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by maratd 13y ago
> In fact, I think it's likely that they're significantly smarter than any of us. Bullshit. They're a pack of morons. Unfortunately, they're a pack of morons with guns. Not that they have to resort to force. Frequentl
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by maratd 13y ago
> This discussion should not be on hacker news. Ok. I'll bite. Where should it be? What site provides deep discourse into these topics in an intelligent manner?
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by maratd 13y ago
Don't be so bleak. If you're going to do something that will get the attention of any government, here's a simple rule to follow. Don't use 3rd parties. And if you must, do it in a way that can never be traced back to yo
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by maratd 13y ago
> whereas in PHP the really good ones are like drops in an ocean of sulphuric acid Which is a good thing. Once a client finds you, they will hold on to you for dear life. Why should I care about the level of difficulty of finding me, if
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by maratd 13y ago
You're not following my train of thought. What defines a piece of software is not its feature set, but how it is actually used. I am seeing real world usage of WordPress as a full-blown CMS. I am seeing it all the time. Are you seeing
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by maratd 13y ago
> best-maintained I personally use Maria, but that there is an opinion, of course. Percona was at it long before Maria came to the scene.
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by maratd 13y ago
> Completely fucking insane architecture (or lack thereof) Lack thereof. Grep is your friend when dealing with anything internal-WordPress-related. I charge extra whenever I have to dive in.
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by maratd 13y ago
> It's a different genre of application from Drupal, Joomla et al, so they can't really be compared. This is simply not true. As someone who has to deal with WordPress on a daily basis, that sentence simply doesn't hold wa
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by maratd 13y ago
> I remember working on sites upgrading to php3 (with the file extension php3 no less!) And I remember renaming all those .php3 files to .php when upgrading to php4. Thanks a lot! =)
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by maratd 13y ago
I don't believe witchcraft can claim any reasonable success, while socialism can at least make a claim for converting the largest countries in the world from agrarian to industrial economies. Now, I would argue that capitalism can do i
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by maratd 13y ago
> On the whole, I just look at those figures and feel a deep amount of shame for my country (US). I feel a deep shame for your comment. I can respect someone for believing in a socialist approach, why are you unable to do the same for th
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by maratd 13y ago
What's with the preaching? First, quite a few other nations already spy on us and did so long before the NSA put all their cards into the digital basket. They would continue to do so regardless of anything the US did. Second, your own
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by maratd 13y ago
Well, technically, if the ocean level rises, you will end up with more surface .
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by maratd 13y ago
> Being squeamish is a status marker. Bingo. Because if you're squeamish, that means you have someone else do it for you.
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by maratd 13y ago
I'll just quote myself: "Personally, I figure out the worst-case scenario and price it for that." Experience helps with the above. Obviously you can never know precisely how much effort something will take. Stuff comes up. Ev
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by maratd 13y ago
There are significant cultural differences between how business is done in the West and in India. I talked about this in another comment. I don't want to give you advice one way or another, because I'm not Indian, so anything I wo
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by maratd 13y ago
As znowi mentioned, don't bother charging hourly or daily or any period of time. The client will ask for a specific thing to be done. Give the client a specific price for that thing. That's it. How you calculate that is your busin
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by maratd 13y ago
> On an evolutionary scale there hasn't been enough time to determine if modern GM crops (specifically the cross species variety) are deleterious or not. I agree and what we need is version control. If at a later time we do find tha
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by maratd 13y ago
> the article is about Monsanto. The title is about Monsanto. The article is not.
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by maratd 13y ago
> Instead I find this as a shill article complete void of data or any other information whatsoever. I don't see any data in your comment either. Shall we classify it as a shill as well? It's pretty clear that the article has a
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by maratd 13y ago
> The situation might as well be reversed, you can't assume someones skill from their geographical location. You most certainly can. I can tell you that the average developer hired from India will have a significantly reduced skills
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by maratd 13y ago
> Make these devices cost < $100 You're paying for the software. Yes, you can get the hardware cheap. I can build a similar device that detects all of the things theirs does for about 75 bucks. The problem is the software will be
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by maratd 13y ago
> It seems like they don't take the physical security of the device into consideration at all. Actually they did. Check the comments section on the project site. http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/canary-the-firs
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by maratd 13y ago
> There was no indication that Al Awalki's son was the target. No, there was no indication. There was also no acknowledgement, apology, or explanation either. That's what the article is about. What's done is done. The chil
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by maratd 13y ago
> can claim the protection of that citizenship while waging war against the U.S. I want to make sure we're on the same page here. A child who is not on any kill lists, a boy who according to the laws of our land does not have the
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by maratd 13y ago
What will stop one user from accessing another user's database?
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by maratd 13y ago
> With PouchDB a lot of the application server logic doesnt apply How do I keep one user from accessing another user's data?
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by maratd 13y ago
> Your customer will just go. You're right, I agree. And again, I'll stress that it depends on the circumstances. Running a dedicated server with ECC memory costs $$$. Is that client worth it or not? That's only something
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by maratd 13y ago
It really depends on your application. If you're fault tolerant, then it's irrelevant. If even a single random error will throw everything down the drain, then you'll obviously want every precaution. Most web applications don
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by maratd 13y ago
> Until and unless he is granted a pardon or some other form of immunity from prosecution, it seems that Snowden's best interest ... Isn't that the rub? The rational action on Obama's part would be to pardon him, just to g

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