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by keyist 16y ago
GP is trolling. No need to counter-troll while feeding. The flamebait on committing to Ruby does not invalidate his point on stdlib maintenance though. We can sit here and ping each other with examples of cruft all day. I think it can be
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A Screed Against Perfectionism in Releasing Software(blog.nicksieger.com)
2 points by keyist 16y ago|0 comments
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by keyist 16y ago
I hate to dump on someone's effort to motivate others, but this post is a dangerous extrapolation that combines Outliers [1] and the author's personal experience. It promotes the idea of a magic number, and that hard work and time leads to
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by keyist 16y ago
Great post, summarizes the options well. For completeness, here are a class of Free Trade Agreement visas that are similar to the H1B: - The E-3 visa for Australians http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-3_visa - The H1B1 visa for those from Chi
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by keyist 16y ago
One issue with software methodology assessment is the difficulty in getting consensus on ways to determine code quality. One potential experiment I've been thinking of to work around this is by seeing if 3rd parties can tell if a methodolo
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by keyist 16y ago
You'll enjoy the posts below then. Matt Taibbi takes skewering Friedman and raises it to the level of an art form: - http://www.nypress.com/article-11419-flathead.html - http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/5950 - http://www.nypress.co
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Git-annex: manage large files with git without committing their content(git-annex.branchable.com)
3 points by keyist 16y ago|0 comments
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by keyist 16y ago
More interesting albeit difficult to quantify would be PG's writing style. If you've read a PG essay and found yourself agreeing because you're gradually taken towards a conclusion yourself instead of having it preached to you, you'll know
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by keyist 16y ago
"Instead we reward people for being smart -- for learning more and more details about trivial libraries that will be deprecated in ten years' time." I get what the author is trying to convey in this post, but I feel he is unintentionally at
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by keyist 16y ago
Had to research this before. Firehost is one of the names that came up often: http://www.firehost.com/secure-hosting/hipaa Their plans start from $845 monthly. No affiliation, just passing info along. You can't just rely on the provider t
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Piracy and Free Software(mako.cc)
3 points by keyist 16y ago|0 comments
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by keyist 16y ago
I'm surprised that IcedTea ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icedtea ) has not been mentioned yet. From the link: "On June 2008, it was announced that IcedTea6 (as the packaged version of OpenJDK on Fedora 9) has passed the Technology Compati
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Frank Talk About Site Outages(codeascraft.etsy.com)
24 points by keyist 16y ago|5 comments
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by keyist 16y ago
While what is covered is very well presented, post doesn't mention `shopt -s histappend`, which is one of the most important things to note when dealing with history in bash. Also useful: you can append :s/foo/bar to bang commands to substi
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by keyist 16y ago
You are misusing the term, and the conflation around definitions of TDD make up half of every 'TDD flamefest'. http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?TestDrivenDevelopment TDD specifically calls not only for unit tests, but for writing them first, ie the
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"Magic Words" Trump User Rights: Ninth Circuit Ruling in Vernor v. Autodesk(eff.org)
50 points by keyist 16y ago|27 comments
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Eben Moglen on Bilski, software patents, and big pharma(thepriorart.typepad.com)
2 points by keyist 16y ago|0 comments
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TrueCrypt 7.0 released, now with hardware-accelerated AES support(truecrypt.org)
61 points by keyist 16y ago|18 comments
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by keyist 16y ago
what Google calls "SREs." Rather than explaining what it is, this guy's google groups post... I liked OmniTI's description of a role akin to SRE and the progression through the web operations career path they identify: http://omniti.co
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by keyist 16y ago
Imo, the most important technique (besides standard ajax with js lib of choice) is making use of hashchange and organizing your behavior into 'routes' based on the hash. You'll notice that Gmail does this -- it has URIs ending with #inbox,
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by keyist 16y ago
If you use Firefox or a similar program that makes use of SQLite, that would be the best place to start -- you'll get experience working with a database populated with real data that is relevant to you, and one that has been designed for pr
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Google's revised WebM license is GPL-compatible(fsf.org)
44 points by keyist 16y ago|0 comments
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by keyist 16y ago
The most important language of yesterday was C. Of today, still C. Of tomorrow, Go... hahaha no, the answer is still C. If you really wanted to determine 'most important', think about what software you'd be left with if all software and de
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Google and the perils of optimization by proxy in social systems(lesswrong.com)
5 points by keyist 16y ago|0 comments
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by keyist 16y ago
Backups are very useful for sysadmin experimentation. Assuming you already do your own backups anyway, you can backup a node, upgrade/install certain packages, do quick tests to make sure everything's working. If there are issues just res
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How to write to stderr so people will like you(utcc.utoronto.ca)
73 points by keyist 16y ago|29 comments
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Emacs & the birth of the GPL(h-online.com)
3 points by keyist 17y ago|1 comments
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by keyist 17y ago
Not being facetious, just trying to find out if this site is for me: all the summarized articles so far have zero technical content (ie stuff on Python, Javascript, memcached, hardcore bit-on-bit action, etc). Is this intentional and indic
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by keyist 17y ago
I did read this post, but as a warning to others, it says nothing that you didn't already know Gruber would say about the iPad. (Sacrificing karma to illustrate double standard.) EDIT Clarification: double standard remark is wrt my guess on
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by keyist 17y ago
+1 for org-mode While on-topic, just want to clear up misconceptions of org-mode. It is different from all the software/website task managers mentioned here. You can think of it as a meta-organization tool. A org software factory if you

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