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by jdunck 16y ago
It would cost them time. There's no reason to suspect that just because they've dialed in the application that they aren't tuning the process. Try to remember that sour grapes make good wine. Prove them wrong.
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by jdunck 16y ago
Correction: it doesn't matter for some workloads. This old classic applies to business models as well as software: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/FiveWorlds.html
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by jdunck 16y ago
Also a nice rundown: https://spreadsheets2.google.com/ccc?hl=en&key=t_toYuVyy...
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by jdunck 16y ago
I think, in general, that there are likely a bunch of unmet needs that are fairly obvious to women, and less so to men. Because of this, I think that women entrepreneurs have an advantage in seeing these earlier. When you see a dominant he
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by jdunck 16y ago
I know. I think you're missing the point. The fact that one may make an informed decision does not change the fact that many make uninformed decisions and judge the situation based on their perception rather than independent reality. This
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by jdunck 16y ago
Your level of knowledge in administration is not common. PHP wins on deployment because every $5 host your average beginner programmer uses already has PHP on it, and deploy is just ftp/sftp. By comparison, a beginner in python will proba
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by jdunck 16y ago
That's funny, I thought it was about cohort analysis for spotting trends that might otherwise be obscured in confounding variables.
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by jdunck 16y ago
Really? I hope that's not true. Friend != follow. :-(
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by jdunck 16y ago
I had this same frustration and same implementation idea -- proxy is awesome because any client can easily gain features by a checkbox pref "Use proxlet". I never pursued it because I wasn't sure how I could sustain it -- I asked my heavy-t
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by jdunck 16y ago
For those who missed this offer, you may wish to see this: http://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide And in particular: http://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide/Help
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by jdunck 16y ago
I wish this weren't true. We all need to be pushing towards 3, and I think introducing people to 2 isn't helping the community in general -- but it is the right thing on an individual level.
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by jdunck 16y ago
Cool -- if you're new to Python, you may not be familiar with Dave's work. He's awesome. Consistently one of the best presentations at each PyCon. @rguzman - do you know who runs hnofficehours.com? I found some bugs. :-/
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by jdunck 16y ago
Thanks for this, I've been annoyed that Python doesn't seem to have a book that's fun for beginners.
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by jdunck 16y ago
Web dev, GIS, scientific, networking, machine learning, maybe some games. I agree on similar libraries in various langs, though I think community culture counts for a lot. I think the various runtimes for python is a particular strength.
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by jdunck 16y ago
I already had taken a programming languages course in college, so had a fair grasp of different approaches. I've dev'd professionally in a fair number: http://mytechne.com/user/jdunck/programming-languages/ So, learning Python was sort o
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by jdunck 16y ago
Eh, no tool is great for everything. I think python applies broadly, but it isn't great for building an OS. :)
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by jdunck 16y ago
OK, folks, I've had 10 responses to this now. I think that's more than I can effectively help at once, so no more for now, thanks.
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Offer HN: I'll help you learn Python
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by jdunck 16y ago
Title is a bit misleading. This is a front-end to libpcap, and can be used for hijacking any token-based-auth, not just HTTP. It just happens that they released w/ support for social networks as a demonstration.
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by jdunck 16y ago
FWIW, non-JS is still a vector. For example, img tags can stomp on cookies. Yes, serving static media over SSL is diminishing returns, and it would suck for mid-stream proxies (and every ISP will hurt from it). But don't argue that it do
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by jdunck 16y ago
To be clear, that tutorial was made in 2007, so is a bit dated. Also, it shows how to set up FF to use the proxy, but the idea of a tunnel is not FF-specific, nor is this vulnerability. One big issue with SSH-tunnel as a solution is that
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by jdunck 16y ago
I trust my server operator much more than anyone squatting on attwifi, yes.
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by jdunck 16y ago
I'm concerned that the default approach to saving is making a request to the server. Defaults matter, and this default will lead people to ignore the 8 fallacies: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacies_of_Distributed_Comput... N+1 across
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by jdunck 16y ago
Check out this post: http://brandonkonkle.com/blog/2010/oct/4/django-admin-custom...
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by jdunck 16y ago
Times like this, I wish I could down-vote. GoDaddy is popular, but it's a terrible service, has underhanded billing, foists misfeatures on unaware domain purchasers, and uses sexist advertising. http://nodaddy.com/#horror I recommend Gand
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by jdunck 16y ago
Because the patent system in the US, particularly software patent, is entirely broken: http://www.bnet.com/blog/technology-business/patent-office-a...
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by jdunck 16y ago
This is correct (no support for TRIM), but the performance degradation is not very significant. I'm certain I've used all blocks on my SSD and it's still way faster than HD for random access. Sequential write is noticably slower, but tha
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by jdunck 16y ago
With respect, I think it's naive to think that the lastest templating language will be the "universal" one. No, this is just one more JS templating language. http://yehudakatz.com/2010/09/09/announcing-handlebars-js/ http://code.google.
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by jdunck 16y ago
The colophon http://lanyrd.com/colophon/ says GeoPlanet: http://developer.yahoo.com/geo/geoplanet/
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by jdunck 16y ago
If you don't need 100% reach, have a look at xauth source: http://github.com/xauth/xauth They use a central domain and window.postMessage to make a secure but shared storage.

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