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by mapgrep 6y ago
I thought these were some very eye opening stats: “ there are 1.97 cars per U.S. household, but in Des Moines, Iowa, there are 19 parking spaces per household. In Jackson, Wyoming, there are 27. “ The article goes on to discuss how parking
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by mapgrep 6y ago
The author of the linked piece has the following background: “He holds a PhD in biochemistry from Bristol University and previously studied chemistry at Oxford University.” From the Carbon Brief “about” page. (Click his byline on the linked
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by mapgrep 6y ago
Mod_perl would more accurately be called a “commonly reverse proxied app server.” Typical setup was to have another Apache instance in front of it handling static requests and reverse proxying app requests.
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by mapgrep 6y ago
All the complaints made about yubikey and webauthn could be made about 2fa 5-10 years ago. Hardware tokens gated by software (ala yubikey + webauthn) are clearly the next step in auth. It’s an accident of circumstance you even need to buy a
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by mapgrep 6y ago
Yes, like the amount of thinking and novel work Rich Hickey out into the immutable but fast data structures in Clojure, the use of mvcc stm for transactions when you do need to share mutable state between threads - it was there from the sta
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by mapgrep 6y ago
I have personally found that as you get serious about keeping your own archive of email you need something like fetchmail, but not fetchmail. I used getmail for years and it is solid. duckerude posted this elsewhere in the thread, where the
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by mapgrep 6y ago
> Curiously, TFA’s only specific example of someone who declined is someone who was pregnant. This is false. The person you refer to, April Lu, is not the only specific example in the article, just the first. The second is Nicholas Ruiz
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by mapgrep 6y ago
Well, the heat AND the humidity! People joke about this saying but having moved from Texas to SoCal it really makes a difference. (Which is good for California because it’s only getting hotter there...)
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by mapgrep 6y ago
As an ex Texan, I understand the pride behind this statement. But I think what seems to be the underlying premise — we don’t need to change to attract outsiders - captures an essential historic difference between California and Texas cultur
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by mapgrep 6y ago
Yes, California is a very big state and I could imagine for example the Central Valley reaping many more benefits from any persistent remote work or company relocation trend than other states. Hadn’t considered this possibility but it makes
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by mapgrep 6y ago
Valley money types: “We’re going to Texas because California has red tape, overregulation, and general dysfunction.” Also Valley money types: “Texas needs to regulate this exploitive type of labor contract California has banned since 1872.”
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by mapgrep 6y ago
GEOS was written largely in assembly from everything I’ve read. Apparently this and other things did not go over well with developers (apparently the apps needed to be done at least partly in assembly too). Wikipedia: GeoWorks attempted to
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by mapgrep 6y ago
The JVM is fast today after 25 years of optimization and some serious improvements in the underlying processors (even with the Moore’s law failure of maybe half that period). It was not fast at all when the Java hype was peaking in the late
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by mapgrep 6y ago
Helm comes with free backup. Fully encrypted so only you can access. Still I’d love to turn it off. I have all my email on my laptop, which is itself backed up. I only keep some weeks worth on the Helm to let devices download.
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by mapgrep 6y ago
I think you raise really valid points, even as someone who uses linux as my primary work OS day to day, and free software on the server as well, as well as free programming languages/environments/platforms. It's a tradeoff. A
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by mapgrep 6y ago
I use Helm for email. It’s a silent little server in my living room routed via Amazon (using a TLS cert that lives in my living room). I’d say about every three or four months it goes down for 5 minutes if I need to reboot my wifi router. I
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by mapgrep 6y ago
I really really enjoy Clojure and think its success will only grow. The (excellent) Java interop is a major strength. I’d argue it’s also a double edged sword: Java libraries tend to be very mature and capable, and Clojure programmers, espe
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by mapgrep 6y ago
Very good point and I'd go a step further: There are lots of organizations that are not even businesses in the first place who can sustainably fund open source work. Postgres came out of UC Berkeley. GNU stuff like emacs and gcc came o
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by mapgrep 6y ago
You have argued that the average student loan debt is not “life crushing”. This is a bit absurd. No one would argue that buying a brand new car for $30k fresh out of school is wise financially for the typical college graduate. Whether it cr
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by mapgrep 6y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if the Bay Area remains on the whole more expensive after this boom than it was before the boom started. I'm pretty sure that's how it has historically worked. I don't profess to know how far thin
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by mapgrep 6y ago
This is part of the cycle that makes the Bay Area wonderful. People come, people go, some people stay. In my opinion some of the most interesting work (including but not exclusively in tech) is going to happen in the next few years in the B
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by mapgrep 6y ago
Yup. I pay $3300/mo for an nyc apartment in a 2003 building. You’d like to imagine in a city with very cold winters and very hot summers they sprung for double paned glass. Nope. Single paned, poorly sealed glass means our thermostat i
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by mapgrep 6y ago
That was completely conventional and expected per the innovators dilemma - they moved to a higher margin product with more features. iPhone was innovative and impressive for many reasons but it did not short circuit innovators dilemma.
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by mapgrep 6y ago
Oh, I'm glad to hear, it really is a good book although you have to get it used. Part of the reason I clicked into this thread is if I have been fasicnated with Finland, especially the last 12 months or so, so you caught me at a time w
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by mapgrep 6y ago
You are wildly incorrect. The Winter War ended well before the Continuation War began. See: The Treaty of Moscow. And it was not just a few German troops. Finland served as a staging point for a major if unsuccessful assault on Murmansk. Mo
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by mapgrep 6y ago
Ww2 in Europe was largely won by the USSR. Britain and the US opened a western front quite belatedly after years of begging by the USSR, after the Soviets sacrificed 15+ million lives to turn the tide, and after a lot of wasted time focusin
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by mapgrep 6y ago
It should be good, he's the editor in chief :-)
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by mapgrep 6y ago
Brave is the only browser on iOS that lets me turn off javascript on a per-site basis. VERY useful. (If you're aware of others, I'm all ears.)
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by mapgrep 6y ago
Is there something I can read to get up to speed on xpath? Any recommendations for online or printed resources? (Particularly from folks who use it regularly!)
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by mapgrep 6y ago
I followed the Napster trial closely. Napster’s argument that it had legitimate use was demolished because it had an ability to monitor the specific use of its service on an ongoing basis. That is, it could see queries from users as they ha

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