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by generalk 17y ago
For those curious as to why performance will degrade quicker on OS X: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRIM Just had to look that up myself. Shocking that OS X doesn't support it natively, although the article suggests there may be utilitie
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by generalk 17y ago
Super-easy. I have the first-gen unibody Macbook Pro, and it's right next to the battery as you take the cover off. Just one screw and it's out. I can't speak for the newer, non-user-replaceable-battery models, but I can't imagine they made
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by generalk 17y ago
Seriously: if Barnes and Noble decides it only wants to sell fiction by authors whose last names begin with "Q", wouldn't we just consider it a bone-headed move, and not the cause for moral outrage? That depends on if B&N is the only
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by generalk 17y ago
No, it's still as funny as it ever was. Look, Apple has a well-known stance on how you can program the iP[od|hone|ad]. Nobody's forcing you to use it or code for it. Best thing to do if you don't like it? Buy a different mobile device, and
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by generalk 17y ago
If that were the case, don't you think he'd be using an iPhone over an Android phone?
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by generalk 17y ago
On the other hand side, people should just man the hell up and stop caring. Some people take these things hard. I'm one of them, some days. Developing a thick skin is important, but I would never view "stop caring" as a positive way to de
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by generalk 17y ago
Is there some technical reason I'm missing for why they wouldn't go the Passenger route? Seems to be by-far the easiest way to deploy a Rack-capable web app, and it (correct me if I'm wrong) allows for "hot deploy": update the code on the s
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by generalk 17y ago
Why's that sound so negative? I mean, if part of your business is slating yourself as "the guys that do X" then you'd probably have your talking points about X down pat.
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PHP calls gettimeofday() twice to get more entropy for randomness(svn.php.net)
1 points by generalk 17y ago|0 comments
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by generalk 17y ago
Keep working on your company instead of trying to convince the world how cool you are. That's part of how they work on their company. I've often used quotes from 37signals' blog posts and books when trying to get a concept across to a cow
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by generalk 17y ago
Downvote arrows appear after you hit a certain karma level.
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by generalk 17y ago
Any time I see a feature like that on an app, I think that enough people must have asked the support team to do that for them that it became easier to provide a function for that on the UI. Either that or the app developers just tossed in w
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by generalk 17y ago
There is, and that's the first thing I thought, too. But the point is that the controls are mis-placed on the screen. This specific example may have a work-around, but it's just that: a work-around. I don't know if the need for the "Undo Se
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by generalk 17y ago
So on the one hand, I (hypothetically) have a business that I run every day. This makes me immeasurably happy. On the other hand, I have two billion USD, which may make me happy but I'll lose my business, which does make me happy. It's no
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by generalk 17y ago
What developers need to always understand is that the PM's view is the business's view. The PM's view is the business's view colored by the PM's preconceptions. Good PMs will defer on technical decisions and be firm on business decisions
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by generalk 17y ago
Sure, but that's the difference between you and Panic. You'd probably knock something very similar to that out in two days, probably that functionally served the same purpose. Panic and Co. would rather spend a LOT more time on it to make i
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by generalk 17y ago
If you're developing on Rack-based webapps on MacOS, check out http://github.com/alloy/passengerpane -- it's a System Preferences panel to automatically sets up local DNS and Apache/Phusion Passenger vhosts for projects. If there's a simi
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by generalk 17y ago
Sure, that's fine. But what if someone passes you an email address that's really 500 comma-separated email addresses? What if someone passes 'admin=true' to your user update URL? Your output sanitization doesn't do much for those.
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by generalk 17y ago
Output normalization: solves various problems like log injection and XSS Input validation: solves SQL and other injection issues. If you're not doing both, you're probably vulnerable somewhere. There is no magic bullet.
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by generalk 17y ago
Why is it that these hard core test advocates always seem to assume that all bugs are of the former sort? As someone who's more and more becoming a "hard core test advocate": not all bugs are the former sort! But why would that stop you f
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by generalk 17y ago
Interesting note: I'm using Cucumber on a side project. Did a lot of early development with no tests, then started tacking on Test::Unit/Shoulda and Cucumber tests. In the process of writing Cucumber features and scenarios I realized that a
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by generalk 17y ago
One can build a service that has so-called "Rails-style meaningful URIs" that also returns hyperlinks to new resources. They aren't mutually exclusive. That said, yes, everyone seems to forget about hypertext. I'm curious: if I'm building a
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by generalk 17y ago
Excellent. I'll have to look into what you're doing and see if there's anything I can bring to the table, but either way, it is indeed awesome to see that my idea isn't completely without merit!
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by generalk 17y ago
That's true. Initially we may pitch to a few established organizations that do their own badges (foursquare, stack overflow) to see if they'd have any interest in such a service, but I'm imagining that early customers will be new social sit
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by generalk 17y ago
That's an interesting question, but I'm not necessarily concerned with that. For instance, a foursquare-like service would offer badges based not on merit but on how many times you've visited a certain location or how many checkins you perf
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by generalk 17y ago
My summary may not have indicated that, but that's correct, the idea would be that we're providing the service (and charging) achievement/badge providers. Their users will get benefits, but we wouldn't market this to end users, or charge
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Ask HN: Does anyone want this? Central Badge/Achievement service for the Web
8 points by generalk 17y ago|12 comments
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by generalk 17y ago
Musicians should give away their music and make money off concerts and T-shirts. Why not give away the music onlne and also sell CDs? Authors should give away their books and make money on the lecture circuit. Or do like Doctorow and gi
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by generalk 17y ago
For that kind of money you could easily outfit an existing room with a top-quality computer, comfortable desk and chair, office supplies, whatever you need to work.
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by generalk 17y ago
I'm on Safari 4 on Mac OS X. Same issue. View Source says I received all the content, but it's showing a blank white page.

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