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by jsmeaton 11y ago
The safe maker wouldn't be liable, the owner of the safe would be. If there's a warrant for the contents of the safe, but the owner refuses to open it up, then the owner is guilty of whatever law requires you to cooperate with th
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by jsmeaton 11y ago
This behaviour needs to change, it really does. But (ugh, here we go..) this particular instance is probably learned behaviour from past conferences or situations some people have been in. I haven't been to many conferences, but there&
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by jsmeaton 11y ago
"Normally when I'm hanging out with someone that looks like you, I'm playing Dungeons and Dragons." Is that purely self-deprecating (assuming playing Dungeons and Dragons is such..)?
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by jsmeaton 11y ago
Touch the fire and get burned. Imply someones daughter is a prostitute to them and I think a violent reaction might not be that uncommon.
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by jsmeaton 11y ago
There are so many BI tools around that it's hard to figure out which solution is going to be best for a particular use case. Creating further confusion, it seems like most "enterprise" BI products aren't explained proper
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by jsmeaton 11y ago
The major reason it isn't using bootstrap is because the vast majority of changes have only been css. That was to allow for backwards compatibility for users that change the admin styling and html.
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by jsmeaton 11y ago
You might be interested in this then https://github.com/commoncode/django-ddp
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by jsmeaton 11y ago
I had a hard drive crash on me with all of my photos some years back and my "backup" strategy failed. Dumping a myspace backup got me some of my most precious photos back. Thanks MySpace!
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by jsmeaton 11y ago
Can you expand on this a little more or provide some links that explain? What happens to memory if you remove the memory manager?
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by jsmeaton 11y ago
That's not what he said though. He said that being hostile to users is the quickest way to kill a language. Now I don't know much about the Clojure language or community, but that post from Yegge was over 4 years old. You say that
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by jsmeaton 11y ago
I think that's the point the parent comment is making. That Yegge made two other predictions that were not even close to right.
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by jsmeaton 11y ago
I thought that github met his exact prediction. They took an open source product (git), hosted it as a webapp, and got people to pay for it (github enterprise).
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by jsmeaton 11y ago
Look for the post on the mailing list beginning with "I think that one's called "Perl". " That's where the real meat of his argument seems to be. > Unfortunately I've conflated saying Yes to features vs
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by jsmeaton 11y ago
How specific do you need to be? Do you need to provide implementation details? I give full marks for the XML Database prediction because he began with this statement: "Nobody likes to do O/R mapping; everyone just wants a solution
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by jsmeaton 11y ago
You can DOS a site that doesn't have password length enforcement. 20 characters really is too low though, because it rules out a lot of pass phrases. I believe Django allows up to 4mb for the password, which is more than enough for any
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by jsmeaton 11y ago
Definitely my favourite tech writer. I occasionally head back to read some rants and have a bit of a laugh. Let's hope we see some more in the new year.
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by jsmeaton 11y ago
Do you not consider #1 to be at least close to accurate? Instead of XML we got JSON databases (NoSQL) which are very popular in some circles. They definitely do not surpass the number of relational database installations, but I wouldn'
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The Earth as a Peppercorn (1989)(noao.edu)
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by jsmeaton 11y ago
In Australia that's flat out illegal. You must present a number, and that number has to be connected to your business so that the person receiving the call can call back.
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by jsmeaton 11y ago
Bit late to respond, but yes I would be interested, thanks!
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by jsmeaton 11y ago
From the article: > A nationwide Kyodo News poll last October found that 60% of respondents opposed an immediate return to nuclear energy, while 31% were in favour.
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by jsmeaton 11y ago
Could the same thing be achieved by subclassing your base test class and then overriding setUp to inject the correct data for that combination? I'm pretty sure I'm oversimplifying, but I'm really interested in your method. In
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by jsmeaton 11y ago
Thanks for the tip. I use ForwardAgent for all my servers at work, but I had it defined in a "Host *" block. I've now setup separate blocks for my work domains and have moved ForwardAgent into there alone. Never knew it was a
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by jsmeaton 11y ago
Thanks for that, you make a lot of sense. I'm really interested in seeing commentary on the actual content of the TPP once it's released.
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by jsmeaton 11y ago
I'm confused by this statement in the article you linked, and I've heard it before: > the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), is the most important free-trade agreement in years How does "29 chapters of dense rules and hundre
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by jsmeaton 11y ago
Once it gets to a certain level of "no longer prototype", it can help if you then start VCS fresh by initing a new git repository. You lose the prototyping history, but you probably won't need it anyway.
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by jsmeaton 11y ago
That was an incredible read. Thanks for sharing!
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by jsmeaton 11y ago
Yep, fair enough. I was mixing my arguments I guess.
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by jsmeaton 11y ago
> "we're working hard to ensure these less savory parts of reddit are only encountered by those looking for them and are very much aware of the content." That's exactly what they're doing, is it not? They're
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by jsmeaton 11y ago
Out of the listed subreddits that had banhammers coming, one of them had approximately 120,000 subscribed users. The rest all had significantly less (100, 3000, etc). I just don't get how anyone cares with numbers so low. Any of the pe

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