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by lamby 14y ago
> I can't understand people who shell out thousands of dollars for a bike, are these so much better than a $500 one They are significantly and astonishingly better if you do something that style of bike is designed to do - eg. ride 40km
482.
by lamby 14y ago
> This place has an enormous problem with pricing and economics I think the worst example I ever saw was someone implying that a copy of a digital photograph should (!) only cost £0.0001 as that's the cost of hard drive storage.
483.
by lamby 14y ago
You seem to be implying that markup applied above production cost (for any product and for whatever reason) is immoral. ("Inflated" or "inflation" is the wrong term anyway but it makes no difference here)
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by lamby 14y ago
> Let's be honest, men's romantic liberty in choosing mates is often proportional to economic success. Possibly the kindest way I've ever seen that phrased.
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by lamby 14y ago
> what I thought was a very well done support email for this feature Sure, it has the right details in it, but this kind of faux-friendly tone comes across really transparent and off-putting to me.
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by lamby 14y ago
Perhaps it could be named better; all the python memcache clients have almost identical names.
487.
by lamby 14y ago
The legal system is not a computer program.
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by lamby 14y ago
You use runserver in production?
489.
by lamby 14y ago
Not forgetting that things are priced by what people will pay for them..
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by lamby 14y ago
A reliable "tell" that a source is attempting to manipulate you is when they quote any percentage greater than 80%.
491.
by lamby 14y ago
This is one reason I cannot use virtualenv in production. (Also because the build process for your project involves accessing the internet. Yuck.)
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by lamby 14y ago
> Set the title to “Editing Text on iPad (duplicate of rdar://11365152)” twitch
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by lamby 14y ago
> when you apply for a job people will refer to your publication by number when discussing your CV Err, really? Seems to me like they would just say "the paper on wireless networks" or "the one about spreading stuff on blogs" like norma
494.
by lamby 15y ago
If anything , it was avoided because Git was not in Python.. But yeah.
495.
by lamby 15y ago
~300 unit tests across all site components. 145 nagios checks, including some smoke tests.
496.
by lamby 15y ago
The main beef I have with geckoboard is a litany of embarrassing unresolved bugs but these features sound pretty cool. Am trying out your API tutorial right now.
497.
by lamby 15y ago
Can you tell me why I should move from geckoboard? (Not being snarky, I am not very happy with Geckoboard)
498.
by lamby 15y ago
> but I thought the post was non-fictional That confusion is almost certainly deliberate. (Yuck.)
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by lamby 15y ago
Obviously. This was a response to OP putting forward a hosted solution.
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by lamby 15y ago
The whole point is that third-party source code can change without your knowledge (or permission, etc). Or, worse, the third-party can simply be hacked.
501.
by lamby 15y ago
Embedding a credit card field using third-party Javascript sounds scary.
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by lamby 15y ago
> [I] suddenly had no more root permissions. In about half an hour I had downloaded a live CD and burned it and broken into my own box with chroot magic to usurp root permissions to re-add myself to that group Except the difference here
503.
by lamby 15y ago
London, England. https://www.playfire.com/jobs Small (4) startup in the gaming space looking for software engineers. Are you the one? You are, if you: * Love agile development, working independently on your own challenges, and together in
504.
by lamby 15y ago
> You don't need to go to an Ivy League or otherwise top school [..] I didn't even go to school in the US. Because there are no good schools outside the US?
505.
by lamby 15y ago
Have you considered the possibility that "privacy" is mostly a Hacker News moral panic, an obsession of the sententious personality that only really leaks out into the outside world when it can drive eyeballs or pageviews?
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by lamby 15y ago
Speaking of UI, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=695582
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by lamby 15y ago
I'm well aware of that and dislike these types of laws. But my point more was that it was presented as if because it was illegal, it was ipso facto immoral.
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by lamby 15y ago
Not just you. I facepalmed at "...and possibly illegal".
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by lamby 15y ago
London, England. https://www.playfire.com/jobs Small (4) startup in the gaming space looking for software engineers. Are you the one? You are, if you: * Love agile development, working independently on your own challenges, and together in
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by lamby 15y ago
The "agree? tweet this" link next to every singleee item in the list rather devalues the whole thing.

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