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by ianb 14y ago
How do private companies arrange infrastructure-sized projects? Oil companies seem to have substantial arrangements like these. Railroads maintain a lot of infrastructure privately. I'm guessing these companies don't get gouged like the
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by ianb 14y ago
I use this a lot, and it really does work. It renders everything, and renders it well. The one thing that doesn't work is maps – just too many vectors, and Javascript/Canvas/etc just can't keep up. Otherwise I'm very happy and don't feel
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by ianb 14y ago
Added to that, DDT was being used in very high amounts as a pesticide, but didn't need to be used in nearly as high levels for suppressing malaria. Resistance to DDT has formed anyway: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDT#Mosquito_resistance
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by ianb 14y ago
The article on safety this article links to is a year older than the article itself (though same author). It doesn't seem responsible to me to leave out a year of analysis of the effect of Fukushima, and I don't think it's been a particula
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by ianb 14y ago
These are disorders that effect a person's personality, which could mean all sorts of new variables to control for. A man who has mild symptoms of autism or schizophrenia may well take longer to establish himself in his life and have child
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by ianb 14y ago
Lots of these kinds of push templates have existed, none of them seem to have legs. I think they seem elegant, but mixing logic and HTML is actually just a great way to do things. When you want to change something you see in the HTML – be
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by ianb 14y ago
Nothing? As far as I can tell they went into a church, a public church (though maybe under false pretenses) and performed while being filmed, against the wishes of the people there, and I'm guessing were asked to leave and did not do so.
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by ianb 14y ago
> His current role is to get beaten occasionally by the police and to remind Western audience that Russian president is evil. Maybe so. I for one have been reminded that the Russian president is evil.
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by ianb 14y ago
We've built a little nook for packages on our front porch, I wonder if more people will do that sort of thing as well.
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by ianb 14y ago
In the marketplace consumer expectations can get higher, a sense of entitlement develops, and that entitlement can be the valid effect of genuine progress. Not because the providers have to satisfy our sense of entitlement, but because t
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by ianb 14y ago
I think you are confusing "missing a requirement" with "not prioritizing a few other people's requirements". That pip is missing this feature has always been documented, I always knew it was a missing requirement, but I did not have any pe
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by ianb 14y ago
My own opinion, being more knowledgeable about Python's import than I wish I was, I feel like Node.js's require() system is what I wish Python's system was – some of the same simplicity of Python, e.g., with externally-defined names (not a
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by ianb 14y ago
It gets bad if you use pip and easy_install with namespace packages. If you stick to one or the other you should generally be okay. But yes, just use socratic_{name} – it makes everything easier, and "." and "_" are just string differenc
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by ianb 14y ago
I didn't put binary support into pip because (a) it didn't work well on some systems, and (b) I didn't use the other systems. I am not aware of rejected patches to support binary packages on Windows (where it would be nice to include), or
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by ianb 14y ago
"It is far easier to take a fundamentally-streaming stack and layer conventional request-response on top as a special case than it is to take a conventional request-response stack and layer a stream on top of that." This is demonstrably tru
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by ianb 14y ago
Ugh, the links are a maze of introductions. Here's the real site: https://webmaker.org
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by ianb 15y ago
"Mature" and "high quality code" are largely unrelated attributes. Given that CloudStack was developed as proprietary code this criticism seems unsurprising.
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by ianb 15y ago
Thanks for noting this (speaking as the WebOb author). I should say that I don't think WebOb is particularly contrary to the idea being put forward – instead, WebOb was written with this kind of concept in mind. Requests certainly adds a l
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by ianb 15y ago
Philip J. Eby was the author of WSGI, not myself. But which mismatches are you referring to? I've frequently heard these complaints, but generally they are fairly obscure things (which are hard to resolve because we can't form a quorum of
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by ianb 15y ago
Mozilla has been hiring quickly, and still puts some money in the bank. Most money is spent on employees.
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by ianb 15y ago
Ah, but remember this castle? http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jX9QklC3G4E/TIRfrl9uVRI/AAAAAAAADK... That was one really great toy.
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by ianb 15y ago
Since people are throwing out similar kinds of implementations, here's my pattern matching library (which is kind of the same thing as multimethods, but allowing more arbitrary matching than just based on type): http://svn.colorstudy.com/h
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by ianb 15y ago
If making a building involved stacking blocks then it would be pretty easy for humans to make buildings too. I don't see how these robots would be capable of installing an electrical socket, or applying caulk, or any number of important ta
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by ianb 15y ago
If you install gnome-shell, everything works quite well.
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by ianb 15y ago
Mozilla is dropping the idea that some features are point releases and others are major version numbers. As a web browser there's always only been one web, so if a feature is ready then it's ready and it doesn't matter. Internally there's
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by ianb 15y ago
While Assange has caused problems for WikiLeaks, I think he has accomplished something that is not really talked about in this article, and that is important for any WikiLeaks replacement: he turned those leaks into news. It's all too easy
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by ianb 15y ago
There's some justification in deferring to user interface designers with respect to the vision for the interface. An authoritarian system can work, though you should be sensitive to how you present that authority. "wontfix" is socially da
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by ianb 15y ago
I think there's something very patronizing and morally inconsistent about the kind of argument that is described in that article. Underlying its argument is a belief that the lives of all the people who die aren't important, that these dea
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by ianb 15y ago
I feel like it's a form of opportunity cost that creates an imperials debt. Decentralization, and even more so all the motivations that lead developers down the path of decentralization, has nothing to do with making a good social network.
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by ianb 15y ago
People will rightly tell you that it does not. But I must admit that this did get me to thinking about a few small changes to WebOb along with the integration of WSGIProxy, at which point there would be some real similarities.

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