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by krisdol 11y ago
Yes, being able to share/upload components for others to use would be stellar.
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by krisdol 11y ago
The way I see it, third party applications increase the value of using twitter, bringing more users to it. Twitter as a social sharing tool has very little value to me, personally, but as a chat tool, marketing tool, or customer support too
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by krisdol 11y ago
The companies/stacks Fowler encounters are generally in a problematic state. Thoughtworks, like other consulting companies, is generally hired when things are already going wrong. If they are hired to assess a broken monolith stack, th
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by krisdol 11y ago
They're already on it [0] [0]: http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/18/amazon-pre-ships/
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by krisdol 11y ago
I used to actively post on facebook a lot through college and a bit later (joined when I started college, the year before facebook opened itself up to non-college accounts). For the last 2-3 years its been an idle account. Used to make seve
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by krisdol 11y ago
I will second the Discovery aspect as being something that I like about SF when I first used it in the early 2000s. The reason I liked it so much was because I was a kid looking for free games to play on my PC, who soon learned to equate op
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by krisdol 11y ago
(Private) Prisons. Prisoners have no labor rights in the US and earn cents per hour making textiles, office furniture, military wire, id-tags, vests, etc. Private prison corporations contract out this labor to clients like the DoD, Wal-Mart
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by krisdol 11y ago
Am I missing something? So what happened was that 1) a founder of Kubuntu truthfully stated that money from Ubuntu-oriented donations didn't go to Kubuntu 2) It was discovered that a developer of Kubuntu was listed as the recipient of
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by krisdol 11y ago
Debian Testing may have a nice "in-between" ring to it, but it is more likely to be broken and insecure for longer than either Unstable or Stable. All bug fixes have to go through unstable first (usually 10 days, but may often tak
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by krisdol 11y ago
It fits in at 3, just a different package manager and different philosophy on what to include and exclude by default. For debian-based systems: 1. Cutting edge - Debian sid (also aptosid/sidux) 2. Stable - Debian Release 3. Less Stable
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by krisdol 11y ago
The company I work for always only supports the latest 2 releases of firefox and chrome. I'm not arguing for or against this being production ready, but I don't think Firefox 31 support should determine whether something is produc
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by krisdol 11y ago
I get depressed cabin-fevery if I spend many days working from home. Going to a cafe, outdoors, or any change of scenery generally helps. I think part of it is that I've officially married my relaxing escape from the office with all th
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by krisdol 11y ago
As someone who owns a personal website/domain -- not a business one -- I have never been legitimately contacted by visitors via the whois info; but now that I switched away from whois-privacy service I get several letters a week, 2-3 r
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by krisdol 11y ago
I wouldn't have a problem with it if the data weren't so easily to crawl and parse by spam-bots and robo-callers. Ever since switching away from an whois-anonymization service for one of my domains, the amount of spam letters, e
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by krisdol 11y ago
Maybe at a startup or possibly some big names in SV.
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by krisdol 11y ago
Nice. It didn't like <> as a username, however. The chat will no longer load.
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by krisdol 11y ago
Stuff like this concerns me. If a company I'm interested in solicits me for a phone call and the position is a much more senior level than I've had in the past, or is of a more demanding skillset than I have experience with, I fee
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by krisdol 11y ago
They may have needed it at one point. At the time I quit AOL, there was no way to keep the email address, and they did not provide IMAP access or forwarding. Seriously. They (very badly) practiced the lock-in attitude. I just visited mail.a
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by krisdol 12y ago
I don't think the parent is arguing that
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by krisdol 12y ago
For myself and my peers it was our gravatar.
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by krisdol 12y ago
Trello is not a collaborative document editor
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by krisdol 12y ago
They got acquired a long time ago. This was announced in an email to current members, with more information coming soon regarding the specifics. The email was posted on hn yesterday, but it didn't get as much attention as the tweet.
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by krisdol 12y ago
Great to hear this. Our team uses hackpad for all of our docs. Love the design, and I hope that the community jumping in will accelerate development. I'd love to hack around with hackpad.
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by krisdol 12y ago
> Tangentially, what is the main reason for all the protest against the EU Austerity measures hit workers the hardest -- the people most responsible for creating economic wealth. To them, the EU is trying to take wealth and opportunity f
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by krisdol 12y ago
Well, under no circumstance should you run npm, nvm, rvm, rbenv, pip, etc as root.
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by krisdol 12y ago
How is a car's computer in this way any different than any other modification to the car? What's your point here? If I remove the brakes from my car or install them incorrectly, I may not be able to brake before hitting you. Does
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by krisdol 12y ago
The same article comes out every year, usually from one of these conservative murdochy news sources, and every year hn and reddit eat it up. Every year is the best year from someone's perspective. Hell, I'd say the 1800s were grea
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by krisdol 12y ago
Thing is, I graduated CS without ever hearing about this, but that doesn't make it any less trivial. The amount of HN articles on this question makes me feel like I'm missing some huge "gotcha" secret about the answer.
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by krisdol 12y ago
Absolutely. I absorb information fine by reading but I get too bored to keep focused. Usually I already know what I want to build so I like to just be shown a reference documentation, example usage welcome. I can't do books on programm
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by krisdol 12y ago
Unsurprised at the superior performance of GCC, but I am surprised that ruby ships with -O3. Why would they choose that optimization level?

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