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by howeyc 13y ago
I have a very similar experience as you. Public speaking doesn't phase me, but the one on one exchanges with strangers or people I rarely interact with are exhausting. I've thought that perhaps it's because the public speakin
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by howeyc 13y ago
If you like text files, there's ledger : http://ledger-cli.org/
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by howeyc 13y ago
Claims that keys are stored locally and not sent to their network. Applications not open source, no way for anybody anywhere to verify such claims. These are for paranoids, paranoids may not be able to read the source code and verify such t
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by howeyc 13y ago
You need to charge enough of a overhead that you can afford to have a person or two that can handle all the impromptu calls, feeler emails, coffee meetings, etc.
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by howeyc 13y ago
Disclaimer: I've never been a fan of storing my data on someone else's hard drives, but many others seem to think it's a good idea. At any rate, how is this more secure? Amazon has physical access to S3 servers, and physical access to these
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by howeyc 14y ago
Oh my. "This individual doing open source software FOR FREE is not fixing bugs that I provide to him to fix FOR ME AND MY NEEDS is not fixing them to MY SCHEDULE AND SATISFACTION. THE NERVE." Indeed. I feel for you.
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by howeyc 14y ago
> 13. Myth: systemd being Linux-only is not nice to the BSDs. > Completely wrong. The BSD folks are pretty much uninterested in systemd. If systemd was portable, this would change nothing, they still wouldn't adopt it. > 15. Myt
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by howeyc 14y ago
You guys must have seen something other than I did, all I saw was childish bickering from both sides in public for all to see. Here's what I saw: D: Company A is awesome. B: Company B is better and cheaper, use us! (Spam) (Could have ended
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by howeyc 14y ago
People would probably wise up and buy toyota, nissan, gm, etc. There is more than one car maker.
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by howeyc 14y ago
You can't be serious. More people voting == voter manipulation??!?? I would call that a MORE REPRESENTATIVE democracy.
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by howeyc 14y ago
This just in... every web browser is a security back door to all your web apps! If you sign in to a web service and click "remember this computer", close the browser, get up and walk away, and someone else sits down at your logged in comput
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by howeyc 14y ago
> Further if they start today it will be 24 months before they can launch something. You are assuming other companies have not yet started building electric cars. This is extremely false. I was at the Detroit Auto Show in Jan 2011 and s
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by howeyc 14y ago
tl;dr - CoffeeScript devs know that if you want lexical scoping you use do. http://coffeescript.org/#try:foo%20%3D%2042%0A(()%20-%3E%20f...
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by howeyc 14y ago
If you like xargs, but want jobs to execute in parallel, you may enjoy GNU parallel. Your trivial example: find images -name "*.jpg" | parallel convert -geometry 200x {} {.}_thumb.jpg
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by howeyc 14y ago
For anyone that had trouble learning the condition system, or just wants another example, this helped me: http://symbo1ics.com/blog/?p=1405
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by howeyc 14y ago
They should, but probably wont. If you sell a service, but decide not to provide it you should refund the money. Judging from the comments most of HN assumes if you "attempt" to provide the service you can keep the money. Yes, I get it's a
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by howeyc 14y ago
The main reason I got into the BSDs years ago was because of the ports system. I remember having a fun time with dependency hell that was on all Linux distributions. Then a friend showed me OpenBSD and did a "make install clean" from the po
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by howeyc 14y ago
I have to agree with this. The main use I have for telnet is checking that I can get access to an outside host:port from a locked down box I can't install anything on that is behind a firewall. For example: "Hey, program N is having trouble
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by howeyc 14y ago
This article is dead on! The warning signs were there; ballooning shares offered, late uptick in IPO price, companies saying facebook advertising sucks, etc. People got suckered and are crying foul. Welcome to the stock market. Suck it up,
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by howeyc 14y ago
This whole Facebook IPO has got to be the worst I have ever seen traders whine and the market be irrational. 90+ P/E is okay, but new projections scare you?? Really?? They are projections!! I project I will make 10 billion dollars next year
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by howeyc 14y ago
There was a documentary on HBO recently that stated this as well. What's going on is that someone who is obese needs less calories per day to maintain their weight than someone who is not obese. Something to do with metabolism rates slowing
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by howeyc 14y ago
This is exactly what I don't understand every time they try to pass a law like this, it's always "It's getting harder for us to catch criminals doing X," where X changes depending how hard they think they have to force it. My response is al
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by howeyc 15y ago
I may not be correct here, but from what I can see the major point of contention is page 33 of the Oracle slides. "When is license necessary: 1. Write applications on Java - No 2. Write classes that implement Java API - Yes 3. Download Java
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by howeyc 15y ago
"If PHP sucks so profoundly, why is it powering so much of the internet?" The same reason that Excel vba sucks so badly but is powering so much of internal company "applications." A lot of these sites are first started by a small group of p
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by howeyc 15y ago
How is your Prog different from lisp? This is what I see... Prog : which (1..10) > 5 LISP : (remove-if #'(lambda (n) (<= n 5)) '(1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10)) Prog : each (1..5) 2 LISP : (mapcar #'(lambda (n) (expt n 2)) '(1 2 3 4 5))
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by howeyc 15y ago
Are you serious?? Since "man motd" does not tell you how /etc/motd actually works, the solution to getting a working /etc/motd is to use another OS? This all could have been avoided with "man motd" saying something useful.
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by howeyc 15y ago
I don't believe any ISP/DNS provider is "willing" to turn off web access to any paying customer (domain owner). However, it has nothing to do with willingness but instead with "force" (Judges, Congressman, Clothing manufacturers, ...), peop
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by howeyc 15y ago
I'm not as quick to discount the point as the others here, Look at it this way, assume in the not so distant future you can do it all on the tablet as opposed to the desktop and no longer nead desktops, having them die a slow, slow death: C
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by howeyc 15y ago
The problem here is that you're discounting that these things are incremntal in nature and saying the invention happened at Apple. Where does the GUI start? At the ncurses-like menu-driven interface? At the point where this interface gains
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by howeyc 15y ago
The best I can figure is that you thought about after college when most students didn't. I can't tell you how many times during my college years I had conversations with Arts/Humanities majors like this: Me: I'm taking CS, probably gonna ge

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