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by herge 13y ago
Who installs a first browser on a server?
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by herge 13y ago
Nobody enjoys flying Ryanair. It would be very easy to blow them out of the market by offering cheaper flights than them with better customer service. In the mean time, it doesn't cost 700 quid to fly from Dublin to London anymore.
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by herge 13y ago
Memcache is probably faster. But not as fast as writing data to /dev/null.
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by herge 13y ago
Memcache?
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by herge 13y ago
So we (if only we could just blame the Americans, but we are all responsible, unfortunately) respect their religious rights but completely ignore their rights to liberty or even a fair trail. You have to admit, it's hilarious. Even the
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by herge 13y ago
Recently read a headline I could not believe was not from The Onion: "Guantanamo Bay Prisoners force fed at night during Ramadan"
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by herge 13y ago
Or even more paranoid: import mock def print_now(now=mock.sentinel.now): now = now if now != mock.sentinel.now else time.time()
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by herge 13y ago
Are you a regular listener of On The Media? They don't report the news, they report on how the news is reported. So techniques, trends, and ways that the news and the media, including Mr. Sandman, report news and facts.
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by herge 13y ago
The classic way is: def print_now(now=None): now = now or time.time() print now
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by herge 13y ago
time.time() is a specific case, but let's say I had very_expensive_function_to_call() as a default value. I would want that function to be called once at parse time, and the value to be kept going forward, instead of calling the functi
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by herge 13y ago
How big was your table of contents?
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by herge 13y ago
How can you make sure that the password is never sent to the server? It could be encrypted with their own password, encrypted as a url to a css file, etc.
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by herge 13y ago
So if I can break into your ci machine (or just get jenkins to run random commands on your prod server, which is probably easier), I then have sudo access to your prod server? Using ansible from a local machine is fine, because you can make
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by herge 13y ago
So you store a password that will give you root/sudo on your production machine in your deployment code, or just on your ci server?
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by herge 13y ago
How do you let jenkins install packages and make changes to the machine? Passwordless sudo?
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by herge 13y ago
This is great news1 I'll be able to use WebGL with the majority of my users who use IE in what, 5-6 years?
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by herge 13y ago
GitHub issues is another kettle of fish, but does anything force you to use the github interface to use the repositories? Forking, or making buckets? You can host a copy of your repo on github, another on, say, bitbucket, and another on git
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by herge 13y ago
I think you mis-read sciurus' comment. He said that installing ubuntu 13.04 caused all sorts of problems. Are you saying he would not have had those problems if he did 'sudo apt-get dist-upgrade'?
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by herge 13y ago
I bought a Macbook Pro with OSX 10.8 already installed, and I am pretty sure I will not have the same problems as sciurus if I buy 10.9. Dell could offer support for 13.04, or maybe Canonical could work to better support one of the few lapt
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by herge 13y ago
One of the core principles of free software (as in the free software foundation) is no restrictions on the use or distribution of that software. This also means that if you release a piece of software under a license that prevents, say, arm
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by herge 13y ago
> the ad-hominem attack on the author It's not an ad-hominem attack. He stated that the author is a clown because his article is a joke (which he argued for in the paragraph above it), and not that his article is a joke because he i
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by herge 13y ago
I remember his first two keynotes, they were at CUSEC in 2006. They were great. Still remember the line about "Yeah, jobs are moving to India, but they are not the jobs you want" line.
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by herge 13y ago
If you have to support common functionality on operating systems ranging from Window XP to Windows 8 (so a 12 year range), and deal with all the bugs within, along with most unix systems, you would start implementing a lot of things yoursel
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by herge 13y ago
Most of the reinvent-the-wheel functionality that Java implements exists to make up for deficiencies in Windows as an OS.
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by herge 13y ago
The economy is, thankfully, not a zero sum game. The profits the Pennsylvania Railroad 'took' from the Erie Canal shipper also allowed a cheaper and more flexible transport of goods for, say, a steel manufacturer in Pittsburg or a salt prod
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by herge 13y ago
The finance industry creates wealth by making financial transactions and investment instruments cheaper and more efficient. Same way as a rail company or Amazon creates wealth not by 'building things', but by moving things from point A to p
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by herge 13y ago
That helps with the same client hitting your website over and over. For a multitude of clients, who's cache is cold, this would not help.
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by herge 13y ago
If Valve thought that the technology had a future, they would have kept it or spun it off. What they did is much smarter. Either Ms. Ellsworth & co manage to make a marketable product with the technology, and Valve can either buy them o
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by herge 13y ago
Just because it is called a bank does not mean you'd would want to rely on it. If Paypal suddenly decided to pull up it's stakes and take all it's customers money, I would not imagine that Luxembourgois banking law would help a lot of custo
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by herge 13y ago
Being licensed as a Bank in Luxembourg sounds a lot like getting a degree from the University of Phoenix.

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