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by hallmark 15y ago
"Bitch" is a derogatory term toward women. Is that still under debate? Would you be able to say "bitch" in front of your mother and not feel uncomfortable?
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by hallmark 15y ago
I don't think this article is fatalistic any more than an environmentalist thinks our planet is going to hell or any other activist thinks there is a very serious issue that needs attention. Mark Sigal provides a lot of food for thought. T
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by hallmark 15y ago
FogBogz calls this Evidence-Based Scheduling. They take past estimates along with data on the actual time taken for past tasks and use that to predict the time required for future tasks. Caveat: I have never used it and therefore cannot v
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by hallmark 15y ago
Unless you compare launch months, in which case the Android revenue was 5% of iOS.
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by hallmark 15y ago
On an emotional level, XML is annoying. XML is strict and unforgiving - great for validation, tools, and stuffing into SOAP envelopes. OTOH, for all of HTML's warts, it is flexible and forgiving to humans. Great developers and designers w
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by hallmark 15y ago
If all you're worried about is getting caught and copyright, then you are missing the point regarding ethics.
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by hallmark 15y ago
"I also would recommend scraping fake posts from forums rather than coming up with your own. Put fake usernames" Not this. I agree with the first two paragraphs. But scraping content and removing attribution is unethical. Over the years I
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by hallmark 15y ago
I feel compelled to respond to one particular point: Yes, you can LOOK UP facts for yourself rather than rely on the vote count of a comment. But honestly, the expansive tome of information that is HN is not just a series of threaded fact
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by hallmark 15y ago
Are these tools (perf, atop, etc) useful and accurate in virtualized environments? For example, under Xen. Fine, I'll say it: on an EC2 or Linode instance. Would there be any skewing or clock issues due to virtualization? Collecting the
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by hallmark 15y ago
Regarding Heroku's plan to continue relying on a company, Amazon, that failed them before: If Heroku evolves to an architecture in which they utilize multiple AWS regions (as they mention in lesson #1 of their post-mortem) and if each regio
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by hallmark 15y ago
Link: http://github.com/jezdez/django_compressor
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by hallmark 15y ago
The article addresses a few issues you may have with packaging assets into "rollup" files: 1. If you set your JS or CSS rollup file's versioning number as the (root) revision number for your entire codebase, then editing an unrelated file w
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by hallmark 16y ago
He was unclear, really? It sounds to me as though he fully understands the "don't go all out on your first wedding anniversary" concept.
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by hallmark 16y ago
That was a clever and enjoyable story. Almost to the end, where it hinged on a Ouija board being an effective and reliable communication device with the dead. Then the story and all its cleverness broke down. So close.
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by hallmark 16y ago
To follow up, I wasn't expecting the backlash; this was a sincere comment. To believe that two teens could be servicing government defense contracts and shipping arms to Afghanistan seemed far-fetched, and given the timing of the HN submiss
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by hallmark 16y ago
I was entirely expecting the article date to be April 1.
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by hallmark 16y ago
I suppose the referenced blog post by the TextMate author Allan Odgaard is quite old (2009), but boy it sure has eery similarities with the development of cloud sync for Things: A beloved product. Fans wondering whether to hold tight or ju
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by hallmark 16y ago
Would have been even more awesome if the BBC reported on a very poor harvest the next year, due to an inevitable crop pest: the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
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by hallmark 16y ago
I'm sure you could have eloquently described the code without comparing it to Fukushima. It is an ongoing crisis, part of a larger natural disaster, with many people still actively grieving.
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by hallmark 16y ago
To keep things in perspective - mainly so that the original commenter doesn't draw the wrong conclusions - most of the pageviews (28,876) occurred on the hosted blog, which is served by Posterous and not Freshdesk's Linode machine. The othe
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by hallmark 16y ago
Nothing I said implied that there weren't a large number of people affected by the Chernobyl disaster. You are making valid points regarding efforts to lowball the count, but it also seems as if you misunderstood my previous comment. To be
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by hallmark 16y ago
The radiation levels are getting a lot of public scrutiny - because the information is public . I don't see how this compares to a Chernobyl-style government coverup.
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by hallmark 16y ago
Being a victim does not make you an expert.[1] It gives you a different perspective, an emotional perspective. There are surely lessons and warnings to be learned through such anecdotes and experiences. But the heightened emotions accompa
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by hallmark 16y ago
That was a pretty dense read, at least for me. I particularly liked two parts, though they may not add up to the meat of the paper: 1. "If you find a genie bottle that gives you three wishes, it's probably a good idea to seal the genie bot
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by hallmark 16y ago
Really? To me as a developer, "cloud" means PaaS or IaaS. It's fun to ridicule a trendy word when it is misused by marketing types. But among smart hackers, aren't we past that?
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by hallmark 16y ago
Please explain why "Amazon Web Services" would be a silly answer.
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by hallmark 16y ago
To juxtapose with the IANAL that is imprinted in all our minds (just behind our reading eyeballs) to show that he does have authority on this subject.
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by hallmark 16y ago
Any useful examples of the type of work that you "cron out"?
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by hallmark 16y ago
Mighty CV looks good. Would you be able to explain to me the meaning and calculation of "Top 99%" that is displayed next to the profile pic?
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by hallmark 16y ago
Thanks for the mention. Great job guys! :)

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