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by lamby 15y ago
Orwell's "Animal Farm" was rejected by one publishing house on the grounds that it was "impossible to sell animal stories in the U.S.A.".
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by lamby 15y ago
Oh christ, where to even start.. First, it downloads and installs a non-checksummed i686 binary version of mongodb. This is outrageously anti-social and one should be embarrassed for releasing that. Ditto ez_setup and all that crap. This is
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by lamby 15y ago
The installation and uninstallation scripts are idiotic, dangerous and clearly untested.
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by lamby 15y ago
Out of curiousity, why on earth would you need to call your wife every time you left work..?
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by lamby 15y ago
Perhaps if enough alternative implementations are submitted to HN it will drown out the silence on the actual issue that was raised.
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by lamby 15y ago
So.. things that have been in Debian for years.
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by lamby 15y ago
You're worried about catching germs from an ATM?
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by lamby 15y ago
(I would use gunicorn)
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by lamby 15y ago
and wrong
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by lamby 15y ago
ptrace.
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by lamby 15y ago
> PHP developers are less likely to be affected by that. We won't know until someone writes a DVCS in PHP..
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by lamby 15y ago
Another similar project is http://code.playfire.com/django-append-url-to-sql/ although this is only helps for SQL executed in the request-response model, not for queue jobs, etc.
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by lamby 15y ago
> 1st time I was naive didn't get all the details and ended up getting screwed What details is one meant to know?
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by lamby 15y ago
Using an "abstraction layer" like Recurly or Spreedly would solve this problem for you (although you would have to convince PayPal to accept payments without CVV numbers, which is an extra couple of hoops)
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by lamby 15y ago
London, England. https://www.playfire.com/jobs Small (7) 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
> MySQL made it easier initially by omitting lots of difficult stuff (data integrity, management, transactions) thus making easier to get something working quickly. Remind anyone of NoSQL? :)
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by lamby 15y ago
I'm sure fpm works in a lot of cases but something tells me that it's not straightforward to package a JVM..
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by lamby 15y ago
I am using webkit.
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by lamby 15y ago
> Defaulting to JPEG for the free plan hurts both you (in terms of storage size) and your users Just to clarify - the JPEG filesizes are much smaller than the PNG versions, how is that hurting me with storage? Thank you for your feedbac
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by lamby 15y ago
Clickable: http://dailyscreenshot.com/
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Show HN: DailyScreenshot - track the visual evolution of any website
9 points by lamby 15y ago|8 comments
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by lamby 15y ago
Another alternative would be to mount the remote filesystem using SSHFS.
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by lamby 15y ago
Have you considered rendering your CSS using the templating system? That way {% static .. %} Just Works, and you can also roll extra template tags for repetitive stuff like rounded corners. You can pre-render for the live site, of course.
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by lamby 15y ago
Not on Linux.
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by lamby 15y ago
This actually reminded me of Stargate SG-1 - everywhere they went they popped open a chunky Dell machine and started typing. (It's an interesting thought that it would have cost about $50,000 to get that laptop into space, weight-wise.)
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by lamby 15y ago
London, England. https://www.playfire.com/jobs Small (7) 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
Your implication that Norway learnt how to treat its civilians decently only when the United States did the opposite is offensive and conceitful.
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by lamby 15y ago
In case it wasn't clear from the parent, Debian doesn't do this (at least not automatically).
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by lamby 15y ago
Can't seem to comment on the blog itself, so: > This code assumes the existence of a UUID library, which returns a unique ID on every call. Now, if more than one process were to run, they would each create their own temp_list’s Wouldn't
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by lamby 15y ago
London, England. https://www.playfire.com/jobs Small (7) 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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