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by herge 11y ago
They don't have a fancy PR agency...
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by herge 11y ago
Reddit's /r/legaladvise regularly advises asking the local bar association for a good recommendation.
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by herge 11y ago
For what it's worth, you could have looked at the reflog of the git repo on the server and it would still have a reference (the hexadecimal hash) to the develop branch before your git push -f.
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by herge 11y ago
If census information is used to apportion government funds, you'd want the money to go to where they were from (which, if it has such a high number of prisoners that their population numbers are affected, probably really need the mone
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by herge 11y ago
Ecometrica (www.ecometrica.com) - GIS Technical Lead and Python/Django backend developer - Edinburgh, UK or Montreal, Québec, Canada Ecometrica is the company behind OurImpacts, the world’s premier greenhouse gas accounting and sustain
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by herge 11y ago
It would be great if the mods could take this over, it's a really useful part of hacker news.
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by herge 11y ago
Yeah, between whoishiring https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring and _whoishiring https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=_whoishiring I'm not sure who to follow.
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by herge 11y ago
Yeah, I agree with you, the tools are lacking. My favorite to date is ansible, but it's a pain to guess the syntax to the magic language that ansible has encoded inside yaml. But then that's maybe that's more of an ansible 1.
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by herge 11y ago
Bash scripts (to pick the most popular shell language) are hard to write, hard to debug (no stack traces), have weird historical artifacts, like not having named arguments to functions, or [[ $foo == true ]] or a whole slew of gotchas that
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by herge 12y ago
Echo and p aren't exactly the same, there's a difference during debugging between: 1 2 3 4 (echo) and ["1", "2 3", "4"] (p)
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by herge 12y ago
That's one huge advantage with Rake, just add `p VARIABLE_NAME` anywhere in your Rakefile, and you'll see the textual value of it at that point.
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by herge 12y ago
Maybe I'm weird, but I think I'll wait for the full forensic investigation of the crash before delving into analysis of breathing patterns of the co-pilot from the black box. To each his own, I guess.
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by herge 12y ago
How big do you make the receiving queue on the client's side? How many instructions past #1 can it store while waiting for #1?
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by herge 12y ago
First, remember the Breaking News Consumer's Handbook: Airline Edition ( https://media2.wnyc.org/i/620/620/l/80/1/BNCHAE.jpg ). Second, I'm sure that Mr. Robin is a nice guy, but there&
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by herge 12y ago
> "to recurse" means "to curse again" If that doesn't sound like programming, I don't know what does.
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by herge 12y ago
Enterprise software is often picked by committee, who will find it easier (at the same price point) to go for the product with more features rather than the product with a better design. Hence, most of the negative feedback enterprise softw
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by herge 12y ago
How much extra food does it take? It's not that strenuous to use a bike, just takes time. Also, if the compost is used to grow food, it doesn't take much oil to feed the biker!
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by herge 12y ago
I don't think you went to the right school. It was made very clear to my classes from sec 3 onwards that taking "higher level math" (436, 536) would open a lot more doors in CÉGEP and university. On the same topic, I firmly b
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by herge 12y ago
What other languages call all-important features Python calls a module in the standard library :)
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by herge 12y ago
> If someone wants to pour over tens of thousands of press releases, do some light fact-checking on them, discard the ones that are just obviously crazy or unimportant, and sort them by topic, maybe get a bit of context on them or flesh
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by herge 12y ago
If I had the dump of the hashed password table (even salted), I'd start by trying all lowercase passwords to match the hashes.
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by herge 12y ago
I always laughed at the movie Live Free or Die Hard, but now I'm thinking it's more and more likely that hackers can completely bring down society from behind a keyboard.
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by herge 12y ago
So are smokers and people who are overweight. Your point?
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by herge 12y ago
Do you know how to figure out if someone does not own a TV? Don't worry, they'll let you know as soon as they can.
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by herge 12y ago
Welcome to the wide and unimpressive world of tech journalism. On the other hand, you get what you pay for.
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by herge 12y ago
I was just thinking about code reviews and how shitty Fogcreek's Kiln is as a code review tool. It has (or at least had) a weird "workflow" were you can't approve or finish a review. Also, it is very hard to see the full
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by herge 12y ago
So James Bond is in the public domain in Canada?
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by herge 12y ago
There's a huge tribe in the Americas who use the terms "Lower", "Midtown", "Upper West Side" and "Upper East Side" for geographical locations. I hear they're at continual war with the "
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by herge 12y ago
When they force authors to publish in non-DRM encumbered formats that all readers can read like ePub or Mobipocket?
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by herge 12y ago
And neither high level languages mentioned in the article (namely python and java) handle any of these features anyhow.

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