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by kaens 18y ago
Just FYI, there are (at least in the US) multiple meanings of "social libertarian". Most people I know that would use that label for themselves are closer to being a classical anarchist or socialist, and do not vote Republican.
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by kaens 18y ago
No, much worse than the small disturbance of 2000. Compare the graphs here ( http://electoral-vote.com/evp2008/Pres/ec_graph-2008.html ), particularly the ones that leave out the "barely" states. People are much less politically apathet
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by kaens 18y ago
Perhaps, but it's probably true. I don't know about other people, but I've been able to identify (at least I think I have been able to) some of the parts of my thought process that do pattern-matching through meditation. It's a very strange
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by kaens 18y ago
Bug: It doesn't correctly handle sites on different ports than 80 (I'm guessing). http://packagedepends.homelinux.org:8080 returns a page for the University of Southhampton, not my (very) simple webapp. Great app though.
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by kaens 18y ago
I'm going to hold off a bit before upgrading. What I run on my laptop, while having Ubuntu as a base, ends it's similarity to the Ubuntu defaults there. There's not much in this release that helps me out a bunch, may as well let some bugs /
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by kaens 18y ago
I don't see how this list is going to be helping a "beginner" at all. It's "89" items that all boil down to "Read code, write code, study techniques for abstraction", which in turn boils down (roughly) to "practice" - which is the same thin
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by kaens 18y ago
This is my favorite piece that Steve has written so far (also, note the "part 1"). While not on the usual subject matter, this was a beautifully written piece that makes a point on multiple levels - and is probably appreciable by people out
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by kaens 18y ago
That is a tough spot. I don't use RoR, so I can't offer much advice other than opening a ticket on your preferred methods bug tracker, or creating a patch - assuming they're open source and you're willing / able to do so.
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by kaens 18y ago
I wasn't necessarily saying you should rip anything out of your system. I haven't examined it, nor am I an expert on security (encryption, particularly is a rather complicated area filled with implementations with very subtle flaws, possi
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by kaens 18y ago
Perhaps that doesn't make it a "shit password", but it certainly is a "shit password policy". Regardless, you can't realistically force your users to not have a "shit password policy". What you can do, however, is make sure that your app
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by kaens 18y ago
Be picky about what projects you accept, and don't let your clients walk all over you. There's definitely a balance that has to be found there though.
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by kaens 18y ago
As an aside, there are multiple popular uses of the word "work" - I tend to use "activity that I do (or am obliged through contract to do) that I am compensated at least partially by money" Work, in the way I use it, neither excludes or inc
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by kaens 18y ago
I have this problem every so often; you're not alone. A few weeks ago I don't think I did any meaningful work for an entire week straight. I just screwed around each day, telling myself that the next day would be "super hardcore work day"
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by kaens 18y ago
I would suggest sliding div#Search down for options, or maybe just adding a "expand" button (on http://new.youintern.com/search/filter ) for showing the content of the list-items corresponding to search (employers|internships|reviews)? Aft
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by kaens 18y ago
Powertop is a very nice tool. I used it to tune my laptop shortly after installing Ubuntu Hardy (A lenovo R61e), and vastly improved my battery life. edit: This site is filled with goodies if you're into reducing power consumption on your l
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by kaens 18y ago
Perhaps "better educated" in the sense that if I want to learn how something works, I can do so - I am not limited by whether or not I am in college, or what is available to learn at my college, or the quality of professors - I am limited o
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by kaens 18y ago
While it is true that a corporation can only sell what people want to buy, a lot of large corporate entities have spend a lot of time and money researching how to influence what people want to buy. To a really ridiculous degree. Furthermo
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by kaens 18y ago
That's true, but I think that a serious argument can be made for the last few decades being the first point in time in humanity's recent history in which we are absolutely capable of achieving it. There's definitely a shift going on. I su
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by kaens 18y ago
This decision, and all the crap surrounding it - the decision making process, the reasons given for deciding on '\', etc - sum up very well why I do not like working with PHP. It's not that I can't get stuff done with it. It's that it is de
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by kaens 18y ago
Working on: * a web-site-as-service for customizing installation / install cds for different flavors of Ubuntu. * a customizable tetris-like game editor done in javascript, allowing people to create their own shapes / rules / etc. * slowly
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by kaens 18y ago
I agree. That, and when a lot of people think "I'm going to buy a house," they are thinking of that one house that's in every single suburb. That one that is functionally the same but might have a different room layout. I think the trend ma
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by kaens 18y ago
We can, there's just a lot of factors making it hard to gain market acceptance (is that the appropriate term here?) I would jump at the chance to live in something like a Dymaxion house* in a walkable community. * http://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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by kaens 18y ago
I agree in general, it's just not for me. For small to mid-size web apps, I far prefer python and cherrypy ( http://www.cherrypy.org ). Easier to use, and easier to deploy assuming you have hosting that gives you control over your hosted ma
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by kaens 18y ago
To be frank, at this point in time when I'm developing for the web, just about the only thing I care about when it comes to what language I'm using is that it's not PHP. I understand why people use PHP, but as someone who has a decent amoun
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by kaens 18y ago
I find most exercise to be utterly boring. Painfully boring. I eat when I'm hungry and generally keep the same weight, but I have a little bit of pudge that I wouldn't mind getting rid of. My solution? I started playing the drums. I like fa
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by kaens 18y ago
Because "hack" has come to mean "method" to a lot of people.
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by kaens 18y ago
I'm also fairly inexperienced, but it seems to me that as long as there is a clean separation between modules (which there should be anyway ), that it would work rather well. Do you do code reviews on each others modules?
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by kaens 18y ago
"Finding a mentor" is good advice. So is the other advice, but most of it has been stated many times by many people (read code, write code, think about code you have written, etc). I personally have had two people that I would call "mentors
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by kaens 18y ago
http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/Coffee.html
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by kaens 18y ago
I've done quite a bit of hitchhiking and travel by foot in the US, and I've also found that traveling with as little as possible is a plus. Focus on utility - not convenience - and you'll be better prepared for whatever situation you end up

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