIcx for almost a year, ten years after its release. My unibody MacBook 13" was on track too,
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by gamache 14y ago
I know lots of folks who've added RAM and who've swapped out the spinning drive for an SSD. Maybe it's more of a "power user" thing, but here you are on Hacker News.
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by gamache 14y ago
No, the customer just made a huge stink while their case was being reviewed and resolved. Newegg didn't get to where they are by stonewalling RMAs as a matter of course -- quite the opposite.
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by gamache 14y ago
It's also remarkable to me that Newegg would become the target of an internet lynch mob. I know dozens of IT professionals and Newegg has done right by all of us for years. I can't think of another hardware retailer that's gotten better w
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by gamache 14y ago
It sure seems like she spent a long time thinking about how not to think about what to wear. My dressing habits can fit in a tweet.
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by gamache 14y ago
What's been gained here? You've traded away one line of boilerplate Perl understood by all, and now everyone who touches your code has to know the semantics of 'method'.
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by gamache 14y ago
It's really not that different; you just end up declaring your input arguments one line lower than in most other languages. Not a big deal in practice. And with @_, you're free to use positional arguments, named arguments, variable arity,
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by gamache 14y ago
I try to stick to food products that existed 200 years ago.
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by gamache 14y ago
Perhaps this is ignorance, but I do not want this anywhere near my food. The FDA's said a lot of things are non-toxic over the years.
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by gamache 14y ago
They're 40% Instagram, relatively speaking.
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by gamache 14y ago
This stuff is kind of old news for Sass/SCSS/etc users, but it's no less breathtaking when you do it the first time. CSS preprocessors sell themselves.
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by gamache 14y ago
Morphine becomes heroin (diacetylmorphine) upon replacing the naturally-occurring hydroxyl groups (-OH) with acetyl groups (-OCOCH3). This increases fat solubility, which allows it to cross the blood-brain barrier much more quickly than mor
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by gamache 15y ago
In 1997, me and my beige box PC spent about a day building the GIMP alpha, excited for a Photoshop killer. Now it's 2012, fifteen years later, and we're high-fiving GIMP for the single window interface.
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by gamache 15y ago
Regardless of everything ActiveResource is or isn't, I am very sad to see Rails lose its out-of-the-box web service client. ActiveResource is an 80% solution which really deserved to have that last 20% filled in. That said, I'm excited for
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by gamache 15y ago
I refute that Fortran is axiomatically worse than Java. I've spent a few years working in each, so I got to know them decently well. Fortran is like C with great math support; that is to say, C is like Fortran with great systems facilities
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by gamache 15y ago
The Boston API Jam was being put on principally by Sqoot, who are a NYC-based deals API company. Presumably they were trying to drum up interest in their platform. Now, see? Even you thought Boston had something to do with this!
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by gamache 15y ago
I don't like that Boston is in the headline. People do notice these things.
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by gamache 15y ago
Attention NYC brogrammer dipshits: next time, please tarnish the name of your own city!

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