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by gamache 17y ago
A lawyer's initial purpose is almost always intimidation.
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by gamache 17y ago
The difference between attacking Safari and Chrome is that once you've found the browser hole, which may well exist in both browsers, you still need to break out of Chrome's sandbox. If one is going to attack a WebKit browser, Safari's def
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by gamache 17y ago
A 4000% increase isn't a 41x increase. It's a gain factor of 41, or a 40x increase. (Not that it even matters three percent either way here.)
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by gamache 17y ago
At the time, Apple was pushing the Apple II, which was a lot more like a VW than today's Macintosh is (or yesterday's Mac was, for that matter). The vintage BMW R-series, as Jobs is riding, is actually pretty similar to the Apple II: very h
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by gamache 17y ago
My vps in the Newark facility is cruising along just fine.
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by gamache 17y ago
Eat young fish. Typically, in a given body of water, mercury level in a fish is directly proportional to its age. Avoid, if you like, large fish (e.g. tuna, marlin, swordfish, shark) and small fish which take a long time to mature (orange
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by gamache 17y ago
Consider a very popular website which runs on the last generation of software; that is, it is susceptible to the C10K problem (tl;dr: thread/process-based concurrency starts to choke at ~10,000 simultaneous connections, largely regardless o
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by gamache 17y ago
Don't ever assume that the US -- or any other country -- actually practices what it preaches, especially when said country spends a lot of time preaching. The two Kinsey Reports ( Sexual Behavior in the Human Male , 1948, and Sexual Behavi
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by gamache 17y ago
I don't know where you're getting the impression that the website was rude to Garmin. All it said was that Garmin had relocated the project from SF to Kansas, and most/all of the team was declining to follow it. Just the facts.
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by gamache 17y ago
def create @user = User.new(params[:user]) @title = "Sign up" render 'new' end So the end user can mess around with the form, add is_admin=1 to the other CGI params and end up with an admin account. (Or similar.) Fab
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by gamache 17y ago
This reminds me of the winner of MacHack '98. It was a system extension which rendered the screen's contents in colored ASCII, in real time. The demo was Phantom Menace... it looked great. Miro said the important bit was only about 50 li
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by gamache 17y ago
I hear you. I stopped waiting for Perl 6 a long time ago; that has freed me to enjoy Perl 5 more fully. Most of the stuff I do these days is Perl with the Catalyst web and DBIx::Class database frameworks, but I like Rails a lot too and I
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by gamache 17y ago
Why did you stop liking Perl? I am just curious.
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by gamache 17y ago
I would applaud any effort to make comment-killing and user-banning a more transparent process on HN. You don't know it happens when it happens, it's often for a shaky reason, and there is no place to discuss it other than emailing PG (whi
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by gamache 17y ago
Brands In Public's sole purpose as a moneymaking enterprise is to convince brandholders that paying for control of their brand's page is a good idea. The only way to effectively do this is to make the alternative, leaving control of the pag
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by gamache 17y ago
I wonder when fingers will be broken because an internet company thinks they can get into the extortion business without hiring any goons. Seriously. Legal responses are limited, and it's only a matter of time before a targeted company de
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by gamache 17y ago
The gripe is not that default behavior exists. The gripe is that, once you have made an element draggable, you need to override a few seemingly-unrelated default behaviors in order to implement the most obvious form of drag-and-drop. Or,
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by gamache 17y ago
I'm not a perl guy, but have found cpan to actually feel like a library - you get differences in quality and no standard approach to anything but it's a vast resource. I am a Perl guy, and you are not far from the truth. CPAN has a stagg
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by gamache 17y ago
But this article is not about C. This article is about perl. But I wish to give C its rightful place. C is the most powerful language that attracts the smartest minds into its fold. As simple as that. I am sure nobody will get annoyed at
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by gamache 17y ago
Could the sixth be any worse than the fourth or fifth?
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by gamache 17y ago
Good god. He sees C as appropriate for something like git? Sure, I'd use it too if my programming team was expert in C and nothing else. That doesn't say anything about the appropriateness of the language. Considering one of the primary g
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by gamache 17y ago
Because by strongly gendering arbitrary actions, you effectively do constrain people. But what if it isn't me that's "gendering arbitrary actions" -- what if a majority of the gender itself is doing it?
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by gamache 17y ago
Why are you upset that more men than women can change a tire? Does it upset you that more women than men can knit? Further, why do women over 40 get a pass on changing tires? I feel that eliminating gender-based barriers is almost univers
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by gamache 17y ago
Naming Leopard 's successor Snow Leopard implies that optimization and refinement, not reinvention, has taken place. That's exactly what happened. The OS was not "stripped-down" as much as improved; there are plenty of enhancements und
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by gamache 17y ago
The point is not that the money went to a valid cause that the author doesn't care about; the point is that the money went to an invalid cause. Which is fine and legal and all, but it's not really charity.
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by gamache 17y ago
Sure, pasted-in emails are much more reliable.
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by gamache 17y ago
The Y combinator allows the definition of anonymous recursive functions. These have names ("fac"). Personally, I have never found much of a reason to use the Y combinator. I typically use the method you used in the second example; I dec
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by gamache 17y ago
Both front and rear ABS are very helpful in braking as hard as possible, and no more. From all I have heard, the modern systems are very good, if a little heavy. Ironically, it's the weight and size that keeps ABS off most bikes than can
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by gamache 17y ago
Not true. Hpricot and Syck are in heavy use.
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by gamache 17y ago
The fact that Hpricot used a DVCS is a godsend in cases like this, but we still confront the fact that the software's canonical source, including its documentation, is gone. That Sucks, DVCS or not.

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