lamby

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571.
by lamby 16y ago
Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeit.
572.
by lamby 16y ago
> That's what people wondered when Twitter and Facebook were first launched. And some people still do. ("Get off my lawn" is cool, right?)
573.
by lamby 16y ago
Doesn't seem like Knuth's style.
574.
by lamby 16y ago
For a small fee, I am happy to offer my services to get you fired.
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by lamby 16y ago
> Ideally nobody should be in a job that is completely comfortable. Because that means you've hired too many people?
576.
by lamby 16y ago
Have you looked at the newer generation of text-based clients? The main one thrown around is http://notmuchmail.org/
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by lamby 16y ago
Very low. But that assumes they are independent events, which has never been the case in my experience.
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by lamby 17y ago
This is called "sending them to Coventry" in the UK.
579.
by lamby 17y ago
Can you change your database paradigm? ¬_¬ A document-oriented database like CouchDB would "just work" in the most common database schema changes. Or perhaps you could throw upgrade-friendly data in a KV store encoded with Google Protocol
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by lamby 17y ago
Are you just trying to avoid it looking "bad" for visitors, or do you actually require your site to be up that long? If the former, one hack is just make the downtime for users more fun - I added a chat interface so that anyone waiting does
581.
by lamby 17y ago
Out of interest, have you seen MusiXTeX?
582.
by lamby 17y ago
If you feel the need to point out an alternative solution, then I think you have missed the entire point by a wide margin.
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by lamby 17y ago
Wow that domain name took me about 20 seconds to parse :/
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by lamby 17y ago
I understand the above, I was asking something else.
585.
by lamby 17y ago
Wait, how do you deploy with with scp? What happens when you drop a file locally?
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by lamby 17y ago
You can have some fun building your own generators with "polygen", an EBNF-based generator written in OCaml.
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by lamby 17y ago
> I worked at McDonald's. It helped make me the man I am A lot of people say this. How can you be sure you are not just kidding yourself into thinking the time you spent doing something actually quite unproductive was useful?
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by lamby 17y ago
As a meta-comment, I liked your points but please hold the "humourous" story opener - we shouldn't need tricks to be engaged or convinced by your argument.
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by lamby 17y ago
Didn't Webvan do this? :)
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by lamby 17y ago
Using "Content-type: multipart/x-mixed-replace" and a while(1) on some server-side code pushing the frames out. I think you setup some boundary string that you promise will terminate each part. Heh, it sounds exactly like Comet.
591.
by lamby 17y ago
> I have a hard time believing that for programmers. 10x maybe, not 100x. Peopleware claims 10x.
592.
by lamby 17y ago
It's very difficult for to understand the mindset of someone who admires a computer company so much that they'd read blog articles about its stationary.
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The design goals and implementation of a hosted spam filtering solution(book.mail-scanning.com)
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594.
by lamby 17y ago
What's wrong the versions from your distribution's package manager?
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by lamby 17y ago
> MySQL roll out for our Python software is a complete pain Really? How so?
596.
by lamby 17y ago
Out of interest, do you take any steps to ensure your viewpoint isn't biased by the comments before reading a linked piece?
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by lamby 17y ago
Cory Doctorow writes: This isn't capitalism, nor is it socialism. It's a kind of corporatism in which the risk―the money spent speculatively mapping Britain, arguing in Parliament, drawing up postal code boundaries―is entirely assumed by th
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by lamby 17y ago
Okay, so you're essentially describing a situation where the copyright holder offers access to a "pro" version and a "vanilla" version, with only the latter being licensed under the AGPL? I would certainly concede that this scenario would m
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by lamby 17y ago
> noone but I may profit from this work With a strict definition of "profit" this seems more a criticism of dual-licensed GPL works than the AGPL; software published under the AGPL does not grant any sort of monopoly to the person publi
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by lamby 17y ago
Nice article. It seems a sad reflection of the baseline statistical knowledge that he had to write an entire paragraph distancing his readers from inferring a causal relationship though.

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