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by kgo 16y ago
150,000 accounts out of SEVEN HUNDRED AND FIFTY FUCKING MILLION had trouble accessing email for LESS THAN A SINGLE DAY on A WEEKEND. No accounts or emails were deleted. I'd argue that is an insignificant number.
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by kgo 16y ago
Yeah, scary would be no bounce, no delivery. Bouncing is relatively graceful.
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by kgo 16y ago
I think it's a bit disingenuous to say that the original vouch from the donor didn't factor into the 2011 invite, and that he was accepted solely on his own merits. Most likely, having attended a previous TED conf bumps you up on the invite
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by kgo 16y ago
Heck, I've used rcs in the past five years because the server didn't even have cvs installed. It's not exactly like you need advanced branching/merging, atomic commits, and a distributed system for a one line change to /etc/hosts.
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by kgo 16y ago
# on windows box scp file linuxbox:~ # on linux box # I now have a file called /home/me/~ rm ~ # some stupid error... rm -fr ~ # that's taking a while... NOOOOOOO!
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by kgo 16y ago
Except the enforceability of them in Washington hasn't exactly hurt Microsoft.
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by kgo 16y ago
I'm complaining about escapistmagazine, not the poster. I am interseted in the update. But... Headline: PS3 Hacker Raised All the Legal Funds Needed to Beat Sony in a Weekend Less than one paragraph away. ... as he received enough money f
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by kgo 16y ago
I think this is another misunderstanding because I worded that question so poorly. Apologies. Yes splitting your data into a training set and a test set is a really good idea for problems like these. But I'd still argue it's near impossibl
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by kgo 16y ago
But I imagine those are more like regression tests, right? Not write the test first BDD/TDD-style, then implement the whole search engine around it, tests. That was the implied context of that statement.
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by kgo 16y ago
Yeah, I've also seen O'Reilly books where they did allow people to distribute the "official" typeset pdf: http://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/oreilly-book/ But I think at worst, this link would be gray-market rather than black market. Of cours
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by kgo 16y ago
From http://www.nltk.org/book "This book is made available under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial No Derivative Works 3.0 US License"
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by kgo 16y ago
Automated test suites don't automatically imply TDD. Many people use automated test suites and CI without TDD.
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by kgo 16y ago
I always say, somewhat some tongue-in-cheek, and somewhat intentionally provocatively, that if you can use stuff like TDD and pair programming, then you're probably working on a boring problem. And I think there's some truth to that. On a
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by kgo 16y ago
...who doesn't mind commiting wire fraud.
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by kgo 16y ago
Well I guess some people dvr everything, but I don't think this is a spoiler any more than ESPN's website the day after the superbowl, or a newspaper headline reading OBAMA WINS. Maybe if it had been posted at 7pm EDT yesterday.
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by kgo 16y ago
How do they grade equipment? Just get the extended warranty as well and you'll be covered.
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by kgo 16y ago
Technically your keys are only used in the handshake. After that you'll get the same strength encryption regardless of the algo used for the original handshake. So using DSA doesn't mean that your connections are now unencrypted. The prob
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by kgo 16y ago
There is a howto on the gnupg site, but frankly it's a little out of date. It focuses enough on hardware to scare people away, but these days most readers are libccid compatible, so it's a non issue. Setup is actually pretty simple. Basic
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by kgo 16y ago
I didn't realize I was old and cranky... I've been using gpg-agent with a smartcard for ssh authentication for the past six months or so. It's the way, the truth, and the light. Real two-factor authentication. The key can't be compromised
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by kgo 16y ago
How about a REPL? http://svn.python.org/view/python/tags/r271/Lib/code.py?revi...
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by kgo 16y ago
No, SSH does not. Have you ever actually verified a host fingerprint? Of course not, no one does. That's the way it's supposed to work. You know the first time you logon to a server and it asks if you trust it? You're supposed to call u
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by kgo 16y ago
But to me that's like saying no study has proven global warming is real. Because study X only measured ice cores in Antarctica. And study Y only measured tree rings in the amazon. A far better refutation would be be: Well I ran study Z, a
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by kgo 16y ago
Article talks a lot about science, and then provides no actual studies that refute the original claim. That's not how science works. Devise a hypothesis. Develop a test to confirm or deny. Run test. And then he tears apart the study wit
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by kgo 16y ago
I'm assuming his generation was in the subset of all generations that I am referring to.
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by kgo 16y ago
Well yeah, but that's the whole point of the original article we're linking to, right? They're not the biggest band of a generation, they're not the current KISS-FM darlings, and they're still raking in the money by touring non-stop, build
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by kgo 16y ago
I hate to pull a [Citation Needed] especially when I won't provide my own, but I find it really hard to believe that DMB was the most consistently popular musician of any generation. He's never been Elvis big, Beatles big, or even Jay Z or
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by kgo 16y ago
Do you have a trial version? I'd rather have them include that, possibly for free if they review the app, than 500 dollars. That is assuming they have a bigger subscription base than 50 users.
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by kgo 16y ago
Sure it's silly. But it'd be sillier to either (a) invent a whole new etiquette system from scratch or (b) descend into thunderdome-level anything-goes anarchy at the dinner table just to prove we're not silly. Before you know it, people w
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by kgo 16y ago
If you're actually reading real books like novels or creative-nonfiction Malcolm Gladwell or something, then get an ebook reader and flip through it on your sofa, in bed, on a bus, at the beach, and don't worry about reading every email as
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by kgo 16y ago
I think 'shipping' in that context would be finishing a novel, short story, screenplay or whatever. To the point where you've proofread it for typos. Even if you decide it's not good enough to show anyone. It's the act of completing one

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