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by hapless 16y ago
"5. Arguably the best documentation for any language" I should very much like to see that argument. My impression of PHP documentation (after using it for three of the last five years) is that it's a endless pile of bullshit whose primary c
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by hapless 16y ago
I have been to some European countries, and that's patently untrue. Residential neighborhoods tend to contain lots of shared housing -- apartments/rowhouses with shared walls between units -- and all attendant noise and unpleasantness. The
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by hapless 16y ago
American urban centers are primarily inhabited by the poor -- people who have no other choices. Urban gentrification is the froth on a sea of poverty.
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by hapless 16y ago
"Human scale" commerce failed. Supermarkets obliterated tiny, expensive grocers everywhere that real estate prices afforded their existence. Inner cities are now "food deserts" because running a limited-selection, high-price grocery isn't
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by hapless 16y ago
Americans don't want "human scale" cities or public transit, or else we would already have them. I realize this is not politically correct, but I like the isolation of the suburbs. I don't want to hear my neighbors or have a grocery wit
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by hapless 16y ago
Most web sites sit behind load balancers and stateful firewalls. They have many, many opportunities to do the port translation to make $name and www.$name work the same way. The theory you espouse, that www was the only viable option to mo
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by hapless 16y ago
The press release discusses cost , not capacity. By its nature, solar power isn't suitable to use for base load: it only works during the sunny parts of the day. I would be happy and unsurprised to see solar power reduce the use of clean
728.
by hapless 16y ago
"The fairest rules are those to which everyone would agree if they did not know how much power they would have." This quote really, deeply bothered me. One of the major differences between alpha males and the rest of the population is that
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by hapless 16y ago
* Customer-managed firewalls * Redundant switching/interior routing * Private layer 2 networks * Bring your own IP space * Redundant exterior routing (e.g. I advertise my prefix through a new provider during an extended downtime) * Out-of-b
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by hapless 16y ago
I'm tired of hearing about the "death" of IaaS. This guy is paranoid. The reason that "PaaS" platforms are multiplying is that they are easy to put together. By deliberately restricting what the customer can do, you can offer cheaper an
731.
by hapless 16y ago
That's what a patent is for: get you twenty year lead to market. Even if it is just beeswax, this is a novel application.
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by hapless 16y ago
Unlike the kernel, desktop development for Linux is done almost wholly by volunteers in their spare time. There aren't many paid developer seats for KDE, Gnome, et al. Bold new interfaces, new APIs, and complete reinventions of the deskto
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by hapless 16y ago
Lots of things are "food safe" for incidental contact, but unwise to ingest. Lots of things are "edible" in small quantities, but you may not want to ingest them daily as they leak out of a container. Lots of people are willing to lie to
734.
by hapless 16y ago
This is the kind of device that requires a patent, so that you can tell me precisely what's in your "proprietary phase change material." Perhaps you could also describe its containment. That's what "patent" means, after all: open, obvi
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by hapless 16y ago
Judging from the article alone, this seems like a triumph for common sense. When a guy with the title of Vice President promises you money, in writing, you should be able to rely on that promise. The defendants tried a variety of lame excu
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by hapless 16y ago
I realize that anecdotes make for very poor data, but I have never seen a re-org work. I've survived dozens of reorgs at my own employer and at client firms, and I have never, ever seen a successful one. The best you can hope for is to se
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by hapless 16y ago
I've never been tempted by AppArmor because SELinux is awesome. The learning curve is brutal, but when it works, it's beautiful. You configure a targeted policy for a daemon, and that policy describes all of the reasonable behaviour profil
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by hapless 16y ago
I used to have paying customers on UML on a Red Hat 7.3 box. I had no idea that UML had been maintained as recently as 2.6.24. I really had no reason to follow it, because UML's niche has been eaten away from both top and bottom. The bott
739.
by hapless 16y ago
The wristwatch is jewelry. Its primary purposes are adornment and display of wealth. Your gadget just has to be cooler and more ostentatious than one of my present wristwatches. It's not about being useful. You don't have to do a better job
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by hapless 16y ago
If you play monopoly by the rules written on the box, it only lasts 30-45 minutes, with intense interaction between players. It's much more exciting, but it's also a really miserable game because of its brutal zero-sum nature. (Bear in mi
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by hapless 16y ago
Child labor was induced by very specific incentives, and it was easy to spot. After the ban on those labor practices, there was no competitive advantage in being the guy who openly hires children and gets slapped down. Adverse selection pro
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by hapless 16y ago
Typically, your former employers' HR departments are happy to confirm hiring/departure dates and "eligibility for re-hire." As a result, those are two things you can't expect to successfully lie about.
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by hapless 16y ago
As harsh as this sounds, it's perfectly rational behaviour on the part of companies. Job applications are a perfect example of an adverse selection problem. Bad candidates are more likely to laid off, so they enter the job market more ofte
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by hapless 16y ago
It's perfectly sound logic: being already married is social proof that you were a good enough mate for at least one person to marry you. If you had to pick mates blindly, that wouldn't be a bad way to do it. There is a special reason that
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by hapless 16y ago
Experts-exchange faces the same problem in StackOverflow that the proprietary UNIX vendors confronted in Red Hat and Cygnus. The open source vendors were perfectly happy to turn a hundred billion dollar industry into a one billion dollar in
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by hapless 16y ago
Word, Excel, and Autocad are all more than twenty years old. They date to an era when C++ was the only tool available. Furthermore, all of them can host modules written in "toy languages." Word and Excel are extended by VBS and C#. Autoc
747.
by hapless 16y ago
The article is several paragraphs of sensational hypotheses with no supporting evidence.
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by hapless 16y ago
IPv4 is only "depleted" in a very technical sense. The last free /8 was allocated to a regional authority. This does not mean no IPv4 addresses are available. The regional authorities (RIRs), the guys who actually allocate the addresses t
749.
by hapless 16y ago
This is only true in a very technical sense. The last free /8 was allocated to a regional authority. The regional authorities (RIRs) still have many, many smaller blocks to allocate to individual organizations. The first RIR isn't expecte
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by hapless 16y ago
I use a traditional fat client application, keepassx: http://www.keepassx.org/ Runs equally well on OSX, Windows, Linux/X11. It supports "autotype" so that you don't have to fool with copy/paste.

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